This Valentine's Day, why not do something a little different. Make your sweetie an edible cookie bouquet for a Valentine's day present.
It really is not that hard to do and I will explain below how to do it.
The first step is to bake your cookies on a stick. You can use most kinds of cookie dough. The cookie dough needs to be firm before you bake your cookies.
Now lets have some rolling dough fun :)
Roll out the dough a little thicker than normal to accommodate the stick. You can use any length stick for this. You may want to vary the lengths of sticks so your Valentine's cookie bouquet will have different heights.
After you have rolled out and cut your cookie dough into your favorite shapes, insert the sticks into the cookies and place them on your cookie sheet. I always bake my cookies on a silpat, but you can also use parchment paper. You will need to bake the cookies slightly longer than you normally would. Remember we need them to hold on a stick.
The Fun part Now starts!
Let the cookies cool and then decorate to your heart shaped cookies to your liking. If you are going to wrap up your cookie bouquet then I would decorate your cookies with a royal icing based cookie icing. This will dry the best and won't smudge when you wrap up your cookie bouquet.
After your cookies are baked and the icing has dried on your cookies, the next step is assembly.
For this part you need a clay pot with Styrofoam cut to fit inside your clay pot and tissue paper and ribbon to make your work of art complete.
I like to cover my cookie bouquet pot with tissue paper and tie ribbons on the cookie sticks to make them prettier. Insert the ends of the sticks into the Styrofoam at varying heights. You should insert a stick with a card to your special loved one at this point.
Now your edible cookie bouquet is ready to give to that someone special this Valentine's Day. I know they will appreciate it more than flowers.
If you want to try this Edible Cookie Bouquet project, check out the links below for all of your materials except the pot:
Silpat can be found at this link:
http://www.shopbakersnook.com/m5_view_item.html?m5:item=2013
Royal Icing Mix can be found at this link:
http://www.shopbakersnook.com/m5_view_item.html?m5:item=2013
Sucker Sticks can be found at this link:
http://www.shopbakersnook.com/94.html
Valentine's Cookie Cutters can be found at this link:
http://www.shopbakersnook.com/185.html
Let me know what you think,
Anne
ShopBakersNook.com