how to make cookies to fall in love

Cooking turns passion, patience, creativity, and enthusiasm into a bite that fills the person who consumes it with love!
Today I want to show you step by step how to make cookies for Valentine's Day and surprise that special someone.

The first thing we are going to make is the cookies.The recipe is simple, and you only need:

2 cups of wheat flour
1 cup of powdered sugar
1 cup unsalted butter
2 eggs

In a bowl, mix the flour with the sugar and then add the butter. Mix with a fork until you get a sandy mixture.

Add the eggs, mix the ingredients well and knead until you obtain a homogeneous dough.

Stretch the dough to a thickness of half a centimeter and with a heart-shaped cutter, proceed to cut the dough. You can make several designs, as shown in the pictures.

Place the heart-shaped dough on a tray with waxed paper. Bake for 25 minutes at 180 ºC.

Place 2 egg whites in a bowl and beat until stiff. Lower the speed and gradually add 2 cups of powdered sugar. A trick I use to make the glaze stable and shiny is to add 1 tablespoon of vinegar while I am beating it.

Portion the icing and color it with the shades you like. Fill the piping bags, and let's start decorating.

Today, I didn't want to make a single design. I will show you many options. You only need pastry bags, a fondant tool, and thin wooden chopsticks.

It is a simple design. Edge the cookie with the icing from the red piping bag and then carefully spread the icing evenly with the help of the pastry tool. You can add white dots.

You can also make a border with more textured icing, and it looks very nice.

Cover a cookie with white icing, and you can make cross lines of red and pink. You can also use a thin wooden stick and make strokes from top to bottom on the icing, and it will form a very nice drawing on the cookie.

You can do the same with red icing as a background and white and pink lines.

Now, if you make some white dots in the center of the cookie and make strokes with the wooden toothpicks from the center of the cookie outwards, you will have a different drawing.

I love this design so much. Cover the cookie with pink icing and place consecutive white dots. With the help of a wooden toothpick, draw a line over the dots and form the hearts. Always do it starting with the top dot and drag carefully.

You can make as many designs as your creativity allows. Leave you a sample of other designs for you to tell me which one is your favorite 😃💕.

Thanks for reading. See you in a future post!
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