How to Make a Cookie Bouquet Valentine

This Valentine's Day, you can give a cookie bouquet to your Valentine instead of a bouquet of flowers. You don't have to go out and buy your bouquet, just make it yourself. The following steps will show you how to make a cookie bouquet that anyone would love to receive.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Refrigerated cookie dough
• Cookie sheet
• Wooden craft sticks or thin dowels
• Pre-mixed white icing
• Food coloring
• Metal spatula
• Wax paper
• Rubber band
• Colored plastic wrap

1. Pre-heat your oven to the temperature on the cookie packaging.

2. Open a package of refrigerated sugar cookie dough. Roll out the dough into eight 2-inch-sized balls or use a small heart cookie cutter to shape the dough into heart shapes.

3. Place the balls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Insert wooden craft sticks or thin dowels into each cookie ball. Flatten the balls slightly.

4. Bake for about 13-to-15 minutes. Check on the cookies toward the end of the timeframe and remove them when the edges of the cookies are browned and crisp.

5. Mix icing with pre-mixed white icing and food coloring while your cookies are baking. You can use icing on your cookies with different colors or just use red and white.

6. Use a metal spatula to move the cookies from the cookie sheet to a sheet of waxed paper when they are done. Let them cool completely before icing.

7. Put the cookies together to make a bouquet. Wrap a rubber band around the ends of the sticks and wrap the sticks with colored plastic wrap.

Tips & Warnings

• You can also make your bouquet out of chocolate chip cookie dough if you don't want to spend time icing them.
• You can wrap a red ribbon around each stick or around the whole group of sticks.
• Put your cookie bouquet into a glass vase or in a long floral box like a bouquet of flowers when you give this gift to your Valentine.
• Place these cookies in a vase and set them on the table as a table setting.
• Make this bouquet for other occasions as well, such as birthdays or Christmas.
• Children making this craft should be accompanied by an adult.