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.
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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
Instructions
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Pre-heat your oven to the temperature on the cookie packaging.
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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.
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Place the balls onto an ungreased cookie sheet. Insert wooden craft sticks or thin dowels into each cookie ball. Flatten the balls slightly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
