Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite “cookie” holidays. This year I decided to decorate my creations in a variety of ways to celebrate the sweet side of love ... and to let my inner Cupid out to express the joy of the day. I chose Brown Butter Cookies as my canvas because the flavor is nutty, complex, and irresistible — a lot like love itself.
These shapes are used for monograms, greetings, short messages, symbols, or other embellishments. I like to include at least one “message cookie” with each box or plate of cookies. It’s a nice alternative to a printed greeting card...and so much easier to chew.
A few years ago, I made these five stenciled Valentine’s Day cookies as part of an experiment when I started exploring the world of cookie stencils. I decided I needed to work on my technique before making a whole batch of them! Even though they weren’t perfect, they didn’t last long. And that’s the beauty of making edible art. You can always eat your mistakes.
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
In our family, we always made our Valentines. At a very early age, I learned to cut hearts out of red construction paper and how to add glitter and paper doilies to dress up my creations. It’s no wonder that I still make my Valentines, but now they're edible. XOXO
