Ingredients
Ingredients
- Batch of sugar cookie dough, homemade or store-bought
- Red food coloring
- Disposable food preparation gloves, for kneading food coloring into the dough
- Plastic wrap
- Rolling pin
- Flour
- Wax paper
- Heart cookie cutter , about 2.5 inches wide
- Baking sheets
- Cooling rack
- Dark cocoa candy melts
- Small microwavable mixing bowl
- White licorice candies, two for each cookie
Equipment
Instructions
Instructions
- 1
Knead red food coloring into the cookie dough. Then flatten the dough into a disk and wrap it tightly in plastic. Chill the dough until firm.
- 2
Heat the oven. Working on a flour-dusted sheet of wax paper, roll out the chilled dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Cut heart shapes from the dough. Bake the cookies according to the recipe directions and then let them cool completely.
- 3
Melt a cup or so of the candy melts in the microwave according to the package directions.
- 4
For the finishing touch, use dabs of the leftover melted candy (applied with the tip of a toothpick) to attach a pair of white licorice candy “buttons” to the lower portion of each heart.
