Sugar Cookie Bouquet Recipe for Valentine's Day
Learn How to make a sugar cookie bouquet for Valentine’s Day or any special occasion. Bake the cookies on wooden skewers, decorate and put in a vase or box.
Equipment
- Rolling Pin
- Heart Cookie Cutters
- Long stem flower box (could buy from a florist) OR
- Flower vase- can pick up in a thrift store
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Dough Recipe
- 3 cups flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 Tablespoons milk
Icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- milk-add by the Tablespoon, just enough to make creamy
- Food coloring
- Bamboo skewers- 12 inch
- Sprinkles (optional), pink sparkling sugar (optional)
Instructions
Mix up and bake the cookie dough
- Cut butter into the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda)
- Beat two eggs, add sugar, vanilla, milk and add to first mixture.
- Make dough into two discs, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate until chilled.
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees to be ready to bake cookies.Sprinkle a clean flat surface with some flour and put the first cookie dough disc down on the flour. Sprinkle a little flour over the top of the disk as well.Use a rolling pin to roll the first disc of cookie dough out to about a half inch thick. I rub the rolling pin with a bit of the flour so it doesn't stick to the dough.
- I have this set of Wilton heart cookie cutters that are in graduated sizes from large to small. I love the way they nest together. It's easy to make a variety of heart sizes of course. Cut out some larger heart cookies (I didn't use the very largest sizes as I thought they would get too heavy). These will be the main cookies in the sugar cookie bouquet. You can cut other sizes as well for variety.Use some of the dough that is left to cut out a few leaf shapes for the bouquet. This is just done with a knife, I didn't have a cookie cutter for this.Place them on an un-greased cookie sheets about 2-inches apart.
- Stick the bamboo skewers up into the bottom of the cookies. Be careful to twist them gently and not distort the shape of the cookie as you do so.
- Go ahead and bake these cookies until golden Brown, about 10-12 minutes depending on your oven. We’re baking these at 350°.
- Use a rolling pin to roll the second cookie dough disc out to about a quarter inch thick.We’re going to use our heart-shaped cookie cutters and cut out a variety of hearts. On some of the larger cookies cut out small hearts in the center of the cookie, so that the counter will show through. I call these peek-a-boo hearts.We’re going to use these cookies to stack on top the thicker cookies using frosting to hold them in place. So a variety of sizes is good.Carefully place the cookies on an un-greased cookie sheet about 2-inches apart.Bake the cookies for about 8-9 minutes. Let them cool.
Mix up the icing and ice the cookies
- Melt the butter in a small bowl and add into the powdered sugar. Only add enough milk to make the frosting creamy. Divide the frosting into a couple small bowls and add food coloring to tint to the colors you want. I chose pink and white frosting. This was enough frosting to decorate 6 cookies for the bouquet.
- Frost a thicker cookie. Frost the thinner cookies and attach to the thicker cookie as decorations. Add sprinkles or decorator sugar.
Arrange the cookie bouquet
- What I wanted to try first was placing the flowers in a rose box surrounded by tissue paper. I purchased a clear plastic rose box from the local florist. She didn't have the long white box option that I had in mind, but that's OK.Place tissue paper inside the box and lay the cookies on the tissue paper, including a leaf stem or two as well. Clip some of the skewers so they are shorter and fit into the bottom part of the box. I clipped with a wire cutter pliers.Wrap the tissue paper over the top, close up the box and you are ready to give them away!!
- OR...A second option is to arrange the flowers in a vase. This is what a person thinks of as a traditional "bouquet". Set out the vase and place some tissue paper inside or some of the decorative marbles in the base to hold the stems. Arrange the flowers and leaves in the vase as you would like them, clipping a few of the skewer "stems" as needed for a variety of heights. Your Sugar Cookie Bouquet is ready to deliver! Its sure to bring a smile.
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Notes
The calorie figure given is an estimate on 5 frosted sugar cookies..