Valentine Cookies

My Granddaughter came to visit tonight to make Valentine Cookies with me. I had the dough ready to make sugar cookies and it was chilling in the fridge when she arrived.

Kaia is 5 and is an experienced cookie maker! She knows how to flour the board, roll the dough and to cut the cookies near the edge of the dough to get as many as possible. We played Pat-a-Cake and she sang the song to me (funny how I seem to have forgotten the words). While the cookies baked we made beautiful pink icing, then decorated the cookies using the an icing bag and pretty fluted tip.

I put a nice little pink icing rosette on the tip of Kaia’s nose and she ran to find ‘Bapa’ to give him a Valentine’s cookie. He didn’t realize she was the cookie and he was supposed to lick the icing off her nose, but he figured it out!

After we cleaned up the whole box of sprinkles from the floor - which I dropped - we placed beautiful silver balls and red and white sprinkles on the icing.

The cookies turned out beautifully! We made some lovely memories, baking together. Kaia asked me what Valentine’s Day is for. I was at a loss for a few minutes but told her it was a special day to tell people you love them, and making cookies together was my way of showing I love her.