Valentine Cookie Bouquet
"I always try to do something special with my fair entries. This cookie bouquet was a blue-ribbon winner," says Marlene Gates, Sun City, Arizona. "It is a great gift for a loved one or makes a nice Valentine's Day centerpiece."
Ingredients
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup baking cocoa
- 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 24 long wooden skewers
- FROSTING:
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 2 cups confectioners' sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
Reviews
Excellent, make a day ahead to let the flavors steep
Once you icing them it makes the cookies very tender and moist, recommend you cover them and let them sit overnight befor serving. Getting them to stay on the wooden skewers was a little tricky, the cookies themselves not hard to do. For extra glamour I sprinkled them while icing still moist with valentine sprinkles and jimmies. They were really tasty!!!
these are great to eat and look at! You can use red food coloring instead of juice if you want. Do try the bouquet idea, so pretty and easy.
I have made these many times and everyone has always liked them. I don't usually make the bouquet, just cookies.