3 Unique Ways to Decorate Valentine's Day Heart Cookies

Directions

• 1

  Bake and cool cookies fully before decorating. Prepare royal icing in the following colors and consistencies. Learn more about royal icing consistencies here.:  
  Outline/Piping Consistency:  
  Red
  Pink
  Light Pink
  
  Flood Consistency: 
  Red
  Pink
  Light Pink

Heart with V-Shaped Border:

• 2

  Outline the heart shape with light pink outline consistency royal icing.

• 3

  Flood the shape with light pink flood consistency royal icing. Use a toothpick or scribe tool to move the icing around, ensuring full coverage. Also pop any air bubbles that come to the surface.
  Move quickly to the next step - this design must be completed while the base icing is still wet.

• 4

  Pipe pink flood consistency royal icing onto the wet base royal icing. Make small “v” shapes, all in the same direction until the border is filled.

• 5

  Add small red “v” shapes between the pink “v” shapes.

• 6

  Moving quickly, use your scribe tool or toothpick to gently drag the icing, dragging so that the points of the “v” shapes are being dragged downward and outward. Continue dragging until the border is complete.

Heart with Small Hearts Border

• 7

  Outline the heart shape with pink outline consistency royal icing.

• 8

  Flood the shape with pink flood consistency royal icing. Use a toothpick or scribe tool to move the icing around, ensuring full coverage. Also pop any air bubbles that come to the surface.
  Move quickly to the next step - this design must be completed while the base icing is still wet.

• 9

  Using your light pink flood consistency royal icing, pipe a border of dots around the heart shape.

• 10

  Using your red flood consistency royal icing, pipe red dots between the pink dots.

• 11

  Drag your scribe tool or toothpick through the dots until the border is complete.

Heart with Large Hearts Border

• 12

  Outline the heart shape with red outline consistency royal icing.

• 13

  Flood the shape with red flood consistency royal icing. Use a toothpick or scribe tool to move the icing around, ensuring full coverage. Also pop any air bubbles that come to the surface.
  Move quickly to the next step - this design must be completed while the base icing is still wet.

• 14

  Using your pink flood consistency royal icing, pipe a border of large dots around the heart shape.

• 15

  Using your light pink flood consistency royal icing, pipe smaller dots between the pink dots.

• 16

  Drag your scribe tool or toothpick through the dots until the border is complete.