Valentine's Day Treats

I wanted to think of something fun to make for Brady to take to his friends and teachers at school for Valentines' Day and I came across the idea of sugar cookie pops.  Actually, I first got the idea because someone mentioned sending a cookie bouquet to their husband for Valentine's Day and when I went to the site and saw how much they were charging for these heart-shaped cookies on a stick I thought, I can do that!

Anyway, I got my recipe and inspiration from this blog from Our Best Bites.  I made the sugar cookies on Friday night and stored them in an airtight container in the refrigerator.  I then made the icing on Saturday morning and added the glaze layer and left them out to dry.  I added the piping layer during Brady's nap on Saturday afternoon and left them out to dry until Sunday, when I wrapped them up.  They turned out so cute and they were DELICIOUS!  Quite possibly the best sugar cookies I've ever had.  Definitely the best ones I've ever made.  So, here are a few photos of the steps along the way...

Friday Night:
I bought popsicle sticks at Party City and a heart-shaped cookie cutter at Michael's.  I made the sugar cookie dough, rolled it out to about 1/4" thickness and stuck it in the freezer for about 15 minutes.  I then cut out the large hearts and stuck the popsicle sticks into them so they went a little more than half way up the heart.  I baked the cookies for a little longer than I would normally because I wanted them to be stiff enough to stay on the sticks.  Here you can see a couple of them cooling on the rack:

After baking all of the cookies I put them in my cake carrier and left them in the refrigerator overnight.

Saturday morning:
On Saturday morning I made the icing and began adding the glaze to the cookies.  I did half of them with white glaze and half with pink.

I then left them out to dry for a couple of hours.

Saturday afternoon:
After the bottom layer was dry I added the piping.  I used white on the pink glaze and used red on the white glaze.

As you can see here, my white piping icing wasn't quite thick enough, so my "XO" ran together on the top left cookie.  So, I had to eat it myself!  :)

I then left the cookies out so that the icing could dry overnight.

Sunday:
On Sunday the icing was completely dry and hard enough that I could wrap them up.  I had some cellophane bags leftover from the Halloween treat bags I made and I bought some ribbon at Michael's.

Brady picked out Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Valentine's at Target and we attached them to the back of the cookie pops:

Here they are all wrapped up!

I stuck them in some blumeboxes that I had leftover from Brady's birthday party decorations and made my own cookie bouquets!

They were a huge hit and, as I said before, very tasty!  Brady agrees: