You're a Homerun!
Please don't let me Strike Out!
{ok...that has nothing to do with Valentine's Day. I just like a Ferris Bueller reference where I can get it.} Click the link to watch...it's in the upper left corner of the linked page.
Don't throw me a Curve Ball!
I love you at Home or Away!
You've Stolen my heart!
We make a great Team!
{Let's skip the whole "getting to second base" theme.}
As the mom of a boy, I know they usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to Valentine's Day. Not everything has to be pink, and ribbons, and lace (and I love those things)!
Valentines for boys can be cute, too!!!
{image: Decorating Cookies}
In Decorating Cookies, I created some Heart Robot cookies...which is one of my favorite designs in the whole book. Yay for boy valentines! Today...Baseball Valentines.
To make baseball valentine cookies, you'll need:
- baseball themed and heart cut-out sugar cookies
- royal icing, divided and tinted with AmeriColor Bright White, Warm Brown, and Super Red
- disposable icing bags
- couplers and tips: #2, #1
- squeeze bottles
- toothpicks
- fan (paint) brush
- paper towel
- AmeriColor Chocolate Brown
Thin the brown and white icings with water, a bit at a time, stirring with a silicone spatula, until it is the consistency of a thick syrup. (Reserve some of the white icing for piping details later.) You'll want to drop a "ribbon" of icing back into the bowl and have it disappear in a count of "one thousand one, one thousand two." Four is too thick, one is too thin. Count of 2-3 is good. Cover with a damp dishcloth and let sit for several minutes.
Stir gently with a silicone spatula to pop and large air bubbles that have formed. Pour into squeeze bottles.
Let the cookies dry for 30 minutes to one hour.
Let the cookies dry 6-8 hours or overnight.
Once they are completely dry, mix water with the chocolate brown food coloring....a 1 to 1 ratio or so. Trim the fan brush, so that it is uneven. Dip the brush into the food coloring mixture, dab the excess on a paper towel and brush onto the cookies.
The food coloring will dry fairly quickly and be ready for packaging and giving.
What baseball phrase would you use on a Valentine?
You're a Homerun!
Please don't let me Strike Out!
{ok...that has nothing to do with Valentine's Day. I just like a Ferris Bueller reference where I can get it.} Click the link to watch...it's in the upper left corner of the linked page.
Don't throw me a Curve Ball!
I love you at Home or Away!
You've Stolen my heart!
We make a great Team!
{Let's skip the whole "getting to second base" theme.}
As the mom of a boy, I know they usually get the short end of the stick when it comes to Valentine's Day. Not everything has to be pink, and ribbons, and lace (and I love those things)!
Valentines for boys can be cute, too!!!
{image: Decorating Cookies}
In Decorating Cookies, I created some Heart Robot cookies...which is one of my favorite designs in the whole book. Yay for boy valentines! Today...Baseball Valentines.To make baseball valentine cookies, you'll need:
- baseball themed and heart cut-out sugar cookies
- royal icing, divided and tinted with AmeriColor Bright White, Warm Brown, and Super Red
- disposable icing bags
- couplers and tips: #2, #1
- squeeze bottles
- toothpicks
- fan (paint) brush
- paper towel
- AmeriColor Chocolate Brown
Thin the brown and white icings with water, a bit at a time, stirring with a silicone spatula, until it is the consistency of a thick syrup. (Reserve some of the white icing for piping details later.) You'll want to drop a "ribbon" of icing back into the bowl and have it disappear in a count of "one thousand one, one thousand two." Four is too thick, one is too thin. Count of 2-3 is good. Cover with a damp dishcloth and let sit for several minutes.
Stir gently with a silicone spatula to pop and large air bubbles that have formed. Pour into squeeze bottles.
Let the cookies dry for 30 minutes to one hour.
Let the cookies dry 6-8 hours or overnight.
Once they are completely dry, mix water with the chocolate brown food coloring....a 1 to 1 ratio or so. Trim the fan brush, so that it is uneven. Dip the brush into the food coloring mixture, dab the excess on a paper towel and brush onto the cookies.
The food coloring will dry fairly quickly and be ready for packaging and giving.
What baseball phrase would you use on a Valentine?
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