Valentine’s Day sugar cookies are always a welcome treat but what if you can turn them into edible sugar cookie boxes that reveal colorful sprinkles inside?
Another warning: when kids bite into these sugar cookie boxes, things can get messy because the sprinkles might fall out!
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookie Box Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Baking time: 12-15 min
Ingredients
- No Spread Cookie Dough (use my recipe)
- Royal Icing
- Valentine’s Day Sprinkles
You will also need
Instructions
- Prepare your favorite no spread cookie dough
- Lightly dust your surface with flour and roll out dough to ¼ inch thickness.
- Use a Joseph Rolling Pin or two skewers on either side of the dough to ensure evenly shaped cookies.
- Using 2 different heart shaped cutters cut out twice as many full heart cookies as the double cut out heart shape.
- To create the double heart cut out, use two identical shapes but two different sizes.
- Place cut out cookie dough on parchment lined baking sheets and bake for 12 mins in a 350 F degree oven
- Let cookies cool on baking sheet until fully cool (about 30-45 mins)
- Prepare ½ of the royal icing recipe. The icing should be the consistency of the thick pourable Elmers school glue.
- Use a piping bag or sandwich sized ziplock bag cut a medium sized whole in the tip once you are ready to glue the pieces together,
- For the stand sized heart shaped box, glue one full heart to one cut out heart.
- Remove any exposed wet icing in the center and let dry for at least 45min-60 min.
- For a taller cookie box glue two of the cutout cookie shapes instead of just one.
- Decorate the top of your box.
- You can spread icing on the top one of the full heart shaped cookies with your finger and dip into a bowl of sprinkles.
- Once the cookie bottoms have dried, fill the open cavity with sprinkles.
- Place the top cookie onto the bottom ones. You can either seal them with icing or not seal them. Both are still a lovely display.
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