{"id":3784,"date":"2015-02-10T19:48:10","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T03:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2015-02-15T11:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T19:28:00","slug":"heart-shaped-sugar-cookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/?p=3784","title":{"rendered":"Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alright, ya\u2019ll. I promised you some Valentine\u2019s treats on the blog, so\u00a0here we go. As I told you here<\/a>, I baked my little heart out over the\u00a0weekend making festive goodies. Today, we\u2019ll talk sugar cookies, and\u00a0tomorrow we\u2019ll talk red velvet scones. Sound good? Good:)<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll just start by saying that these were delicious. 5 stars. I could eat\u00a0a million of them. (Don\u2019t worry, I didn’t. Eat a million that is. I won\u2019t\u00a0tell you how many I did eat though\u2026) Ahem, anyway- I was perusing\u00a0Pinterest to try and find a killer sugar cookie recipe, because I love to\u00a0search by pictures. I ended up landing on this recipe<\/a> from Make Bake Celebrate.<\/p>\n

I followed the recipe exactly, or at least I really tried to. The link I provided above will take you to the recipe and directions, but I\u2019ll go ahead and let you\u00a0know what I did differently, or where things went a little wrong for me.<\/p>\n

So, like I said, I tried following the recipe exactly, but when it was time for all my ingredients to be combined into the perfect dough- I had a slight problem. At this point, I was supposed to have a nice cookie dough, but all I had was one HUGE CRUMBLY mess. Although the original recipe stated that if it\u2019s crumbly to just keep\u00a0mixing- there was NO WAY what was in my bowl was going to turn from\u00a0crumbly sand to dough. I couldn’t understand what I had done\u2026 I followed\u00a0the recipe- I used the same ingredients, in the same order. I had no idea\u00a0what to do, so I tried to improvise. There was no way these cookies were\u00a0getting away from me. So, I pulled out my coconut oil, softened a couple\u00a0spoonfuls in the microwave, poured it in, mixed it up and hoped for the\u00a0best. Nothing. I didn\u2019t dare try adding anymore at the risk of altering\u00a0the flavor too much- so I pulled out my handy dandy BHG cookbook (with the\u00a0plaid cover) to see what their sugar cookie recipe looked like. Right away\u00a0I saw 2 eggs, while the recipe I was following only calls for 1. I ran to\u00a0the fridge, got out another egg, and added it in. I only had to mix it for\u00a0a little bit before my dough came together, hallelujah! We were back in\u00a0business people!<\/p>\n

Now, at the time I decided I wanted to make heart-shaped sugar cookies, I\u00a0thought I had a heart-shaped cookie cutter. After mixing up my dough and\u00a0putting it in the fridge to chill, I quickly realized that I don\u2019t<\/em> actually have a heart-shaped cookie cutter. Drat! Just as I was making my\u00a0peace with the fact that these would have to be plain old round sugar\u00a0cookies, I saw a box of chocolates I just had to have<\/em>\u00a0when we went\u00a0grocery shopping. It was one of these little boxes, that only holds three\u00a0chocolates.<\/p>\n

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It was the perfect shape and size! I ended up just using the lid as my cookie\u00a0cutter- and it worked like a charm.<\/p>\n

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The recipe I was following said to bake the cookies on parchment paper, which\u00a0I unfortunately didn’t have at home. I simply sprayed my cookie sheets\u00a0with non-stick spray and I had no trouble at all with removing them from\u00a0the cookie sheets. I had no breaks or anything!<\/p>\n

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The icing <\/a>I found from\u00a0Kitchen Meets Girl\u00a0was really good, and pretty much exactly what I was looking for. I didn’t want frosting- I wanted an icing that would harden and compliment the cookies perfectly. I followed the recipe exactly, and I used a Ziploc bag with the corner snipped for pipping the icing. This was a first for me, but it was pretty simple! I didn’t have food coloring on hand, so I just put pink sprinkles on a couple of them and called it good.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m\u00a0definitely going to keep this sugar cookie recipe for future use, although I\u2019m going to\u00a0save myself the grief and just use two eggs next time;)<\/p>\n

xoxo,
\nKayla<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright, ya\u2019ll. I promised you some Valentine\u2019s treats on the blog, so\u00a0here we go. As I told you here, I baked my little heart out over the\u00a0weekend making festive goodies. Today, we\u2019ll talk sugar cookies, and\u00a0tomorrow we\u2019ll talk red velvet scones. Sound good? Good:) I\u2019ll just start by saying that these were delicious. 5 stars…. [Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-dessert","entry","has-post-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42QGB-Z2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3827,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/3827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/momentsdontcollectdust.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}