Valentine Cookies

by Sharon Evans
Sharon Evans
I'm a self-taught baker and have done designer cookies for several years.  I started out baking cookies to treat the gang at work on holidays.  I got better and better at it and people were telling me, "These are wonderful, you need to go into business."  So, I took them up on it and started Sharon's Edible Art.  Now it's a paying hobby.  I try to design "outside the box" by trying different ideas to bring more 3-D images into the cookies.  I live in Carlsbad, NM.

Valentine Cookies

Enclosed is a picture of a Valentine's Day bouquet.  Some of the cookies have Cake Mate cake decorations, while others have Conversation Heart candy and white chocolate designs using a candy mold from Wilton.  Two I have made smaller sugar cookies and attached them in the center of the white hearts and decorated around them.  All my designs are done with Royal icing.  I use 8" and 11 3/4" lollipop sticks from Wilton and bake the cookies on the sticks.