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.}
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.- 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.
Bridget those are so cute! It can be a challenge to think of boyish Valentine ideas! I know my boys would LOVE these!
ReplyDeleteReally fun for the boys! Nice to see something that isn't all cutesie cute for the girls all the time. Also love your tip about the wood grain on the baseball bats :)
ReplyDeleteSo cute!
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ReplyDeleteaw those really are still cute boys do get the short end this holiday.
ReplyDeleteSo stinkin cute! Happy Valentine's Day!!
ReplyDeleteI've never heard so many gosh darn cute baseball love puns in my LIFE!! You just knocked 'em outta the park! These are positively precious Bridget. :) Happy Valentine's Day!
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DeleteAww, Bridge! With your title, I was thinking you were tying in Halloween ("batty" perhaps meaning flying bat) with Valentine's Day like the old vintage Valentine cards. But, the decorating is superb and your designs are great for boys, too! I'm really diggin' on the robots...have a "thing" for them since Lost In Space (loved that "Bubble-headed Booby" as Dr. Smith would like to say and even designed a robot cookie cutter), LOL! Excellent post, m'lady. And, Happy Valentine's Day! xo
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable! I just showed them to Kyle because he's a big baseball fan, and I said look! Bridget made you cookies! :) Ha!
ReplyDeleteOh these are just too cute!! Happy Valentine's Day!!
ReplyDeleteAwww, these are the cutest Valentine's ever :) <3
ReplyDeleteHappy Valentine's Day!
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ReplyDeleteYou know I need me some boy valentine's. Love these ;)
ReplyDeleteThose Heart Baseballs were adorable! love that idea!
ReplyDeleteLove these! They are some of the cutest cookies ever. You are so talented. :)
ReplyDeleteLove these!
ReplyDeletePuns and desserts are the best parts of Valentine's Day :)
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh, what a cute idea!!! I love this!!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why but I am often unable to comment on your posts... Today I am not able to post to your Anna and Mr. Bates post (it's me, not you!) so I'll post here about how much I love the baseball cookies you created AND your lace Anna and Mr. Bates cookies. I love them and I love Downton Abbey VERY much! I will be devastated tonight after the finale. I will pine for the show's return until it does!
ReplyDeleteYour cookies are worthy of being served at high tea!
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