Valentine Cookie Wreath How-To

You Will Need:

• Gingerbread Cookies Recipe
• Royal Icing Mix
• Jumbo Red Heart Quins
• Small Red Heart Quins
• White Fondant Bows
• White Sugar Pearls
• Wreath Cookie Cutter
• Squeeze Bottles
• Parchment paper

Instructions:

1. Prepare dough according to Gingerbread Cookie recipe and cut out several wreath shapes. Bake and cool as directed.
2. While the cookies are cooling, prepare the royal icing. Mix according to the recipe and then thin it with 1/2 tsp. of water at a time. Keep adding water and stirring until you reach a consistency somewhere between heavy cream and ketchup. Flavor the icing with oil or extract if desired.
3. Fill a squeeze bottle with the icing.
4. Spread your cooled cookies out on a countertop and have all of your decorating items close by.
5. First, ice a base layer of icing on each cookie, leaving a hole in the center with no icing (as shown in the photo). Let it set.
6. For the second layer, add a tiny dab of icing to each of the jumbo and small heart quins and affix them to the cookie (tweezers work well here).
7. Add sugar pearls for your next layer, using icing to affix them.
8. Add the fondant bow last with another dab of icing.
9. Let the cookies completely dry before stacking and storing.