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Valentine Sugar Cookie Decorating Tips

Easy Valentine sugar cookie decorating tips for kids and adults! We'll show you how to make a darling pig, heart and LOVE cookie with these tips!
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword bakery style, pig, rolled, soft sugar cookies, valentine sugar cookies
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Decorating 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 25 minutes
Servings 36 cookies
Calories 225kcal

Equipment

  • #21 frosting tip
  • #5 frosting tip
  • 1A Frosting Tip
  • Pastry Bags
  • Pastry Bag Couplers

Ingredients

  • 1 batch sugar cookies (our favorite recipe)
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 6 cups powdred sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
  • 6-8 Tbsp. milk

Instructions

  • Whisk ingredients together. Seperate into bowls and add food coloring.
  • Fill pastry bags with frosting and desired frosting tips.

Pig Cookie

  • Use tip #5 to pipe around the edge of the pig cookie. Fill in the ear, tail and feet.
    Pipe frosting back and forth in straight lines, horizontally to fill in center of pig.
    frosting bag and tip decorating sugar cookie
  • Add eyes and a heart sprinkle for the snout.
    pink pig sugar cookies

Heart #1

  • To use a 1A tip, hold the tip CLOSE to the cookie (1/4″ away). Squeeze the frosting and drag it across the cookie for a smooth application.
    heart sugar cookie frosted with tip 1A
  • Add sprinkles.
    heart sugar cookie with pink frosting

Heart #2

  • Use short “bursts” instead of applying firm, steady pressure. You aren’t making lines or covering large sections, you are making small stars bursts all over the cookie.
    frosting tip #21 covering heart sugar cookie
  • Change frosting colors for a variety of star bursts.
    heart sugar cookie decorated with star frosting tip

L-O-V-E Sugar Cookie

  • Outline every other letter with a #5 tip.
    decorating love shaped cookie with star bursts of frosting
  • Fill in remaining letters with the star tip.
    LOVE sugar cookies

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Nutrition

Calories: 225kcal