Sweets for my sweet!

Now I know that it is has been almost a week since Valentines day but you need to believe when I say I was going to have this post up over a week ago, sadly life got in the way. Don't you hate when that happens? So here I am finally writing this post and getting back to all the lovely bloggers from blogging moms February blog hop. Yeah life gets in the way a lot.

For Valentines day I wanted to make something special for my little trouble maker and decided that chocolate sugar cookies where the way to go. They are honestly the most amazing chocolate cookies I have ever had, this is the link for the recipe that I use from Lila Loa she makes some amazing treats and her cookies are stunning. This recipe is super simple and doesn't spread which is really nice. So of course after baking these little lovelies I  had to decorate them and make them all pretty for Valentines day.For my royal icing I used this recipe from The sweet adventures of sugarbelle it is super simple and tasty, she also has a recipe here for chocolate royal icing which lets be honest has anything double chocolate ever tasted bad? Nope it never has. I usually use a piping bag to decorate my cookies however I was feeling lazy last week and decided to try dipping the cookies in royal icing. You can find a little more info on that here. I have never tried and figured it couldn't be that hard and guess what, it wasn't hard at all it was so stinken simple.

 I just made my icing a little thicker then flood consistency and dipped the cookies "face"down into the icing wiggled it a little took it out and laid the cookie "face" up to dry. If the icing needed to be smoother or spread out at all I just used my small offset icing spatula you could just use a butter knife I just prefer my spatula. Now you can simply leave your cookies as is or add sprinkles which I did or a simple design which I also did I put a lighter color version of my icing in a ziplock bag and cut a teeny bit off the corner of the bag then made little dots in a few rows all over the cookie you can leave as is or take a toothpick and drag it back and forth threw the dots.  Now you just have to let them dry it takes about 5-6 hours to dry or you can set them to dry over night. I really don't think I will ever use a piping bag ever again I have made several different batches of cookies since and they have all turned out amazing.