Conversation Heart Cookies

These adorable and colorful

Valentine's Day

cookies were just the perfect thing for

playtime in the kitchen

with my daughter and 18 month

old granddaughter who had

to be up on the stool helping

(and snitching dough.)

Their Play-doh like colors reminded me

of having fun when I was a child.

I still love the feel and smell

of Play-doh.

Monique at

La Table de Nana

introduced me to this absolutely

fun 

Brigitte Cookie Cutter

that you can stamp cookies

with.  

I was a little afraid that the 

imprinted letters would disappear

in my quick cookie that uses a cake

mix and an egg

but happily, the messages 

in the

Conversation Heart Cookies

came out beautifully!

Cake Mix Sugar Cookies

1 box Betty Crocker French Vanilla Cake Mix

(I love this cake mix the best but you could 

use a Vanilla cake mix.)

1 large egg

1/2 C. melted butter

(Told you they were easy!)

Gel Food Coloring

Brigitte Cookie Stamp

Preheat oven to 350.

Mix all three ingredients together

in a large mixer bowl using the batter

attachment until it is well blended.

Gather the dough into a ball and

divide it into as many colors as

you want to make.

Add a drop or two of the gel coloring to

each ball.  Remember that the colors will

be lighter after they bake so adjust the coloring

accordingly.

I like to roll my dough out on parchment paper

and then to bake them on parchment paper.

That way I don't use any flour and I can 

roll and reroll the dough again and again

and the first cookie is as good as the last.

This dough doesn't need any refrigeration

and is so quick and easy.

(I rolled out all of the different colors

on pieces of parchment paper, then came

back and cut them and printed them with 

the cookie stamp so that I could stamp

all of the "Kiss Me" cookies at once

without constantly changing the cookie stamp.)

Bake from 6-8 minutes depending on the

size of the cookie.  I don't like my sugar

cookies overbaked so I bake just until the

tops are dry and then let them cool on the

pan.

They went so quickly, I am

sure we are going to have to make

more!

(The thing that took the most time was

separating the little letters that come

with the cookie stamp.  Now that that is

done, printing cookies of all kinds will be

so simple and easy.)

Thanks Monique!

(She also recommended buying cookie

and baking supplies on Ebay for better

prices and I agree!  Again, watch your

prices because some places are selling

these for triple what I bought the set for!)

Click here for printable recipe.

Please take one

and be

My Valentine!

I will be posting this with

Pink Saturday

Seasonal Sunday

Metamophosis Monday

Foodie Friday