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Rose cookies for valentines day

Published January 18, 2019 Last Modified September 8, 2019 By GreedyEats

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Small batch recipe for cut out sugar cookie decorated as rose cookies. Super soft, buttery and chewy cookies to charm your valentine!

Soft and chewy cut out sugar cookies decorated as rose cookies and are topped with sprinkles. These are perfect for valentines day!

When sprinkles meet roses! Aren't these even better than real roses, for you can eat them?

What?? The idea of eating roses doesn't strike to you? What can I say! I love to eat sugar cookies!

Cookies that bake soft in the center, have slightly crispy edges, do not expand a lot while baking and have gorgeous flat tops.

Easy cut out sugar cookie recipe decorated as rose cookies is perfect for valentines! These cookies are topped with royal icing and sprinkles.

I know you will love a sugar cookie with all the above mentioned traits. I covered them all in my stockings sugar cookies(small batch) recipe that I posted a few days back! Also I shared a super easy icing to go with them.

So today we are focusing on royal icing. Furthermore, how to create those pretty roses using wet on wet technique (more on that just in a minute)!

Soft, buttery and melt in your mouth rose cookies for valentines day! These are frosted with an easy royal icing and sprinkles for a little crunch.

This icing isn't hard to make at all. No, I am serious. Thanks to SweetAmbs tutorial!

If you are careful with a few steps, your roses are sure to bloom!

How to Decorate Rose cookies:

You will need-

  • Flood consistency royal icing- This kind of icing is used to spread a first smooth coating on a sugar cookie. It is used to outline and fill the cookies.
  • Medium consistency royal icing- Royal icing that holds a soft peak and doesn't melt on it's own.
  • A few piping bags and a tooth pick or scribe tool to get rid of bubbles and smoothen the icing out
  • Wilton decorating tip #3 and Sprinkles of choice

Frosted, soft, buttery and melt in your mouth sugar cookie recipe. I used royal icing to frost these as rose cookies. The most beautiful valentines cookies around!

Wet on wet technique for rose cookies:

It is called wet on wet because roses will be carved while the base of our flooded icing is still wet. You will need to work fast here as royal icing tends to dry in the flap of a butterfly's wing!

Another tip to remember: Don't ever add too much water in your icing at once. You can always thin it out later!

I ditched heart cookie cutter this time and cut my sugar cookies out using a circle cookie cutter. As a result, I could make some room for sprinkles and add a cute color contrast! I used rose gold sprinkles from fancy sprinkles in these cookies. ♥♥♥

Soft sugar cookies topped with easy royal icing and rose gold sprinkles. Find recipe for these pretty rose cookies on greedyeats.com

Now you can bake these in any shapes and sizes, my recipe will bake about 6 medium cookies, 6 small ones and a few extra small sugar cookies.

The best sugar cookie recipe with perfect edges, flat tops and minimum spread. They are decorated as rose cookies using an easy sugar cookie frosting!

If you don't care about swirling a rose in their centers, a few pink heart sprinkles would look so good here! Decorate them anyway you like, I am sure you will love this tender, buttery cookie with a slightly crunchy (and beautiful) icing on the top!

I can't wait to see your creations. Follow me on instagram and tag @greedyeatsblog so that I can see all your sugar cookies dressed for Valentine's day!

Rose technique adapted from Sweetambs.com

Easy cut out sugar cookie recipe decorated as rose cookies is perfect for valentines! These cookies are topped with royal icing and sprinkles.

Rose cookies for valentines day

Small batch recipe for cut out sugar cookie decorated as rose cookies. Super soft, buttery and chewy cookies to charm your valentine!
5 from 9 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Servings 12 Medium cookies
Calories: 277kcal
Author: Neha

Ingredients

  • 1 Cup (120 gms) Confectioners' sugar divided
  • 4 tsps Meringue powder divided
  • 1 Tbsp Water plus more for thinning
  • A few drops of coral red food coloring
  • 12 medium Sugar cookies
  • 2 Tbsp Sprinkles of choice

Instructions

  • For Medium royal icing (to draw outlines and roses):
    1. Take ¼th (30 gms) of the confectioners sugar, add 1 tsp meringue powder to it. Add about ¼tsp of water, at a time to reach the desired consistency.
    2. Don't beat the icing on high speed, you can even do it with a fork. It will only take about a minute or two at most! We don't want to incorporate a lot of air into the icing or don't want it to be too fluffy either.
    3. Fill the icing in a bag and using wilton #3 tip draw out circular outlines on the cookies. Keep some icing aside to make roses.
    4. Tint the remaining icing with food coloring to create roses. Fill it in a bag.
    For flood consistency royal icing:
    1. Mix the remaining ¾th (90 gms) of sugar with 3 tsp of meringue and add water slowly to reach flooding consistency. This icing when lifted at a height and dropped back, will dissolve back in the bowl in about 12-15 seconds.
    2. Take care not to make it too thin. Fill the piping bag with about ⅔ of this white icing and color the rest with food coloring.
    3. Keep the white icing covered or in a bag. Draw outlines and flood the outer base section in the shape of "C" with coral icing and top it off with sprinkles immediately.
    3. Then flood inner white circles (one at a time) and quickly drop some medium consistency coral icing (that you previously piped) in the center, in circular shape. Then swirl it with a toothpick or scribe tool to create roses.
    4. Top with a long golden jimmy and a sprinkle ball to create stem and leaf.

Nutrition

Calories: 277kcal
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  1. Andrew Fox

    April 06, 2019 at 7:10 am

    This is so beautiful. Next week is my wife's birthday so I am Planning to gift her something.

    Reply
  2. Diana Narcisse

    January 24, 2019 at 1:13 am

    5 stars
    These are absolutely amazing looking. It's so nice to see such a beautifully made dessert. I bet they taste as good as it looks.

    Reply
  3. azirtak

    January 23, 2019 at 8:45 pm

    Wow these are so beautiful and cute! These would be so perfect for Valentine's Day! I'm thinking about making these for my husband and his coworkers! how cute!

    Reply
  4. Echo

    January 23, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    5 stars
    These are simply stunning! I don't know if I would use them for decoration or eat them all!

    Reply
  5. Ayana Nell

    January 23, 2019 at 9:01 am

    5 stars
    These are so pretty! They would be perfect for "Galentines Day" too!

    Reply
  6. Yonca

    January 23, 2019 at 6:21 am

    Beautifully decorated Rose Cookies look delicious! Perfect choice for Valentine’s Day 💕 You are talented.

    Reply
  7. Dani

    January 22, 2019 at 6:15 am

    What beautiful, beautiful pieces of edible art. These valentines themed cookies look so sweet. You have a real talent! Thanks for the recipe

    Reply
  8. Kate

    January 22, 2019 at 3:45 am

    OMG! They look so cute! What a great idea!

    Reply
  9. Merryl

    January 21, 2019 at 8:34 pm

    5 stars
    This is so adorable, thanks for sharing. I love the minimal ingredients and overall cook time is quick. I'm gonna save this recipe and hope my decorating turns out as nice as yours

    Reply
  10. Sarah Meh

    January 21, 2019 at 4:42 pm

    5 stars
    These are beautifully decorated rose cookies. It'd be a good snack for Valentine's day. Thanks for the recipe.

    Reply
  11. Farrah Less

    January 21, 2019 at 11:37 am

    5 stars
    I love baking and i like making a personalized gift for Valentines Day it becomes more romantic. This rose cookies is so cute and looks tasty too. Everyone in my family would love this.

    Reply
  12. Nisha

    January 21, 2019 at 11:35 am

    5 stars
    They are so pretty! very well done!!

    Reply
  13. supermompicks

    January 21, 2019 at 10:44 am

    My daugher loves to bake especially for holidays. She would love to make these for sure! You could really get creative with these.

    Reply
  14. Fran

    January 20, 2019 at 11:20 pm

    5 stars
    Thank you so much for sharing this great recipe! I was looking for activities to do with my girls on this day and these cookies would be perfect!

    Reply
  15. Kristen Frolich

    January 20, 2019 at 9:56 am

    What a beautiful design. I love Valentines Day and I know my boys would love eating and making these cookies.

    Reply
  16. Cristina Petrini

    January 19, 2019 at 2:09 pm

    5 stars
    These cookies are romantic, elegant and super refined, but I do not think I'll be able to make them for my half xD But I'm fascinated I would be good like that!

    Reply
  17. HolyVeggies

    January 19, 2019 at 1:29 pm

    these look so pretty! The perfect recipe for Valentine's day.

    Reply
  18. mimi rippee

    January 19, 2019 at 9:48 am

    Oh my goodness! You're so creative and talented.

    Reply
  19. Latte Lindsay

    January 19, 2019 at 7:11 am

    These look so pretty! I know they are for Valentines Day but I would be happy to decorate biscuits like this all year round 🙂

    Reply
  20. angiesrecipes

    January 19, 2019 at 12:36 am

    wow how cool! These are just too beautiful to eat 🙂

    Reply

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