Valentine's Day Cookies from Reynolds® Kitchens

These pretty Valentine’s Day cookies can be decorated in so many ways–icing, sugar crystals, piped messages. A sweet little treat for that special someone.

Original recipe makes 24 servings

Ingredients

Cookies:
1 (16.5 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
Sugar Cookie Icing:
1 (16 ounce) box confectioners’ sugar
3 tablespoons meringue powder (powdered egg whites)
6 tablespoons water
1 teaspoon flavoring extract
Food coloring
Decorations:
Red food coloring
Red and pink sugar crystals
White nonpareils

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Line cookie sheets with Reynolds® Parchment Paper; set aside. No need to add extra grease or spray your cookie sheets. Knead flour into sugar cookie dough until well blended. Roll out half of cookie dough at a time to 1/4-inch thickness between lightly floured sheets of Parchment Paper. Using Valentine cookie cutters, cut out cookies; place on parchment-lined cookie sheets.
Bake 7 to 12 minutes, depending on the size of the cookies or until the edges begin to brown. Let stand one minute on cookie sheets. Slide Parchment Paper with cookies onto a wire racks to cool completely.
Icing and Decorating: Beat powdered sugar, meringue powder, water and extract in a large bowl, with an electric mixer, on high speed until smooth and thick, about 1 minute.
Divide icing into 3 small bowls. Leave one bowl of icing white. Stir food coloring in remaining 2 bowls to make pink and red icing of desired color. Cover icing tightly when not in use, icing dries quickly.
Pipe outlines of cookies with contrasting colors of icing using a decorating bag with tip. Or, place icing in plastic zipper bags. Snip off one corner with scissors and use to pipe icing.