Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies

GUYS, HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY !!

I used to think that I would be so lonely on this love day of the year being single. But being surrounded with my loved ones, my awesome friends, it is just more than I can ask for.

So here is what I do for them, I make sugar cookies! For the first time fyi :)

 

Stuff you need to buy:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 large egg

1 tsp vanilla extract

1/2 tsp kosher salt

1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled, plus more for the work surface 

3 tbs cocoa powder (optional)

*For royal icing*

1 lb of icing sugar

5 egg whites, at room temperature

PROCESS !!

1.  Mix sugar, butter, vanilla extract and cocoa powder 

(don't have a mixer? I used spoons and it worked well!)

2. Add egg, and whisk slightly

3. Add in flour and whisk or use hands!

4. Roll the cookies dough

5. Decide what shapes you are gonna use

6. Ta-daa, they are ready to get hot in the oven

7. I used wording templates to make it cute

(if you are on a diet, I suggest you skip the royal icing and do this, tastes good too haha)

 FOR ROYAL ICING

1. Mix sugar and egg white then put it in piping bags

(choose your own colors, I went for shades of red/pink and blue!)

2. Start decorating!

Quick tips:

I bought  edible ink marker so you can write your little poetry too ;)

 

"Never worry spending your days being single, love is not a game,

it is so special that it can make you smile the whole day and cry the whole night.

So take your time and find the right one."