Cheetah Cookies

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Love Hearts

With Valentine's Day right around the corner, I'm going to be sharing a few of my Valentine cookies this week.  The inspiration for these cookies came from here.  I saw these cookies on Pinterest and knew that I had to make them.   They combine three of my favorite things - hearts, monograms, and script writing.  These cookies are very reminiscent of the anniversary cookies I made in August. 

These cookies a pretty easy to make.  You really only need two icing colors, but any color combination can be used.  In the tutorial from Pinterest, they didn't outline the cookies.  I thought it defined the heart shape more and added contrast, so I added it.  I didn't use a letter stencil on these cookies.  I hand-drew the letters and piped over them, to kept it simple.  If I was going to be making a ton of these cookies, I would use a stencil for uniformity. 

Make sure the base layer is completely dry.  I allowed mine to dry for 24 hours and still had issues.  On the "K" cookie, my food coloring marker broke through the icing a few times, even though I was writing lightly.  I tried to place the "K" over them but I couldn't cover them all up.  On the left side of the heart you can see a few.