Hearts & Roses

Lemon cut-out cookies with raspberry royal icing

I’m keeping things simple today.  I made DH the above heart-shaped cookies for Valentine’s Day.  My decorating skills need a lot of work but I had fun doing it and DH says that’s the most important thing.  The cookies tasted pretty good. I basically followed Food Lemon Cutout Cookies recipe with the exceptions that I increased the lemon juice to half a cup and I added a teaspoon of lemon baking emulsion.  I used Betty Crocker’s royal icing recipe substituting raspberry emulsion in place of the vanilla and I used pink icing gel for tint.  

DH was a sweetie as always.  He got me these gorgeous roses.  I am truly blessed to have the love of such a sweet, sweet man!

Valentine’s Day roses – 12 long stem roses purchased from the flora department at Kroger. Aren’t they beautiful?

Progression on the April A to Z Challenge is slow mostly because I lack the motivation.  I felt a bit inspired last week and I thought I had a theme I’d be happy with but I’m not sure if I want to keep going or just scrap it and go a different direction.  We’ll see. 

My normal posting routine is expected to be sporadic except for Mondays until May. Bear with me, my faithful peeps. Here’s hoping you have a wonderfully Wild Wednesday!

~Cathy

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Our first Valentine’s Day spent together was 1977. Today on Wayback Wednesday Time Machine a popular song from that February was Mary MacGregor’s “Torn Between Two Lovers” which hit #1 on 2/5/77 and remained at the top of the chart for two weeks.




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