Sugar cookie success

After totally buggering up my Valentine's sugar cookies on Sunday night, I had success yesterday afternoon while my little one was napping. The trick was indeed to roll the dough into balls and let them melt into circles with the heat of the oven (if you missed my previous post, I had tried rolling out the dough and cutting heart shapes, which turned to blobs when cooked). I topped them with a dollop of pink icing and a cinnamon heart. Today I threw the remaining cookies out because I was eating them at an out of control rate!

Baking blunder

Tonight I decided to make some Valentine's cookies, which turned out to be a collosal failure. I decided on heart shaped sugar cookies with a cinnamon heart in the centre. But sugar cookies are intended to start as balled dough which melt into circles, I now know. But because I started with a heart shape, the cookies just melted into giant blobs when the heat hit them. They were thin, over cooked at the edges, and all melted into each other. Definitely not worthy of my sweetheart...but the dough was delicious!

I have 48 hours to concoct another sweet dish!