two for valentine’s day
Candy Hearts Baskets is the latest installment in my basket series. I had originally planned it to be in red, pink and white fabrics only for Valentine’s Day, but looking through my whites I came across the charming little print you see in all three blocks (click on the photo for a closer view). Before you know it, a citrus-colored Valentine’s quilt! This one is calorie-free.
Next is my Valentine’s cookie quilt (definitely not calorie-free). Made of chocolate and vanilla sugar cookies, it features embellished heart blocks. It’s easy to make one of your own: just mix up different shades of pink dough from the vanilla, you don’t even have to completely blend it in for a “hand-dyed” look.
Cut the rolled out dough into squares and use a small heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut a heart out of the center of each one. Fill the holes with a contrasting heart “appliqué” (actually, it’s probably more like piecing, but I like to think of them as appliqués.) cut from a different colored square and decorate some of them with sparkly sugar and colored sprinkles, and bake.
After they’ve cooled, arrange them on a tray. If you stack them up several cookies high, then when people take them from the top layer, you still have an intact “quilt”. I stacked them up randomly for an ever-changing quilt.
If you are really ambitious, you could use the cookie cutter as an appliqué pattern and make one out of fabric to go with the cookies.
happy quilting!
Very sweet! I love your sweetheart cookie quilt. How clever.
These are beautiful cookies–they do look like a quilt–what fun! Wish you were here to bake them with my two girls–I have no time, nor really inclination to bake! But these are so cool.
OMG! I lOVE your cookie quilt! Now I HAVE to make one too! and maybe one for St. Pats day and one for Easter…….. What a great idea!
i love the quilt, cool cookies thats the problem with V day it messes with my diet lol
You have got me eating now Laura after seeing your cookie quilt,am in my chocalate stash in the fridge but also got me thinking of when l was small my mum used to make peppermint creams and she bought boxes and white frilly papers and gave them as gifts but l haven’t got the recipe for thm, have you ever made them.
I’ve enjoyed seeing your basket quilts — so much fun and so interesting. And your cookie quilt is such a great idea!
Hi Jill,
No I’ve never made peppermint creams, but they sound wonderful. Have you ever tried googling them to find a recipe?