I love papercrafts. This a cool site for pop-up cards. The link is for a birthday cake. Enjoy!

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These are my fun Valentine's cookie recipes. I hope you try them sometime!

from Cookie Bouquet Book

1 lb. margarine, room temperature
3 c. granulated sugar
4 large eggs
1 tbl. vanilla (Mexican is best)
1 tbl. butter flavoring
7 c. flour
2 t. baking powder
1 t. salt
Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs and flavorings and mix well. Stir in flour mixed with baking powder and salt. CHILL before using. Bake cookies at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes.(This dough keeps well in a covered container in the fridge for a couple of weeks.)

GLAZE: 1 c. powdered sugar, 1 tbl. corn syrup, 2 tbl. water. Mix together and stir well every time you use it.

Jello Cookies

1 3 oz. pkg jello
1 c. sugar
1 c. shortening (or margarine)
3 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
3 eggs
Mix dry ingredients with shortening (like pie crust). Mix eggs one at a time.

Bake 350 degrees for 6-8 minutes.

CHOCOLATE VALENTINE COOKIES
1 c. sugar 1 c. margarine
1/4 c. milk 1 t. vanilla
1 egg 2 3/4 c. flour
½ c. unsweetened cocoa 3/4 t. baking powder
1/4 t. soda
Mix together. Chill one hour. Roll out to 1/8 inch and bake 350 degrees for 9-11 minutes.

Cinderella Cookies

½ c. shortening 1/4 c. milk
1 c. sugar 3 c. flour
2 eggs 1 t. vanilla
1 lg. tsp. baking powder

Cream margarine and sugar. Add eggs and flavorings and mix well. Stir in flour mixed with baking powder and salt. CHILL before using. Bake cookies at 350N for 8-10 minutes.


DECORATOR FROSTING
2 lbs. powdered sugar
2 c. Crisco
1/2 c. milk
1/3 t. vanilla and lemon or orange extract
dash salt
Beat together for 10 minutes. This will be light and fluffy.

Wish you could see how beautiful the ice cicles are.















Here is my hubby - of 30 years!!

AL & I took a little break one Saturday and hung around the Gateway.




It was freezing cold, but the water made some beautiful formations.

These cookies are ready to go.

If I am careful, I can get 5 cookies on a sheet. Baking a batch takes a long time.


These babies are cooling.

This is what the chocolate dough looks like when I am mixing it up.


I use a pillow case to roll my dough out. It makes clean-up so much faster and easier. I just gather up the case, and toss it into the wash!

These are the start of a cookie bouquet.
I like to bake Valentine cookies on a stick. I will decorate them later. It's a fun and different way to make them.

Some of the cookies are cooling. I let them cool, them prop them up in a container. If they fall off the stick, there is no reason to frost and decorate them.
Here is some of the chocolate dough in the process. I "frosted" them with a mixture of melted dark chocolate and a symphony bar. YUMMMMM!

I ate 3 myself!! : )