'Owl' Be Your Valentine Cookies

Whooooo doesn’t like a fun and easy sweet treat for Valentine’s Day?

‘Owl Be Your Valentine’ Cookies are a fun, sweet treat and easy for little hands to help decorate too! More of a procedure than a recipe, you can use the cookies of your choice as a base and decorate with Valentine’s Day theme colored candy.

Use your favorite sugar cookie recipe or baked cookies from the grocery store to decorate.

I picked up some shortbread cookies from Publix bakery. A dozen cookies were about $6.

A 3 to 3 1/2-inch cookie works best as it has plenty of surface area for decorating.

Allow your cookies to cool completely before decorating, covering them with a generous layer of the frosting of your choice; use canned frosting or your favorite buttercream recipe.

Once the frosting is in place, the fun part begins, adding the candy to create the owl!

Here is the candy I used to assemble ‘Owl Be Your Valentine’ Cookies:

♥ peach gummy rings (Dollar Tree)

♥ red licorice ropes (Twizzlers)

♥ Valentine candy corn (1 piece per owl for a beak, HomeGoods)

♥ chocolate covered sunflower seeds (HomeGoods or TJ Maxx)

♥ Valentine M&M’s

♥ Valentine sprinkles or micro hearts

♥ Wilton icing hearts, optional for eyes (Michaels or Jo-Ann’s)

• Start by placing gummy rings at top of cookie, filling in center of the ring with M&M’s, chocolate covered sunflower seeds or icing hearts for pupils. Use additional frosting if needed to attach M&M’s or icing hearts to center of the rings.
• Place a piece of candy corn for a beak between the gummy rings.
• Cut your licorice rope into 1 – 1 ½ inch pieces at an angle. Add a cut licorice piece over each eye at an angle for the owl ear tufts.
• Add 6 chocolate-covered sunflowers seeds, spacing in two groups of 3 for talons at bottom of cookie.
• Add your sprinkles to the body of the owl to mimic feathers.

Store cookies in an airtight container until ready to serve.

See these 'Owl Be Your Valentine' Cookies and a whimsical owl-themed tablescape for Valentine's Day, HERE.

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