Valentine's Day and Cookies!

 Valentine's Day is coming in a couple of weeks, so we've started baking some of my favorite Cookies of the season. We are already shipping yummy Valentine Cookie Gifts for Birthday and other gift occasions, but most of the cookie orders will ship the week of February 10th. These chocolate sugar hearts are not to be missed this year. The chocolate sugar cookie dough is not too sweet and is mixed with butter, sugar and Belgian cocoa, so they taste divine. I love the contrast of the white icing on the chocolate sugar cookie and the red and pink colors just pop on these hearts.

 Mini sugar cookies are very popular lately. They are the perfect treat for those times you are looking for a bite or two of something sweet! Plus they are just plain cute. I definitely overuse the word "cute" but it's the first word to come to mind when I see these little sugar hearts piped in royal icing and topped with sparkling sanding sugar. We offer these hearts in bags of 12 cookies and they are packaged with our classic cookies such as chocolate chip, white chocolate cranberry ( oatmeal based and so good), double chocolate chip and snickerdoodles! If you're looking for a Valentine's Day Cookies gift for someone special, consider a gift box with homemade cookies. You can't go wrong.

 {New} this year, are these mini ( cute, too) sugared hearts. We've baked the sugar cookies with a ruffled edge, frosted them with royal icing and dipped each cookie in a bright color of sanding sugar. I just love the bright new colors!  We decorate using classic valentine colors of red, pink and white sugars, but also blue, purple and orange. I can just imagine someone opening this gift box to find these colorful cookies inside! The 2 inch heart cookies are  perfect for sharing and there are 2 dozen in each gift box, so there are plenty to go around if you were sending to an office or family. Kids in particular, I think, would enjoy these Sugared Valentine Heart Cookies.

We love baking cookies for Valentine's Day, but the packaging can be just as much fun. This white gift box is stamped with a small heart and tied with red grosgrain valentine ribbons. We line each gift box with a valentine printed tissue paper and fill it with white or natural kraft shred. Each gift box is then wrapped in bubble wrap and packed in a sturdy shipping box for a perfect Valentine Cookie Delivery by February 14th!

Valentine's Day Cookies make great gifts for Everyone

These may be my new favorites this year for Valentine's Day, Chocolate decorated Hearts. We bake our all natural sugar cookies, hand roll and cut out with heart cookie cutters. The cookies are baked in our convection oven, then hand decorated with homemade chocolate buttercream frosting and then detailed with royal icing and sprinkles. After they set up overnight, we package them and add them to a gift box ready to ship.Yes, they may be my new favorites. But then there are the adorable conversation heart cookies...

Valentine's Day 2010

Valentine's Sugar Cookies with  conversation messages were very popular last year as a cute and fun Valentine's Day gift. We like the traditional messages like be mine, say yes, cutie pie etc but this year I'd like to add some new ones. Short and cute but I think we'll be able to update some of the sayings. Text me? Follow me? We'll think of some in time for February 14th.

Chocolate Valentines for Delivery

 

These yummy cookies are available for shipping from our online store at CountryCupboardCookies.com . Double Chocolate Fudge with extra chunks of Callebaut chocolate, wonderful Chocolate Chip with more chocolate chips than flour and our buttery melt-in-your mouth sugar cookies frosted with chocolate buttercream. Happy Valentine's Day!

Cookie Art for Your Valentine Creative and Delicious

These cookie art designs were done for us by our daughter, Lori Wittig. She now works in advertising in Dallas, so we miss her at the bakery, but she's still able to send us a few of her ideas when she has the time. These edible images are really works of art, and the buttery, sugar cookie piped with icings in pink and red makes them perfect gifts for Valentine's Day. They are available either alone as a collection or with freshly baked assorted cookies. http://www.countrycupboardcookies.com/

Valentine's Day Cookies for Delivery!

Valentine's Day is my favorite holiday at the bakery. I wish I could enjoy the Christmas season more, but it's so busy that all I can do is really concentrate on the details of the the orders. Valentine's Day however is a short season for us, maybe 2 weeks of preparation, then 1 week of shipping. The colors are simple, red & white, although we've added chocolate brown, gold and cream this year, and who doesn't love pink frosted sugary heart cookies? People and companies have "lists" at Christmas, at Valentine's Day there really are just special friends and loved ones to indulge. It's a great way to warm up the cold wintery season here in Pittsburgh, especially after this weeks ice and snow and slush. ( and even thunder one day, yes, it really did thunder in the middle of an ice storm. )
We have so many new yummy items this year for Valentine's Day to offer, I can't wait to start baking , the boxes are here and the ribbons are beautiful. I hope some people will try our new signature chocolate brown , cream & gold box of cookies shown here, it's a change from the red & white, but will also include pink hearts and assorted homestyle cookies such as super chocolate chunk, snickerdoodle, white chocolate macadamia nut and double chocolate cherry cookies. Visit our online store for more ideas and to order. http://www.countrycupboardcookies.com/ For now, I have to go get ready for the Super Bowl Game !!! Go Steelers!