3D Valentine Flower Cookie Pops

Ever wanted to teach your husband a lesson?

Is it just me, or does it seem anytime you need help with the kids, your husband has to go to the bathroom?

And he's in there FOREVER!

Yep....my life in a nut shell. Cooking dinner....baby crying.....kids needing the potty....ya know one of those HEEEELP ME moments. The moment's you say "Honey please help me." Every single time I have one of those moments. He just happens to need a bathroom visit. 

Well NO MORE!!! Yesterday I was going to teach him a little lesson. 

Hubby lets me know the baby's crying....the toddler's full of spaghetti and needed to be wiped down....the works.  Apparently he had FB games to attend to and was busy at that moment. Who knows?

So I say in my sweetest princess voice...."Could you get it baby. I really need to go to the bathroom.......too much coffee". You know....so he'll know I'm gonna be a while.

For the record I did NOT have to use the bathroom. I'm a girl....we don't do those two hour bathroom things....unless we're in there applying makeup, but we'll talk about that another day.

So I'm in the bathroom just sitting....and listening.

Now as a mother this is not an easy thing to do.  We all know he is NOT going to do things right. The baby is going to cry a minute before he moves from his FB game or the episode of Duck Dynasty that he's seen twelve times. 

Mommies, this is not easy to endure. HOWEVER, I managed to sit there admiring my make up collection and think of new shoes that I surely needed. 

Everything became quiet. 

Too quiet. 

I sneak out and tip toe around the hall corner to see what sort of madness must be going on. Ya know,  with him in charge and all. 

Wanna know what I see? I see him napping on the sofa. The baby playing in his activity toy and the two girls sitting on the sofa quietly watching The Lorax. 

There goes my theory of teaching him a lesson. Guess the jokes on me.....or maybe NOT. 

My new afternoon thing is going to be having quiet time in the bathroom while he takes over.....Guess the Jokes on him. 

Now I just have to find a way to transform my bathroom into a fancy schmancy relaxing place.....sofas and all. Hmmm I may be on to something. 

Now that you're aware that my husband handled things better than me, lets make some cookies. 

3D Valentine Flower Cookie Pops

Start with a circle cookie cookie pop. Just roll out your dough, cut out shape, stick in the freezer for 2-3 minutes then insert the stick. Bake according to your recipe.

Need a good cookie recipe? You can get mine

here

.

 Outline cookie using a #2 tip and white royal icing.

Fill cookie with white flood icing.

While icing is wet, sprinkle with

white nonpareils

. Allow to dry.

Shake off excess nonpareils.

Outline hearts using a #2 tip

                          Fill hearts with red flood icing. Let cookies dry overnight.

Arrange heart cookies in a circle and add a dab of thickish white icing to each one. 

Place circle cookie on top of the heart petals. Allow to dry completely.

**For added cuteness, slip a

stripey straw

over the white stick. 

Tie a green ribbon around straw for a leaf. 

This would make a perfect Valentine's Day gift for a teacher. 

Hope your week is going good and you're getting lots of baking done!

Valentine's Lingerie Cookies

What's Valentine's without a little lingerie.....right?

This Valentine's day I do NOT want lingerie.....nope....a bottle of anti-nausea meds and a pillow will be the best thing my husband can get me. Secretly that is what I'm wishing for. It's the simple pleasures in life right? 

The first cookies I ever made were bra and panties cookies. They were for the deployed soldiers in my husband's unit.

My husband has been deployed twice, so I've made my fair share of lingerie cookies. I'll show you how to make a variety of bra and panties cookies at a later date. For today, we're going to make red with black polka dots. It's a very simple one to do. 

First you will cut out heart shaped cookies and cut the pointed end off. 

Then bake and cool your cookies. 

With red royal icing and a #2 tip,  pipe your outline for the bra. Let dry about 15 minutes.

With red flood icing, fill in bra section. 

Add straps with red royal icing and a #2 tip. I made two lines for straps then piped dots in between. 

Let dry several hours or overnight.

After bra is dried add a center dot. 

For the panties pipe outline with red royal icing and a #2 tip. Let dry 15 min.

fill in panties with red flood icing. Add another outline above first line with red royal icing and #2 tip. 

Add dots with the red royal icing and #2 tip. Let cookie dry several hours.

With black royal icing and #1 tip add dots to bra and panties. Allow to dry.