These Love Bug Valentine’s Day Cookies are not only adorably cute but also easy to make. They are made with marshmallow chocolate-dipped cookies that you buy in the store and then decorate. This a great edible craft you can make with your kids where there is no baking involved!
Want more great Valentine’s Day treats that are easy? Try our Valentine’s Day Donuts, Heart Shaped Cake, Valentine’s Day Puppy Chow, Heart-Shaped Rice Krispie Treats, or Valentine’s Day Pink Popcorn. Make something for the loves in your lives!!
These couldn’t be more adorable for Valentine’s Day. I love an easy edible fun craft like this that kids will get excited to make.
They also won’t break the bank as only a few ingredients are needed. If you bake a lot, you may have candy eyes left over from another project already.
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Red Fondant, 4.4 oz, ready to roll
What Do you Need to Make These Love Bug Valentine’s Day Cookies?
There are only a few ingredients needed for this recipe, as you can see. Items are available at your grocery store and craft store or easily accessed online. I have provided Amazon links for you above, also.
Ingredients
Whippet or Mallomar Cookies
Red Fondant, reserve one small ½” ball to make sugar glue.
Candy eyes
Valentine heart sprinkles
Water
Supplies
Rolling pin
Round cookie cutter, I used a 1½” (approximately the same size as the cookie).
Brush or applicator for the sugar glue. (the end of a chopstick would work well too!)
That is it for the ingredients, so let’s get started.
How to Make These Love Bug Cookies
These are very simple to pull together. I have created this with kids in mind being an easy craft/dessert to have fun with for the Valentine’s Holiday.
They would also make a great teacher gift too or something to pop over to friends or neighbors. Grab a little box from the craft store and give one as a gift.
View the gallery of pictures we have here for you for easy step-by-step instructions.
Roll out the fondant to ⅛” thick, and using the round cookie cutter, cut out 14 circles.
Using a knife or dough cutter, cut each circle into 2 equal halves; these are your wings.
Next, make the sugar glue. Place the reserved ½” ball of fondant and 1 tsp of water in a small microwave-safe dish. Microwave for 7-10 seconds or just until it is softened. Mix until it resembles a gel-like consistency.
Gluing on Decorations
Using the sugar glue and a small brush or applicator, dot a few drops of the sugar glue on the wings and place your heart sprinkles.
Next, brush a couple of stripes of the sugar glue on the back of the whippet where you want to place your wings. Place them right away and hold them in place for a couple of seconds until they stay in place. I like to place them, so they come together on top of the whippet and fan out at the ends. This makes them appear more like wings.
Apply a dot of the sugar glue on the back of the eyes and place those right below where the wings meet. You may need to hold the eyes into place for a few seconds as well while the sugar glue sets enough to hold them in place.
That is it, simple, easy and so adorable. You will want to make more of these little love bugs once you see how easy they are to make.
How to Decorate Cookies for Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day cookies can be decorated in a number of ways. Sugar cookies are a popular choice for many occasions, but they are time-consuming. They can be decorated with a simple thick icing, or you can line the cookies and flood them with a thinner icing. You can write on them or add various icing techniques. Have a look at our Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies tutorial.
Sprinkles can be added in a variety of ways to cookies, like we have in our 40 Valentine’s Day Sweet Treats. There are many different names for sprinkles, and they come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors. They are definitely a fun and easy addition to decorating cookies. Sprinkles can be called nonpareils, confetti, strands, quins, hundreds-and-thousands, jimmies, sanding sugar, pearl sugar, and dragees. Many of these names are country-specific or even area-specific but may mean the same thing too.
Chocolate
Chocolate is another great way to dress up a cookie, like using simple chocolate chips in our Red Velvet Cookies. For these cookies, we used white chocolate chips. Inadvertently you can also use chocolate in a fun way by adding a kiss on top, like on our Easy Snickerdoodle Hershey Kiss Cookies. Candy-coated chocolates like Smarties in Canada or M&Ms in the US make a colorful, easy decoration too. Looks for Valentine’s Day colors in your grocery store.
Chocolate can also be melted and used like icing to adhere sprinkles with or looks elegant all by itself.
Lastly, a simple sprinkling of icing sugar maybe is all that is needed to make a cookie look divine. This is typically seen on cookies like a Linzer Cookie, which is also cute for this holiday.
Make someone smile and know they are loved this Valentine’s Day with a simple cookie as a gift.
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Love Bug Valentine’s Day Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 pkg – 14 ct Whippets or Mallomars
- 1 pkg – 4oz Red Fondant reserve one small ½” ball to make sugar glue.
- Candy eyes
- Valentine heart sprinkles
- 1 tsp water
Supplies
- Rolling pin
- Round cookie cutter I used a 1½” (approximately the same size as the cookie).
- Brush or applicator for the sugar glue. the end of a chopstick would work well too!
Instructions
- Roll out the fondant to ⅛" thick, and using the round cookie cutter, cut out 14 circles.
Using a knife or dough cutter, cut each circle into 2 equal halves; these are your wings.
Make the sugar glue. Place the reserved ½" ball of fondant and 1 tsp of water in a small microwave-safe dish. Microwave for 7-10 seconds or just until it is softened. Mix until it resembles a gel-like consistency.
Using the sugar glue and a small brush or applicator, dot a few drops of the sugar glue on the wings and place your heart sprinkles.
Brush a couple of stripes of the sugar glue on the back of the whippet where you want to place your wings. Place them right away and hold them in place for a couple of seconds until they stay in place.
Apply a dot of the sugar glue on the back of the eyes and place those right below where the wings meet. You may need to hold the eyes into place for a few seconds as well while the sugar glue sets enough to hold them in place.
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