8-Bit Valentine Cookies
Make heart-shaped 8-Bit Valentine Cookies for Valentine's Day and decorate them with the names of your favorite video game characters!
Servings 20 cookies
Calories 125kcal
Ingredients
Royal Icing
- 3 Tbsp. meringue powder
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 6 Tbsp. water
- 1 bottle red food coloring
- 1 bottle black food coloring
Instructions
Royal Icing
- Place meringue powder, water, and powdered sugar in stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment. Mix for 7 minutes until soft peaks form.
- Separate royal icing into three bowls. Do not dye one bowl of icing. Cover and set it aside.
- Add red food coloring to another bowl of icing. Stir. Repeat, saturating with dye until it no longer changes color. Cover and set aside for two hours.
- Meanwhile, add black food coloring to another bowl of icing. Stir. Repeat, saturating with dye until it no longer changes color. Cover and set aside for two hours.
- Fit piping bags with couplers and a round #1 or #2 tip. Fill with royal icing and close with bag ties.
Baking and Decorating 8-Bit Cookies
- Make sugar cookie dough and roll to 1/4" thick.
- Cut out cookie shapes using 8-bit cookie cutter. Repeat until all dough has been used.
- Bake cookies until edges are light golden brown. Let cool completely.
- Pipe outline around edge of heart-shaped cookie using black royal icing. Let dry.
- Pipe red royal icing just inside black outline. Let dry.
- Fill inside of cookie with red royal icing. Let dry.
- Pipe character name on cookie with white icing. Let dry.
Notes
- For these heart-shaped Valentine cookies, I used a royal icing consistency that's between flood and piping consistency.
- To make jet black royal icing, completely saturate the icing with black food coloring, then wait. At first, the black icing was dark green, but over a few hours, it turned jet black. The red turned from mauve to heart red.
Nutrition
Serving: 1cookie | Calories: 125kcal