Cookie decorating for Valentine's Day

From the Food Network website, this recipe uses their own sugar cookie dough, but I'm guessing I can substitute the yummy recipe that we found for the 2009 holidays.


The Food Network calls this . . .



White Chocolate Valentines

NOTES:

1. Heart-shaped cookie cutter is helpful! The recipe suggests these: 2 heart-shaped cookie cutters, 1/2-by-3-inches

2. Their cookie dough recipe adds red food coloring to the dough to make the cookies themselves red.

3. Pastry bag is used for making stripes with melted white chocolate.

Ingredients

Sugar Cookie Dough, at room temperature
1 tsp red gel paste food coloring
4 ounces white chocolate, melted
Pink gel paste food coloring

Preparation, after the dough is made

1. To make striped Valentine hearts, transfer half of the melted white chocolate to a disposable pastry bag, twist the end closed, and using scissors, snip a very small opening in the tip. Starting at the bottom of the cookie, apply gentle pressure to the pastry bag and drizzle lines of chocolate back and forth over the cookie, moving up as the chocolate flows. Allow chocolate to set before eating or packaging.

2. To make polka-dot Valentine hearts, color the remaining chocolate with pink food coloring to the desired shade of pink. Transfer to a disposable pastry bag, twist the end closed, and using scissors, snip a very small opening in the tip. Hold the pastry bag perpendicular to the cookie and apply gentle pressure to pipe a dot of chocolate. Release the pressure on the bag until the flow stops, and continue over the surface of the cookie, piping different sized dots, if desired. Gently tap the cookie to settle the chocolate and allow to set before eating or packaging.