V-Day Horrors.

Made these today at my grandmother's home. Kind of a tradition~ we decorate Valentine's Cookies every year. But we did change it a bit this year...

1. We still used a regular short cookie. Not a lot of sugar (That's what the frosting's for!)

2. The white frosting is a regular butter-vanilla frosting (mmm...my favorite).
3. The red icing, however, is a recipe from the American Heart Association. It doesn't use any shortening, so it won't clog your arteries. Cheers. It was surprisingly tasty- we added a few drops of Almond oil to add a little *P-I*z-z*A-Z*...You can add peppermint oil as well- we did that on chocolate cookies at Christmas. (I've been looking for the online recipe to this, so if I find it, I will post it.)
There are about 15 more that I don't have photos of yet. That's 'cause I actually personalized them as Valentines, and I don't want anything to happen to them, so my grandmother's going to bring them to me in a few days.
I always forget how tiring decoration is. Maybe it's because I've got this pneumonia, but I was absolutely exhausted. I still am, but I have a bio exam tomorrow, so I have to study. Which I'm not doing, so I might as well be sleeping...

Anyway, I was quite pleased with how the cookies turned out. And you can be proud of me- I didn't eat ANY while I was working on them. That can be a challenge whenever I'm doing cookies or cakes- mostly because I love my grandmother's frosting. When I was just a little one, I would sneak down to the fridge in her basement and eat the frosting.