Use this sugar cookie recipe and make 1 batch. Roll it out. For each cookie, cut out 1 large heart.
Remove the dough from around it and cut a smaller heart out of the middle.
I ordered a set of five heart cookie cutters from King Arthur Flour. The largest is the outside of the cookie and the smallest is the inside heart.
Transfer this frame to a baking sheet.
Now, for the candy part. Take a handful of Jolly Ranchers, unwrap them, place them in a Ziploc bag, and then put that bag into a paper bag, and crush them with a hammer. The pieces need to be very small. If you want to center to be a specific color, you'll have to separate the colors before you crush them. If you don't, it will turn out either marbled (which would be very cool) or brown (which would not be very cool).
Fill the frame with crushed candy-- but do not over fill!!
Bake however the recipe says to. When they come out of the oven, the candy should be liquid and bubbling.
Leave them on the tray for at least 10 minutes. When the candy is clear and the cookie is cool, try lifting just the edge. If the candy peels off the tray and stays with the cookie, it's cool enough to move it to a cooling rack. If you try to move it too soon, the candy will get messed up and stick to everything.
You could always frost the frames but I like them plain.
Back to the note about overfilling the frame, this is what it looks like when you overfill it:
This was not on purpose. I overfilled the first one I made. Oops.
I made these for my classmates in a few classes and I wrapped them in tin foil to keep them clean and make it look nice.
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| Place cookie on piece of tin foil. |
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| Fold top and bottom over. |
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| Fold left side into a triangle. |
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| Fold the triangle over the cookie. Fold the other side over and flip over. |
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| I pressed the edges to make the heart show up but you don't have to. Sharpies show up well on the tin foil so I used a red one. |
Happy (early) Valentine's Day!
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