Last Friday morning I was headed over to our son and DIL's home to pick up the two older grand kiddos for a little over nighter at our house! Along the way the local Krispy Kreme made my car pull right into their parking lot and DEMANDED that I pick up some of their delightful heart shaped donuts to take on my trip!!
Of course, I had to do what they told me!! So I bought a dozen of these "melt in your mouth" delicacies and continued on my way!
Everyone was thrilled with the do-nutty surprise....well, the little 6 week old Grand Boy #2 wasn't impressed, but the rest of 'em were!!!
After a sweet visit with my DIL and the baby, I loaded up The Grand Girl and Grand Boy #1 ..... and some of the donuts....then headed out to meet my hubby so he could have lunch with his little ones, too!
Then, we returned to our house and started making Valentine Cookies!!
I wasn't sure how Grand Boy #1 would do with this project......I was certain The Grand Girl would be very good at it....HOWEVER, that little guy did a fantastic job of rolling out the dough and cutting his cookies,too!
Flour on the nose of the Grand Girl.
OK...this was just too cute of a shot for this Nana to pass up!!! :)
Here you see a batch of those, "made with love" cookies, baking away!!
Next it was time to frost!!!
Again, I knew The Grand Girl would do a fine job with that, as we've frosted lots of cupcakes in the past, but this was my first time of actually "cooking" with Grand Boy #1, and again, I didn't know how he would do with "frosting".
Well, he did just fine!! :)
He only frosted three cookies, but he enjoyed frosting them over and over!! He assured me he was not eating the frosting off the cookies, then reapplying more, but this smart old Nana wasn't fooled ! :)
By the time we were ready to start putting PINK and red "Sprinkles" on the tops of the cookies, Grand Boy #1 had decided he was finished with the cookie project and was off to play with some of his toys.
The Grand Girl is the Sprinkles Princess around here. I recall last Easter when we made cuppy cakes and she was in charge of putting pastel sprinkles on them. I found sprinkles in rooms that were far, far away from the kitchen. Those little babies can ROLL!! :)
Here are a few of the completed cookies we made!!
The next morning, I made some heart shaped pancakes for part of their breakfast. I remember doing that when their daddy was a little boy. We also had scrambled eggs and fruit and . . . .
Krispy Kreme donuts!!! Honestly, that was the hit of the meal!! I can't remember the last time I'd had one of those. . . boy oh boy, were they yummy!
THE STONE RABBIT has been in charge of locating the "runaway sprinkles" this week. He's very good at that job. . .so I rewarded him by baking more heart shaped sugar cookies, with just a little of that yummy frosting and a few of those PINK and red sprinkles!!
I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day and a really fine week!
Please visit Beverly's blog, HOW SWEET THE SOUND. She will have LOTS of other bloggers ready and waiting to share their PINKS with you this weekend!!
Happy Pink Saturday!!
DANA
Note: here is the link to the recipe I used for these sugar cookies. They are just what their title says: THE BEST ROLLED SUGAR COOKIES . This is an awesome recipe! For the frosting, I used the butter-cream recipe on the back of the C & H Powdered Sugar bag...and added Ghirardelli Natural Unsweetened Cocoa until I reached the taste I liked! :)










