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    Home » Cookies » Decorated Sugar Cookies

    Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies and Military Care Package #9

    By Wendy Sondov · Published: Feb 10, 2015 · Modified: May 28, 2021 · This post may contain affiliate links · As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

    This is a Valentine’s Day themed care package for someone I don’t know. Red hearts, love notes, and roses were not appropriate. I struggled for a while, trying to figure out what to include in this military care package that would convey my Valentine’s Day message of caring and support. Not surprisingly, I decided to express my support in cookie form.  Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies are sealed with a red heart for caring and a yellow “Support our Troops” ribbon.

    Rows of 12 Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies, rectangular sugar cookies with a scalloped edge iced white with white lines piped on top to look like the back of an envelope. At the tip of each envelope flap is a red heart sprinkle that has a yellow icing ribbon piped on it.

    Attempting to emphasize the caring hearts and yellow support ribbon idea, I lined the packing box with hearts cut from rainbow striped paper, and taped a yellow ribbon to each.

    The flaps of the care package are decorated ; 2 are covered with rainbow striped wrapping paper and two have hearts cut from the rainbow paper. Each heart has a yellow "support our troops" ribbon in the middle.Care package contents 

    • The box was loaded with as much chocolate candy as possible, and needed very little tissue paper filler. I took a “one of each” approach when it came to deciding what kinds of candy bars to buy.
    • The sweet Valentine gorilla was an impulse buy from the Dollar Store. I remembered that Operation Gratitude includes little stuffed mascots in all of their military care packages and they are big time experts, having shipped more than a million boxes. I followed their lead. This little gorilla was destined to warm military hearts in Afghanistan.

    Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies and Military Care Package #9 candy contentsCircle sugar cookies 

    I know. The cookies this month aren’t circles. Circles, having no corners, are less breakable when shipping, but this month I am sharing iced rectangles.  Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies are so simple, they are fool proof.

    Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies edge closeup showing ¼" thickness of the scalloped edge and the 3-dimensional icing with the envelope lines piped on top of the flat white icing.

    Red heart sprinkles each with a yellow "support our troops" ribbons piped on top.

     

    1. I used one batch of vanilla dough. The 12 cookies for this care package used 1 batch of faux royal icing. Almost all of the icing was white.
    2. Remove about ¾ cup of icing when it is thick enough for outlining.
    3. One tablespoon of the thick icing is colored yellow and placed it in a piping bag with a tiny round tip.
    4. The rest of the thick icing is left white and placed in a piping bag with a small round tip.
    5. The remaining icing was thinned to a flooding consistency and placed in a piping bag with a slightly larger round tip.
    6. Outline all of the cookies in the thicker white icing around the outer edge and  allow to set slightly for about 30 minutes before flooding the outlined rectangle.
    7. While the flooded icing is setting for an additional hour, pipe yellow ribbons onto 12 heart sprinkles.
    8. Once the flooded icing has set for an hour, use the thicker white icing to create the lines to look like the back of an envelope.
    9. Press the heart sprinkles with yellow ribbons onto the tip of the envelope flap.

    Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies step 1 flood surface with white icing, step 2 pipe on lines to look like the back of an envelope, step 3 add a red heart sprinkle on the tip of the envelope flap.

    Always allow iced sugar cookies to air dry overnight to allow the icing to harden before packing.

    I used plastic wrap to wrap Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies in pairs, with bottoms together.

    The wrapped bundles are then placed snuggly in a column in a freezer weight gallon zip lock bag.

    Kiss Cookies, ball-like chocolate cookies dipped in chocolate and sprinkled with Valentine sprinkles, on a plate with pink foil Hershey's kissesNew recipe

    Kiss Cookies were the new recipe included in this box. The two dozen Kiss Cookies were festively sprinkled and definitely appropriately chocolaty.

    Soldier B. mentioned that he especially likes chocolate-mint. So, I stuffed the cookies with mint truffle Kisses. After baking, each cookie was dipped in a generous coating of chocolate then topped with sprinkles. Plenty of chocolaty celebration.

    Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies and Military Care Package #9This military care package required adapting. Valentines aren’t usually given to strangers.

    Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies are usually made for loved ones with plain sprinkle hearts sealing the flap. These cookies don’t need yellow ribbons of support, but our soldiers do.

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    1. Helen at the Lazy Gastronome

      February 17, 2019 at 8:58 am

      These are great!! Pinned for next year. Thanks for sharing at the What's for Dinner party. Can't wait to see what you'll bring this week!

      Reply
    2. Kippi

      February 15, 2019 at 8:40 am

      Wonderful military care box! You thought of every detail. Sweet ideas. Happy Weekend, Kippi #kippiathome

      Reply
    3. Miz Helen

      February 11, 2019 at 10:47 pm

      Your Valentine Envelope Sugar Cookies look like such a special Valentine Cookie! Hope you have a great Valentine Week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
      Miz Helen

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    4. Babychaser

      February 10, 2019 at 8:30 pm

      This is so great!!! I love all the things you did. One of these days I'm going to try royal icing, but for now my kids do most of the sugar cookie decorating with/for me.

      I am now following you on Pinterest and here. Can't wait to look around some more when there is time. 🙂

      Here from Over the Moon.

      Blessings,
      Babychaser
      mamasbrush.wordpress.com

      Reply
    5. Calypso in the Country

      February 10, 2019 at 6:47 pm

      These are so incredibly cute!! Thanks for linking up to Best of the Weekend!
      Shelley

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      • The Monday Box

        February 10, 2019 at 7:37 pm

        Thank you, Shelley! It's so much fun when an easy design is also a cute design! 🙂

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        • Calypso in the Country

          February 15, 2019 at 7:35 am

          I ended up featuring these at our Best of the Weekend Link Party this week! Thanks again for joining us with your creativity! Have a great weekend!
          Shelley

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    6. Brittany Snyder

      February 06, 2019 at 2:54 pm

      Oh my goodness, this is SO thoughtful! I would love to create a care package with my little ladies! The little envelope cookies are my favorite, such detail and thought went into them and I can only imagine they taste delicious. I'm so happy you linked up with our Wonderful Wednesday blog hop, hope to see you next week!

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      • The Monday Box

        February 06, 2019 at 3:01 pm

        Thank you, Brittany! There are many Soldiers Angels that involve their kids in letter writing and care package creating. There is something special that touches the heart when a child sends good wishes! 🙂 I highly recommend that you take a look at soldiersangels.org. 🙂

        Reply
    7. Kristie

      February 06, 2019 at 1:40 pm

      Saw these on the WW Blog Hop. Had to drop in and say these are adorable! When I taught kindergarten we went on a field trip to the post office for Valentine’s Day. Love it!

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      • The Monday Box

        February 06, 2019 at 3:02 pm

        Thanks so much, Kristie! I try to make the cookies in easy designs that anyone could do! This simple design is one of my favorites!

        Reply
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