Valentine Frog Cookies!

You've probably seen the frog valentines just about every where.  Oh, and the mustache valentines pretty much every where too.  So I thought, why not put the two together?

 

Frog Valentines

 

 

I mean, some times a girl has to kiss a lot of frogs before she finds her prince. 

 

As long as she's kissing frogs, I figured they might as well be sweet! 

 

 

Ready, waiting and wishful thinking!

 

 

The perfect Valentine for the girl who is ready to give up on kissing frogs don't you think?

 

Start with a frog cookie cutter.

 

Make your favorite sugar cookie recipe, cut out frogs and bake.

 

 

Just a few from the pond ready to be decorated.

 

And because most frogs think they're your prince charming, you must make the crown~

 

 

It's a tiny cutter I found at Hobby Lobby years ago. 

 

Roll and cut crowns from yellow fondant~

 

 

After you've cut the crowns, place them on a curved surface to shape in a curve and dry.

 

 

I let them dry overnight.  While the crowns are drying, you might as well make the heart. 

 

They also think they have a heart and it looks like they're finally ready to give it away!

 

To emboss the red fondant, I used texture plates~

 

 

Roll the red fondant out, place on texture plate and roll again to get the texture. 

 

Cut with small heart cutter.  Set aside. 

 

On to the big bulging eyes.  Go to your gumball cupboard and get your white gumballs.

 

 

What?  Not everyone has a gumball cupboard? 

 

Okay then, get white gumballs.

Add small circles of black fondant to the top of each gumball.

 

 

Roll a small piece of black fondant. Cut out circles with the top of a round #9 decorating tip.

Brush a teeny tiny bit of water to the fondant and place on the gumball.

 

I propped it up on the decorating tip so it would stop rolling around during the photo shoot.

 

Now on to the mustaches.

 

 

 This is probably not legal in the cookie world, but I used a craft punch to punch out my mustaches. 

 

 After rolling black fondant very thin, let it set a bit, I punched them out. 

 

LOVED. THEM.

 

Time to frost...

 

Use a basket weave tip and pipe a strip of frosting across the middle of the frog. 

 

 

Continue piping frosting across the frog until it is covered.

 

 

Scrape the edges clean with an offset spatula.

 

Sprinkle the frog with green sanding sugar.

 

Rim the edge and add more legs to the center with a #4 round decorating tip.

 

 

Add a red fondant heart.

 

 

Add the curved crown and pipe dots on each side of the crown for the eyes.

 

Add his bulging eyeballs, a/k/a gumballs.

 

 

I mustache you to add the MUSTACHE!

 

 And printable tags to complete the project.



MUSTACHE VALENTINE TAG PRINTABLE

 

 

Print on Avery business cards, punch hole in corner, add ribbon and tie up your frog.

 

I mean that in the best possible way.

 

 

I "MUSTACHE"...

 

Kiss Me MAYBE One More Time?