Valentine Cookies

Guinea Pig: Kelli

THE CLAIM

This YouTube video by Eugenie Kitchen suggests that making these BEAUTIFUL sugar cookies is as simple as playing with Play-Doh.  True? Watch the video below or click here to view it in YouTube. 

THE TEST
It's important to preface this review by saying that Guinea Pig Kelli is a trained, professional pastry chef.  She has wisdom in the kitchen that most of us do not.  

So how did it go?  Despite this being the kind of thing that Pinterest Fails are made of, Kelli did a remarkably good job!  She says, "... if you search YouTube for "Eugeinie Kitchen" you will find this woman is an expert at rainbows! She must also be an engineer [with] the way she measures all components. That's a little over MY head. I'm not the biggest fan of having to be precise.  .... This might be a little too much for the average person to pull off. It was very time consuming." 

Photo Courtesy of Guinea Pig Kelli

She noted that the instructions may have been oversimplified, so Kelli provides these notes for those trying to do this at home: 

• It is VERY important to measure your heart cookie cutter and figure out how thick each rainbow color needs to be rolled out. Kelli didn't do this, and she ended up having to bend her cookie cutter to make all the layers fit.  (Note the slightly "rounded" heart in her picture.)
  
• After you build your rainbow brick, you cut strips the width of your cookie cutter. You're not going to get many hearts - there will be a lot of waste.  However, you can line up the strips end to end to get more heart cut outs. It will result in a slight crease in the layers (see next picture), but it will reduce waste.  

  

  Photo Courtesy of Guinea Pig Kelli.
  Placing the rainbow bricks end to end reduces waste,
  but will create a crease in the rainbow pattern.

  
  
• The sugar dough roll part works just like the video says it does.
  
• Any sort of sprinkles will do for the outside.
  
• When baked at 325 for 15 minutes, they will be done, but they will still look much like the "raw" state.
  
• You can make cookies with just the layers (no sugar cookie around it). 

Photo Courtesy of Guinea Pig Kelli

So they turned out beautiful, but how did they taste?  Guinea Pig Kelli suggests that they're just an average sugar cookie, and that she might change up her sugar cookie recipe next time, or add more vanilla.  

CONCLUSION
An impressive cookie if you're willing to put the effort in!  A show-stopper for sure!