My Heart Beets

Valentine’s Day is coming up soon. This year Asher is going to a little party and there will be a valentine exchange. Instead of giving away chocolate he is going to be giving away one of his favorite snacks, beet cookies.

I found this recipe on Weelicious. When I make it I use the grating attachment on the food professor to grate the beets and then use the blade attachment to pulse the rest of the ingredients together. I also use powdered sugar instead of flour to roll it out (especially handy if you forget to add the sugar) It’s a great recipe to do with Asher because he loves pressing the buttons on the food processor and helping me roll out the dough.

For the Valentine, I used these three fonts: My Heart (2peas heart’s delight) Beets (Roughage) For you (Sketchy). These fonts are free. If you want to download them use the links. I printed it out on card stock.

 

Each valentine has a felt beet stitched on it. I just cut a lopsided heart shape out of a Burgundy felt and a leaf shape out of a green felt. As you can see no two are the same.

Using a wine colored thread and my free motion foot on my sewing machine I stitched the beets to the cardstock. I used a contrasting thread in this picture so you could see the stitches better. As well as stitching around the beet shape I also randomly stitched horizontal lines about 2/3s across to add more definition to the shape.

 

 

 

 

 

To finish off the package I filled a snack bag with a handful of the cookies and stapled the valentine to the top.

    

These cookies are great to make ahead. I assemble all the valentines and the stuck them in the freezer. They’ll be ready to go on Valentine’s day

Happy Valentine’s Day