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How to Make Adorable Sugar Hearts on Your Cookie Bars

By Stephani Bloomquist
Created December 8, 2016
Red Velvet Cookie Bars
You can make these darling hearts on red velvet cookie bars in minutes with just a few items you probably already have in your kitchen. It’s a little bit of cute that goes a long way!
Red Velvet Cookie Bars

The most important part is to bake up some of these tasty Red Velvet Cookie Bars!   

To kill time while you’re waiting for the bars to cool, cut out a 1-inch heart from either a paper towel or a small piece of parchment paper.

Cut out a 1-inch heart from either a paper towel or a small piece of parchment paper.

Once your bars have cooled, cut the them to your desired size. Remove bars, one at a time, from the pan and place your cute heart shape into the middle of the bar.

Place your heart shape into the middle of the bar.

Dust with powdered sugar from a mesh sieve and quickly (but carefully!) remove the parchment heart. Tip: If you want to be extra careful, use a tweezer to remove the heart to ensure you don’t smudge the powdered sugar!

Dust with powdered sugar from a mesh sieve.
Red Velvet Cookie Bars

Voilà! How sweet is that? You just took these bars to another level!