The cookie decoration looks so pretty but a) hands spent nearly an hour making it and b) it probably doesn’t taste any better.
People would ask my first husband, a Swiss chef, what he thought of a fabulous looking modern dish with all the sauces and garnishes etc. his response was always “A lot of hands in my food for a long time.” Lol.
LOL!
A lot of these pictures are like Martha Stewart magazines - nobody’s going to do all of that (I remember once she actually did a piece on hand-made marshmallow chicks! and I thought, “Why???”) - but it’s ‘inspiration’.
High Fashion magazines are the same - you’d never actually wear that stuff; you just get little ideas from it :-)
(The cookie cutters I got from King Arthur are beautiful copper ones, in various sizes, some with scalloped edges, some not; so you could mix up the cutting, decorating, etc. They really did have a beautiful pic of what you could do with little work; I just can’t find it now. But, take a big heart cutter, cut a smaller heart out of the middle; ice, drizzle, add little candy sprinkles and doo-dads - you get the idea :-)
Hey, it’s Valentine’s Day, and you’re doing this for your Sweetie!
Mine would much prefer a nice steak, though...:-(