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...:-(
Don’t get me wrong: the cookies are beautiful. But too hard! I have a love, love less relationship with Martha Stewart. I have done a lot of her recipes and some were unbelievable. But some she clearly phoned in. And I have some of her kitchen equipment. My favorite mixing bowl that I want to use for everything is hers, the metal deep one in the perfect size with a pouring lip and a plasticized bottom to keep it still and quiet? DO NOT MESS with Mama’s bowl. I use it 3x a day I bet.
The afternoon I carved three butternut squashes into ghosts for Halloween, from her idea, I MAY have cursed her name a few hundred times.... But dang if they didn’t look really cool when done. ;)