Cream Cheese Valentine’s Heart Cookies
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These easy and soft Valentine’s Heart Cookies are soft and tasty. A little cream cheese is a secret ingredient to these delightful heart cookies. We love to make these very Valentine’s Day as a fun and different cookie.
These valentine cookies are so delicious and easy to make for the perfect Valentine’s day dessert.
These are one of our Easy Valentine’s dessert recipes you will want to bookmark for later.
Why This Recipe
Fun. Heart-shaped sugar cookies are a fun and festive way to celebrate the season.
Easy Recipe. Valentine’s Heart Cookies are easy to make with simple ingredients and are great for a Valentine’s party.
Tasty. These valentine sugar cookies are light and crisp cookies that taste wonderful.
For more delicious Valentine’s Day desserts, try these Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip cookies or these Cherry Chip Cupcakes
Valentine’s Day cookies are fun and these heart-shaped treats are perfect for a Valentine’s tea with friends or just celebrate your family.
Ingredients
- flour
- sugar
- egg
- butter
- cream cheese
- vanilla extract
Equipment
- large mixing bowl
- hand mixer or stand mixer
- baking sheet
- heart-shaped cookie cutter (i like these heart cookie cutters)
- rolling pin
- parchment paper
Full instructions in recipe card.
Variations
- As a fun variation, you can color the dough in different pastel colors so the cookies look like conversation hearts.
- Dip cookies in melted chocolate chips for a fun dipped cookie.
February is a great month for a slumber party or a Valentine’s Tea. These cookies are always a hit and are a great way to tell friends how much you care about them.
How to Make Valentine’s Heart Cookies
Step 1 – Mix wet ingredients in a large bowl.
Step 2 – Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl and incorporate flour mixture into wet.
Step 3 – Add food coloring and mix well.
Step 4 – Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill dough at least 1 hour.
Step 5 –Roll sugar cookie dough on a lightly floured surface surface with a rolling pin. Use cookie cutter on rolled-out dough and place on cookie sheet.
Step 6 – Bake cookies as directed. cool baked cookies on a wire rack.
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They are soft and so pretty in pink! I used a scalloped edge heart cookie cutter for some fun flair!
Be sure to check out my other Valentine’s Day cookie recipes:
Valentine’s Day Heart Cookies – A soft cream cheese cookie that is sure to make someone smile.
Easy Valentine’s Day Gift Idea – a fun gift idea for kids to make for family members.
Valentine’s Day Cookie Round up – A whole round-up of Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipes.
Also, for more fun, Valentine Celebration ideas, check out these:
- Valentine’s Crafts for Kids and Adults
- Valentine’s Day Snacks for Kids – Lots of idea for kid snacks
More Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipes
Cream Cheese Cookie Recipe Tips
- fYou can add estive sprinkles
- Use powdered sugar to roll out cookies in stead of flour. You can also place dough between two pieces of wax paper for non-stick rolling.
- These cookies don’t spread, but place about 1″ apart on baking sheet for even baking.
- Store Cookies in an airtight container.
Valentine’s Heart Cookies
Equipment
- Cookie sheet
- microwave
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 3 ounces cream cheese reduced fat ok
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- red food coloring
Instructions
- Heat oven to 375 degrees f.
- Cream butter, cream cheese, sugar, egg and vanilla in a mixing bowl.
- In a separate bowl, mix flour and baking powder.
- Slowly blend into butter mixture.
- Add food coloring and mix well.
- Chill dough at least one hour.
- Roll onto floured surface to 1/4 thickness. Cut out cookies with a heart shape cutter and place on parchment paper at least 1" apart.
- Bake 8 – 10 minutes at 375° until lightly brown.
- Let cool on a cooling rack before serving.
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A Valentine’s Tea is a wonderful idea, and I love pink cookies 🙂
Thanks Ashely! Will have to invite you to the next one! 🙂
Ooh, Scarlet would love these cookies! So would I. And a Valentine tea sounds fantastic. I want to come!
I know how much you all love your cookies! I think she would like these!