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Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe

January 25, 2020 by Raquel 5 Comments

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Valentine's Sugar Cookies

A Valentines Sugar Cookie Recipe that is perfect for decorating and tastes great too!  It's one of my favorite Valentine's Cookie recipes. Perfect for a Valentine's Day party or as a treat for family and friends, these heart-shaped treats are delicious. You might also like this easy Shortbread recipe too!

 

Heart Sugar Cookies

 

Hello Friends! We are getting lots of rain (finally) here in Southern California. When it rains and is cold out, it pretty much turns into the baking season in my kitchen.

Today I am sharing one of the Best Valentine’s Sugar Cookies Recipes that I use. These are the perfect cookies for tea parties, school parties, family treats or a Galentine's celebration.

Why You Will Love This Recipe

What I love about these cookies is that they are light and crisp on their own, but especially nice with a touch of icing. They are perfect to gift to friends and family too! They work really well with cookie cutters as they hold their shape while baking.

 

A tasty and easy Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe

They not only hold up well to icing, they really taste great too. I use a light vanilla icing on mine.

A tasty and easy Valentine’s sugar cookie recipe
I have been enjoying these lately while doing some beginning of year planning. I am planning personal goals as well as topics for this blog.

A tasty and easy Valentine’s sugar cookie recipe

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On to Valentine’s Day Planning! As you know, we have celebrated Valentine’s day in the past. There is just something special about celebrating friendship and loved ones. I still like to give little Valentine’s gifts to friends just to let them know that I care about them. For these great cookies, all you need is a Ann Clark Heart Cookie Cutter - 3.25 Inches - Tin Plated Steel""" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">cute cookie cutter.

A tasty and easy Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients for Valentines Sugar Cookies

  • flour
  • sugar
  • butter softened (room temperature)
  • vanilla
  • milk
  • egg
  • salt

How To Make Heart Sugar Cookies

  1. Mix together sugar, butter vanilla, egg, and milk.
  2. Add dry ingredients to a separate bowl and combine with butter mixture.
  3. Mix well (for best results use an electric mixer or use your hands)
  4. Roll dough into a ball and cover with waxed paper. Chill dough in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
  5. Preheat oven to 350°
  6. Roll out dough to ¼" thickness and cut with a heart cookie cutter.
  7. Place on greased, non-stick or parchment-covered cookie sheet.
  8. Bake as directed and decorate when cookies are cool. Icing recipe is below.

timesaving tips to streamline recipes

  • You can make the dough ahead of time and store the dough in your refrigerator. I highly recommend making them the day or morning of and then you can bake them and have them ready to decorate later. 
  • Line your baking sheets with parchment paper. This really saves on clean up and makes the cookies easy to lift off of the pan. 

 

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Valentines Sugar Cookies

Be sure to check out my other Valentine’s Day dessert 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.

Valentine's Crafts for Kids and Adults

Valentine's Day Snacks for Kids - Lots of idea for kid snacks

 

Decorated Valentines Sugar Cookie Recipe

A tasty and easy Valentine’s sugar cookie recipe
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Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe

Thin and crisp Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe for Valentine's Day
Course Cookies, Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword holiday, icing, rolled cookies, sugar, valentines
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 24
Calories 39kcal
Author Raquel Pineira

Ingredients

  • ½ cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon milk
  • 1 egg
  • 2 cups flour½ teaspoon salt
  • icing recipe below

Instructions

  • Mix together the butter and sugar, vanilla, milk and egg in a large bowl.
  • Add dry ingredients.
  • Mix well (for best results use an electric mixer or your hands)
  • Roll dough into a ball and cover with waxed paper.
  • Chill dough for at least 1 hour.
  • Preheat oven to 350°
  • Roll out dough to about ¼" thickness on a flat surface and cut with cookie cutter.
  • Place on parchment covered cookie sheet.
  • Bake 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
  • Let cool before decorating

Nutrition

Calories: 39kcal | Carbohydrates: 9g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 7mg | Sodium: 8mg | Potassium: 10mg | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 18IU | Calcium: 7mg | Iron: 1mg

ICING Recipe

1 cup powdered sugar

1 tablespoon milk

pink or red food coloring

Mix together powdered sugar and milk in a small bowl.

add just enough coloring for the desired shade of pink.

Drizzle and spread over cookies.

Let dry completely before serving.

 

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Will you be celebrating Valentine's Day or Galentine's Day, or both?

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For Valentine's celebration ideas, check out these fun Valentine's crafts and recipes.

Simple ways to celebrate Valeintines Day at home.

 

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Southern California mom who blogs about time-saving recipes, entertaining, craft, party ideas and travel. Life is about making the most of your time - don't waste it.

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  1. Tamara

    January 10, 2018 at 2:53 pm

    5 stars
    They are perfect. Just perfect. It's my favorite holiday and those cookies are EVERYTHING!

    Reply
    • Raquel

      January 12, 2018 at 6:32 am

      Thank you Tamara!

      Reply

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