Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe

A tasty and easy Valentine’s sugar cookie recipe

5 from 45 votes

Valentines Sugar Cookies Recipe

Heart Shaped Sugar Cookies are perfect as a Valentine's Day Dessert. Thin and crispy sugar cookies are shaped and decorated for a Valentine's treat. Great for a Valentine's day party or lunch box snack. So tasty and easy to make too.

Prep Time15

Cook Time15

Course: Cookies, Dessert

Cuisine: American

Servings:

Calories: 39kcal

Author: Raquel Pineira

Equipment

large or medium bowl
mixer
Rolling Pin
heart cookie cutters

Ingredients

For Cookies

1/2 cup butter softened
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon milk
1 egg
2 cups flour1/2 teaspoon salt
icing recipe below

Icing Recipe

1 cup powdered sugar
1 tabplespoon milk
red food coloring

Instructions

Cookies

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.
Heat oven to 350°
Roll out dough to about 1/4" thickness on a lightly floured surface surface and cut with cookie cutter.
Place on parchment covered cookie sheet.
Bake cookies 10-12 minutes until golden brown.
Let cool before decorating

Icing

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.

Notes

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.

Store cookies in an airtight container.

This simple sugar cookie dough recipe can be used for other holiday cookies.

Make sure that you allow baked cookies to cool before frosting.

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