Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies are so fun to make. These heart shape cookies taste delicious and look festive.
Every Valentine’s Day party needs these cute conversation heart cookies. They are absolutely adorable and a fun sugar cookie recipe to make. It’s one of the Best Valentine’s day Cookies and so easy.
Plus, homemade cookies always taste so amazing. Let the kids help and make memories with fun Valentine’s Day Desserts. We also make Valentine’s Day Dirt Cake and Valentine’s Day Brownies.
We also enjoy Chocolate Dipped Sugar Cookies year round.
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Why This Recipe Works
You can make an assortment of colors for lots of gorgeous cookies. Easy step by step instructions make it simple to bake and decorate cookies for Valentine’s Day. This recipe for Valentine’s Day sugar cookies tastes amazing.
Ingredients
- All Purpose Flour. Spoon the flour into the measuring cup instead of scooping it.
- Baking powder. Make sure it is fresh and not expired.
- Eggs. Room temperature, large eggs.
Icing
- Egg whites. Discard the yolks or use them for something else.
- Powdered sugar. Sift to remove lumps so the icing will be smooth.
- Gel Food Coloring. Use the colors you prefer.
The complete ingredient list can be found at the bottom of the post.
Variations
- Frosting. Feel free to substitute traditional frosting instead of royal icing, You can spread Strawberry Buttercream Frosting Recipe on the cookies or pipe it. Homemade Cream Cheese Frosting is another yummy option.
- Extract. You can use a teaspoon almond extract or a teaspoon vanilla extract in the cookie dough.
- Sprinkles. Top the cookies with festive sprinkles if desired.
Step By Step Instructions
- Step 1. First, preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
Step 2. While the oven is warming up, add the softened butter and sugar to a large bowl. Cream this together on medium high speed until it is smooth and not grainy at all.
Step 3. Then, add a large egg one at a time. After you add the egg, mix everything together in a medium bowl or bowl of a stand mixer.
Step 4. Next, sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
Step 5. Once sifted, add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Combine until well blended using a paddle attachment.
Step 6. Now form the sugar cookie dough into a ball. Wrap it in plastic wrap so that the entire dough ball is covered. Refrigerate for about 6 hours or overnight. You can check to see if the dough is firm after you chill it.
Step 7. Dust your work surface with flour and also lightly flour the rolling pin. Use a heart cookie cutter and start to cut out your cookies.
Step 8. Line the baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone mat. Place the cookies on it.
Step 9. Finally, bake at 325 degrees for 8 to 10 minutes. The cookies should be lightly browned around the edges. Remove the cookies from the cookie sheet and place on a cooling rack. Let the cookies cool completely before icing.
Step 10. While the cookies cool, make the frosting. Use medium speed for 4 minutes using a hand mixer. If the icing is not stiff enough, add ¼ cup powdered sugar until the icing is to a 15 second consistency.
Step 11. Next, separate the icing into 5 small bowls. Stir the food gel coloring of your choice into each bowl. I used pastel colors for the cookies: pink, yellow, purple and green.
How to Decorate
Step 1. Put the pastel icing in piping bags and place the icing on the cookies. Lining the cookies first with icing and then flooding with icing is easiest. The icing needs to cool completely before writing on it. This normally takes 2 to 3 hours.
Step 2. Finally, put the red icing in a decorated bag fitted with tip #1. You can write your favorite Valentine’s Day sayings in the center of each cookie or outline it. Some ideas include Love, BFF, Cutie, XOXO, Call Me, Hug, Kiss, etc.
- Step 3. Once you have finished writing, let the writing icing cool completely. Another 2 to 3 hours should do the trick. Make sure that you do not cover the cookies while the icing is cooling.
Pro Tips
- Allow to cool and set before writing. Make sure the icing has completely set before writing on top of it.
- Chill the dough. The dough needs to be refrigerated for at least 6 hours or overnight. I prefer to make it the day before.
- Room temperature ingredients. Using all room temperature ingredients allows the dough to be easier to combine.
- Don’t overbake the cookies. They should be just slightly brown around the edges.
- Sift the dry ingredients. Make sure to sift the flour, baking powder and salt together before combining with the wet ingredients.
FAQs
Let the icing completely cool on the heart sugar cookies. Then store at room temperature in an airtight container. The cookies will keep up to 5 to 7 days.
You can freeze these cookies either plain or decorated. If freezing decorated, make sure they are totally cool before storing.
Use a freezer container and separate each layer of cookies with parchment paper. This will help the cookies from sticking and ensure they still look nice.
The cookies will keep up to 3 months in the freezer. Allow to thaw in the fridge or at room temperature when ready to enjoy.
Try More Valentine’s Day Desserts
- Valentines Day Cake Mix Cookies
- Valentine’s Day Poke Cake Recipe
- Chocolate Heart Cupcakes
- Valentine’s Day Chocolate Covered Pretzel Rods
- 35 Valentine’s Day Cupcakes
Everyone will love this valentine’s day sugar cookies recipe. Try it today and please leave a comment and recipe rating.
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- Cookie Ingredients:
- 5 C flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- Icing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- Gel Food Coloring
Instructions
- COOKIE INSTRUCTIONS:
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
- Add all 4 eggs at one time. Continue to mix.
- Sift the four, baking powder, and salt together. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
- Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight.
- Check to see if the dough is firm. Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
- Put flour out on the wood cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter (if needed), a heart cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
- Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees F for 8-10 minutes until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges.
- Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
- Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.(About 10 minutes).
- ICING INSTRUCTIONS:
- Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring). If icing is not stiff enough add ¼ C powdered sugar until the icing is to a 15 second consistency. Which means that when you slice a spatula across the top of the icing, it would take 15 seconds to disappear.
- Separate the icing into 5 small bowls. Mix the icing with the food gel coloring of your choice. I used for the cookies – pastel colors: pink, yellow, purple and green and then the final bowl is for the writing and I chose a darker color of red (but you can use any color that you prefer).
- Place the pastel icing in piping bags and place the pastel icing on the cookies. Let this icing cool completely (2-3 hours).
- Then place the red icing in a decorated bag fitted with tip #1 and write your favorite Valentine’s Day sayings in the center of each cookie. Some that I love using are Love, BFF, Cutie, XOXO, Call Me, Hug, Kiss, etc.
- Then allow the writing icing to cool completely (2-3 hours).
- Do not cover the cookies while the icing is cooling.
- After the icing has cooled completely, store at room temperature in an air tight container for up to 5-7 days.
