Valentine’s Day Heart Cookies
Can you believe Valentine’s Day is right around the corner? If there’s one thing I love about Valentine’s Day, it’s the sugar. Boxes of chocolate, cute cookies, red velvet cakes, and more. Normally I am not one for cutout cookies for a few reasons. I hate rolling out dough, and after baking many cutout cookies are crisp or crunchy which isn’t my kind of cookie. These Valentine’s Day heart cookies are soft, chewy, dense, made in one bowl, and you don’t have to roll them out. Total win. Rather than making cookie dough, I used my trusty blondie base, baked the dough off in a pan, and then used heart-shaped cutters to cut out cookies. Easy peasy. If you don’t want to make frosting, use store-bought. If you skip making your own frosting, these Valentine’s Day cookies become a no-mixer recipe as well. No one is going to judge you for your frosting when there are so many cute sprinkles involved, both baked into the cookies and on top. The more the merrier.
What’s in Valentine’s Day Heart Cookies?
To make these easy Valentine cookies, you’ll need:
Unsalted butter Egg Light brown sugar Vanilla extract All-purpose flour Salt Sprinkles (I used a combination of these and these) Confectioners’ sugar Milk
How to Make Heart Cookies
As I said before, these Valentine’s Day cookies couldn’t be simpler to make! Mix together melted butter, egg, brown sugar, and vanilla, then whisk in the dry ingredients. Turn the batter into a greased and foil-lined 8×8-inch baking dish and bake until done. Once the sugar cookies are completely cool, cut with a heart-shaped cookie cutter. Then, make the homemade frosting and slather it over the heart-shaped cookies. Top with more sprinkles for an even more festive batch of Valentine’s Day sugar cookies!
How to Store Valentine’s Day Cookies
These heart cookies will keep airtight at room temperature for up to 4 days, or in the fridge for up to 1 week. I’m comfortable storing frosted items at room temperature, but if you’re not store in the fridge. Just note that the heart-shaped cookies will be more prone to drying out in the fridge.
Tips for Making Valentine’s Day Heart Cookies
You absolutely MUST let the Valentine’s Day cookies cool completely before frosting them. If you try to frost the sugar cookies while they’re warm, the frosting will slide right off. If desired, you can skip cutting the sugar cookies into hearts and serve them as cookie bars instead. Either way, this recipe is delicious and it’s impossible to resist all those colorful sprinkles! A few readers have had success adding mix-ins like mini chocolate chips to the sugar cookie batter. I haven’t tried that myself, but chocolate chips or finely chopped nuts sound like a delicious addition to these Valentine’s Day cookies.
More Valentine’s Day Recipes:
Red Velvet Cupcakes with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting — If you’ve ever wanted to make red velvet cupcakes from scratch that are as good as those you’d find in a bakery, try this hassle-free recipe! Tried this recipe? Leave a review! Consider leaving a 5 star rating if you’ve made and loved one of my recipes!
Snickerdoodle Cookie Bars with Pink Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting – Much faster, easier, and more foolproof to make than cookies and great tangy cream cheese frosting!
Red Velvet Poke Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting — If you like red velvet, you’re going to LOVE this EASY red velvet cake recipe!! Super soft, moist, topped with luscious cream cheese frosting and chocolate chips!
Strawberry Cake Mix Cookies with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting – Super soft and tender cookies that just melt in your mouth! Goofproof cookies everyone loves! Perfect for Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, or Easter!
Strawberry Cookie Bars with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting — Soft, chewy, and bursting with strawberry flavor!! The frosting and sprinkles make these easy, goof-proof bars taste even better! Perfect for parties and holidays!
Soft M&M’s Chocolate Chip Cookies — The softest, thickest, best M&M’s cookies ever! People love these big cookies loaded with M&Ms & chocolate!
Loaded Soft and Chewy M&M’s Cookie Pie — If you like M&M’s cookies, you’ll love this biggie version! Super easy and always a big hit!
Red Velvet Gooey Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies — The softest, moistest, gooiest cookies ever! They’re so buttery they just melt in your mouth!
Valentine Chocolate Almond Clusters — You don’t need a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day when you can have these!! Easy, no-bake, ready in 15 minutes, and homemade always tastes better!
