Best Valentine Sugar Cookies Recipes

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VALENTINE'S DAY SUGAR COOKIES



Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies image

Whether you are looking for a homemade gift for someone special or a fun holiday activity with kids, these sugar cookies couldn't be simpler, tastier or more beautiful. We take the buttery and perfectly crisp rounds and dip them into colored icing, resulting in a marbled and jewel-like effect that'll surely impress your valentine. Swap out the cookie cutter shapes and colors to create cookies for any holiday or special occasion.

Provided by Food Network Kitchen

Categories     dessert

Time 5h15m

Yield about twenty 3-inch and twenty 1 ½-inch cookies

Number Of Ingredients 13

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (see Cook's Note), plus more for dusting
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter (12 tablespoons), at room temperature
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 large egg
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons milk
1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
Red gel food coloring
Pink gel food coloring
Sprinkles, optional

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper.
  • For the cookies: Combine the flour, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl and set aside. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and mix until fully incorporated, about 1 minute. Reduce the speed to low, add the flour mixture and mix until well combined, scraping down sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed, about 2 minutes.
  • Divide the dough into 2 equal pieces. Working with 1 piece at a time, roll the dough on a lightly floured piece of parchment paper until it's about 1/8-inch thick. Using heart-shaped cookie cutters, cut the dough and place the cookies on the prepared baking sheets about 1 inch apart (a small off-set spatula is really helpful when transferring the cookies). After both pieces of dough have been rolled out and cut, combine the dough scraps and re-roll and cut to utilize as much of the dough as possible.
  • Bake until the cookies are just barely golden around the edges, rotating halfway through, 12 to 14 minutes. Transfer the cookies to wire racks to cool completely.
  • For the icing: Meanwhile, whisk the confectioners' sugar, milk and vanilla in a medium bowl until smooth. The consistency should be similar to that of slightly thinned yogurt and should coat the back of a spoon. Adjust with additional confectioners' sugar or milk, if needed.
  • Place 2 tablespoons of icing into each of 2 small bowls. Add 4 drops of red gel food coloring to one bowl and 2 drops of pink gel food coloring to the other and stir until fully incorporated. Using a small spoon, drizzle a small amount of each color over the white icing and then repeatedly drag a toothpick through the icing until you create a marbled effect.
  • Working with one cooled cookie at a time, carefully dip it face-side down into the icing and allow any excess to drip off before placing the cooking back on the cooling rack. Add additional red and pink icing to the bigger bowl of icing as needed to maintain the marbling effect. Decorate with sprinkles (if using) before allowing to the icing to fully set, about 4 to 5 hours.

VALENTINE SUGAR COOKIES



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"The almond flavor makes these delicious sugar cookies quite unique," says Renee Schwebach, Dumont, Minnesota.

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 20m

Yield 3-1/2 dozen.

Number Of Ingredients 7

1 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups confectioners' sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon almond extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
Red decorator's sugar, optional

Steps:

  • In a bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add egg and extracts. Stir in flour; mix well. Chill several hours. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/4-in. thickness; cut with a 2-1/2- or 3-in. heart-shaped cookie cutter. Place on ungreased baking sheets; sprinkle with sugar if desired. Bake at 375° for 8-10 minutes or until lightly browned.

Nutrition Facts :

VALENTINE'S DAY SUGAR COOKIES



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Quick and easy: done in an hour! The most delicious Valentine's Day sugar cookie recipe I've ever used, and you do not have to refrigerate the dough.

Provided by Haven

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Sugar Cookies

Time 55m

Yield 24

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon almond extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ (16 ounce) package white confectioners' coating (such as CANDIQUIK®), or as needed
1 (3 ounce) bar red candy melts (such as Wilton®), or as needed

Steps:

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  • Beat butter and sugar together in the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment until smooth. Beat in egg, vanilla, and almond extract.
  • Combine flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and add to the butter mixture, a little at a time. Stir until well combined. Knead using wet fingers if dough gets too stiff, dusting with flouring occasionally, until it bounces back.
  • Roll dough out to uniform thinness and cut into desired shapes. Place 2 inches apart onto cookie sheets.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden, about 10 minutes. Cool on the cookie sheets until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.
  • Meanwhile, melt confectioners' coating in the microwave according to manufacturer's instructions. Mix in red candy melts until desired color is reached. Dip cooled cookies in the candy coating and let rest on waxed paper until hardened, about 5 minutes.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 230.9 calories, Carbohydrate 28.1 g, Cholesterol 30.8 mg, Fat 12.2 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 2.7 g, SaturatedFat 7.5 g, Sodium 110.1 mg, Sugar 16.1 g

BETHANY'S FAVORITE VALENTINE CUT OUT SUGAR COOKIES



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Soft and moist with a light vanilla and almond flavor. Got these from a friend's wedding.

Provided by Jeremy Meyers

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Cut-Out Cookie Recipes

Time 3h25m

Yield 12

Number Of Ingredients 8

1 cup butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg, beaten
2 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon almond extract
2 ½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder

Steps:

  • Cream together the butter, sugar, egg, milk, vanilla extract, and almond extract in a large bowl.
  • Stir in the flour and baking powder.
  • Cover and refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  • Divide the dough into thirds. On a lightly floured surface, roll out each portion to 1/4-inch thick.
  • Cut cookies out using a floured cookie cutter.
  • Arrange cookies on an ungreased baking sheet about 1-inch apart.
  • Bake until cookies are lightly golden, 6 to 9 minutes.
  • Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 303.9 calories, Carbohydrate 36.8 g, Cholesterol 56.4 mg, Fat 16.1 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 3.5 g, SaturatedFat 9.9 g, Sodium 157 mg, Sugar 16.9 g

THE BEST VALENTINE SUGAR COOKIES



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Roll these cookies a little thick and cook them until barely golden on the bottom and you have the perfect sugar cookie!

Provided by Emily Williams

Categories     Desserts     Cookies

Yield 48

Number Of Ingredients 8

7 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups white sugar
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 ½ cups shortening
3 teaspoons almond extract
1 cup milk
3 eggs

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  • In a large mixing bowl, mix together flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder. /Mix in shortening. Once the shortening is well blended, stir almond flavoring and milk into the dough at the same time, followed by eggs. Roll out dough onto a floured surface, using a floured rolling pin. Roll the dough thick. Cut out cookies and arrange them on a cookie sheet.
  • Bake at 375 degrees F (190 degrees C) for 8 to 10 minutes, or just until bottom is golden.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 163.1 calories, Carbohydrate 22.6 g, Cholesterol 12 mg, Fat 7 g, Fiber 0.5 g, Protein 2.4 g, SaturatedFat 1.8 g, Sodium 124 mg, Sugar 8.6 g

VALENTINE SUGAR COOKIES - CITRUS FLAVORED



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Add a zing to your Valentine's Day with these citrusy-sweet sugar cookies! We used orange zest in our test batch and were thrilled with the refreshingly light flavor.

Provided by Malinda Coletta

Categories     Cookies

Time 1h10m

Number Of Ingredients 7

4 c flour
1 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
2 1/2 stick butter. cut in pieces
3/4 c sugar
1 large egg plus one egg white
2 tsp lemon zest or lime, orange zest

Steps:

  • 1. In a food processor, combine flour, baking powder, and salt; pulse to mix. Add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add sugar, eggs, and lemon zest and process until mixture resembles wet sand.
  • 2. Turn mixture out onto a lightly floured surface; knead several times until dough comes together. Divide into 3 portions; flatten each into a disk. Roll each disk to an 1/8-inch thickness between sheets of parchment. Stack dough (still in parchment) on a baking sheet; refrigerate 20 minutes.
  • 3. Preheat oven to 375 degrees, with racks in middle and lower thirds. Working with 1 dough sheet at a time, peel off parchment (save for baking). With lightly floured cutters, cut dough into desired shapes and arrange, 1 inch apart, on two parchment-lined rimmed baking sheets (reroll scraps, if desired).
  • 4. Bake until cookies are set but still pale, 7 to 9 minutes, rotating sheets halfway through. Transfer cookies to wire racks and let cool completely. Using a pastry bag and tip, frost cookies with icing; decorate with sugar!

VALENTINE SUGAR COOKIES



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These cookies are better than Grandma's! It's important to use both shortening and butter in this recipe. The butter makes them soft on the inside, and the shortening makes them crisper on the outside. To frost them, I use equal parts of butter and cream cheese, 1 tablespoon of vanilla, and enough powdered sugar to pull it together.

Provided by IamEarnie

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h15m

Yield 24-36 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 11

6 1/2 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shortening
4 ounces cream cheese
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
1 cup sour cream
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon vanilla

Steps:

  • Mix flour, baking powder and salt together. Set aside until ready to use.
  • Add butter, shortening, cream cheese, and sugar in a large mixing bowl and cream together for 3 minutes.
  • Add the eggs, sour cream. Mix completely.
  • Add in the baking soda, salt, and vanilla. Mix well.
  • Add the flour mixture and blend together. If dough is too moist, add more flour to accomodate.
  • Chill dough for about 1 hour.
  • Roll out the dough, cut in desired shape.
  • Bake in a 375 degree oven for about 8 minutes or until edges are slightly browned.
  • Decorate as desired with frosting and sprinkles.

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