Valentine's Day Sugar Cookie Recipe
Make these fun and festive Valentine's Day sugar cookies today! You are going to love how easy these pink heart shaped cookies are to make with our no-chill dough!
Servings: 1 dozen sugar cookies
Calories: 397kcal
Equipment
- Wilton 2304-115 Nesting Heart Cutter Set
- Wilton Sugar Pearls, White, 5 Oz
- KAF Home Pantry Kitchen Holiday Dish Towel Set of 4, 100-Percent Cotton, 18 x 28-inch (Happy Valentine's Day)
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
Icing
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 teaspoons milk
- Red food coloring
- White sugar pearls
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350° F.
- Combine butter and sugar in a large bowl. Mix until creamy.
- Add in eggs one at a time and mix until fluffy.
- Add vanilla and mix again.
- In a separate bowl combine flour and baking powder and stir.
- Slowly mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients. The dough will be very stiff.
- Do not chill the dough.
- Roll out the cookie dough onto a piece of parchment paper so they are 1/4 thick. They should be on the thicker side.
- Cut dough into heart shapes. Carefully transfer the cookie cutouts to a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 for 8-10 minutes until just cooked but not yet browned.
- Let cool on the cookie sheet until firm enough to transfer to a cooling rack.
- While cookies are cooling, whisk the powdered sugar, vanilla, and milk together.
- Slowly mix in red food coloring a little bit at a time, until icing turns pink.
- Frost and and decorate cookies with sugar pearls.
- Enjoy!
Notes
Store any uneaten sugar cookies in an air-tight container at room temperature, up to 3 days.