Valentine'S Day Sugar Cookies Recipes

Valentine's Day heart sugar cookies with royal icing are the perfect festive treat to make this year. They are golden brown and crisp on the outside, but soft and tender on the inside, and decorated with cute love messages using a meringue-based royal icing. They are seriously the best gourmet holiday cookies to gift to your loved ones.

Whenever a holiday rolls around, my go to cookie is always sugar cookies. They are just so easy to make and fun to decorate for whatever occasion that it is. Some other popular Valentine's Day treats to make are Raspberry and White Chocolate Shortbread Cookies, Chocolate Covered Strawberries,  Molten Chocolate Lava Cakes,  Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffles, and French Macarons.

Once you have made the Valentine's Day heart sugar cookies and allowed them to cool completely, you are ready to start making the royal icing. Traditionally, royal icing is made with raw egg whites, but you can actually use meringue powder in place of the egg whites (as we did) and still get icing that hardens beautifully with the

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TIP: Once you have made the icing, I would suggest dividing it into smaller portions so that you can mix a few different colours. Note that when you are not using the icing, cover the bowl with a wet towel to prevent it from drying out.

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Valentine's Day heart sugar cookies are crisp on the outside, soft inside, and made festive with red and pink royal icing decorated on top.

Equipment used: measuring cups and spoons,  mixing bowls,  hand mixer (or stand mixer),  rolling pin,  Christmas cookie cutters,  half sheet baking pan,  wire cooling rack,  piping bags with couplers, no.5 piping tip and no. 1 piping tip (or squeeze bottle).

Make ahead instructions: You will need to plan ahead and give yourself enough time when making these cookies. First, the cookies need to completely cool before icing for at least a few hours. Otherwise the icing will get too runny from the warm cookies and won't set properly. Second, the icing needs a few hours, up to a day, to completely set and harden, otherwise it can easily get smudged when storing, handling, or transporting. If adding multiple layers of icing, you need to allow the bottom layer to dry first, at least 30 minutes. 

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How to store: Store sugar cookies in a single layer in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days, or in the refrigerator for up to one week.

How to freeze: Sugar cookies freeze beautifully. Store them in an airtight container, layered in between pieces of parchment paper and store in the freezer for up to 3 months. 

Keywords: valentine's day heart sugar cookies, valentine's day cookies, sugar cookies, heart sugar cookies with royal icing, how to make sugar cookies, heart cookiesThese Valentine cookies get an extra boost of flavor from the almond extract in the dough. Top with your favorite royal icing or cream cheese frosting!

Valentine's Day Heart Sugar Cookies Recipe

When I was in 7th grade I was OBSESSED with hearts. Anything hearts. Everything hearts. Hearts, hearts, hearts. I’d draw fat bubble hearts over and over, making my mark on just about everything my magic markers could get close to. Oh, and rainbows and juicy red lips.

So its no surprise that my Smudge is now equally obsessed with the red pulsating symbols of happiness. She hasn’t quite hit the “love” obsession yet—she still has penguins and puppies inside of hearts on the brain—so in the voice of ex-NFL QB Kurt Warner, “Thank you Jesus!” that we have a few more years before teenage love-angst hits our doorstep.

So Smudge’s request for cut-out sugar cookies was no surprise. Of course she had to choose the ittiest, bittiest cookie cutter to create her love cookies and we broke out ALL of the decorating fixins. We made minis, maxis, and cookies on sticks. And then we ate. A lot. And then we made more Valentine sugar cookies that may or may not make it into our Valentine’s hands featuring these adorbs downloadable tags in one of my fave Foodie Crush fonts from Emily at Tar-Tryin.

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This almond sugar cookies recipe is seriously the bomb and like my other childhood fave—my mom’s fudge—is the one Miss P (my mom) broke out anytime a cookie cutter and rolling pin were involved.

Way more flavorful than other doughs I’ve tried, this is one that you’re lucky if you have any left to actually bake cookies with. Hello, beaters! Thanks to a dose of almond flavoring, these Valentines Day cookies are a bit more unique and subbing granular white sugar with powdered sugar gives them a more delicate bite that is far from cake-like that so many other sugar cookies recipes hold dear.

This Valentine cookie recipe is easy peasy and requires only a handful of ingredients. Here’s what you’ll need to make these cut-out sugar cookies:

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Simply cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, then add the egg and extracts. Mix in the remaining ingredients.

Divide the almond sugar cookie dough in two, wrap each dough ball in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 15 minutes. Once chilled, roll out the dough and cut using your favorite cookie cutters.

Yes, chilling the dough is crucial! It’s just a quick 15-minute chill though, so you won’t have to wait long to eat these cut-out sugar cookies!

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Yes, the Valentine sugar cookie dough can be made in advance and kept in the fridge for up to three days before rolling it out.

I sometimes frost these sweeties with a cream cheese powdered sugar old fashioned down and dirty frosting, but have lately been giving them the royal icing treatment. Need tips on how to line and flood—yeah, that’s cookie speak, are you impressed? Check out the terrific video above from Marian at Sweetopia and her royal icing recipe.

If you’d like to bake these cut-out sugar cookies in advance and have them on hand for later, freeze them sans icing in a freezer bag. When you’re ready to eat the frozen cookies, set them on your counter to thaw and then frost them.

Valentine's Day Cookies Recipe

These almond sugar cookies can be enjoyed any time of year. To make these for other holidays, use different cookie cutters and choose different icing colors. Easy as that!

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Calories: 99 kcal | Carbohydrates: 12 g | Protein: 1 g | Fat: 5 g | Saturated Fat: 3 g | Cholesterol: 18 mg | Sodium: 33 mg | Potassium: 26 mg | Fiber: 1 g | Sugar: 5 g | Vitamin A: 164 IU | Calcium: 4 mg | Iron: 1 mg

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As always, thank you for reading and supporting companies I partner with, which allows me to create more unique content and recipes for you. There may be affiliate links in this post of which I receive a small commission. All opinions are always my own.These decorated Valentine’s Day cookies resemble conversation heart candies—so fun for the holiday! My recipe forsugar cookiespromises flavorful cookies with soft and thick centers, slightly crisp edges, and flat tops for decorating with royal icing. The dough comes together with 7–8 simple ingredients, and the cookies hold their cookie cutter shape in the oven.

Not to toot my own horn, but… I have absolutely *zero talent* when it comes to piping writing on cookies and cakes. Zero zip zilch. LOL. Pen and paper, great! Piping frosting on cupcakes and flooding icing on cookies, totally manageable! But combine writing + piping, and I completely lose control of my hand.

Valentine's Day Heart Sugar Cookies

Recently, my talented assistant Stephanie came to my rescue, and helped me write on these conversation heart-inspired cookies. Because we just can’t make Valentine’s Day cookies without the fun little sayings on top!

If you aren’t familiar with conversation heart candies, they are a Valentine’s Day staple here in the U.S. They’re like little edible love notes! Pastel-colored, a little chalky-tasting, and totally iconic, conversation hearts have been around for over a century. Did you know the company that produces them comes up with a new theme each year, and creates new sayings to go along with that theme? The sayings are usually sweet or funny, but can even be sassy or sarcastic!

But you don’t need to buy a bag of conversation hearts to make today’s recipe. You just need a rolling pin, a heart-shaped cookie cutter, and a little inspiration for what to write on top (I provide some suggestions below).

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