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Valentine Sugar Cookie

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By: Leigh Anne WilkesPosted: 2/03/21Updated: 6/18/24

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plate of heart shaped sugar cookies

Share the love this Valentine’s Day with these tender and delicious Valentine Sugar Cookie.

Valentine Sugar Cookies

I always make heart shaped sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day.  These fun and delicious valentine sugar cookies are a sweet treat for your valentine.  And decorating them is a fun Valentine’s day activity for the family.  I love thin sugar cookies, but this recipe works great if you want to make a thicker sugar cookie too.

For these valentine cookies, I used my favorite cookie glaze frosting.  It gives you a nice, shiny flat finish.  And it dries hard so they are easy to stack and package. If you prefer frosting, try my buttercream frosting recipe.

heart shaped sugar cookies

Ingredients Needed

  • All Purpose Flour
  • Butter
  • Butter Flavored Shortening
  • Sugar, granulated sugar and powdered sugar
  • Corn Syrup
  • Milk or Whipping Cream
  • Eggs
  • Extract, vanilla or almond extract. I prefer almond.
  • Baking Soda
  • Salt

How to Make Valentine Sugar Cookies

  • Mix together ingredients and chill dough for at least one hour.
  • Combine butter, shortening and sugar in bowl and beat.
  • Add in eggs and extract and mixed until combined
  • Mix in dry ingredients until well combined.
  • Refrigerate for at least one hour.
  • Roll dough out to desired thickness.
  • Use your favorite heart shaped cookies cutter to cut out your valentine sugar cookie hearts.
valentine sugar cookie dough
  • Place cookies on a parchment lined baking sheet, making sure not to put your cookies too close together on the cookie sheet.  Nothing worse than two cookies that bake together! 
  • Bake until slightly browned on edges
  • Cool completely.
heart shaped valentine sugar cookies

Tips

  1. Allow dough to soften slightly before working with it. It is easier to work with slightly chilled dough. If dough gets too warm just put it back in the refrigerator for a few minutes to firm up a bit.
  2. Divide dough into 2-4 pieces and work with one piece at a time, rolling it out and cutting out cookies. Keep the other pieces covered and refrigerated until ready to use.
  3. Freeze cookies before decorating if you are making them ahead. In an airtight container they will last in the freezer for 3-4 months. Cookies will last for up to a week if not frozen.
frosted valentine sugar cookies
  • Mix together powdered sugar, milk, corn syrup, and extract. ingredients. You want the glaze to be thin enough that it is easy to spread, but thick enough that it doesn’t run off the edges of the cookie.
  • Use a spoon to place a nice spoonful right in the middle of the cookie.
frosting valentines day cookies
  • Take a knife and spread it in a nice even layer.
frosting heart shaped cookies
  • Add sprinkles before the frosting sets, if desired.
  • Allow the frosting to set until glaze is firm. 

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use butter instead of shortening?

This recipe uses butter flavored shortening.  I know some of you don’t cook with shortening, so you can check out my decorated sugar cookie recipe for an all butter version. But there is something about using shortening in certain recipes that just works better.

Do I have to refrigerate dough before using?

Refrigerating the dough chills the butter and shortening in the cookies and makes them easier to work with when rolling out and cutting shapes. It also prevents the cookies from spreading when baking.

Check out more of my favorite Valentine cookies:

  • Jam Diagonals
  • Meringue Cookies
  • Shortbread Heart Cookies

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Valentine Sugar Cookies

Recipe From: Leigh Anne Wilkes
Delicious heart shaped Valentine Sugar Cookies
serves: 36 cookies
Prep:1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes
Cook:10 minutes minutes
Total:30 minutes minutes
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Ingredients

Sugar Cookie Dough

  • 3/4 cup butter
  • 3/4 cup butter flavor Crisco
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla or almond extract. I prefer almond.
  • 5 cups flour
  • 2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp salt

Sugar Cookie Glaze

  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 1 Tbsp milk or whipping cream
  • 1 tsp vanilla or almond extract
  • 1 Tbsp Corn Syrup
  • few drops of flavoring of your choice I like almond

Instructions

For the Sugar Cookie Dough

  • Combine butter, Crisco and sugar in bowl and beat.
  • Add in eggs and extract and mixed until combined
  • Add in dry ingredients and mix until well combined.
  • Refrigerate for at least one hour.
  • Roll out cookies to desired thickness and cut with cookie cutter.
  • Bake at 350 for 10-12 minutes depending on thickness of cookie. If you like them softer, bake less.

Glaze Frosting

  • Combine powder sugar, extract and corn syrup in bowl.
  • If you are using a liquid food coloring, you will need to use LESS milk. If you are using a gel food coloring, your milk quantity can remain the same. Add in milk to desired consistency. It will get too runny fast so be careful.
  • The corn syrup gives the “shine” to the frosting that you want.

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Nutrition Facts:

Calories: 162kcal (8%) Carbohydrates: 28g (9%) Protein: 2g (4%) Fat: 4g (6%) Saturated Fat: 2g (13%) Cholesterol: 28mg (9%) Sodium: 176mg (8%) Potassium: 26mg (1%) Sugar: 14g (16%) Vitamin A: 145IU (3%) Calcium: 7mg (1%) Iron: 0.9mg (5%)
* Disclaimer: All nutrition information are estimates only. Read full disclosure here.
Course:Dessert
Cuisine:American
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  1. Laura Houchens says

    Posted on 1/7 at 7:21 am

    Hi Leigh Anne- I can’t wait to make these with my daughter for Valentines Day. She loves to bake and decorate with me. A new Kitchen Aid mixer would make the mixing even more fun for us! Please enter us in the drawing.

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