Valentines Sugar Cookies
These easy, tasty, and soft cookies are sure to be the perfect dessert at a valentines party, and the perfect valentine to give! Simple to make, these cookies are not only delicious, but have a gorgeous valentines day theme.
Ingredients
Valentines Cookies
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp red food coloring
Cookie Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1-2 tbsp milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- red food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer in a large bowl.
- Add in the eggs, vanilla, and food coloring, until the desired color.
- Mix in the baking soda and add in the flour 1/2 a cup at a time.
- Roll the dough out, until the dough is 1/8 inch thick. From there, cut the cookies out with a heart shaped cookie cutter.
- Put the cookies on a baking sheet 2-inches apart.
- Cook in the oven for 7-9 minutes or until the cookies are golden brown, on parchment paper.
- Mix together the powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract until the desired consistency, to make the glaze.
- Add a few drops of red food coloring, and swirl with a toothpick or spoon a few times, until the colors become tie-die. Make sure you do not over-swirl, or the cookies will not have a marbled effect.
- Take a cooled cookie, and dip it into the glaze, and take it out and put it back out on a plate. As you dip the cookies, you may have to swirl more food coloring.
- Serve when the glaze hardens, as a delicious valentines day treat!