Baked With Love Valentine Cookies
These Baked with Love sugar cookies are the prefect sweet treat to whip up for your special someone this Valentine’s Day.
You’ll find a ton of Valentines inspired sugar cookies to choose from, but these are special, simply because they bring in the best of three delicious and unique flavors.
These homemade cookies may seem like a lot of effort, but they’re actually not. You can, in fact, team up with your partner and make them together as a Valentine’s day ritual.
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Why I Love this Cookie Recipe
The best part about these sugar cookies, in my opinion, is that they go beyond the classic flavor base of most Valentine cookies.
They taste great, and aren’t anything like those simple heart shaped Valentine’s day cookie recipes that you’ll find yourself baking.
Ingredients For the Valentine Cookies
To make these Valentine’s day cookies, you’ll need these ingredients.
- 1 ½ C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 2 C sugar (you can also use powdered sugar)
- ⅔ C light brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1C dark Hershey’s cocoa powder
- 2C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1C semi sweet chocolate chips
- 4 tbsp red gel food coloring
- 1 ½ C mini heart shaped confetti sprinkles
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 C sugar
- 2 tbsp strawberry Jello mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 ½ C flour
- 1 – 3.4 oz white chocolate instant pudding mix
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1 – 8 oz bag white chocolate chips
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 ½ C light brown sugar
- ½ C sugar
- 2 large egg
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 ½ C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 ¾ C semi sweet chocolate chips
- 26 red foil heart shaped chocolate
How to Make the Valentine Sugar Cookies
Ready to give this easy recipe a try? Here’s what you’ll need to do.
Step 1: Get the Oven Ready
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with metal baking rings, a baking sheet or some parchment paper.
Step 2: Add Red Food Coloring to the Egg and Butter Mixture
Using a large mixing bowl and hand beaters, cream together the butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light in color and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by mixing in the vanilla and red gel food coloring
Step 3: Add the Dry Ingredients
Using a medium bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the wet until combined.
Step 4: Combine and Prepare the Red Cookie Dough
Gently fold in the chocolate chips and half of the valentines day sprinkles. Set aside
Step 5: Start the Strawberry Chocolate Batter
To make the strawberry white chocolate batter, use a large mixing bowl, and cream together the butter, sugar and Jello mix.
Step 6: Add the Dry Ingredients
Beat in the eggs and vanilla until combined. Using a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt
Step 7: Prepare the Dough and Set Aside
Gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the wet. Fold in the white chocolate chips. Set aside
Step 8: Start with the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
To make the chocolate chip cookie dough, use another large bowl and hand mixer, beat together the butter, brown sugar, and sugar until pale in color and fluffy
Step 9: Add the Dry Ingredients
Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined. Using a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
Step 10: Combine and Prepare the Dough
Gradually beat into the wet ingredients until a dough forms/ fold in the chocolate chips
Step 11: Weigh the Dough Balls
Using a small cookie scoop and baking scale, weight some dough balls to about 1.5 oz. You want to make sure to have 3 dough balls in total, 1 for each recipe
Step 12: Prepare the Triple Love Cookies
Top with remaining chocolate chips. Once you have pressed the premade dough balls, carefully mash the 3 flavors and gently press the sugar cookie dough into a thick disk
Step 13: Bake the Cookies and Serve!
Bake in the oven for 13-15 minutes. Allow the Valentine cookies to cool for a few minutes on a cooling rack. Enjoy!
Tips & Tricks to Nail the Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipe
While you may be sorted on the cookie recipe, you might want to take note of these tips and tricks before you go ahead and bake.
- To bring a bit of flavor variation in the three different sections of the sugar cookies, you can swap the vanilla extract with some almond extract instead.
- Another great idea is to try out different flavors of the Valentine cookies using different mix ins. For instance, you can add orange zest into one of the dough portions, peanut butter into one portion and some coconut flakes into one.
- A mix of chocolate chip cookies, red velvet cookies and some classic sugar cookies can also be a great idea to try this Valentine’s day.
- We’ve topped the sugar cookies with chocolate hearts, but if you want, you can also use chocolate kisses as a topping.
- In fact, you can try out a ton of different ways of decorating these Valentines day cookies. You can top the cooled down cookies with some royal icing and then top it with some cute pink candies of your choices.
- Another great idea is to spread some melted chocolate or royal icing between two individual cookies and turn it into sandwich cookies.
- You can also use a heart shaped cookie cutter to turn this triple dough into heart shaped sugar cookies, perfect for Valentine’s day.
- These Valentine’s day cookies can be enjoyed on their own as a snack or can be served for dessert too!
Baked With Love Valentine Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ½ C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 2 C sugar (you can also use powdered sugar)
- ⅔ C light brown sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1C dark Hershey's cocoa powder
- 2C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1C semi sweet chocolate chips
- 4 tbsp red gel food coloring
- 1 ½ C mini heart shaped confetti sprinkles
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 C sugar
- 2 tbsp strawberry Jello mix
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 ½ C flour
- 1 - 3.4 oz white chocolate instant pudding mix
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1 - 8 oz bag white chocolate chips
- 1 C unsalted sweet cream butter, softened
- 1 ½ C light brown sugar
- ½ C sugar
- 2 large egg
- 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 ½ C flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 2 ¾ C semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
Step 1: Get the Oven Ready
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and line a cookie sheet with metal baking rings, a baking sheet or some parchment paper.
Step 2: Add Red Food Coloring to the Egg and Butter Mixture
Using a large mixing bowl and hand beaters, cream together the butter, sugar, and brown sugar until light in color and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, one at a time, followed by mixing in the vanilla and red gel food coloring
26 red foil heart shaped chocolate
Step 3: Add the Dry Ingredients
Using a medium bowl, whisk together the cocoa powder, flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the wet until combined.
Step 4: Combine and Prepare the Red Cookie Dough
Gently fold in the chocolate chips and half of the valentines day sprinkles. Set aside
Step 5: Start the Strawberry Chocolate Batter
To make the strawberry white chocolate batter, use a large mixing bowl, and cream together the butter, sugar and Jello mix.
Step 6: Add the Dry Ingredients
Beat in the eggs and vanilla until combined. Using a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, pudding mix, baking soda and salt
Step 7: Prepare the Dough and Set Aside
Gradually mix in the dry ingredients into the wet. Fold in the white chocolate chips. Set aside
Step 8: Start with the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
To make the chocolate chip cookie dough, use another large bowl and hand mixer, beat together the butter, brown sugar, and sugar until pale in color and fluffy
Step 9: Add the Dry Ingredients
Beat in the egg and vanilla until combined. Using a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, and salt.
Step 10: Combine and Prepare the Dough
Gradually beat into the wet ingredients until a dough forms/ fold in the chocolate chips
Step 11: Weigh the Dough Balls
Using a small cookie scoop and baking scale, weight some dough balls to about 1.5 oz. You want to make sure to have 3 dough balls in total, 1 for each recipe
Step 12: Prepare the Triple Love Cookies
Top with remaining chocolate chips. Once you have pressed the premade dough balls, carefully mash the 3 flavors and gently press the sugar cookie dough into a thick disk
Step 13: Bake the Cookies and Serve!
Bake in the oven for 13-15 minutes. Allow the Valentine cookies to cool for a few minutes on a cooling rack. Enjoy!
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 3180Total Fat: 167gSaturated Fat: 100gTrans Fat: 4gUnsaturated Fat: 54gCholesterol: 546mgSodium: 2147mgCarbohydrates: 407gFiber: 13gSugar: 272gProtein: 36g
Can I Store the Sugar Cookies For Later?
You sure can! These easy Valentine cookies can be made in a batch and refrigerated or stored over the countertop if you haven’t coated them in royal icing yet.
You can wrap them up in some parchment paper, wax paper or plastic wrap before you transfer them to an airtight container. Doing this will help keep these Valentine cookies fresh and taste perfect when you eat them later too!
More Cookie Recipes
If you enjoyed trying out these delicious Valentine’s day cookies, and are inspired to try some more such recipes, here are a few good ones to try out.
