Valentines Day Mini Heart Sugar Cookies Recipe
the perfect bitesize heart-shaped sugar cookies to sweeten up your valentines day. These buttery and soft sugar cookies are absolutely cute and you can easily make them using only a few ingredients. Plus, you can make several variations with a little bit of creativity. Let’s make some for your loved ones and catch their hearts with sugary sweetness.
These cut-out sugar cookies are perfect for your special someone and loved ones on Valentine’s day! Or you can treat yourself to this delicious recipe. There’s nothing wrong with some self-love, and what’s better than having a whole batch of cookies all to yourself?
I’ve tried several sugar cookie recipes before and this one worked the best for me because of its buttery and chewy texture and just the right amount of crispiness on the outside. And the royal icing doesn’t only make your cookies look adorable but also brings a delicate taste to them.
If you’re a sweet tooth like me then you’ll surely love this recipe. so feel free to go ahead and make some of these mini bites of cuteness.
Ingredients
ingredients for cookies:
- Butter: Unsalted room temperature butter
- Powdered sugar
- flour: Refine all purpose flour
- Egg: One large egg white
- Pure vanilla extract
- Table salt
Ingredients for royal icing:
- Egg whites
- Powdered sugar
- vanilla extract
- Gel food colour
How to Make Heart Sugar Cookies
Preparation for cookies:
Step 1: Beat the softened butter until it’s smooth and creamy.
Step 2: Gradually add the powdered or confectioner’s sugar to the creamed butter and mix them nicely.
Step 3: Add vanilla extract, egg white, salt to the butter-sugar mixture and whisk all the ingredients together.
Step 4: Gradually add the all-purpose flour to the mixture and use a spatula to mix the flour nicely.
Step 5: When you’re done mixing the flour thoroughly and the dough turns out nice and smooth’ cover the cookie dough with a cotton cloth and chill in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Step 6:After half an hour, uncover the cookie dough and flour the surface you’ll be rolling your cookie dough on. Roll the dough on the prepared surface.
Step 7: Use a rolling pin to roll the dough. Bring the rolled cookie dough’s thickness to 1 cm or 1.5 cm. Try to roll the dough as evenly as possible.
Step 8: Take out a small heart-shaped cookie cutter and start to cut heart shapes on the rolled dough. Cut as many heart shapes on the rolled dough as possible.
Step 9: After cutting heart shapes, carefully take out the remaining dough and keep it aside, you can knead it into a ball shape or add it to the rest of the dough for the next batches (to roll).
Baking:
Place a parchment paper on the baking tray and preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F. Place the cookies on the prepared baking tray (on the parchment paper) and bake them for about 15-20 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden. Avoid over baking as the cookies will harden as they cool down.
Icing and decorating:
The royal icing used in this recipe is perfect for both outline and flooding consistency.
Step 1: Beat the egg whites until frothy and then gradually add powdered sugar to it. Keep beating until stiff shiny peaks are visible.
Step 2: Once shiny stiff peaks have formed and the powdered sugar is well incorporated, add in the vanilla extract and mix it nicely. Now you can divide the icing into small batches for different colors. Simply add gel food coloring to the separate batches and mix them well.
Step 3: Prepare 3 or 4 different colored royal icing for the heart sugar cookies. Fill each different icing into piping bags. This consistency is perfect for the outline but you will have to add a few drops of water in the icing to make flooding consistency and fill in the outlines.
And when the icing dries up, this delicious batch of cookies are ready to be munched on!
Heart Sugar Cookies Recipe
The perfect bitesize heart-shaped sugar cookies to sweeten up your valentines day. These buttery and soft sugar cookies are absolutely cute and you can easily make them using only a few ingredients. Plus, you can make several variations with a little bit of creativity. Let’s make some for your loved ones and catch their hearts with sugary sweetness.
Ingredients
Cookies
- Butter, 150 grams
- Powdered Sugar, 60 grams
- Egg white, 1 large
- All purpose flour, 230 grams
- Salt, 1/4 tsp
- Vanilla extract, 1/2 tsp
New Group
- Royal icing
- Egg whites, 3
- Powdered sugar, 450 grams
- Vanilla extract, 1 tsp
- Gel food colour
Instructions
recipe for the cookies:
- Beat the butter until smooth and creamy.
- Gradually add the powdered or confectioner’s sugar to the creamed butter and mix them nicely.
- Add vanilla extract, egg white, salt to the butter-sugar mixture and whisk all the ingredients together.
- Gradually add the all-purpose flour to the mixture and use a spatula to mix the flour nicely.
- When you’re done mixing the flour thoroughly and the dough turns out nice and smooth’ cover the cookie dough with a cotton cloth and chill in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- After half an hour, uncover the cookie dough and flour the surface you’ll be rolling your cookie dough on. Roll the dough on the prepared surface.
- Use a rolling pin to roll the dough. Bring the rolled cookie dough’s thickness to 1 cm or 1.5 cm. Try to roll the dough as evenly as possible.
- Take out a small heart-shaped cookie cutter and start to cut heart shapes on the rolled dough. Cut as many heart shapes on the rolled dough as possible.
- After cutting heart shapes, carefully take out the remaining dough and keep it aside, you can knead it into a ball shape or add it to the rest of the dough for the next batches (to roll).
Place a parchment paper on the baking tray and preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F. Place the cookies on the prepared baking tray (on the parchment paper) and bake them for about 15-20 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden. Avoid over baking as the cookies will harden as they cool down.
Royal icing:
- Beat the egg whites until frothy and then gradually add powdered sugar to it. Keep beating until stiff shiny peaks are visible.
- Once shiny stiff peaks have formed and the powdered sugar is well incorporated, add in the vanilla extract and mix it nicely. Now you can divide the icing into small batches for different colors. Simply add gel food coloring to the separate batches and mix them well.
- Prepare 3 or 4 different colored royal icing for the heart sugar cookies. Fill each different icing into piping bags. This consistency is perfect for the outline but you will have to add a few drops of water in the icing to make flooding consistency and fill in the outlines.
Notes
Let the cut-out cookies sit in the tray for additional 5-10 minutes. Make sure that they have completely cooled down before decorating with icing.
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