Valentine’s Day is tomorrow! (And it’s also Knitting Daughter’s birthday – best Valentine ever!) In honor of the Day of Love, I’m sharing two of my favorite heart cookie recipes, in case you’re in the mood to bake a few for your sweetheart.
Dipped Valentine Butter Cookies
1 1/2 cups of unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. coarse salt
3 cups of flour
For dipping:
semi-sweet chocolate chips (1-2 packs) and/or other varieties of melting chocolate.
Beat butter until fluffy. Add in powdered sugar and mix well. Add eggs, beating after each addition. Mix salt with flour and then slowly add to the egg/butter/sugar mixture. Beat just until mixed.
Roll out and cut into shapes. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. (Note – cookies don’t expand in size, so you can put a lot on each baking sheet.) Let cool.
For dipping – melt semi-sweet chocolate and dip half of the cookie into the chocolate. Lay on wire racks and let harden in the refrigerator for 20 minutes. Another option – melt white melting chocolate, dip half the cookie, and sprinkle red sugar sprinkles on top. (This would be a good option if, for example, you poured half the bag of chocolate chips into the melting pot and put the rest of the bag on the counter. Then let’s say that you actually had it too close to the edge and it fell off, dumping the rest of the chips on the floor, rendering them unusable? But, you remember that you have 2 bags of white chocolate melting chips from the Oreo truffles you made at Christmas. So you dip the rest of the cookies in white chocolate, sprinkle it with red to make it look Valentine-y, and then pretend that you totally did this on purpose. Totally hypothetically.)
Julia’s Sugar Cookies
2 sticks margarine (1 cup)
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
4 Tbl. milk
2 tsp. vanilla
4 cups flour
4 tsp. baking powder
Frosting Glaze
Beat together margarine and sugar. Add eggs, milk and vanilla until light and fluffy. Stir in flour and baking powder and mix well. Chill in plastic wrap for 4 hours (or overnight is even better).
Roll out on well-floured surface. Cut and bake on lightly greased cookie sheet (or baking stone.) 375 degrees for 9 minutes. Cool and frost.
Frosting Glaze:
2 cups powdered sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
food coloring
milk to desired consistency
Let glaze set until dry.
Would you like to win something Valentine-y? We have a skein of Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga (beautiful reds and blacks), a skein of Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell (pretty blues and purples, just in case there are some people out there who don’t like red so much) and a Loopy Short Stack (an 8 Fat Quarter set) from Moda’s Surrounded by Love collection. Just tell us below which one you’d like to win (yes, you have to choose), and we’ll draw three names next week!
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I would love the Wollmeise Pure in purples and blues.
I would love to win the wollemeise! It would make a wonderful 44 year anniversary present !!! It feels ooo sooo nice
baba Jaga please! Love this yare. Happy Valentine’s Day – I’m going to make those dipped cookies.
The Bluebell is calling my name! Please pick me!
I would love to have the Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga. Of course any of them would be welcomed.
Just getting a skein of Wollmeise would be exciting but if I had to choose, I’d go for the blue. Thanks for the contest!
Wollmeise in Blue Bell as blue is more my color than red
Wow! Lovely things! I love the Wollmeise in Blue Bell! Thank you for the chance to win!!!
Baba Jaga! Happy hearts day
Blue bell sounds perfect.
This is tough WM or short stack. Hmmm. Let’s go with Baba Jaga.
I would LOVE the Blue Bell.
I feel like I should say Baba Yaga given my heritage and love of red, but I’m trying not to buy the highly variegated yarns that I get stuck on knitting. WM Blue Bell is beautiful and my choice!
Would love to win any of those, but if I had to pick ONE it would be the Bluebell (has been on my wishlist forever)
The Woolmeise Pure in Blue Bell, please, thank you. I enjoy your weekly updates.
I would love either of the wollemeise…bluebell is my colours
Oh how wonderful!! Would love to win Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga.
I would love love love to have the Blue Bell!
I would love to win Wollmeise Pure in Bluebell!
Happy Valentine’s Day to you!
I would love to win the red Baba Jaga, I have a sweet friend who loves red & this would be a perfect yarn to knit up a surprise for her. I am going to make hubby some of the Dipped Valentine Butter Cookies for our 33 anniversary which is on Valentine’s Day 2015
I. Would love the Woolmeise in Blue Bell –my favorite colors!
Blue Bell, please!
Thanks for the delicious recipes! I would love to win the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell! Happy Valentine’s Day.
The Blue Bell!
Bluebell for me please!
Blue Bell would be great and even better if I had a cookie <3
Blue Bell! Hoping to swing by this afternoon before close to pick up some organics 🙂
LOVE the Blue Bell!
I would love to win the WM Baba Jaga! Wish me luck!
I would be so happy to win the Blue Bell yarn! Happy Valentine’s Day!
I think the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell,is singing to me. Actually, it’s screaming. I can never get it, so here’s crossing my toes in hopes my name gets pulled. 🙂 No matter what I love TLE and HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!
The posts with recipes are my very favorites, and the Baba Jaga is my favorite of the prizes. I won the Valentine’s guessing contest at work, and now have 2108 red M&M’s to enjoy, since I got lucky and guessed there were 2104 in the big jar. Maybe luck will strike twice. Thanks again for the recipes!
Baba jaga if I win. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Pure Blue Bell!
Blue Bell!
Hmmmmm, since I’ve never ordered fabric from The Loopy Ewe…yet, I believe I’ll go for the fat quarter set. Thanks!
I love the Loopy Ewe! I would love to win Blue Bell!
Thank you for this chance to win gorgeous yarn!
It would be great to win the Wollmeise Blue Bell.
I love blues and purples so I would choose that. But all are lovely
I’d love either color of the yarn!
Baba Jaga would be my perfect belated Valentines Day gift!
The Baba Jaga red/black combination looks awesome.
Blue bell Wollmeise please!
OOOOH! i would love to win that Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga . what a great idea for Valentine’s cookies.
Wolmeise baba jaga! Happy Valentines Day! 🙂
Tough choice! I think I would prefer the Bluebells Wollmeise.
Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga please! Such beautiful colors!
I would love to win Blue Bell, dying to try this new Wollmeise base. Thank you for this opportunity.
All wonderful Valentine surprises – I would choose the short stack tho! Hope you guys had a wonderful Birthday ~
I would love to win Baba Jaga. Red is my favorite color.!!! Thanks…