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!
Sheri hopingyouallhaveaLOVE-lyweekend
I would love to win the Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga!! Your cookies look amazing!! Happy Birthday, Julia!
bluebell–can’t get enough blues and purples!
Blue Bell! I am a big blue and purple fan.
Thanks!
Happy Valentine’s Day! Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga, pick me, pick me! Or Blue Bell, I love you too!
Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell would totally rock my valentines day. Happy V day! 🙂
I would appreciate either of the yarns. I need to make socks for my son before he heads off to Germany for fifteen months of college.
Would love a baba Jaga skein! Love it! Happy Valentine’s to you too!
Wollmeise in blue, please, but really I would be thrilled with either color!
I’m. to picky when it comes to wollmeise ! But I think the red and black is calling my name
I meant to say, I’m NOT to picky. I’d rather be knitting than typing
I would definitely love the Baba Jaga. I love the red!
I would love the blue/black yarn….blue is my favourite colour.
Great contest, thanks…and for all the wonderful posts.!
I love the Baba Jaga.
I love the Baba Jaga!!! It would make a beautiful Valentine-y Hitchhiker!
I’d like to win the Blue Bell Wollmeise.
I’d love the WM in blues!
I would love to win the red & black wollmeise to make a dragon shawl
I would love the Blue Bell!
baba jaga pretty
Baba jaga please!. I love the red/black combination, and Wollmeise is sooooo wonderful.
Purple & blues! But I wouldn’t turn down reds with blacks if that is better for you.
HAPPY VALENTINES!
I would love to win the Loopy Short Stack.
Blue bell.
Sounds beautiful!
I love Wollemeise but I have some so I won’t be greedy. I’m thinking those fat qtrs would make cute sock project bags so… I’d like the fabric.
I would love the Baga Jaga. I would love to try the Wollmeise
for the first time.
Thanks
I’d love the Loopy Short Stack!
Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga would be ideal for me to try Wollmeise for the 1st time.
Thanks
Baba Jaga!
I love them all, but if I had to choose – it would be the Baba Jaga.
I love red! Happy Valentines Week!
I faithfully promise to give the Baba Jaga a good home in Maine!
Loopy Short Stack! Wanting to learn to sew.
Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga please.
Ooooh, Baba Jaga!
Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga!!! thanks for the contest!
It’s hard but I will have to go with blue
I would love the Baba Jaga.
I love the Blue Bell and can never seem to get the Wollmeise when you have it in stock. So this would be a real treat!
Decisions, Decisions! Would love the Wollmeise in Blue Bell. Happy Belated Birthday Shari’s Knitting Daughter. 🙂
They’re all great, but if I have to choose one, I would pick the Wollmeise in Blue Bell.
Love that skein of Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga!
Oh Wollmeise blue bell….*swoon*
Baba Jaga, please and thank you! Love TLE!!
I would love either! I’ve never used wollmeise and would love to give it a try !
Ooh! The blue Wollmeise! what a nice giveaway! Thanks~!
The WM Blue Bell would be amazing!
Would love to win the Wollmeise Blue Bell!
Baba Yaga!
Blue Bell for sure! I love those colors. Thank you for the contest.
Blue Bell, please! Although I’d be thrilled with Baba Yaga as well…