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, love, love to win a skein of wollmeise in the reds and blacks!!! 🙂
Those are all lovely but if I had to choose a favorite, it would be the Blue Bell – so pretty!
I love contests and I love yarn!
Sheri, OMG have to make these. I was at a club warehouse this weekend and saw the same cookies(half chocolate dipped ). The really looked good… May make in the shape of a clover for St. Pat’ day….thank you
Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell…because it’s blue!
Oh, I’ve never had the pleasure of knitting with Wollmeise. What a Happy Valentine a skein of It in Baba Jaga would be!!
(I’d also be just as thrilled with Blue Bell). Thank you for the chance. 🙂
I would love a chance to win the Wollmeise!
I would love to win some Wollmeise, either color!
Wollmeise Blue Bell looks lovely… I’d love to win that one 🙂
What a fun contest! I’d love to win Blue Bell!
I love yarn and fabric but, if I have to choose…Short Stack.
Blue bells; it’s yarn and purple what could be better !!!!!
Happy VD! Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell, please
I would be so happy with either of the skeins of Wollmeise. The fabric would end up in my fabric stash, behind about 10 other quilt projects. That would be just too sad.
Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell! Wow! that would be fun!
bluebell. 🙂
I would love the blue! It’s a wonderful yarn.
Yarn rocks, and I need to take up knitting again aftr a fairly extended break. I would love the Wollmeise in “Baba Jaga” because… well… it’s red and black!! And… it’s BABA JAGA!!
Wolmeise in blue.. My stash is short on Blues.
How fun! Wollmeise Blue Bell looks gorgeous! Thanks for the contest.
I would love a skein of blue yarn!!
Would love to win the Wollmeise Blue Bell; love the contest idea!
Blue! Blue!!
The red and black Wollmeise says Valentine’s Day to me!
Either of the Wollmeise yarns would be wonderful! The Baba Jaga sounds beautiful.
Baba Jaga – yummy Valentine’s Day reds
I like the Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga. It’s a very striking colorway. Thanks for the opportunity.
Happy V-Day to all!
Would love some Moda Tiger Lily Batiks.
I love that short stack — clearly I need that because my daughter keeps taking my fabric. 🙂
These cookies look delicious! I’d like to win the Woolmeise in Blue bell. And I have to brag, I knit my boyfriend a holding hands mitten so we can hold hands while we walk and still have warm hands. He loves it.
I’d LOVE the Blue Bell!
Blue Bell! But I’ll take Baba Jaga if Blue Bell is spoken for!
i would love to win the Blue Bell skein. (There’s actually a town, Blue Bell PA) not too far from where I live, and blue-purple is my weakness.)
OOoh! I love the blue yarn!
Alicia
Yarn please!!!!!
The Yarn please!!!!!
wollmeise blue bell!
The cookies look yummy and so does the Wollmeise Baba Jaga!
The Blue Bell please! (Fingers crossed)
i like the blue bell. I would like to try woll rise. Thank you for the chance!
That Blue Bell is beautiful!
The Baba Jaga for sure!
Thank you for the contest! The blue is lovely.
Blue bell is pretty!
Would love to win some Wollmeise!
Blue bell all the way! I’m a blue/purple fan!
I would love to win the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell….just gorgeous!
Happy birthday, Knitting daughter!!!!
Would love baba jaga!
I would love some Wollmeise!
Wollmeise! Oh, Yes! Please, choose me! I love blues and purples together so Blue Bell is for me. 🙂