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
If I have to choose I would love the Wollmeise Pure Baba Jaga in Blue Bell. Love, Love, Love, Wollmeise.
I think Baba Jaga, mainly because I’ve o’er on her beautiful blues lately
While I love red, I would really love to have the Blue Bell. It sounds perfect! Thanks for the great recipes – could eat about a dozen of them right now- right before my workout! (cancels out the calories, right?!)
The Baba Jaga for sure.
Blue Bell, because blues and purples (and greens) are my favorite colors.
I would love to win the Wollmeise Pure Baba Jaga. I’ve been knitting in greens and blues for most of the pieces I’ve made lately. Red would be a wonderful change! I bought a new lace shawl book that I’m eager to start a new project from.
I would give the Bluebell a home!
You had me at blues and purples. Blue bell !
I would love to win the bluebell! Although thanks to Wendy’s comments below, I’m all “ice cream!”
I would like to win the short stack
Baba Jaga! Happy Valentine’s Day!!!
Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell, please.
I love the Blue Bell!
Since Valentines Day is my birthday, too, I have no problem choosing! It sure would be great if I won a skein of that beautiful Blue Bell! So pretty no matter how it’s knitted up.
I would love the Baba Jaga.
I would love the Baba Jaga. I promise to give it a good home!!!
Okay I spelled it wrong!!! Baba Jaga
I’m def a blue and purple girl and would love to do a quickie 1 skein project with a skein of Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell! I always spend way too long doing long term projects, so this would be perfect 🙂
Decisions–decisions– something I’m not very good at– oh -HUMMMMMM –Ahhhhh — the aaaaahhh — oh what the heck– make it the short stack!!
I would be so happy to win the blue wollmeise.
Definitely the Blue Bell.
Blues and purples…..need to knit items for an Alzheimer’s fundraiser……and Alzheimer’s color is Purple!!!!
I’d love to win the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell
Blue Bell! I’m a big fan of blues, even if it isn’t the color of the day. I think I’d perhaps make a cowl/glove combo with it 🙂
I would love a skein of Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell. Something happy to help with the winter blues…lol
Blue bell! How can you go wrong with blues and purple???
The short stack please….so many options in it!!!
Both Wollemeises are gorgeous, and the short stacks are adding to my itchiness to get back into quilting (I must fix my sewing machine before Camp Loopy . . .), but I’d most love the Blue Bell right now — such incredibly beautiful color!
What a nice Valentine surprise! I’d love the Wollemeise in the blues. Get ready needles for some socks! I have the red pomegranate and it is beautiful. Thanks for the giveaway.
I heart Blue Bell.
Any of the three would be wonderful. I am primarily a knitter but all your fabric may trigger a quilter yet!
The short stack. So I can start quilting. I need a new hobby. Lol
Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell
I would like to win the skein of Blue Bell please
I do love red, but blue is so pretty–so I choose bluebells…
Baba Jaga – what does it mean? Not that I care, love the colors!
Definitely Blue Bell as it’s the school colors of the high school basketball team we follow. Tomorrow they’re playing their rivals whose colors are red and black just like Baba Jaga.
I’ll take the Blue Bell, please.
I have just started browsing your web site to explore the various types of yarns that are available. Today, my favorite was the bamboo collection!
If I were to win, I would love to have the Short Stack to share with my sister-in-law who is a quilter.
Choosing is the hard part! Baba Jaga though since red is such a hard color to get right, so a mix looks perfect!
Lovely cookie recipes. Bluebell would be my choice. Happy Valentine’s Day!
Blue Bell is gorgeous! Thank you for the chance to win one of these beauties.
I’d love the blue bell. so much snow here every few days, I”m hiding in my knitting den between slowing shoveling.
Red goes with everything!
Blue Bell! Super cute cookies too
ooohhhh baba jaga sounds wonderful and having not experienced the Woollmeise joy, would truly MAKE my year of the sheep!
Baba Jaga!
BLUE BELLS – for me!!!
The Baba Jaga sounds like a fun color.
Does it count if I say Wollmeise? I love red, and I love blue, so… just enter me in the one that has the fewer contestants! If you really want me to pick, I will choose the Baba Jaga, but it is only because I had to choose one or the other! LOL