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
Ooooh Blue Bell is right up my alley! I’d live to win that. And thanks for the cookie recipes. I want to bake this weekend.
I have been looking at short stacks with an eye to making project bags like some I saw online. So, short stack for me.
Wollmeise baba jaga sounds gorgeous.
Wollmeise Blue Bell.
wollmeise pure in Baba Jaga
I would love to win Blue Bell, it’s such a pretty color.
Would love to win the Baba Jaga!
Baba Jaga for the win!
I would love the blue. I love it all though.
Baba Jaga please. I love black &red together and it’s not always easy to find.
Purple & blue Wollmeise please
I would love to win the Wollmeise Pure in bluebell. The other colorway is pretty but blues and purple are my favorites and getting them in a skein of Wollmeise-that would be like winning a lottery!
And thank you for the recipes. Now I know what I’m doing tomorrow morning 🙂
I really like the blue bell color and would love to win it too.
I love the Wollmeise Blue Bell – such a wonderful color!
Baba Jaga please. I really need more yarn to keep me warm this winterď
I’d love the Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga (beautiful reds and blacks) because those are the colors of the school where I work!!
I can’t believe there are those who don’t like red… It’s one of my favorite colors! And I have never knitted Wollmeise. Thanks for the contest.
Ooh…I would love to win the Wollmeise in Baba Jaga…that colorway is stunning!
Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell. Thanks. 🙂
I would love to win the woolmeise blue bell 🙂
( and it’s my birthday) pick me!!!!! Lol
Oh my what a tough decision, all the options are gorgeous!! However I choose Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell, thank you and Happy Valentine’s Day to Loopy and group!!
The Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell is so pretty!
I love the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell
Baba Yaga
Blue Bell is beautiful!!!
Oh Baba Jaga, please. How wicked to make us choose, but how nice to part with the ‘goodies’. And recipes…I don’t need to make cookies but I feel the NEED to make these, with or with out the dropped chips.
Wollmeise please in blue bell!
Oooh, blue yarn please! My blue period shows no sign of ending, several years in.
Baba Jaga, please- woohoo!!! <3
Oh, the red, please! Even if it’s not Valentine’s day, I’m very much a red lover. 🙂 Happiest of heart days to all of you!
I would love the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell
The Wollmeise in blue bell would be my choice!
The Wollmeise Baba Jaga would be a lovely Valentine’s treat. Better than chocolate!
I’d really love the bluebell, but I wouldn’t turn down a short stack either.
Thanks for the contest! Happy Valentines’ Day!
Mmmmm~ Blue bell sounds lovely to me ~ thanks for the fun 😀
I have never won any yarn contest before so here’s my fingers crossing… I would like to have Wollmeise PUre in Blue Bell for me please.. Thank you so much!!!
I would love the jaga. By the time I get to the weekly update the wollmeise is always gone. Red is my favorite color
Baba Jaga of course! I love her story.
The Baba Jaga, please! I loved that episode of “Lost Girl.”
Ooo, Happy Valentine’s Day from Singapore! I hate to choose but I would choose Wollmeise Blue Bell. Sounds beautiful and my sister’s favorite colors, so delightful socks for her if I win!
Red person here! Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga (beautiful reds and blacks), please ; > )
What fun! Thx, Sheri!
Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga for me!
Would love to try Woolmeise Baba Jaga. Happy V-Day!
Bluebell would be my choice, thank you!
I’d put that short stack of fabric to good use. Thank you in advance!
The short stack would make a perfect little girl’s quilt for Project Linus.
I would LOVE to win the Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga
Definitely the Wollmeise Blue Bell! It’s lovely. Thanks for the contest!
Woollies Blue bell please! <3
blue and purple Wollmeise please and thank you!