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
The Baba Jaga for sure, thank you.
Wollmeise Blue Bell sounds beautiful!
I am in danger of not being able to enter because I can’t decide!!!! I have finally settled on Wollmeise Bluebell. But honestly, if someone else is drawn for Bluebell, I would not be disappointed at all to receive Baba Jaga. Just pick me for one of them please! 🙂
decisions, decisions….Wollmeise Pure in Baba Jaga
(blue bell is fine too!)
Any way you choose it’s a winner! But Baba Jaga is calling my name. :O)
Red of course for Valentine’s Day.
I’d love the red/black Wollmeise skein!! Red & black are staples in my wardrobe!!:-)
That Blue Bell Wollmeise looks gorgeous! (And not just because purple is the best color ever.)
I love LOVE Blue Bell! Although I do like red, blue and purple are my favorite colors 🙂
LOVE the Baba Jaga!
Wow it’s not easy choosing one, I love both colors and I’ve never tried wollmiise…..I pick red just bc I have a red coat .
Blue bell would make a beautiful Damson shawl
I don’t knit any more since I started quilting. My pick would be the Moda fabric. Thanks.
I would like to win the cookies!
No? I would like to win the Bluebell Wollmeise if I can’t have the cookies. 😉
Blue Bell!
Baba Jaga is my favorite Wollmeise colorway. Having used my skein, I’d love to have another. The first skein made a Miss Winkle by Martina Behm…. German yarn, German designer, how could I go wrong?
Wow…those cookies look delish! All the prizes sound good…but since I knit more than I sew the yarn is my pick…either color.
You had me at “red”. Since red is my favorite color, winning a skein of Wollmeise Baba Jaga would make me very happy. (But to be perfectly honest, I have never seen an ugly Wollmeise color.)
I knit more than I sew, but those beautiful fabrics would be my choice!
Short stack would get me motivated to start another wall hanging quilt!
What a fun contest !
Bluebell sounds like a great color combo & Wollmeise is a joy to knit.
Thanks for this offer!
Oooh. The Blue Bell is calling my name.
I would choose the Moda short stack, please!
OOOooohh, a skein of Wollmeise Pure in the Baba Jaga colorway would be a loverly Valentine’s gift.
And, the cookies this time are making my mouth water – YUM!
I would love a skein of Baba Jaga, I really like the reds and blacks.
I couldn’t say no to either of those two beautiful skeins. They are gorgeous! Hmmmm, I would probably say Bluebell first and Baba Jaga second. Either way I am good! Thank you so much for sharing a little yarny love with us on Valentines Day! That Rocks!
Ooooh! Baba Jaga, please. I like red and it likes me when I wear it. I won’t even care if Loopy gave it some extra smooshy hugs.
Oh my goodness! I would sooooo love Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bells. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge) 🙂
I would love to win the Wollmeise Pure Blue Bells!
The Bluebell would be a lovely addition to our snowy landscape!
I always love short stacks and the Moda Surrounded by Love set is so sweet!
Happy Birthday to knitting daughter!!!!!!
I’m going to try the cookies! The choc dipped ones look so yummo! So do Julia’s though!!
I honestly don’t care which skein. But I’ll go for Bluebell. Thanks for the contest!. It always amazes me how many people come out for a contest to post compared to regular daily posts!
Gosh how to choose, but maybe the Bluebell, yes the Bluebell is what I choose. Thank you for all your amazing work.
I’d love to win the Loopy Short Stack of Surrounded by Love fabric! I hope you and the elves have a lovely Valentine’s Day!
Blue Bell!
I love the Wollmeise Pure in Blue Bell! Blues are my colors! And when I get this cast off my arm in 3 weeks, I hope to be able to knit again. Luckily my left handed typing is easier to read than my left handed handwriting. Crazy dog + icy road = broken wrist. So why does the cast go nearly to my armpit?
I would love to win the blue bell Wollmeise, not because I don’t like red so much as because I LOVE purple.
Wollmeise Baba Jaga is my favorite.
Wollmeise please! Blue Bell is my preference.
I have to agree with several of the other commenters. I would be thrilled to get either skein of the Wollmeise. Though since you asked us to choose I believe I will request the Blue Bell. It looks like blue bonnets to me.
Roses are red,
Wollmeise is, too.
The fabric is pretty,
But I love the BLUE!
The Blue Bell
Wollmeise Baba Jaga followed by the Bluebell followed by the Moda. Thanks for the drawing!
I would love to win the Bluebell skein,it would be the perfect be a Valentine’s day gift to myself
I would love the Wollmeise in Baba Jags. ❤️
Happy Valentines Day! Happy Birthday Loopy Daughter.
Love the cookie recipes!
Wollmeis BabaJaga would be my choice! Just fun to walk around saying BabaJaga BabaJaga. Hahaha.
I would love Wollmeise Blue Bell. I’ve been trying to get my hands on Wollmeise with blue in it forever.
I would love the Moda stack. I have been feverishly working on donation quilts.
I would ❤️Love
I would love the short stack as I am enjoying making primitive bowl fillers out of cottons and wool felt. I went heart-crazy this month and decorated my home with homespun hearts. As a New Yorker, I needed something (anything) to cheer me during the cold, snowy, bleak (did I mention snowy?) days of winter.