Valentines Day Cookies

These Valentines Day heart cookies come out of the oven fully decorated! All the color and wow factor without the need to mix up batches of royal icing! I made them with some pink sanding sugar rolled into the pink stripes for an extra sparkly pop but they look just as nice plain. I think these heart cookies would be a great project for younger chefs too! The laminating looks really professional but it’s actually fun to do and the sanding sugar adds even more appeal.

A FEW TIPS
* I've made these cookies without the sanding sugar and they're super-pretty so feel free to omit if you can't get ahold of pink sanding sugar?
* If the cookie dough is warming up and becoming difficult to handle then place in freezer or fridge to chill until firm. It’s best to work on a sheet of plastic wrap or a pastry mat so you can move the dough to and from the fridge easily.
* You’re going to end up with a fair amount of scraps after you cut the cookies out of you’re striped dough. I used smaller circle cutters to use as much of the dough as possible, then balled up the rest, rolled it out and had some crazy looking but tasty scrap cookies for snacks.
* You can make this dough a few weeks in advance and keep it in the freezer, provided it’s well-wrapped. When you’re ready to use it just thaw a bit, cut your cookies and toss into the oven.
* The best time to roll that sanding sugar on is when the dough has warmed up after the final roll out. If the dough is too cold the sanding sugar won't stick.

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[brendadon]

I don’t know why I never followed you here on YouTube. I follow you and save your recipes on Pinterest. I am now your newest subscriber here. You alway’s make everything look so easy. I am going to give this a try. The corn starch has me intrigued. Can’t wait. Keep the idea’s coming. I love them. That Christmas Tree cake you made with cones was amazing!

[jameswag]

Three years in a row I have made these cookies they are so good.

[evelynwald]

Great video! I have a cheat sheet that's posted inside my kitchen cabinet door that has the weights of my kitchenaid mixing bowls and a few other bowls that I use for baking. That way, if I forget to weigh the bowl empty, I can refer to my cheat sheet. It's helped me a number of times!

[TheSongwritingCat]

I don't even want to make these. I'm just becoming addicted to watching your videos. They're so pure. Can you please post a recipe for chocolate chip cookies?

[jmpond]

Loved watching this, John! What a clever way to decorate a sugar cookie to make it special for Valentine's Day. Appreciate you making this video a few weeks early which gives us all time to make the dough, etc. Your baking hints are always interesting and valuable, even to a baker of many decades. Wish you and yours an early Happy Valentine's Day!

[juliavasquez]

My daughter's Bday is on Valentine's Day. So I decided your cookies would look beautiful. So I tried your recipe. ND WOW!! TASTE GREAT. CAME OUT BEAUTIFUL. THK U FOR SUCH A GREAT RECIPE.

[reneegarrett]

I keep coming back to this video! These cookies are so simple yet so awesome! I think I’m going to try it for Easter, using an egg shaped cutter, with the stripes being horizontal.

[buffykt]

You are the best thing on YouTube!! Love your teaching style and sense of humor. Thanks so much!!

[bmrpink]

The method to sprinkle the dough with pink sugar will come in handy when I make next year's grinch cookies. Thank you.

[jessvelahair]

*holds sugar butter mixture on spatula* “mmm...I would eat this. I would do it.” 🤣

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I have been following you for quite some time and every time I try whatever u teach, I have never failed. U r amazing. Thank u so much😊❤️
What if I don't wanna use eggs?

[marchhoney]

I made these today!!!! They came out beautiful and delicious, I just made two batches like suggested since I don’t have a scale and now I have SO many cookies, which will be given to pretty much everyone I know because if I tried to eat them all myself I’d probably die. Since I didn’t have sanding sugar I mixed rainbow sprinkles into the white dough instead, and they’re super cute and colorful and very tasty!!

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You have a sweet soul. A beautiful demeanor.

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[Leafygreen]

I made these cookies yesterday and it was so much fun to learn this lamination technique. I added a light flavor of raspberry (via a raspberry emulsion) to the pink dough. I wish I got more striped cookies out of the dough, but the tie die effect ones are pretty in their own way, too. Such a fun cookie and the end result of stripes is professional looking. Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone!

[rumizenbo]

Addicted to your videos! You sound so soothing n calm always... Thanks for the lovely recipe... love from India.

[rosam.rivera]

I just made this using your recipe of shortbread cookies. I just used pink color in half. I double the recipe of shortbread cookies and I made 68 hearts cookies in different sizes. I didn't want cookies too sweet. I bake some and the rest I froze them for another day. I also put some heart candy in some of them. Looks very nice. The cookies are so good. Thanks for both recipe.

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[cammythach]

So cute pink and white heart cookies.💗🤍