Homemade Slice and Bake Valentine Cookies
Skip the store bought cookies and make these amazing homemade slice and bake Valentine cookies for your family. These vanilla sugar cookies feature a colorful heart in the middle, perfect for your holiday celebration.
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Servings: 24 cookies, depending on the size of the cookies
Equipment
- Stand Mixer with Paddle Attachment you can mix by hand if needed
- Mini heart cookie cutter
- Measuring Cups & Spoons
- Rolling Pin
- Medium Sized Mixing Bowl
- Plastic Wrap
Ingredients
- 3 cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1 cup cold, salted butter cubed
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- pink gel food dye
Instructions
Preparing the Dough
- In a medium sized mixing bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Set this aside.
- In a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar together.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract into the stand mixer bowl and mix until combined.
- Slowly mix in the dry ingredients from the medium sized mixing bowl and mix until the dough forms a ball.
- Remove ½ to ¾ of the dough from the mixing bowl and set aside. Dye the remaining dough in the mixing bowl pink.
- On a piece of parchment paper, roll the pink dough out to about ½" thick. Use the mini heart cookie cutter to cut out heart shapes until all of the dough is used.
- Stack the hearts on top of each other, making two stacks if necessary. Once stacked push the hearts together to help them stick to one another. Smooth any rough edges and then freeze the stack(s) of hearts on a cookie sheet for 10 minutes.
- On a piece of parchment paper, roll the undyed dough out as thin as possible.
- After 10 minutes, remove the hearts from the freezer and wrap the stack with the undyed dough, being careful to fill the crevice. Continuing wrapping the dough until a log forms.
- Wrap the log of dough with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes or up to a few days.
Baking the Slice and Bake Valentine Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and line a cookie tray with parchment paper or a silicone lining.
- Unwrap the dough and slice the dough into ¼" to ½" thick cookies, depending on the amount of cookies you want and/or how thick you want the cookies.
- Place the cookies on the lined cookie tray, being careful not to overcrowd the tray. Bake for 7-10 minutes, or until the cookies no longer look wet.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the baking tray for 5 minutes before transferring them to a cooling rack.