Also, try the sweetest, heart-shaped Valentine’s Day cupcakes to ever grace your countertops! Whoever you’re making these heart-warming, heart shaped sugar cookies for, they’ll feel all the love in the air and in their tummies! This recipe makes 36 warm and tender sugar cookies, so let’s get to it! Outside of these ingredients to make the sugar cookies and icing, you will need a cookie cutter in the shape of a heart. If you don’t have a heart shaped cookie cutter you can try free-hand forming the cookies using a sharp knife.
For the cookies:
Butter: You can use unsalted butter for this recipe. You’ll need ¾ cups at room temperature. Granulated sugar: 1 cup of granulated sugar will do the trick, giving these cookies their “sugar” cookie name. You can use caster sugar, raw sugar, or brown sugar if you don’t have granulated sugar in your pantry. Large eggs: The eggs will act as a binding agent to bring the dough together nicely. You’ll 2 large eggs. Vanilla extract: The vanilla adds a warm taste to the sugar cookies. You’ll need 1 teaspoon. All-purpose flour: 2 ½ cups of all-purpose flour is what we use for soft and tender cookies. Baking powder: This is your rising agent; you’ll only need 1 ½ teaspoons. Salt: Just a touch will balance the flavor of the cookies.
For the icing:
Powdered sugar: This is the base of your icing, so you’ll need 3 cups. It will look incredibly dry at first, but with the added milk and corn syrup will form a nice icing-like texture. Milk: Add 2 tablespoons to bring the powdered sugar together. Light corn syrup: 1 tablespoon of light corn syrup will do. It’s best to use light corn syrup for a moderately sweet taste and no added color. Using dark corn syrup will change the color of the icing. Pink food coloring: You can get food coloring in the baking aisle of most grocery stores. We like pink, but you can use any color you like! Sprinkles: The fun part! Use sprinkles for decorating, or take a peek at the section below for other ideas for decorating!
Make the cookies: Make the icing:
Icing pour over: pouring the icing over the cookies will save you hours of fussy decorating and make you feel like a crafty Pinterest goddesses of Valentine’s cuteness. This technique makes the icing super smooth. Thank you to Cookies and Cups for teaching us this method! Drizzle: You can create a two-tone effect by doing an icing pour over with one color icing, waiting for it to dry completely and then drizzling the other color icing on top. You can also achieve this look with a chocolate drizzle – all you have to do is melt some chocolate chips! Sprinkles: this just levels up the fun! You can use Valentine’s sprinkles or whatever sprinkles you have on hand to add some razzle-dazzle! Marble icing: To achieve a marble effect, separate your white icing into 3 parts. Add food coloring to two of the bowls and mix until each bowl has a uniform color. Drizzle the two colors of icing over the white icing and drag a skewer or toothpick through it to create a swirl or colours. Dip each cookie into the icing and get a sweet marble design!
These are just some ideas, you can get creative with your decorations and go with whatever your heart and tummy desire! You can’t really go wrong!
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