Valentines Chocolate Sugar Cookies are soft, sweet cookies with a festive chocolate heart! Valentines Day sugar cookies made with simple pantry ingredients & come together fast for an easy Valentine’s treat!
These Valentine’s Day soft sugar cookies are so tasty and delicious, the simple ingredients speak for themselves. These decorated sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day are chewy, luscious and oh so pretty too!
Valentine’s Day Sugar Cookies
We make sugar cookies a lot in our house- they are an easy holiday treat and the kids love to decorate them. This year I opted for a more “grown up” version for Valentines Day. They are easy to make, happily festive and they do not have all the food coloring and 2 pounds of sprinkles that my kids would insist on. Hence the reason why I made these when they were not at home! Mom hack, HA! To make these super easy, I did use Nellie’s Super Soft Sugar Cookie recipe she posted a while ago. They are SO good. I love the addition of sour cream and how it adds to the light texture of these cookies!
Chocolate Heart Valentine’s Sugar cookies ingredients
-Sugar: Using 1 cup sugar will provide just the right amount of sweetness to this cookie.
-Butter: You will need ½ cup softened butter to make a nice rich dough.
-Egg: You need 1 egg to help bind the dough together.
-Vanilla extract: Using 1 tsp vanilla extract will help enhance the wonderful flavors in this recipe.
-Sour cream: You will need ⅓ cup sour cream to achieve the extra moist cookie we are after here.
-Salt- Use ½ tsp salt for an extra boost of flavor.
-Baking soda: You will need ½ tsp baking soda to give the cookies a great puffy shape.
-Flour: Using 2 cups flour will give us the perfect consistency for the dough.
Sugar Cookie Frosting ingredients
-Butter: You will need ½ cup softened butter to make the frosting nice and smooth.
-Powder sugar: Using 4 cups of powdered sugar will provide the perfect sweet topping for these cookies.
-Milk: Use ¼ cup milk for the perfect frosting consistency.
-Vanilla extract: You need 2 tsp vanilla extract for a lovely flavor enhancer.
Chocolate Lattice Hearts
– Chocolate chips: You will need about ¼ – ½ cup of chocolate chips for the festive chocolate topping.
Step by step on how to make Valentines Day Sugar Cookies
Dough prep
In a medium size bowl, start by creaming together sugar and softened butter. Then, add the egg and vanilla extract. Stir to combine.
Then, in separate bowl, combine the sour cream, salt and baking soda.
Next, add the flour and sour cream mixture to first bowl with the butter mixture, beat together until smooth.
Proceed to let the dough chill for several hours, 1-2 would be fine if you want to enjoy the cookies that day. If you have time to let the dough chill overnight that would give the dough time to develop more flavor.
Baking time
Set the over to 375 degree F. Spray a baking sheet with non-stick spray or use parchment paper, set aside.
Next, roll out the dough to about 1/3 of an inch thick. Proceed to cut the dough using your heart shaped cookie cutter and place them on your prepared baking sheet. The dough will be sticky, so you will need to use a good amount of flour to cut your shapes. I like to stick the cookie cutter in the tub of flour between cutting each shape.
Stick them in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Make sure not to over-bake your cookies. They may not even look totally done on the tops, but if the bottoms start to brown, I take mine out and they are perfect!
Frosting
In a medium size bowl, beat the softened butter until smooth.
Next, add in and mix the remaining ingredients until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add additional milk a little at a time if thinner consistency is desired.
Chocolate Lattice Hearts
First, stick a dinner plate or a cookie sheet in the freezer. Sounds odd, I know, just trust me on this one.
Then, put 1/4 – 1/2 cup of chocolate chips in a small ziplocked bag. Proceed to microwave for 1 minute, then turn over, and microwave again in 30 second increments until chips are melted and chocolate can be easily squished around the bag. Mine took 2 thirty-second increments, so an additional minute.
Next, lay out a square of wax paper. Cut a very small corner off the bag and draw a heart on the wax paper about the size of your cookie cutters. Then, fill in the hearts with crisscross lines and such. There is no method to my madness, I just sort of went crazy. When your wax paper is full, take the pan or plate from the freezer and slide the wax paper on top of it. You will noticed the chocolate begin to harden immediately. Let sit until fully set.
When the cookies have cooled, frost them, then place a chocolate heart on top. I also dabbed a cinnamon jelly heart in a tiny bit of frosting and added those to the center.
Serve and enjoy!
Chocolate Heart Valentine’s Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Sugar
- ½ cup Butter
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp Vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup Sour cream
- ½ tsp Salt
- ½ tsp Baking soda
- 2 cups Flour
Sugar Cookie Frosting ingredients
- ½ cup Butter softened
- 4 cups Powder sugar
- ¼ cup Milk
- 2 tsp Vanilla extract
Chocolate Lattice Hearts
- ¼ cup Chocolate chips about 1/4 – 1/2 cup depending on your needs
Instructions
Dough prep
- In a medium size bowl, start by creaming together sugar and softened butter. Then, add the egg and vanilla extract. Stir to combine.
- Then, in separate bowl, combine the sour cream, salt and baking soda.
- Next, add the flour and sour cream mixture to first bowl with the butter mixture, beat together until smooth.
- Proceed to let the dough chill for several hours, 1-2 would be fine if you want to enjoy the cookies that day. If you have time to let the dough chill overnight that would give the dough time to develop more flavor.
Baking time
- Set the over to 375 degree F. Spray a baking sheet with non-stick spray or use parchment paper, set aside.
- Next, roll out the dough to about 1/3 of an inch thick. Proceed to cut the dough using your heart shaped cookie cutter and place them on your prepared baking sheet. The dough will be sticky, so you will need to use a good amount of flour to cut your shapes. I like to stick the cookie cutter in the tub of flour between cutting each shape.
- Stick them in the oven and bake for 10 minutes. Make sure not to over-bake your cookies. They may not even look totally done on the tops, but if the bottoms start to brown, I take mine out and they are perfect!
Frosting
- In a medium size bowl, beat the softened butter until smooth.
- Next, add in and mix the remaining ingredients until smooth, about 2 minutes. Add additional milk a little at a time if thinner consistency is desired.
Chocolate Lattice Hearts
- First, stick a dinner plate or a cookie sheet in the freezer. Sounds odd, I know, just trust me on this one.
- Then, put 1/4 – 1/2 cup of chocolate chips in a small ziplocked bag. Proceed to microwave for 1 minute, then turn over, and microwave again in 30 second increments until chips are melted and chocolate can be easily squished around the bag. Mine took 2 thirty-second increments, so an additional minute.
- Next, lay out a square of wax paper. Cut a very small corner off the bag and draw a heart on the wax paper about the size of your cookie cutters. Then, fill in the hearts with crisscross lines and such. There is no method to my madness, I just sort of went crazy. When your wax paper is full, take the pan or plate from the freezer and slide the wax paper on top of it. You will noticed the chocolate begin to harden immediately. Let sit until fully set.
- When the cookies have cooled, frost them, then place a chocolate heart on top. I also dabbed a cinnamon jelly heart in a tiny bit of frosting and added those to the center.
Notes
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How do you keep sugar cookies soft?
This is another reason to love these cookies, thanks to the cream cheese in the dough- they stay softer for longer! After the cookies have cooled, simply place them in an airtight container to keep them fresh for as long as possible. It also helps to make sure that when you roll out the cookie dough that you do it to the right thickness so that they don’t become brittle when baking.
How long will decorated sugar cookies last?
If you keep your cookies properly stored in an airtight container you can expect them to last up to a week at room temperature.
Can I freeze decorate sugar cookies?
Yes. After frosting has been applied, allow them to set at room temperature for about an hour so that the frosting can firm up a bit. Then place the cookies in a single layer on a baking sheet and flash freeze until solid (about 1-2 hours). After that, transfer to an airtight container. I recommend laying a sheet of parchment paper between the cookie layers, just in case. Then simply remove and thaw to eat.
Check out some more great Valentine’s Day recipes to try!
- Easy Valentines Donuts
- Pink Peppermint Patties
- Red Velvet Valentines Cookies
- Valentines Sugar Cookies
- Valentine Candy Bark
- Layered Valentine Jello Cups
- Valentines Marshmallow Chocolate Bark
- Red Velvet Oreo Balls
- Cherry Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Valentines Marshmallow Pops
- Strawberry Shortcake Oreo Balls
- Valentines Cream Cheese Butter Mints
These easy Valentines Day sugar cookies are made with simple pantry ingredients and the result is these cute and festive cookies!
Ruthie says
This looks amazing! Yum. I hope you'll come share at Super Saturday Show & Tell party today!! http://www.whatscookingwithruthie.com
Nellie says
Ruthie – I just shared…thank you!
Ruthie Armstrong says
Thanks so much for linking up to my Super Saturday Show & Tell today! I am in love with these cookies 🙂 xoxo~ Ruthie
Rita says
These look so good! I think that you have inspired me to make some "Grown-up" sugar cookies now! Thanks for sharing.
Winnie says
These are simply AWESOME<br />Soooooooooo beautiful 🙂
Leigh Anne Wilkes says
Such pretty cookies – love the chocolate lattice work on them. I'd love for you to come over and share at Finding the Pretty & Delicious Linky Party.http://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/finding-the-pretty-delicious-linky-party-3/