Nothing says “I love you” like a delicious, homemade cookie. These cookies are sweet, but a tiny bit salty. They’re soft, and the frosting is buttery and wonderful. I’ve made a LOT of different recipes, and these are still my favorite! You just can’t improve on perfection!
Be My Valentine Sugar Cookies
Start by lining your cookie sheets with parchment. If you prefer to grease your baking pan, instead, that’s fine.
Combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt, and mix well with a fork.
Beat the butter and shortening until creamy.
Add the eggs, and beat well.
Add the cream and vanilla, and beat some more.
Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and stir just enough to incorporate everything.
Your dough will be fairly dry, and look a little crumbly. At this point you can refrigerate, or just start rolling them out.
When you’re ready to roll, preheat the oven to 400 degrees, and dust your surface with flour.
Using about half the dough, form a disc.
Roll it out very thin.
Using your favorite Valentine cookie cutters, cut the dough. This dough is fragile, so I use a thin, metal spatula to lift the dough to my baking pan.
Bake at 400 degrees F for 5-7 minutes. Watch carefully, as you don’t want them to brown on the edges.
When they come out of the oven, let them cool on the pan for 2 minutes, then transfer them to a rack. Cool completely.
- 1 cup butter ~ softened
- 1 cup shortening
- 2 eggs
- 6 tablespoons cream
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 6 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 cups sugar
- 3½-4 cups powdered sugar
- ½ cup softened butter
- ¼ cup half and half (at room temperature)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Pinch of salt
- 3-4 drops of food coloring (optional)
- sprinkles or decorations
- Mix together flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar with a fork.
- Cream butter and shortening together.
- Beat in eggs, cream, and vanilla.
- Beat until light and fluffy.
- Add dry ingredients to wet, and mix just long enough to combine.
- Chill for at least 2 hours,
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Roll out thin, and cut.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 5 minutes.
- Combine sugar, butter, half and half, salt, and vanilla, and beat until fluffy.
- Add food coloring, if desired.
- Spread on cookies.
- Refrigerate cookies for an hour after frosting.
- Store in fridge.
For the frosting, combine powdered sugar, butter, half and half, vanilla, and salt. Beat until fluffy.
Divide the frosting into separate bowls. Add a few drops of food coloring to part, and leave part white.
Frost the cookies and decorate with sugar or sprinkles.
I make this recipe for all the holidays.
You get the idea.