Valentine Sugar Cookies (2024)

With just a few basic kitchen ingredients and holiday sprinkles, you will fall in love with our homemade Valentine Sugar Cookies. Dipped in melted chocolate and decorated with colorful sprinkles, these crispy cookies are Valentine perfection.

Valentine Sugar Cookies

There’s no better way to show someone your love than baking up homemade cookies especially when you dress them up with chocolate and sprinkles.

Everyone will love a sweet treat of Valentine Sugar Cookies and these homemade cookies are crispy with golden edges.

Typically sugar cookies have baking powder in them to give them a chewy texture.

Our homemade sugar cookies are made without baking powder to give them their crispy texture. Cookie texture is so much of a personal preference, isn’t it?

These cookies bake to about 3-inches in diameter, but you can make them smaller for cute bite size sugar cookies. Just be sure to keep an eye on them as they bake and bake them for less time than the recipe below calls for. Bake them until the edges are golden.

You can dip your cookies in your favorite melted chips. Milk chocolate chips, semi-sweet chocolate chips, bittersweet chocolate chips and even white chocolate chips will all add a layer of sweetness and texture to the cookies.

The choice is yours. I did a combination of semi-sweet chocolate chips and white chocolate chips and I love how the contrast of the two chocolates look together.

Actually, if you know me well, you know that I’m a Libra and have difficulty making decisions (a typical Libra trait).

So I couldn’t decide on only one type of chocolate chip and ended up using two kinds.

Sorry not sorry, because they look great together.

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What do you do for Valentine’s Day? I love making valentine baskets filled with a special gift and lots of edible treats. Packing homemade cookies in a decorative cellophane bag tied with a pretty ribbon will make everyone feel special and loved.

So go ahead and bake up some love. With just a few basic ingredients your homemade sugar cookies will bake up into crispy deliciousness. then dip them in one or more melted chocolate chips, add Valentine sprinkles and Valentine Sugar Cookies become a festive treat for those you love.

I guarantee your valentine cookies will put smiles on faces!

Want to add more cookies to your dessert menu? Check out our Brown Butter Espresso Chip Cookies and Coconut Almond Cookies too!

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I’m so excited to participate in this Valentine’s event again. This is the sixth year for our event and we want to continue to make a difference in the fight against pediatric cancer.

Cancer is the #1 cause of death of children by disease in the U.S. There are 40,000 U.S. children actively battling cancer right now. The National Cancer Institute’s budget for childhood cancer is less than 4%. It’s such a small number and that’s why I got involved.

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Scroll down for links to more delicious Valentine recipes from some of my favorite bloggers!

How to make homemade sugar cookies

Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below

• Preheat oven to 375F.
• Beat butter and sugar until blended and fluffy.
• Add flour and vanilla and beat until well combined.

• Shape dough into 24 balls.
• Arrange on a baking sheet 3-inches apart.

• Place a small amount of sugar on a plate. Dip the bottom of a glass in water, then in the sugar. Press onto cookie dough balls to flatten to about 2-inches in diameter.
• Bake 11 minutes or until edges are golden.
• Cool 3 minutes on the baking sheet. Transfer to a wire rack and cool completely.

• Melt chocolate chips in a microwave safe dish for 1 minute. Stir until melted and smooth. Microwave at additional 10 seconds intervals if necessary, stirring after each interval, until melted and smooth.
• Dip each cookie halfway into the melted chocolate then sprinkle with valentine sprinkles.
• Return cookies to the wire rack and let stand until the chocolate sets.

Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips

• Be sure to measure your flour correctly. Spoon flour into your measuring cup and level off with the flat end of a knife.
• To soften butter to room temperature, microwave at 10 second intervals, checking after each interval.

Storage

• Store cookies in a single layer in an airtight container.
• You can also arrange cookies in a single layer, top with wax paper or parchment paper and arrange another single layer of cookies on top. It is important to separate the cookies with a layer of wax paper or parchment paper.
• Cookies will stay fresh for about 2 days.

Ingredients for sugar cookies

• butter
• sugar
• flour
• vanilla extract
• chocolate chips
• Valentine sprinkles

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• Coconut Almond Cookies
• Chocolate Espresso Cookies
• Pecan Snowball Cookies
• Secret Kiss Cookies from The Monday Box
• Red Velvet Cookies from Restless Chipotle

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First Published: February 12, 2022... Last Updated: February 8, 2023, for better readability and user experience