Heart Sugar Cookies

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You don’t have to wait until Valentine’s Day to make these heart sugar cookies. Any time you make them will surely show your love for your kids, family, and friends too. 

Heart sugar cookies can make excellent party favors too for any occasion. They’re beautiful, and of course, you’ll be making them with love. And while they are excellent for Valentine’s Day treats, heart sugar cookies will be adored far and wide any time you make them.

With pretty royal icing you can make in your favorite colors, there’s no tastier way to show love than a batch of heart sugar cookies!

What You Will Need for These Sugar Heart Cookies

Ingredients for the cookies:

150g butter 

60g powdered sugar 

1 large egg white 

230g all-purpose flour 

½ tsp vanilla extract 

One pinch of salt 

Heart-shaped cookie cutter

Ingredients for the royal icing:

3 egg whites 

450g powdered sugar

Food coloring of choice  

1 tsp vanilla extract

Make Your Own Heart Sugar Cookies

When you make heart sugar cookies, make sure you plan ahead and let that butter sit out at room temperature. It will beat better, making for smoother results. 

Then it will be easy to add the powdered sugar to this mixture. Vanilla and egg whites go next along with that pinch of salt. Then you’ll gradually add in the flour. Soon you’ll have a nice dough to work with, but it needs to sit in a cool place for 30 minutes. Cover it with a cotton cloth and take a nap, or have a cocktail…no judgement!

You can then roll out the dough on a prepared surface. Try to aim for a thickness of 1cm to 1.5cm. Then you can use your little heart-shaped cookie cutter to make the hearts. Bake the heart sugar cookies for 10 minutes until the edges are a little golden. 

Once they cool, you can get your frosting ready. You want to beat the egg whites until they’re frothy before adding the powdered sugar and adding the vanilla. After getting it together, you can split the icing into small batches for as many colors as you need.

You’ll add gel food coloring to each of these separated batches, mixing them well. You can then put them in piping bags to make it easy to ice your heart sugar cookies. 

It works best if you trace an outline around the heart and fill it in, using a little water to help it floor through. See below to get the full steps on how to make your heart sugar cookies look perfect and steal someone’s heart!

If you’re looking for Christmas, try these easy cut out Christmas cookies.

Ingredients for the Cookies:

• Butter – 150 grams
• Powdered sugar – 60 grams
• Egg white – 1, large
• All-purpose flour – 230 grams
• Vanilla extract – ½ tsp
• Salt – one pinch

Directions

Place parchment paper on the baking tray and preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F.

1. Bring the butter down to room temperature. Beat the butter until it’s smooth and creamy.

2. Gradually add the powdered or confectioner’s sugar to the creamed butter.

3. Mix the creamy butter and the powdered sugar thoroughly. 

4. Add vanilla extract and the egg white to the butter-sugar mixture.  Add a pinch of salt to the mixture as well. Mix all the ingredients together.

5. Gradually add the all-purpose flour to the mixture and mix until smooth.

6. Cover the dough with a paper towel and keep it in a cool place for half an hour. 

7. Uncover the cookie dough and flour the surface you’ll be rolling your cookie dough on. Roll the dough on the prepared surface using a rolling pin.
   Roll the dough as evenly as possible until it is around 1 – 1.5 cm thick. 

8. Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, start to cut heart shapes on the rolled dough. Cut as many heart shapes on the rolled dough as possible.

9. Place the cookies on the prepared baking tray and bake for about 10 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden. Avoid over-baking as the cookies will harden as they cool down.

Ingredients for Royal Icing:

• 3 egg whites 
• 450 grams of powdered sugar
• Food coloring of choice  
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract

1. Beat the egg whites until frothy and gradually add the powdered sugar to them.  Keep mixing until stiff shiny peaks are visible. 

2. Add in the vanilla extract and mix it nicely.
3. Divide the icing into small batches for different colors.  Simply add gel food coloring to the separate batches and mix them well. 

4. Fill each icing into piping bags. 

5. Start by tracing the heart outline on the top side of the heart cookie. Add a few drops of water in the remaining icing to make flooding consistency and fill in the outlined heart shapes. 

Allow icing to dry before eating. 

Heart Sugar Cookies

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Ingredients

Ingredients for the Cookies

• Butter - 150 grams
• Powdered sugar – 60 grams
• Egg white – 1, large
• All-purpose flour – 230 grams
• Vanilla extract – ½ tsp
• Salt – one pinch

Ingredients for Royal Icing:

• 3 egg whites
• 450 grams of powdered sugar
• Food coloring of choice
• 1 tsp of vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Step 1: Bring the butter down to room temperature. Beat the butter until it’s smooth and creamy.
2. Step 2: Gradually add the powdered or confectioner’s sugar to the creamed butter.
3. Step 3: Mix the creamy butter and the powdered sugar nicely. 
4. Step 4: Add vanilla extract and the egg white to the butter-sugar mixture.  Add a pinch of salt to the mixture as well. Mix all the ingredients together.
5. Step 5:   Gradually add the all-purpose flour to the mixture and use a spatula to mix the flour nicely.
6. Step 6: When you’re done mixing the flour thoroughly and the dough turns out nice and smooth’ cover the cookie dough with a cotton cloth and keep it in a cool place for half an hour. 
7. Step 7: After half an hour, uncover the cookie dough and flour the surface you’ll be rolling your cookie dough on. Roll the dough on the prepared surface.
8. Step 8: Use a rolling pin to roll the dough. Bring the rolled cookie dough’s thickness to 1 cm or 1.5 cm. Try to roll the dough as evenly as possible. 
9. Step 9:  Take out a small heart-shaped cookie cutter and start to cut heart shapes on the rolled dough. Cut as many heart shapes on the rolled dough as possible.
10. Step 10: After cutting heart shapes, carefully take out the remaining dough and keep it aside, you can knead it into a ball shape or add it to the rest of the dough for the next batches (to roll).

Baking

• Place a parchment paper on the baking tray and preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F. Place the cookies on the prepared baking tray (on the parchment paper) and bake them for about 20 minutes or until the edges are lightly golden. Avoid over-baking as the cookies will harden as they cool down.

1. Steps 1 and 2: Beat the egg whites until frothy and gradually add the powdered sugar to them.  Keep mixing until stiff shiny peaks are visible. 
2. Steps 3 and 4: Add in the vanilla extract and mix it nicely. Now you can divide the icing into small batches for different colors.  Simply add gel food coloring to the separate batches and mix them well. 
3. Step 5: Prepare 3 or 4 different colored royal icing for the heart sugar cookies. Fill each different icing into piping bags.

Decorating the cookies

1. Step 11: Select a piping bag (with icing filled in it) and start by tracing the heart outline on the top side of the heart cookie. Add a few drops of water in the remaining icing to make flooding consistency and fill in the outlined heart shapes. 
2. After you’re done adding the icing, allow the icing to dry up.

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