Valentine’s Day Butter Cookies {Gift Idea}
Delicious butter cookies decorated with cream cheese frosting and sprinkles.
I hope you are ready for the BEST sugar butter cookies ever. Believe me they are the best. I worked many times with cookies before and I know what I’m saying. I’ve worked all Saturday morning with cookie recipes. I was devastated after the first batch with first recipe that I found somewhere on the web. It was terrible to work with, ingredients didn’t want to combine. I didn’t give up and I made another cookie base that I was satisfied.
I had a cookie competition in my city on Saturday. I wanted to win but also I wanted to prove myself that maybe my cooking and baking is really good. I wanted to know from other people as well. And I won a FIRST place, I am so happy. Judges couldn’t stop eating my butter cookies. However, my cookies for the competition looked different than these hearts that I am showing you today. But I’ve used the same butter cookie base for them.
The dough for these butter cookies is so easy to work with. The ingredients combine very well together and most importantly very quickly. Also, they do not require any chilling before baking. Just mix ingredients, form a ball, roll it and cut shapes. Simply as that. They came out amazing. Perfect amount of sweet, crunch and batter. This is what I like the most.
To make my butter cookies even better I added cream cheese with whipped cream. Totally good. Try it and You will definitely like them. These butter cookies are perfect as a gift; same as Chocolate Truffles Recipe. Just use a really pretty box and wrap cookie nicely inside. I even used a nice box after store-bought candies that I had in my home.
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Valentine’s Day Butter Cookies {Gift Idea}
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1 cup softened butter
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
Frosting
- 1 brick 8 oz. softened cream cheese
- 3/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup whipping cream 35%
Extras
- blueberries
- red sprinkles
- flour to dust
- cookie cutter
Instructions
Cookie dough
- Preheat oven to 350 F. Prepare baking pan with parchment paper.
- In the large bowl mix butter and sugar with electric mixer until all will become smooth.
- Add egg and vanilla extract. Beat until all ingredients will combine.
- In a separate bowl combine flour and baking powder. Add to wet ingredients.
- Mix with mixer, then knead the dough by hand.
- Divide the dough into 3 sections. Flour the surface and roll one dough until 1/4 thick. Cut the cookies with cookie cutter. Make same with sections 2 and 3 of the dough.
- Lay nicely on parchment paper. Bake for 6 - 10 minutes. Start checking after 6 minutes so they will not burn out.
- Cool off cookies completely before frosting.
Frosting
- In a medium bowl beat cream cheese with sugar and vanilla extract until smooth. Set aside.
- In a separate bowl whip the whipping cream until soft peak. Add cream cheese/sugar mixture and mix until all ingredients will combine.
Decoration
- Frost the cookies, sprinkle with sprinkles, add some blueberries.
Notes
Nutrition
If you like my butter cookies check
Chocolate Truffles
These look so yummy! And I love the addition of blueberries 🙂
Thank you Shannon!
These look so pretty & yummy! Plus I love blueberries. Thanks for sharing recipe 🙂
Thank you Tee!
These cookies are too cute Ilona! And perfect for a Valentine’s Day gift! Pinned!
Mira thank you for pinning! Very appreciated:)
I love cookies, my nickname in high school was cookie monster so I definitely will try these!
I love the cookie monster nickname. Thank you Tara Joy!
I love blueberries! What a creative way to get the fruit in.
Thank you Tami!
Not only do these sounds amazing, but you make them beautiful too!
Thanks Lauryn!
These look so yummy I could eat them off my screen! I’m trying these for sure!
Thank you Cat!
I love cookies! I make them at least once a week for my kids. I think I’ll give these a try!
I love cookies too. Thanks Valerie!
It’s not Valentine’s Day without heart-shaped cookies! My momma would make them every year for us. Never had one with blueberries on it though. Fun!
Thanks Leilani!
Too cute! I would love if someone made me these for Valentine’s Day!
Thanks Mommy Sanest for your visit:)
These are so pretty! Love the heart shapes and the cream cheese frosting sounds perfect!
Thank you Kelly!
Blueberries in cookies? You just blew my mind. They look so delicious! And I wouldn’t feel that bad about eating more than one. I mean, they do have blueberries and those are healthy! =)
You are right Jessica:)
These look so beautiful and tasty! Your pictures are so beautiful too. I wish I could reach through the screen and grab one…or maybe two or three 🙂
Thank you so much for your sweet comment!
These are so pretty. I’m not really that much into Valentines day but I wouldn’t mind getting these.. lol
Thank you Renz!
These look just like what my grandma would call biscuit cookies! Yum!
Thank you Bintu for your visit!
Oh, I LOVE butter cookies and I bet that little burst of blueberry tastes amazing on them!
I agree! The blueberries add so much flavor to these cookies:)
They look adorable n a great idea for gifting on Valentines. Love the dash of sprinkle with blueberry on top.
Thank you Molly!
These cookies are perfect for Valentines! They look amazing 🙂
Thank you Dini!