Valentine Spritz Cookies for Valentine’s Day
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Valentine spritz cookies are the perfect way to celebrate Valentine’s Day! These mini heart cookies with a butter flavor feature sparkling sugars and milk chocolate, served two ways! They are just as much to make as they are to eat.
Growing up we always made spritz cookies for Christmas. With spritz cookies you can skip rolling out dough and still get fun cookie shapes. But did you consider spritz for other holidays? Since we have a heart shaped cookie disc with our cookie press, Wes and I decided to make these heart spritz cookies for Valentine’s Day! We love making heart shaped foods for Valentine’s Day, like a candy cane heart and this Valentine’s smoothie bowl.
Spritz Cookie Ingredients
To make these simple heart spritz cookies, you’ll need the following ingredients:
- butter (three sticks which I know is a lot but spritz are a butter cookie)
- sugar
- egg
- milk
- vanilla
- almond extract
- flour
- baking powder
- decorating items such as sparkling sugar and chocolate chips for drizzle
How to Make Heart Spritz Cookies
They were such a fun cookie to make as a kid because of the cookie press. We have always called it a “cookie gun” because you squeeze the trigger and out pops a cool cookie shape! It is a great exercise for kids to build up hand strength in a fun way!
Wesley wasn’t able to squeeze out all of the cookies because of hand strength. With both hands he was able to pop out several of the cookies but once he got tired he started to tilt the cookie press instead of keep it flat on the cookie sheet as required.
While I worked on squeezing out the rest of the cookies, Wesley got to work adding sparkling sugars to the tops before baking. If you’ve never working with sparkling sugars, I highly recommend them because they stay so bright after baking! We used a white and red sparkling sugar and gold sparkling sugar.
The following day we melted some milk chocolate to make cookie sandwiches with some of the cookies. With the others we drizzled the remaining chocolate over the tops.
Both of these options worked great. These butter cookies have a very mild flavor so the chocolate really adds.
If you prefer to decorate your cookies after baking, you can use piping gel (or even corn syrup) to get your sprinkles or other decorations to stay on.
You can also add food coloring to the dough to make red hearts instead but I love the way the sparkling sugar pops on these valentine spritz cookies.
Valentine Spritz Cookies
Valentine spritz cookies are fun, heart cookies to serve someone you love on Valentine's Day. These buttery cookies are fun to make with a cookie press and decorate using sparkling sugar and chocolate drizzle.
Ingredients
- 1½ cups butter (3 sticks)
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- 3½ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
To decorate:
- sparkling sugars
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet or milk chocolate chips
- 1 teaspoon canola oil or shortening
Instructions
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Cream butter and sugar thoroughly.
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Add egg, milk, vanilla and almond extract. Beat well.
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Stir together dry ingredients (flour & baking powder) in separate bowl and gradually add to creamed mixture.
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Mix until dough is smooth. DO NOT CHILL!
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Add dough to a cookie press with heart disc.
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Press out cookies onto an ungreased cookie sheet.
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Gently press down dough that forms Y shaped created by cookie disc.
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Sprinkle with sparkling sugars.
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Bake in a preheated 375 degree oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly golden just around edges.
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Cool completely on wire rack.
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Melt chocolate and oil.
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Drizzle over cookies or spread over back of cookie to create cookie sandwich. Transfer to lined baking sheet to set chocolate.
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Store in airtight container.
Looking for more fun Valentine’s Day treats you can make with your kids? Try these Chocolate Banana Sundae Bites we made last year! They were a huge hit.
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We used to make spritz cookies as kids for Christmas but never made them any other time. These Valentine spritz cookies look super yummy.