The classic love for kids and adults is the ever popular, ever consistent, buttery goodness in cookie form, the Sugar Cookie. This cookie is normally a Christmas Cookie cut into shapes featuring candy-canes, Christmas Trees, and other holiday shapes. BUT! The Sugar Cookie is versatile. Not only can it be a cookie for Christmas, it makes a perfect canvas for the day of love, Valentine’s Day!
To continue the Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse Valentine’s Day recipe parade, Disney shows just how versatile the Sugar Cookie is with heart shaped cookies coated in sanding sugar. Sugar Cookies have a certain process that must be followed, so grab the recipe below in order to make a nostalgic Valentine’s Day Treat.
To make the cookies, first we must make the dough. Sugar cookie dough is made by creaming butter and sugar until fluffy, adding the other wet ingredients, and then slowly adding the dry. Once the dough is formed, it must be placed in the refrigerator to get cold. Warm sugar cookie dough spreads way too much and tends to be messy. I suggest taking small batches of dough out of the refrigerator at a time
Once the dough has been in the fridge for at least an hour, roll the dough out to 1/8 inch thick. Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter, which can be found on Amazon.com (affiliate link), cut as many hearts from the dough as you can. Place each shape on the cookie sheet 1-inch apart, and bake at 375 for around eight minutes. Once they are done, remove them from the cookie sheet and place on a cooling rack.
When the cookies are cooled, it is time to decorate! Coat them with icing and cover them in sanding sugar to make beautiful masterpieces. Get everyone in the family involved and have a decorating party.
This recipe makes about 36 cookies. To save the recipe, click here to download the official Disney Recipe or click print on the recipe below.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Minnie's Sugar Cookies
Heart-shaped cookies make a wonderful present on Valentine's Day.
Credit: Playhouse Disney
Ingredients
- 1 stick unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
- 1 1/4 cups all purpose flour
- prepared decorating icing in white and red
- pink sanding sugar
Directions
- In a medium bowl, combine butter and sugar
- Beat at medium speed ith an electric mixer until creamy, scraping down sides of bowl as necessary
- Beat in egg and vanilla
- Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in baking sode, salt, and flour
- Divide dough in half and form into flatten balls
- Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour
- Preheat oven to 375
- Roll out refrigerated dough on a floured work surface to 1/8-inch thick
- Cut out dough with a heart-shaped cookie cutter and place one inch apart on an ungreased baking sheet
- Bake for about eight minutes or until cookies are lightly browned around the edges
- Place cookies on a cooking rack and let cool to room temperature.
- Decorate by spreading decorating icing on the cookies and sprinkle with sanding sufar. Makes about 36
