Black and White Heart Sugar Cookies

Have you made your quintessential heart shaped cookies for Valentine’s Day?

I surprised myself by wanting to make cut-out cookies because I tend to avoid making them.  I’m a perfectionist so the process of rolling and cutting cookie dough is daunting to me.  That’s a nice way of saying that I get easily frustrated when I don’t roll out the dough to be the same exact thickness for every single cut-out and I usually throw a temper tantrum for trying over and over again to get it right.  Unfortunately my husband has been a witness to those very events in the past so for both of our sake, I tend to want to bake anything else on earth.

However, I was thinking that Valentine’s Day is a good excuse to go the extra mile.  While these cookies are not hard to make, for me, it was a test of my patience.  And I passed!  There were no hissy fits or freak out moments.  Instead I stayed calm, cool, and collected the entire time. Who am I?  😉

These cookies are the perfect sugar cookie because they are just the right amount of buttery and crispy.  I made another sugar cookie recipe a couple of years ago (the only other cut-out cookie on my blog).  I loved how those came out because they were delicious and soft (I’m a sucker for soft cookies).  But I actually prefer today’s recipe because these cookies stay true to their shape during the baking process.  How would you like a heart cookie that looks like a weird roundish shape?  Pass.

Obviously you can use this recipe to make any cut out shape you like.  Shamrock shapes with green sprinkles for St. Patrick’s Day.  Train shapes for a birthday party.  Star shapes for July 4th.  The options are as endless as your tub of cookie cutters.

I wanted to add some red sprinkles to this heart fest because they make everything better and were a color that would make them pretty and seasonally appropriate.  I did not however have red sprinkles in the house.  I really didn’t feel like going to the store to get them when it’s 5 degrees out and since I already had everything else I needed it would be a trip for just sprinkles.  After digging around in the cabinets I discovered that I had a thing of Christmas sprinkles that was red, white, and green.  Red was one of the colors.  Yes!  (I bet you see where this is going.)  I meticulously removed the green and white sprinkles so I’d be left with just the red ones.

I gave these beauts to one of my best friends.  She is the kind of friend who’s worth picking out the red sprinkles for.

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Here are some other sweets for your sweetie.

Peanut Butter Chocolate Dipped Blondies

Black and White Cookies

Too Much Chocolate Cake