These soft, delicious 'Pink Velvet' Lofthouse Sugar Cookies are topped with an irresistible cream cheese frosting and perfect for Valentine's Day! 😉 Love Pink!
Holy Cow! It's almost Valentine's Day already! Of course, I would love some diamonds, chocolates or beautiful roses for Valentine's day or all the above. Am I right ladies? Oh and of course, wined and dined is always nice. *ahem...hopefully he's reading this*
They say the way to a man's heart, is through his stomach. and it's actually the same with women. I'm always happy to receive goodies. In fact, I enjoy it immensely! So ladies, sometimes, we just need to bake some good, old-fashioned, soft Lofthouse Cookies, just for the heck of it, maybe even use them as a bribe to get to his heart.
Why? Because soft Lofthouse cookies definitely make everyone love you more if you made them yourself, from the heart! And if we make them pink, seriously, who can resist them?
Happy Baking!
'Pink Velvet' Lofthouse Cookies {CopyCat Recipe}
Ingredients
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened
- ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons canola oil
- ½ cup + 2 tablespoons sugar plus a ¼ cup for dipping glass into
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- red or pink food coloring or gel to tint cookie dough
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon Cream of Tartar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
Cream Cheese Icing
- 2 ounces cream cheese
- ⅛ cup butter softened
- ½ teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup powdered sugar sifted
- Pinch salt
- 1 teaspoon almond milk or milk
or
- 1 tub of Cream Cheese Frosting
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray non-stick spray on cookie sheets.
- Add butter, oil and sugar to a mixing bowl and mix until incorporated well.
- Add the water and vanilla and continue mixing together. Add egg and beat in, then add in red food coloring and mix well.
- Add the baking soda, cream of tartar, salt and flour wet mixture and mix until thoroughly incorporated.
- Using a medium scoop, make balls of dough. Using a flat bottom glass that has been dipped in sugar, press down on cookies to get that crinkly edge.
- Bake for 9-11 minutes. Don't overbake, you don't want cookies to be brown on bottoms.
- Transfer to a wire rack to let cool.
- Cream Cheese Frosting
- Combine frosting ingredients together. Beat until thick and creamy.
- (Warm up in microwave a smidge 10-15 seconds if you want a thinner glaze to spread on top, it will thicken up as it cools.)
- Frost cookies and sprinkle with your decoration of choice.
These cookies were really good and the perfect south loft house texture! They were however a little too salty, I would cut down the salt to a 1/8teaspoon for the cookie dough and the a 1/4 a teaspoon for the frosting