Valentine Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Icing
The only love you need to be concerned about is loving how awesome these Valentine Sugar Cookies with Vanilla Icing taste! They're the perfect sugar cookies to fall in love with! No chilling the dough, and once baked and frosted, they are tender, slightly buttery and moist when devoured! GF option
Servings: 20 Cookies
Calories:
Ingredients
Sugar Cookie Dough
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 cups all-purpose flour or for Gluten-Free cookies, use something like Pillsbury gluten-free flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter softened (or use salted butter, omit salt)
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Vanilla Frosting
- ½ cup unsalted butter softened (or use salted butter, omit salt)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Optional: Add ⅛ teaspoon almond extract really takes it up a notch)
Instructions
Sugar Cookie Dough
- Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt and set aside.
- Cut in softened butter until the flour mixture is mixed well in by using a food processor, mixer or pastry cutter. Should appear like flour with a little moisture.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs, milk, and vanilla in large mixing bowl.
- Gradually add in flour mixture and slowly mix the cookie dough until it all comes together. Dough should be a little sticky. If dough seems too dry, only add 1 to 2 tablespoons more milk, otherwise the cookies will become runny.
- Flour the work surface and the top of the dough while rolling out cookies.
- Roll dough out ⅓” thick and cut out cookies.
- Transfer cut out cookies to a lined parchment lined cookie sheet using a thin metal spatula.
- Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 8-12 minutes depending on thickness of cookies. 8-10 minutes for ¼” cut out cookies if you want thinner cookies, 10-12 minutes for ⅓” and so on.
- Once cookies are baked, let them sit on baking tray for a couple of minutes before removing. Frost when cooled.
Vanilla Frosting
- To make the frosting, mix all ingredients together using a mixer until frosting is thick and smooth. I like my frosting a little smoother for these cookies, so if you want to thin it out at this point, add a tablespoon of milk and continue testing until desired consistency.