Valentine’s Day Cookies | How To Decorate

Valentine’s Day Cookies | How to Decorate

Join us as we share our secret family sugar cookie recipe and our homemade buttercream frosting recipe as we show how to best decorate Valentine’s Day sugar cookies.

This is a really historic recipe for our family. This is a recipe passed down from my grandmother. It’s a wonderful recipe that yields the best sugar cookies I’ve ever had in my life. The results are delicious and so beautiful!

This easy cookies tutorial will have you making beautiful heart cookies and love cookies in no time!

You start by using your heart shaped cookie cutters and your round cookie cutters to bake the perfect Love sugar cookies. This is the basis for these amazing and LOVE-ly cookies. 

All of the recipe and baking instructions are located right here in the link below:

Secret Family Recipe: Best No-Spread Sugar Cookies

Be sure to follow them precisely and your cookies will turn out perfectly every time.

After the cookies have cooled for an appropriate amount of time, then you can start the truly great part…

Then onto the wonderful and super fun decorating!

Decorating Instructions

NOTE: Instructions here will cater to decorating products I’m using. Instructions in recipe card will cater to homemade buttercream frosting and dyes. If using homemade frosting, use a piping kit with tips listed below. Keep portion of frosting plain for white and dye a portion red and portion pink. 

I have provided some links to products that will be helpful to make, decorate and display these fun and festive cookies:

Heart Cookie Cutter

Round Cookie Cutters

White Writing Gel

White Decorating Icing

Decorating Tips (screw on)

OXO Icing Spatula

Red Sugar

Pink Sugar

White Frosting

Strawberry Frosting (Pink)

Multi-functional Acrylic Cake Stand

Doilies

Recommended Food coloring for Frosting

Cleaning brush for tips

Reusable Piping Bag and Tip Set

No 21 Tip

No 3 Tip

Hersey’s Kisses Pink

(Products I’m using in the product links above)

Icing Spatula. No. 21 & No 3 Tip with White Decorating Frosting. Use store bought white, red, and pink (strawberry) frosting. Use the large round and  heart cookie cutters to bake the cookies from the recipe above. NOTE: These cookies should not be considered stackable.  

Love Cookies | How to Decorate

Use pink frosting to frost the cookies. Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. Use white writing gel. In center of cookie, write “LOVE”. Then use white decorating icing and screw on No 21 tip. Do a wave motion over and over again around the rim of the cookie. Allow to cure 10-15 minutes. 

Heart Cookies | How to Decorate

Use pink frosting to frost the cookies. Be sure to spread the frosting as evenly as possible and clean up the edges with the icing spatula. On a plate, sprinkle pink sugar all over the cookies, then gently turn the cookie on its side and tap the plate, getting most of the excess sugar off. Repeat these steps with red frosting and red sugar. You can also repeat these steps with white frosting and red sugar or white frosting and pink sugar, which I showed in the video. This can be an easy and convenient addition or substitution. 

Valentine’s Cookies | How Do They Taste?

As I said before, these are truly the best sugar cookies I’ve ever had in my life. The frosting and the sanding sugar just take the taste over the top. Everyone will love these LOVE cookies! I can’t wait for you to try them!

Happy Valentine’s Day!