With Valentine’s day coming up, a simple sugar cookie recipe can make the perfect gift. 

The homemade sugar cookies turned out amazing and pleased many others. In total, it took about an hour to make the dough, bake and decorate. 

As a decently experienced baker, the multiple steps were simple and easy to produce. It takes patience, but once accomplished, it’s worth all the work.

A trip to the store was needed for a few items on the ingredients list, due to lack of planning. It took longer than planned, but it wasn’t a burden. 

The preparation time took about 30 minutes to mix all the ingredients and to cut out all the shapes. The cooking time was only ten minutes and cooling time took another ten minutes. Lastly, decorating time took about five minutes, however, the decoration time varies depending on the desired look.

The sugar cookies have a subtle almond and vanilla taste. Also, the frosting and the thick sugar cookie blend together perfectly and taste almost like the ones bought from Christine’s Cakes and Pastries. 

With following the directions to perfection, the cookies will turn out great. This being said the recipe is recommended to anyone who is creative and has some time to spare. The Valentine’s Day sugar cookies bake up to a 5 out of 5.

Cookie dough ingredients

2 sticks unsalted butter

½ cup granulated sugar

⅓ cup powdered sugar

1 egg

2 tsp vanilla extract

½ tsp almond extract

2 ¾ cups flour

¼ tsp salt

Icing ingredients

4 cups powdered sugar

3 tbsp meringue powder

½  cup water

1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

1. Mix cooled butter and sugars on low until all together
2. Add egg and extracts on low
3. Add flour and salt
4. Roll dough on floured surface 
5. Cut desired shapes
6. Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 15-18 minutes
7. Let cool before decorating