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Feb 13, 2017 · Updated: Oct 5, 2019 · This post may contain affiliate links · 4 Comments ·

Valentine’s Day Cookies

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Red and white heart shaped sugar cookies on a plate

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Funny how the one year I don’t have to make a Valentine’s Day treat for school…I actually want to make one! These were a fun diversion from my weekend of being on call, answering lots and lots of mommy calls about fever and flu and flu and fever.

And since I don’t have to send these to school, I get cookies for breakfast and afternoon coffee!  Enjoy!

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Valentine’s Day Cookies


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  • Prep Time: 30 minutes
  • Cook Time: 15 minutes
  • Total Time: 45 minutes
  • Yield: 18 cookies 1x
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This is my basic dairy-free and egg-free sugar cookie dough with royal icing. The decorations look difficult, but they’re really easy and fun to accomplish!


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Ingredients

Cookie Dough

  • ½ cup shortening (I love Spectrum Palm Oil Shortening)
  • ⅔ cup sugar
  • ¼ cup dairy-free milk  + 1T cider vinegar
  • 2 cups flour
  • ½ t. baking soda
  • ¼ t. salt
  • 1T. vanilla
  • ⅛ t. lemon oil (not extract, I use LorAnn)
  • a pinch of  nutmeg

 

Cookie Icing

  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 T. corn syrup
  • 2–3 T. water

Instructions

  1. In a large bowl, cream the sugar and shortening together until smooth, add in the thickened dairy-free milk and beat until smooth again.
  2. Add the vanilla, lemon oil or whatever spices/flavorings you are using and mix well.
  3. Add the dry ingredients: soda, salt and flour. Mix until everything comes together.
  4. Wrap in plastic wrap, shape into a big disk and freeze for ½ hour.
  5. Roll to ¼ inch thickness and cut out as you like.
  6. Bake on a parchment-lined baking sheets at 350. 10 minutes will give you soft cookies (they may seem barely baked, but they’ll firm up when cooled), 14-16 minutes will give you golden brown edges and they’ll be crispy. Cool completely before icing.
  7. Mix the icing ingredients together, getting all the lumps out. Add enough water for the proper thickness. I outline first, and flood with color. I use a toothpick or a small spoon to spread the icing around.  Hearts are made by making little dots and dragging a clean toothpick through the wet icing.  Here’s a great tutorial on flooding if you’re new to this stuff.

Equipment

Heart Cookie Cutter

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Lemon Oil

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Big Sheet Pans

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Notes

I used Silk Coconut Milk and Spectrum Palm Oil Shortening and my milk and butter substitutes today. Read my posts on Dairy-Free Milk Alternatives and Dairy-Free Butter Alternatives if you need ideas on products to use. 

  • Category: Dessert
  • Method: Baked
  • Cuisine: American

Keywords: dairy free sugar cookies, egg free sugar cookies, vegan sugar cookies

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About Meg

Hi there! I ♡ cooking , I ♡ being a pediatrician, and I ♡ camping in our Airstream. All the Speedbump recipes are dairy-free, egg-free, and nut-free for the food allergic kids here. 🚫🥛🥚🥜

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  1. Kathryn @ Mamacado says

    February 14, 2017 at 9:43 am

    These are just beautiful! I need to try that icing on a gluten free cookie 🙂 Thanks for the great recipe.

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  2. Angela says

    March 15, 2017 at 9:15 am

    I’ve missed your posts! So glad to see you are back.

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  3. Roxanne Challa says

    April 26, 2017 at 9:43 pm

    I have missed your kids in Sunday school! I had the great pleasure of having both girls when they were in Kindergarten…or maybe it was first grade? I keep switching back and forth. Glad you have posted again!

    Reply
  4. Brynn says

    September 15, 2019 at 6:38 pm

    The whole toothpick+die =hearts thing kinda blew my mind. Those are some seriously great cookies.

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