These Valentine Sugar Cookies have candy stained glass heart cut outs in the center. They are fun and easy to make, yet look festive and fancy. Great for Valentine's Day parties or a cute treat for your sweetheart.
Valentine Sugar Cookies with Stained Glass Centers
Melted crushed red hard candies make the center of these heart shaped Valentine Sugar Cookies look like stained glass. A unique cookie to make for Valentine's Day.
How to Make Stained Glass Valentine Cookies
While these heart cookies look fancy, they are actually easy to make. Here is how to do it. Printable recipe card below.
Ingredients Needed for Valentine Sugar Cookies with Stained Glass
- ½ cup granulated
- sugar
- 1 large egg, room temperature
- ½ cup unsalted butter (1 stick), room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour + extra for rolling
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 8-9 Jolly Rancher candies (a mix of cherry and watermelon) - or, other hard, translucent candies in red or pink
The recipe will make 15 to 18 cookies.
Preparation
In a large bowl, beat together sugar and egg until creamy.
Add butter and vanilla extract and mix until all ingredients are well incorporated with one another.
In a small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
Wrap cookie dough with plastic and chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
Remove cookie dough from the refrigerator and dust a smooth, clean surface with flour.
Cover rolling pin with flour and roll out the cookie dough so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 2 ½ inches at its widest), cut out 15-18 heart-shaped cookies. Place each one gently on a parchment lined baking sheet.
Unwrap candies and place them in a zip-up sandwich bag. Use a heavy item (marble rolling pin, meat mallet, etc.) to break them up into small pieces.
Using a miniature heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 1 inch in size), but out a heart-shaped hole in the middle of each cookie.
Fill up the heart-shaped cavity with crushed candy.
Place the pan of cookies back into the refrigerator and allow to chill for another 15 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Bake cookies for 12 to 14 minutes. Allow to cool on a wire rack before serving. Enjoy!
More Valentine's Treats
- Valentines Day Popcorn Recipe: Pink Chocolate Covered Popcorn
- Strawberry Dump Cake
- Swirled Hearts Valentines Chocolate Bark
- Valentine Meringue Cookies
- Strawberry Fudge with Cream Swirl
Equipment
- baking sheet
- parchment or silicone liner
- rolling pin
Ingredients
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg room temperature
- ½ cup unsalted butter 1 stick, room temperature
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour + extra for rolling
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch salt
- 8-9 Jolly Rancher candies a mix of cherry and watermelon - or, other hard, translucent candies in red or pink
Instructions
- In a large bowl, beat together sugar and egg until creamy.
- Add butter and vanilla extract and mix until all ingredients are well incorporated with one another.
- In a small bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
- Slowly add dry ingredients into wet ingredients and mix until cookie dough forms.
- Wrap cookie dough with plastic and chill in the refrigerator for at least one hour.
- Remove cookie dough from the refrigerator and dust a smooth, clean surface with flour.
- Cover rolling pin with flour and roll out the cookie dough so that it’s about ¼ of an inch thick.
- Using a heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 2 ½ inches at its widest), cut out 15-18 heart-shaped cookies. Place each one gently on the lined baking sheet.
- Unwrap candies and place them in a zip-up sandwich bag. Use a heavy item (marble rolling pin, meat mallet, etc.) to break them up into small pieces.
- Using a miniature heart-shaped cookie cutter (about 1 inch in size), but out a heart-shaped hole in the middle of each cookie.
- Fill up the heart-shaped cavity with crushed candy.
- Place the pan of cookies back into the refrigerator and allow to chill for another 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Bake cookies for 12 to 14 minutes. Allow to cool on a wire rack before serving. Enjoy!
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