Say I love you with a batch of our Valentine’s Day Cookies. We chose 14 of our favorite sweet treats to share with your sweetie. From classic flavors like red velvet to whimsical creations like stained glass heart cookies, each bite is a delightful expression of affection that will make your Valentine’s Day extra special.
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Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day with your special loved one, your family, your grandma, or even your best friend? One of the perfect ways to say “I Love You” is with a Valentine’s Day gift of something pretty and sweet.
It’s easy to go to the store to buy something for Valentine’s Day; instead, you can bake some festive treats and show off your baking skills with homemade cookies at the same time. Who doesn’t enjoy cookies with sweet jam, colorful sprinkles, powdered sugar, pretty icing, chocolate, and red and pink colors? I’m a sucker for all those toppings.
Which of these cookie recipes will you make first, the heart-shaped Linzer cookie, sugar cookies with sprinkles, or maybe the crunchy pastel meringues? Each recipe is sure to please.
Let’s get started baking some delicious and lovely cookies!
Dark Chocolate Shortbread Cookies by One Hot Oven
If you are a chocolate lover, you are going to love these deep Chocolate Shortbread Cookies that are rich in flavor and have that wonderful melt-in-your-mouth delicious buttery shortbread texture. These cookies are the perfect way to give your sweetie chocolates for Valentine’s Day.
Jammy Dodger Cookies by Savory Experiments
Make these English Jammie Dodger Cookies using heart shaped cookie cutters. These shortbread cookies are filled with strawberry jam and sprinkled with powdered sugar.
Rose Petal Shortbread Cookies by One Hot Oven
Rose Petal Shortbread Cookies have the delicate flavor of rosewater and a sprinkling of rose petals on top for a simple but sophisticated cookie. Not only are these cookies pretty, but they also have that wonderful shortbread crumbly cookie texture.
Valentine’s Day Thumbprint Cookies by One Hot Oven
These Valentine’s Day Thumbprint Cookies are the perfect cookie to bake for your special someone. It’s hard to resist these cute as-can-be bite-sized butter cookies with all the colorful sprinkles and sweet icing.
Stained Glass Heart Shaped Valentine’s Cookies by Crayons and Cravings
These may be the most beautiful Valentine’s Day cookies ever. This heart-shaped sugar cookie recipe with “stained glass” centers starts with a sugar cookie dough, and this cookie tastes as good as it looks!
Chocolate Chip Valentine Cookies by One Hot Oven
Grab your heart-shaped cookie cutter to make these easy Chocolate Chip Cookies for deliciously fun treats everyone can enjoy. We added candy heart confetti in the batter for a pop of red.
Shortbread Cookies with Raspberry Icing by Nina Kneads to Bake
This easy shortbread Valentine’s cookies recipe has a buttery vanilla flavor that melts in your mouth. The fresh raspberry icing is perfect for Valentine’s Day! Don’t forget the sprinkles on top of these pretty little cookies.
Red Velvet Surprise Inside Cookies by One Hot Oven
These Red Velvet cookies are covered in the prettiest sprinkles; the best part is the surprise inside. This is a fun recipe for the kids to help make the cookie dough balls for these easy cookies.
White Chocolate Valentine Madeleine Cookies by Urban Bliss Life
White Chocolate Dipped Madeleines are elegant yet playful and sweet for Valentine’s Day!
Pretty Pink Flower Sugar Cookies by Mommy Hood Life
My Flower Sugar Cookies are the sweetest way to say, “I love you.” Show your significant other that you care by making them a couple of dozens of these pink Valentine’s cookies.
Forget Me Nots by Boulder Locavore
Forget Me Nots are sweet, simple, rose-flavored, cute meringue heart cookies. Bite-size and demure. Perfect for Valentine’s Day! Gluten-free. So “Pretty in Pink.”
Cinnamon Red Hot Biscotti Cookies by The Monday Box
Cinnamon Red Hot Biscotti Cookies are wonderfully crunchy cookies for snacking and dunking! Crushed Red Hots candy is the special ingredient that turns the dough pink and adds cinnamon flavor. These spiced biscotti are particularly scrumptious with a cup of tea!
Soft Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting by Sense & Edibility
The pillowy Soft Sugar Cookies are a must for Valentine’s Day. Top with white icing and add sprinkles to your heart’s content. This recipe is a lifesaver if you need a simple, go-to sweet treat.
Red Velvet Crinkles by One Hot Oven
Red Velvet Crinkles, with their rich and velvety texture, are a delightful and indulgent treat perfect for any Valentine’s Day celebration. This classic cookie is made with a red velvet batter and then rolled in powdered sugar to create a beautiful crinkle effect when baked.
Was it hard to pick your favorite from all of these fabulous cookies? With 14 of the best Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipes, you can bake them all. What is wonderful about these recipes is that they can be made any time of the year; change the color of the sprinkles or the icing. No matter when you make these recipes, everyone will love a batch of homemade cookies.
Pin for Valentine’s Day treats
Cookie making supplies
- When making cookies for Valentine’s Day, you need different sizes of heart-shaped cookie cutters. This set has six sizes to choose from.
- We love sprinkles, and this pretty pastel Valentine Sprinkle Mix promises to make cute Valentine’s cookies.
- For a bolder sprinkle mix, use these red, pink and white nonpareils.
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First published: Jan. 21, 2021, Last updated: Jan. 12, 2025, for better readability.
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About Jere’
From learning to cook on a farm in Indiana to culinary school in California, my passion for food is never-ending. Turning on my oven to bake something for friends and family is my happy place, and I am glad to be here at One Hot Oven sharing both sweet and savory recipes with all my baking friends.
What a fabulous collection of Valentine’s Day recipes. I love these cookies and now have some to make for my twins next week.
Jere does it again! Excellent post! So now I don’t have to go searching for multiple love themed cookie ideas because you’ve a great selection here!
Thanks for the kind comment. This was such a fun post.
Those cherry pecan shortbreads are delicious! Very cute collection you have here.
And they are just the prettiest pink color too!
These all delicious and such a perfect gift to give to my kids and friends this Valentine’s. Love it!
I love giving cookies for Valentine’s Day. I like chocolate, but I like cookies more!
All of these cookies look amazing and so perfect for Valentine’s Day! I think I would begin with your lovely red velvet inside surprise cookies.
No matter what, these Surprise Inside Cookies are always a family favorite.
OMG, such a selection of cookies here. Hard to choose one or two! This Valentines myself and hubby celebrate 20 years since we have met so need to make something he loves and he is such a cookie head. Will get my kids to divide on which recipe or even recipes to make. Thanks for sharing these gorgeous Valentines treat ideas.
There are so many great cookie choices here I’m having trouble choosing! Maybe I’ll make them all!
They are all delicious and 14 recipes isn’t too many to make.
So excited to try out some of these delicious cookie recipes! Thanks for sharing them!
Baking cookies for Valentine’s Day is always fun with all the pretty colors and flavors.
So many amazing ideas here! Thank you!
So many fun choices … and beautiful too! Thanks for pulling these together in time for Valentine’s Day dinner plans 🙂
Glad you liked the post. These are the best cookies for Valentine’s Day.
So many amazing valentine treats, I think I am going to try the Cherry Pecan Cookies frist.
My family is going to love this recipe! Can’t wait to give this a try!
What a great and tasty collection of Valentine’s day cookies it is! I love it and am going to pick one or two to make! Thanks 🙂