Are you celebrating Valentine’s Day with your special loved one, your family, grandma, or even your best friend? One of the perfect ways to say “I Love You” is with something pretty and sweet. Don’t you agree? Here are the best 14 Favorite Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipes to share or to even give as a sweet gift for that special person.
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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 at the same time with homemade cookies. Who doesn’t enjoy cookies with sweet jam, colorful sprinkles, powdered sugar, pretty icing, chocolate, and the colors red and pink?
Which 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 Dark Chocolate Shortbread Slice & Bake 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, or biscuits as they call them, at home. Shortbread cookies sandwiched with strawberry jam and dusted with powdered sugar.
Heart-Shaped Meringue Cookies by Sweet Addict Bakery
This classic recipe for Meringue Cookies gets a lovely upgrade that is perfect for Valentine’s Day! These cute crispy pink meringues are hard to resist.
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 cookies with all the colorful sprinkles and sweet icing.
Stained Glass Heart Shaped Valentine’s Cookies by Crayons and Cravings
Now, these may just be the most beautiful Valentine’s Day cookies ever. And the heart-shaped sugar cookies with “stained glass” centers taste as good as the look as well!
White Chocolate Dipped Cherry Pecan Cookies by Ericas Recipes
Cherry Pecan Cookies are shortbread cookies with cherries, pecans, and the special touch of white chocolate to make them extra special.
Shortbread Cookies with Raspberry Icing by Nina Kneads to Bake
This easy recipe for shortbread cookies are so buttery and melt in your mouth. The fresh raspberry icing is perfect for Valentine’s Day! Don’t forget the sprinkles on top.
Red Velvet Surprise Inside Cookies by One Hot Oven
These tasty sugar cookies have a surprise inside with a Red Velvet center that are covered in the prettiest Valentine’s colored sprinkles. A fun recipe for the kids to help make.
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. They are the perfect treat for Valentine’s Day or just to say I love you.
Forget Me Nots by Boulder Locavore
Forget Me Nots are sweet, simple rose-flavored meringues. Bite-size and demure. Perfect for Valentine’s Day! Gluten-free. So “Pretty in Pink”.
Jammy Heart Shortbread Cookies by Kitchen Sanctuary
These buttery shortbread hearts sandwiched with raspberry jam are the perfect Easy Valentine Cookies gift for your loved one.
Soft Sugar Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting by Sense & Edibility
The pillowy Soft Sugar Cookies are a must for Valentine’s Day. Tint the frosting and add sprinkles to your heart’s content. This recipe is a lifesaver if you need a simple, go-to sweet treat.s
Rose Scented Shortbread by What A Girl Eats
Rose scented shortbread is a delightful addition to any Valentine’s Day celebration! What a perfect way to give roses to your sweetie.
Was it hard to pick out your favorite? cookie? With 14 of the best Valentine’s Day Cookies, you can bake them all. And what is wonderful about all of these recipes is they can be made any time of the year; just change up the color of sprinkles or the icing. No matter when you make these recipes everyone will love how tasty they are.
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Sprinkles are a must for celebrating and these Valentine’s Sprinkle Set will help make your treats extra festive. And to get just the right color for your cookie dough or meringue’s this food color kit is my favorite with 12 standard gel paste colors.
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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.
Julie
What a fabulous collection of Valentine’s Day recipes. I love these cookies and now have some to make for my twins next week.
K
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!
Jere Cassidy
Thanks for the kind comment. This was such a fun post.
Ali Hanson
Those cherry pecan shortbreads are delicious! Very cute collection you have here.
Jere Cassidy
And they are just the prettiest pink color too!
Amy Liu Dong
These all delicious and such a perfect gift to give to my kids and friends this Valentine’s. Love it!
Jere Cassidy
I love giving cookies for Valentine’s Day. I like chocolate, but I like cookies more!
Stine Mari
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.
Jere Cassidy
No matter what, these Surprise Inside Cookies are always a family favorite.
Ramona
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.
Lesli Schwartz
There are so many great cookie choices here I’m having trouble choosing! Maybe I’ll make them all!
Jere Cassidy
They are all delicious and 14 recipes isn’t too many to make.
Marta
So excited to try out some of these delicious cookie recipes! Thanks for sharing them!
Jere Cassidy
Baking cookies for Valentine’s Day is always fun with all the pretty colors and flavors.
Jess
So many amazing ideas here! Thank you!
Traci
So many fun choices … and beautiful too! Thanks for pulling these together in time for Valentine’s Day dinner plans 🙂
Jere Cassidy
Glad you liked the post. These are the best cookies for Valentine’s Day.
Jessie
So many amazing valentine treats, I think I am going to try the Cherry Pecan Cookies frist.
Beth
My family is going to love this recipe! Can’t wait to give this a try!
Irina
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 🙂