These Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookies take a classic recipe and turn them into easy-to-make cutout cookies for an everyday treat, or bake for your sweetie to show them some sweet cookie love.
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You don't need a special holiday to make these heart-shaped cookies. After all, who doesn't like a buttery chocolate chip cookie no matter what shape they come in. Seriously, if you had to pick between a round cookie or a heart cookie which would you go for?
Did you even know you can make cut-out cookies with chocolate chip dough? You can and it's easy to do, the main thing is you gotta chill the dough, and that's not hard.
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Let's start with the ingredients
This recipe takes simple baking pantry staples that you most likely have on hand. There are a few items you need to get before we start.
- Mini chocolate chips - since you will be using a cookie cutter to make the heart shapes, it is easier to cut through the mini chips.
- Candy hearts -These are optional but I love using these hearts to mix into the dough and to place on top of the unbaked cookies. The color is vibrant and doesn't bleed when baked. Plus, they look pretty peeking through the cookie.
- At the last minute, I decided to add some of the bigger candy hearts to the cookies just for fun.
❤️Why you will love these cookies
- This cookie recipe takes minutes to mix up.
- The cookie batter rolls out nicely and cuts out easily.
- These cookies hold their shape and bake up beautifully
- Bake a batch of these cookies for birthdays, Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, teachers, and anyone you want to show some love to.
🥣 Let's bake
This recipe requires the dough to be rolled and chilled before baking, so plan ahead.
Step 1. In a large mixing bowl add the room-temperature butter and both sugars. Mix at medium speed until the mixture is creamy.
Step 2. Add the eggs, vanilla extract, baking powder, and salt and mix on medium speed until incorporated, then scrape down the sides of the mixing bowl.
Step 3. Add the flour to the wet ingredients one cup at a time while mixing on medium speed. When done the dough should leave the sides of the bowl.
Step 4. With the mixer on medium-low speed mix in the chocolate chips. If you are using the candy hearts add them in last. This should just take a couple of seconds to mix in.
Step 5. I find it easier to divide the dough in half for rolling out. Take a piece of parchment paper, sprinkle it with flour then place half of the dough on the paper, sprinkle a little flour on top of the dough then top with another piece of parchment paper.
Step 6. Roll the dough a ¼" thick, then place the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Repeat this step with the other half of the dough. The dough is ready when it is firm to the touch.
Step 7. Heat the oven to 375 degrees F. and prepare two cookie sheets with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
Step 8. Cut out the hearts shapes and place them on the prepared pans and bake for 8-9 minutes. The edges should just start turning brown.
You will have scraps from cutting out the cookies, so just gather them up and reroll them and cut out more cookies. My dough was nice and cold so I didn't have to chill it again.
Cookie tip ~ If you like, you can add some of the red candy hearts on top of the unbaked cookies, or press one of the larger candy hearts into the dough.
Step 9. Let the cookies cool in the pan for about 10 minutes then remove them to a cooling rack.
Cookie baking tip - If you need to bake more cookies make sure to not put the unbaked cookies on a hot pan, it needs to cool first.
For this recipe, I used two of the same heart-shaped cookie cutters but in different sizes. I put a big candy big heart in the center of the smaller cookies for some fun.
Chocolate chips and candy hearts
These ingredients are what make these cookies so special.
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More cookies to love
Want more inspiration for Valentine's Day cookies? Here are some of my favorites.
- These Iced Thumbprint Cookies are rolled in the prettiest red, white, and pink sprinkles and filled with a sweet icing for a tasty bite-sized cookie.
- Everyone loves chocolate on Valentine's Day, and these Valentine's Shortbread Cookies are made with dark chocolate. They are so good!
- Surprise your sweetie with these Valentine's Sprinkle Cookies with a red velvet filling.
- Red Velvet Crinkles are a classic, just be careful eating them if you are wearing black.
- Make this recipe for Small Batch Chocolate Chip Cookies and give twelve golden brown cookies as a gift
Make these cookies in a different way
While you don't want to change the recipe you can change some other things.
- Try using different sprinkles for different seasons, and change the cookie cutters.
- Dip half of the cookie in melted chocolate and add the candy hearts on top.
FAQ's
For these cutout cookies, they do need to be chilled to firm up the dough, this will make it much easier to make the cutouts and transfer them to the baking pan.
Chilling the dough also keeps the cookies from spreading during baking so they will hold their shape.
Tips for success
- Make sure to not overmix the cookie dough.
- Rolling the dough to ¼" thickness makes these cutouts easier to work with. If you roll the dough too thin the cookies will be hard to move to the cookie sheet. Plus this size makes a nice thickness of cookie.
- Chilling the dough makes it nice and firm and keeps the cookies from spreading while baking.
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Recipe
Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter room temperature
- 1 cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3¼ cups AP flour
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons Red candy heart confetti optional
Instructions
- Note: This recipe requires 30 minutes of chill time for the dough.
Mixing the dough
- In the bowl of a stand mixer add the butter and both sugars, and mix on medium speed until the mixture is creamy and fluffy. You can also mix this using a large mixing bowl and an electric mixer.
- Add the eggs, vanilla, baking powder, and salt to the bowl and mix on medium speed until incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.
- Add the flour one cup at a time and mix on medium speed, scraping the mixing bowl as needed. If you are using a handheld mixer, you may need to mix at a higher speed and possibly mix in the last amount of flour by hand.
- Mix in the chocolate chips on low speed, then mix in the candy hearts. This should just take a few seconds.
Rolling the dough
- Place a sheet of parchment paper on your worktop and sprinkle it with a little flour. Place half of the cookie dough on the paper and sprinkle with more flour. Place another sheet of parchment paper on top of the dough and with a rolling pin, roll the dough into a ¼" round.
- Place the rolled dough on a tray or cookie sheet and place it in the refrigerator for 30 minutes. Repeat with the other half of the cookie dough.The dough will be ready to make cutouts when it is firm to the touch.
- Place the dough back on your work surface and cut out the shapes with your cookie cutter. Place the shapes on a parchment lined cookie sheet, or use a silicone baking liner. You will have scraps of dough after cutting the hearts, just press the dough together and reroll it and cut out more hearts.
- Bake the cookies for 8-9 minutes. These edges will just start turning brown. Let the baked cookies cool on the pan for about 10 minutes then move them to a cooling rack.
- Store these cookies in an airtight container for up to 4 days. Thee cookies can also be frozen for up to six months and an airtight freezer container.
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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 family-friendly recipes for your cooking and baking inspiration.
Marthana
I never thought about making cut out cookies with chocolate chip cookies but this recipe was just so easy and I used the big candy hearts too. I am saving this to make for Mother's Day for something different for mom.
Shruthi
This is literally two of my favorite things combined into one - made a test batch ahead of Valentine's Day and it was perfect. Thank you!
Sharon
I've never thought of doing cookie cutters with chocolate chip cookies,but when I saw this I knew I had to try it. Best of both worlds, super cute AND the delicious chocolate chip flavor I love
Nicole
Who doesn't love a good chocolate chip cookie recipe?! I love that you gave the idea to add in some sprinkles. Thanks for sharing this!
Sarita
These cookies turned out so pretty with the little red hearts in them! My 9-year-old helped me make them and wants to try them again with a white-icing outline on each heart.