7 Sweet Valentine’s Day Cookie Recipes

Ellen Silverman

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Valentine’s Sugar Cookie

Valentine’s sugar cookies are perfect—soft in the center, slightly crisp at the edges, and sweet but not too sweet through and through. Heart-shaped and perfect for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, Easter, and random days when cookie cravings steamroll you.

This perfect Valentine’s Day sugar cookie recipe has a wonderful butter and vanilla flavor. From now on, I’ll definitely be using this recipe for my holiday cut-out cookies.

Susan

David Leite

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Chocolate Espresso Shortbread Cookies

These slice-and-bake chocolate espresso shortbread cookies are studded with bits of semi-sweet chocolate and laced with espresso to create a slightly bitter, oh-so-chocolatey cookie.

I just made these chocolate espresso shortbread. I love chocolate, and now I love these. They’re delicious with a capital “D.” And yes, they are intense, but that’s OK. I have to go and eat more of them and then make more. Thank you.

Tannis

Tessa Traeger

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Cream-Filled Meringue Cookies

These cream-filled meringue cookies are made with a whipped cream filling sandwiched between two ethereally light meringue cookies.

I just made a batch of these cream-filled meringue cookies just, and they’re amazing! I had some chocolate ganache in my fridge, and I dabbed a little on several. No need to bother because they are perfect as written.

Helen

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Italian Rainbow Cookies

Italian Rainbow cookies are popular at Christmas, when they are called Neapolitan or Venetian cookies, perhaps to denote the colors of the flag of Italy. They are sometimes associated with the Passover holidays (when made with matzo cake meal instead of flour).

I have been using this Italian rainbow cookie recipe for years. It’s a perfect recipe. I couldn’t conceive of eating a commercially made rainbow cookie, ever, after making these. This is the cookie everyone looks for in the cookie tray.

Leeann M.