Fall is my favorite season, but my favorite holiday is probably Valentine's Day! Give me all of the hearts and chocolate and red and pink everything. Even when I didn't have a sweetheart...which was pretty much every Valentine's Day until I met Mark, I loved Valentine's Day.
Here are a few Valentine cookie ideas for you to make or use as inspiration for your own designs. You can make these with any of my cut-out cookie recipes and decorate them with royal icing.
10 Decorated Cookie Recipes and Ideas to Make for Valentine's Day!
Click the links to go to the cookie tutorials.
You're the Mushroom to my Swiss Decorated Cookies
This was a new set I made last year, and I absolutely love it. It's so much fun to make the Swiss cheese and mushroom cookies. You'll have a ball making these for your sweetie!
Lilac + Rose Gold Heart Cookies
These cookies look ultra fancy and sophisticated, but -shhhh!- they're actually a cinch to make. Use my recipe for chocolate hazelnut (Nutella) cut-out cookies for the extra wow factor.
Heart-Shaped Fox and Skunk Cookies
Does it get any cuter than heart-shaped animal cookies? I think...probably not. So many opportunities for Valentine puns with these as well. I have both the fox cookie tutorial and the skunk cookie tutorial for you. They're easy to decorate!
Take a Little Pizza my Heart Cookies
Pizza, hearts, cookies, Valentine's Day...this cookie set covers all the bases. Grab a jar of jumbo heart sprinkles and start creating the sweetest pepperoni pizza ever.
Look, I'm guilty. I'm an over-emoji-er. Overemojer? Talk about super simple to make. Grab some yellow royal icing, a black food coloring pen, and those jumbo heart sprinkles you used for the pizza cookies. Boom, emoji'd.
Black-Outlined Ombre Heart Cookies
A cookie outlined in black icing is an automatic winner. That black outline just adds a pop of whimsy like nothing else. Make these in any shade that suits your fancy...or your valentine's fancy. It's easy to tint the royal icing in shades of the same color.
Olive You! Martini and Olive Cookies
That olive with the heart-shaped pimento does m in every time. See...I told you. I'm a sucker for heart-shaped anything.
We're the Perfect Pair, Sock Valentine Cookies
I can't help it; Valentine's Day brings out the cheeseball in me. We're the Perfect Pair. I'd Be Lost Without You. Sock it to Me. So many sock puns, so little time.
Such a simple set but so much fun. Make small square cookies and decorate with meaningful letters (and a few hearts, of course!). Package in a bag and let your sweetie spell out the words. Your names, the place where you met, the first movie you watched together...it's all fair, er, game.
Double-Decker Stripey Valentine Cookies
Last but not least, these cookies might be the most recognizable "Bake at 350 cookies." That makes me happy. Hearts, stripes, and simple design...oh, and two cookies in one.