For more Valentine’s Day cookie recipes try making heart-shaped Valentine’s Sugar Cookies or our favorite Sugar Cookie Bars!
We Love Pink & Red COOKIES!
I adore showing everyone how much they mean to me, especially around Valentine’s Day. Baking and making sweets is one way I do this. After all, I think food is my love language. We have several cookie ideas, but I love that these Valentine cookies are chewy, delicious, and packed with chocolaty M&Ms! Why we love them:
Quick and easy. These cookies are ready in under 20 minutes! Delicious. This classic twist is a flavorful favorite. Cute. These pink and red cookies are great for after-school treats, a class party, or a family Valentine’s dinner. Giftable. Valentine cookies make adorable little gifts for friends and teachers!
These are a great go-to Valentine’s Dessert!
Ingredients
sugar brown sugar – For a chewier cookie increase the brown sugar and reduce the white sugar by the same amount. Using 1⅓ cups of brown sugar and ⅔ white sugar is a good place to start. Butter – Use room temperature butter. If it’s too cold the butter can’t incorporate as well and if it’s too warm, the cookies will spread and flatten. vegetable oil Large eggs – Room temperature eggs incorporate best with the other ingredients. baking powder salt baking soda vanilla extract – or almond extract all-purpose flour M&M’s – Plain chocolate M&M’s work best in this recipe. Since these cookies are geared toward Valentine’s I chose to use pink, red, and white, but you can easily use other colors. I also added a few Mini M&M’s to the top for extra decoration.
How to make Valentines Cookies
Storing Tips
STORE. Keep cooled Valentines M&M cookies in an airtight container at room temperature for 4-5 days. Add a piece of white bread into the container to keep the cookies soft. FREEZE. Place the batch of cookies in a freezer Ziploc separating layers with parchment or wax paper. Freeze for 3-4 months. Freeze cookie dough. Balls. Place the dough balls on a baking sheet. Add the M&Ms on top now, or save them to add right before baking (I add them later). Put the dough balls in the freezer. Once solid transfer them to a freezer Ziploc. Freeze for 3-4 months. Log form. Divide the dough into two and form a cookie dough log. Wrap the log tightly with plastic wrap and again with foil. Thaw and shape before baking. To bake. Place dough balls on a baking sheet and allow them to thaw while the oven is being heated. Bake according to the recipe directions. You may need to add 1-2 more minutes to account for the colder dough.
FOR MORE VALENTINE COOKIES
Be sure to check out some of these other favorites. Not only are they simple too, but they’re delicious and festive and perfect for Valentine’s Day! Recipe Video
