Valentine’s Day Cookie Gifts are sweet treats and so easy to put together as cookie bouquets with my simple sugar cookie recipe, chocolate chip cookies, or coconut macaroons.
Show your family & friends that you appreciate and love them with valentine’s day gift baskets! It’s always best to plan ahead because if you wait you will run out of time and options. Are you ready for February 14th?
Perfect Valentine’s Day Gift
Valentine’s cookie gifts are perfect because they don’t cost much and they are fun to put together…. And who doesn’t feel loved and appreciated when someone takes the time to put one of these together for you?!
Tools You Will Need
- Ingredients for the cookie recipes you choose below (Sugar Cookie Link has 3 different ways to make sugar cookies).
- Plastic bags to wrap them in.
- Curling ribbon, or pretty ribbon to tie them with.
- Baskets, a cute little gift box, or heart-shaped tins for gift baskets.
- A pretty tea towel, tissue paper, or piece of valentines wrapping paper for the bottom of baskets!
Sugar Cookie Icing
I use three types of sugar cookie icing… Butter cream, simple sugar cookie icing and royal icing!
Most of these cookies are made with sugar cookie icing and royal icing. They are decorative and beautiful, but the butter cream is the most delicious!
Find the simple sugar cookie icing here or for piping details the royal icing recipe here.
Favorite Cookie Recipes For Valentines Day
I love the Coconut Chocolate macaroons! These are so simple to make and perfect for a sweet treat! I think they’re kind of romantic too… For adult taste buds!
You can’t tell at all that these Sugar-Free Chocolate chip cookies are made without added sugar!
Sugar Cookie Recipe – This is my go-to sugar cookie recipe! I love these with buttercream frosting! These can be cut into hearts shapes, letters, or anything else you can imagine!
Date Snow Ball Cookies – This is a family favorite around here. You can’t really shape in as hearts but when you bite into them, you know you’re loved!
No Bake Coconut Macaroons – These raw macaroons are made from unsweetened fine shredded coconut, pure maple syrup, and almond flour, and a bit of coconut oil.. Dipped in dark chocolate!
Valentine’s Day Cookie Gifts
I Make this sugar cookie recipe and cut them out in heart shapes. I use a buttercream frosting and then add a few pink and red sprinkles to give them a festive look. Let your icing dry, then place cookies in bags and tie them with a curling ribbon!
For gift baskets, just place several of these decorated and wrapped cookies onto a basket with a pretty tea towel or piece of tissue or wrapping paper under them! Make sure to include a sweet note in your gift basket, and Enjoy!
Cookie Bouquet – Valentine’s Day Cookie Gifts
If you are making a cookie bouquet, make small-shaped valentines cookies (about 2 inches wide at most). Decorate them and use BBQ Skewers placed inside the cookie (like a lollypop on a stick) and close the bag around that stick.
Make at least 5 of these and then tie the skewer sticks together halfway down with some pretty ribbon. Make sure to handle it with care, because these are real cookies and will crack easily. Place your bouquet on a flat surface or carefully in a vase. Enjoy!
Valentine’s Day Basket
Use your imagination when putting together a homemade valentines day cookie gift basket! I love these cookie letters that spell out LOVE in a banneton basket!!
You can also place pretty tissue in a plain white cardboard gift box and place your wrapped cookies inside! This makes a sweet cookie “basket” or box. Don’t forget to include a sweet note!
Special Occasions
Valentine’s Day is one of the special occasions when I like to share sweet valentine’s gifts with friends neighbors and family!… I remember being a teenager, and really loved it when someone thought of me on valentines day!
I’m sharing traditional cookie gifts depending on the individual, and I’ll share those recipes with you. These are also great cookie gifts and gift baskets for mothers day, thanksgiving, and Christmas!
More Valentines Day
Valentines Day Breakfast Ideas
Recipe Card
Valentines Day Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup softened butter or 3 sticks of softened butter
- 2 cups of granulated sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract vanilla is optional but adds a great depth of flavor that you can’t get any other way.
- 5 1/2 cups flour I use unbleached all purpose flour. You can use your favorite.
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 2 teaspoons salt
- Extra Flour for Rolling & Shaping
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees F.
- Mix all ingredients together till all are incorporated (about 2 minutes with a cookie paddle).
- ON A FLOURED SURFACE, WITH A FLOURED ROLLING PIN, ROLL COOKIE DOUGH TO 1/4 INCH THICK AND COOKIE CUTTERS TO CUT OUT SHAPES! KEEP ADDING FLOUR TO THE SURFACE AND ROLLING PIN AS NEEDED TO PREVENT STICKING.
- Optional – Line your cookie sheet with parchment paper for easy clean-up!
- Place uncooked cookie shapes on a large prepared baking sheet. Make sure to give them at least a half inch between cookies, so they have enough space to grow as they cook without sticking together.
- Bake at 400 for 6-8 minutes.
- Let Cookies cool on a wire rack.
- Decorate with your favorite frosting
Notes
- 1 cup Chopped pecans or walnuts.
- 1 cup mini chocolate chips.
- 1/4 cup coco powder for chocolate sugar cookies.
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest.
Nutrition
About Juliea
Juliea Huffaker is the creator of Farmhouse Harvest, and dedicated to teaching from-scratch cooking, sourdough baking, gardening, and food preservation. With over 25 years of hands-on experience she has preserved hundreds of jars of produce, mastered the art of meats and sourdough baking, and nurtured a thriving organic garden. Her recipes and articles have been featured across the web. And she’s passionate about inspiring others to embrace a simpler, self-sufficient life style.
2 comments
Lori
Worked very well. I added a small amount of conf sugar to thicken and spread with a knife. Very good!
maxine
good