Valentine shortbread cookies
If you’re looking for a sweet little bake to celebrate Valentine’s, these heart‑shaped shortbread cookies are the answer. They’re buttery, melt‑in‑the‑mouth, and almost too cute to eat… almost. There’s something magical about a tray of warm, golden heart shortbread, just a handful of ingredients, a quick chill, and suddenly you’ve got the prettiest Valentine’s treat to gift, nibble, or wrap up with a ribbon.
These buttery, crumbly, heart‑shaped shortbread really is the sweetest way to say, ‘I made this for you.’
Valentine shortbread cookies
Ingredients
Heart cookies
- 200 g unsalted butter soften (see top tip)
- 100 g caster sugar
- 300 g plain flour plus extra for sprinkling on the surface
Decoration
- 200 g icing sugar
- 7 tbsp water
- food colouring – add enough depending on the colour you need
- sprinkles sugar hearts, glitter
Instructions
- Line two baking trays with baking paper and set aside.
- Add the sugar and butter to a bowl and beat together until smooth. Top tip: it’s best to leave the butter out so that it softens, this will be a lot easier to beat together with the sugar.
- Gradually add the flour and beat until a dough is formed.
- Lightly flour your worktop and roll out your dough to approx 0.5cm thick
- Cut out your baby feet with a cutter and place on the baking paper. Once you’ve used up all the dough, place in the fridge for 30mins.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°c.
- Once chilled, remove the baby shortbread feet from the fridge and bake in the oven for 15-20mins or until golden.
- Remove from the oven and leave to cool completely and place on a wire rack.
Decorating
- In a large bowl, add the icing sugar and gradually at the water to a thick consistency (you don’t want it runny as it will fall off the biscuits). If using more than one colour divide into two or three bowls.
- Gradually add the colouring to your icing to the colour you are wanting.
- Add the icing into a piping bag, pipe a border around the biscuit and then gradually fill the biscuit, tilting so it fills evenly.
- Then add your decorations. Repeat until all biscuits are iced.