Valentine Cookies

Happy Valentine's Day! We celebrated at our house by making valentine cut-out cookies. We used the following recipe we got from a kid cookie making class we took at Whole Foods. I love this recipe because there are no eggs and you can eat the dough! We used dairy free substitutes for the butter, cream cheese and milk and the cookies tasted great.

Easy Cut Out Cookies
1 1/4 cups Flour
1/2 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 stick softened butter
1 tablespoon softened cream cheese
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions: Preheat oven to 375. Whisk together flour, sugar, and salt. Cut in butter and mix until crumbly. Beat in cream cheese and vanilla until it is clumpy. Add water until it comes together. knead dough into one big ball. Roll out dough until it's nice and thin. Cut out shapes and bake for ten minutes. Let cool, then decorate with icing (recipe below). Makes about 18 big cookies.

All Purpose Icing
2 cups powdered sugar
3 tablespoons whole milk
2 tablespoons softened cream cheese
Food coloring, if desired

Directions: Whisk until smooth. Makes about 1 cup


Here's a couple pictures of the finished cookies!