The Best Valentine's Cut-Out Cookies

These Valentine's Cut-Out Cookies are the most delicious yet delicious and flavourful cookies you can make. This cookie recipe will give you the softest and most tender cookies, and the Nutella glaze adds to the flavour and texture!

About This Recipe

• These Valentine's Cut-Out Cookies are super tender and soft, and the recipe can adapt to many different cookie types. My Cut-Out Cookies use the same basic recipe.
• This recipe uses Powdered Sugar instead of granulated sugar, contributing to their tenderness.
• The other ingredient that plays a significant role in the soft cookie texture is the Egg Yolk. Egg Yolk creates bonding in the recipe, making the cookie texture exceptionally soft and moist.
• The other essential ingredient is Cornstarch. Cornstarch gives the cookies a velvety feel.
• The remaining ingredients include All-Purpose Flour, Butter, Vanilla Extract, and Salt.

• As I mentioned, this recipe is easy to prepare ingredients. However, the cookie dough requires one hour of chilling time. Cooling the dough makes the cutting easy and mess-free.

• The Glaze contains Nutella, which adds a ton of flavour to these Valentine's Cut-Out Cookies. The Glaze will set and form a crust so you can easily stack the cookies to gift or pack for yourself. Inspiration for the Glaze is from Sally's Baking Addiction Cream Cheese Cut-Out Cookies with Nutella Glaze recipe.
• For the sprinkles, I used Mini heart-shaped Valentine's sprinkles, but any Valentine's decoration will work fine.

How To Make The Best Valentine Cut-Out Cookies

• This recipe uses room-temperature butter (not too soft, though). Leave the butter at room temperature before starting to bake.
• Mix the butter, powdered sugar, Cornstarch, and salt until smooth and silky.
• Add the egg yolk and vanilla extract.
• Add the flour in two or three passes and mix well after each. You would have a soft and smooth dough in the end.
• Shape the dough into a disc, cling wrap, and chill for one hour.
• Lightly flour a clean surface and roll out the dough. Place the dough between two pieces of wax paper or lightly flour your working surface for easier rolling. Roll out the dough to ¼ inch thickness.
• Once the dough is ¼ of an inch thick, use your heart-shaped cookie cutter to cut the dough.
• In the meantime, preheat the oven to 325F. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes or until the edges look set. Do not overbake them, as it makes them dry and brown.

• To Make the Glaze, mix all the ingredients until smooth and spreadable. If the Glaze is too stiff, add more cream; if it is too runny, add more powdered sugar.
• Sprinkle their top with the sprinkles and let the Glaze set before stacking.

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Storing: Keep These Valentine's Cut-Out Cookies in an air-tight container at room temperature for a few days. They freeze well for a couple of months.

Disclaimer: I highly recommend using the measurements in grams & ml (instead of cups & spoons) for more accuracy and better results.

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