RayBurry Bakes: Valentine's Day Sugar Cookies

Valentine's Day

I want to start this post by apologizing once again. I'm sorry I was not able to post over the weekend. In order to make it up to you, I am posting this special Valentine's Day post in addition to the upcoming weekend's post.

In honor of Valentine's Day I thought I should bake something to bring into school. I decided cookies would be the easiest thing. My mom bought me this pan at Target and now is the perfect time to use it.

I started by just making a simple sugar cookie. You can use any recipe or mix you would like, but this was the recipe I used.

Yield: 48 Cookies

Ingredients:

3/4 cup unsalted softened butter

1 cup vegetable oil

1 cup confectioners' sugar

1 cup white sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

4 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1 teaspoon salt

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.

Sift together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda, and salt; set aside.

Cream together butter, oil, confectioner's sugar, and white sugar.

So far your dough should look a little something like this:

Next, mix in the eggs and vanilla extract.

Gradually pour in the dry ingredients and mix until smooth.

Here is where I put a Valentine's Day twist on my cookies. I put in pink food coloring into my cookie dough and mixed it in, creating an outcome of pink cookies.

If you have a pan, such as mine, here is where you would grease the pan and fill it with the dough. Or you can put tinfoil over a cookie sheet and make your own cookie shapes. Although this is a very good recipe for a pan, and these cookies do stick really well and are good for rolling into a ball, this is not a good recipe if you are planning on using cookie cutters.