Gluten-Free Heart Shaped Valentine's Cookies

Share the love with these easy, Gluten-Free Heart Shaped Valentine's Cookies! Your sweetie will gobble up these delicious sugar cookies, and the glaze is pure perfection! How romantic is that?

Look how beautiful these gluten-free sugar cookies came out? The glaze is probably the easiest part. Get creative when you decorate these heart-shaped beauties!

Simple ingredients are used in this Valentine's cookie recipe for gluten-free sugar cookies, including Pamela’s Gluten-Free All Purpose Flour.

HOW TO MAKE GLUTEN-FREE HEART-SHAPED VALENTINE'S COOKIES:

1. In a medium bowl, whisk together the gluten-free flour, baking powder and salt.  Set aside.
2. In a mixer bowl, cream the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy, about 1 to 2 minutes.
3. Add in the egg, vanilla, and milk. Mix until well combined.
4. Slowly add in the dry ingredients. Mix until well combined.
5. Gather the dough into a ball and wrap in plastic wrap or a plastic bag. Chill the dough in the refrigerator 2 hours or overnight.

Cut out various heart-shaped cookies. I used three different cookie cutters here. Dusting the cookie mat with flour before rolling the cookie dough and cutting ensures that the cookie dough won't stick.

MAKE THE CUT-OUTS AND BAKE

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Remove the dough from the refrigerator and allow to set at room temperature 10 to 15 minutes.
2. Sprinkle flour onto your rolling surface and the rolling pin. Lay the dough out and sprinkle a little flour on top.
3. Roll the dough out to about ¼-inch thickness, adding more flour as needed to prevent sticking.
4. Use heart-shaped cookie cutters to cut out shapes and place them on the baking sheets, leaving a two-inch space between cookies.
5. Gather remaining dough scraps and re-roll. Continue to re-roll and cut out shapes until all the dough has been used. Bake in batches as cookie sheets fill up.
6. Bake the cookies at 350°F 12-14 minutes. For crisper cookies, allow the cookies to get lightly browned. For not so crisp cookies, pull them from the oven before they brown around the edges.
7. Cool completely before frosting.

Sift the powdered sugar before adding to the mixer. This ensures that there won't be lumps in the glaze.

How to make the glaze

1. Sift powdered sugar into a medium bowl. Add 6 teaspoons milk, corn syrup, and extract. Stir vigorously until glaze is smooth.
2. If needed, add additional milk to thin the glaze more. You’ve reached the correct consistency for the glaze if a scoop of icing slowly falls off the spoon.
3. Divide the glaze into two small bowls and add pink food coloring into one bowl, and no food coloring into the other. With the pink glaze, stir well until no white glaze appears in the mixture.

How to decorate these sugar cookies

1. Add the glaze into two different piping bags with a small tip. Pipe an outline of each cookie and fill it in for pristine edges. Alternatively, it can also be spread with a small knife.
2. Decorate the cookies with your favorite sprinkles. This frosting hardens quickly so have sprinkles ready to put on immediately!
3. Before stacking or wrapping cookies, make sure the glaze is completely hard. Set cookies on a baking sheet for several hours and serve immediately, or freeze in baggies for up to two months.

TIPS & TRICKS:

• Cool the cookies completely before frosting! Otherwise, the glaze will run.
• Store the cookies in an airtight container for up to three days.
• If you make the sugar cookies more than a day ahead of when you need them, pop them in the freezer until the day of so they are nice and fresh!
• The cookies can be frozen for at least one month. You can freeze them unglazed or glazed.
• When ready, take them out of the freezer to thaw at room temperature. They taste just as fresh as the day they were baked.
• You can glaze and decorate the cookies after thawing.

WANT MORE?

If you like this sugar cookie recipe, you’re going to want these cookie recipes too:

• Matcha Green Tea Heart Cookies
• Classic Pumpkin Spice Cookies
• Chinese Almond Cookies
• Manju Red Bean Cookies

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