Easy Heart Shaped Cookies - an adorable treat perfect for Valentine's Day! These delicious cookies bake up beautifully into the best heart-shaped sweets.
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Why This Recipe Works
- It's hard to beat a delicious perfect chocolate chip cookie but when it's shaped as a heart it makes it all the sweeter!
- Using a heart-shaped silicone mold makes turning cookies into hearts very easy!
- My favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe makes these the perfect heart cookie treat for Valentine's Day.
- Dipping these cookies in chocolate makes them extra tasty similar to chocolate covered strawberries!
I've made an easy heart cake, heart-shaped Valentine's Cake Pops, and even heart-shaped chocolate sugar cookies, and I knew I needed a great heart chocolate chip cookie recipe too!
What You Need for This Recipe:
- Heart Shaped Mold- This is a must and makes the perfect heart shapes! I used this one.
- Chocolate- I like to use both semi-sweet chocolate chunks and semi-sweet chocolate chips, but you can use all of just one or the other if you like.
- Optional Decorations: Use a variety Candy Melts and Sprinkles for fun designs!
How to Make Heart Shaped Cookies?
- Step 1: Mix the dry ingredients.
- Step 2: Cream the butter, sugars, and vanilla. Then add in the eggs and the dry ingredient mixture.
- Step 3: Fold in the chocolate.
- Step 4: Press dough into the heart-shaped molds.
- Step 5: Bake at 375°F for 8-11 minutes.
- Step 6: Decorate!
How to Decorate Heart Shaped Cookies?
I like to dip the cookies in candy melts, then sprinkle with fun Valentine Sprinkles, or drizzle with a different candy melt color.
- Step 7: Melt candy melts until smooth.
- Step 8: Dip cookies then add sprinkles.
Tips For the Best Cookies
High Altitude Adjustments: Decrease both sugars to only ⅔ cups. Increase flour to 2 ½ cups and add two 2 teaspoon water when you add your flour.
Instant Pudding Mix: Pudding mix is my "secret" ingredient. It makes the most tender and chewy cookies that everyone loves.
Check Your Silicone Mold Before Baking Every Time: Make sure to check each heart to make sure the indent isn't pressed out. Otherwise, you won't get a nice heart shape but a blob.
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I love to use an oven safe silicone mold to make these cookes.
Store cookies in an air-tight container like a Ziploc baggie.
Eat within a week for the freshest taste.
Yep! Just make the dough then roll it into balls before freezing. To bake them into hearts after freezing, allow the dough to thaw in the refrigerator then press into the heart molds and bake according to directions.
Other Valentine Recipes
If you like this recipe make sure to check out all my easy and delicious Valentine's Recipes, especially my favorite Valentine's Heart Sugar Cookies, Bacon Roses, Red Velvet Cookies with Cake Mix, Valentine's Day Cake Recipe, and these easy White Chocolate Covered Strawberries.
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Easy Heart Shaped Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup unsalted butter* softened
- ¾ cup white sugar
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 ¼ cups flour
- 1 package Instant Vanilla Pudding 3.4 oz
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 4 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate bar*
- Optional Decorations Candy Melts, Sprinkles
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- With a stand-up mixer, cream butter, brown and white sugar, and vanilla.1 cup unsalted butter*, ¾ cup white sugar, ¾ cup brown sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla
- Add in eggs one at a time. Letting the first egg incorporate fully into the batter before adding the next.2 eggs
- Add in the flour, instant pudding mix, baking soda, and salt. Mix until fully combined.2 ¼ cups flour, 1 teaspoon baking soda, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 package Instant Vanilla Pudding
- Roughly chop baking chocolate then fold in chocolate chunks and chocolate chips to cookie dough.1 ½ cups semi-sweet chocolate chips, 4 oz semi-sweet baking chocolate bar*
- Press spoonfuls of dough into the heart molds. Fill each heart mold ¼- ½ of the way. It's easy to transport the mold if you place it on baking sheet (I leave it on the baking sheet while the cookies bake too).
- Bake for 8-11 minutes. They will be slightly browned on top.
- Let cookies cool for a few minutes before popping out and baking the rest.
Decorating Cookies
- If decorating, melt candy melts at 50% power stirring every 30 seconds.
- Once melted and smooth dip the cookies in to the candy melts then add sprinkles.Optional Decorations
Notes
- *If you use salted butter omit the salt added in this recipe.
- *If you don't have semi-sweet baking chocolate then add an extra ½ cup of chocolate chips.
- *For high altitude decrease both sugars to only ⅔ cups and increase flour to 2 ½ cups plus two 2 teaspoon water.
- Nutrition Info doesn't include anything used to decorate cookies.
Lisa Killian says
These are so fun to give out on Valentines day! Plus they taste amazing too!