I am not one of those people is gaga for Valentine’s Day, but I do think it’s fun to acknowledge it in some way. Last year I made Chicken Fajita Nachos for my guys and we had homemade Churros with Chocolate Sauce for dessert. This year, I am not sure what I am making for dinner, but for dessert, I made my boys these fun Valentine’s Day Ombré Sugar Cookies.
I was inspired by these gorgeous Ombre Raspberry Lemon Sugar Cookies by Audra from The Baker Chick. I mean how beautiful are they? And I am sure they are so tasty. I love the sugar cookie recipe from Bake at 350. The dough is a cinch to make and there is no wait time for chilling. Brilliant! The cookie dough is easy to roll out and cut, too.
If you are like me, you have tried more than a few sugar recipes that either leave you cussing or crying (or both!) because it’s too sticky and the cookies are impossible to get from where you cut them out to the pan. That is not the case with this dough. It is so great to work with. The cookies do “grow” a little in the oven, but not much.
The best part is that they taste amazing, too! So, big check marks for this recipe all around.
For the icing, I modified Audra’s recipe. I used everything but the dried raspberry powder and lemon juice. I kept my version pretty basic with vanilla cream cheese icing. To make the different shades, I kept adding more pink food color. I iced 5 cookies with white, then I added a bit of pink and frosted 5 more. I just kept adding more pink each time. They turned out pretty cute, right? I think my fellas are going to LOVE them. What are you baking up for your valentines this year?
