Happy Valentine's Day Gluten Free Heart-Shaped Sugar Cookies Recipe
Celebrate love with these adorable gluten-free heart-shaped sugar cookies—perfectly crisp, subtly sweet, and allergy-friendly. Whether you're baking for a sweetheart or treating yourself, this Valentine's Day recipe brings joy in every bite. Easy to make, fun to decorate, and irresistibly festive for gluten-free foodies and cookie lovers alike.
Ingredients
For the Cookie Dough
- ½ tsp. of baking soda
- 120 g of unsalted butter
- 1 egg
- 350 g of gluten free all-purpose flour
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract optional
- 140 g of white sugar
- A pinch of salt optional
For the Decorations
- 70 g of a chocolate bar of your choice
- 30 ml of cherry concentrate this should be tart
- 75 g of icing sugar
- 10 ml of water
Instructions
Stage 1 – Making the Sugar Cookie Dough
- Beat the butter and the sugar in a mixing bowl thoroughly.
- Add the egg and vanilla extract (optional) into the mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.
- Add the remaining dry ingredients (baking soda and flour) into mixing bowl and ensure the mixture is evenly distributed.
- For the best results, refrigerate the dough for at least a couple of hours, preferably overnight.
Stage 2 – Baking the Sugar Cookies
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (160°C fan/ gas 4).
- Sprinkle your surface with flour and rolling pin with about 10g of flour and roll out the dough to about ½ cm thickness.
- Cut out shapes in the dough using your heart-shaped cookie cutter.
- Place the shaped cookies onto your baking trays keeping them at least 2 ½ cm apart.
- Bake in the oven for about 20 minutes.
- Check to see if the cookies are fully cooked by placing a wooden pick/ cake tester into the middle of each. If they come out clean, then you are good to go onto the next step!
- Let the cookies cool in the baking tray for about 5 minutes and then transfer them to wire rack and leave them until they are fully cooled.
Stage 3 – Decorating the Sugar Cookies
- Melt a bar of chocolate of your choice in a microwave safe bowl.
- Cover half of the batch of cookies with the melted chocolate.
- Mix the cherry concentrate, icing sugar and water in a bowl to create the cherry icing.
- Cover the other half of the batch of cookies with the cherry icing.
- Let the sugar cookies cool at room temperature for about 15 minutes.
- Next, enjoy!