Make this Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie for your sweetheart for Valentine’s Day! It a homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe and it’s my favorite! This is a fun, EASY, DIY baking project to do with your kids to present to dad. It makes enough for a family of four for the perfect Valentine’s Day dessert. Makes 8 servings!
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Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie
I ate most of this delicious chocolate chip cookie in just two days! Yep. I CAN NOT be trusted with homemade chocolate chip cookies! As a matter of fact, my 6 yr old cried when I told him there was no more left. So, I told him I’d make another batch for Valentine’s Day and gave him an Oreo instead.
In talking to other moms, I found out that I’m not the only mom that hides the good chocolate for herself. Kids don’t seem to care about quality candy. Well, let’s just say the majority of the time. LOL! My son sure knows how good the ice cream is in that premium Merrymead Farm container.
This chocolate chip cookie dough recipe is half of a conventional batch of cookies. But, I suggest doubling the recipe and freezing the other half of the cookie dough so you can just bake it in a pinch. It’s always nice to have chocolate chip cookie dough ready to be baked in your freezer…unless you’re me and can’t be trusted with homemade chocolate chips cookies.
I can’t do that or I’ll eat the whole batch and feel guilty and then I’ll have to eat Avocado & Greens Banana smoothies for a week.
Valentine’s Day dinner certainly changes over the years. It begins as a romantic interlude between sweethearts. Then after a few years of the additional family members (kids,) your Valentine’s Day dinner becomes whatever the kids will eat and maybe a homemade red or pink dessert.
Well, at least our boys like steak and shrimp!
Valentine’s Day Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie
How to Make Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie
Making this heart-shaped cookie is quite easy.
I used this hear-shaped baking pan which, can also be used to make a heart-shaped naked pound cake!
Here is a summary of the steps and what tools you need:
- First, make the cookie dough.
- Then, refrigerate the cookie dough for 30 minutes for easier handling.
- Next, press the cookie dough into the heart-shaped baking pan.
- Then, bake the cookie for 25-30 min.
- Then, let the cookie cool before decorating it.
- Next, add red icing stars using canned red icing with the attached star tip.
- Then, top the icing stars with Valentine’s Day sprinkles.
- Last, drop more sprinkles on the cookie center.
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That’s it! This is a really simple Valentine’s Day DIY baking project to do with your kids when you don’t have time. Can you use refrigerated cookie dough? Yes, I won’t tell…but, this homemade recipe will taste better!
Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie
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IDEA: Make this recipe for St. Patrick’s Day using a shamrock baking pan!
I took this recipe to Meal Plan Monday and Weekend Potluck.
Heart Shaped Chocolate Chip Cookie
Equipment
- 9" heart-shaped baking pan
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 cup flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup butter softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 egg
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
Decorating Ingredients
- 1 canned red icing use star tip
- 1 tbsp Valentine's Day Sprinkles
Instructions
- First, in a mixing bowl, add dark brown sugar, white sugar and softened butter.
- Next, add the egg and vanilla.
- Then, add the salt, baking soda, and flour. Mix until well combined.
- Next, add the chocolate chips and mix or stir by hand. Refrigerate dough for 30 minutes for easier handling.
- Next, preheat oven to 350F.
- Then, oil spray the inside of the 8" heart-shaped cake pan.
- Next, press the refrigerated cookie dough into the oil sprayed heart-shaped cake pan and bake for 25-30 minutes on 350F.
- At the 25 minute mark, remove cookie from oven and insert a toothpick into the middle of the cookie. If it comes out clean, it's ready to cool. Otherwise, put the cookie back into the oven to bake for 5 more minutes. It will be brown on top. The smaller the baking pan, the longer the cookie will need to bake.
Decorating Instructions
- Using canned red icing with the star tip, start at the perimeter of the cookie and make a red star at 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock, and 9 o'clock, and then fill in midway between so that the stars are uniformly placed.
- Next, sprinkle the red icing stars with Valentine's Day sprinkles.
- Then, drops some Valentine's Day sprinkles on the middle of the cookie.
