Want to spread love this Valentine's Day? Skip out on the boring chocolate boxes, and try making this giant Be My Valentine Cookie for a friend, family member or valentine to make them feel really special. Accented with delicious cherry and almond flavors, this giant heart-shaped sugar cookie tastes just as good as it looks!
Be My Valentine Cookie
- Prep Time 25 min
- Total 1 hr 20 min
- Servings 18
- Ingredients 10
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- 1 egg
- 1/4 cup Gold Medal™ All-Purpose Flour
- 5 oz. cream cheese, softened (from 8 oz package)
- 1/4 cup butter, softened
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 4 cups powdered sugar
- 2 to 3 tablespoons maraschino cherry juice
- 1/3 cup chopped maraschino cherries
- 1/2 cup from 1 tub (16 oz) Betty Crocker™ Rich & Creamy Chocolate Frosting (from 16 oz container)
Make With
Gold Medal Flour
Instructions
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Step1Mix together cookie mix, egg and flour. Add 2 oz. cream cheese (reserve remaining 3 oz. cream cheese), 2 tablespoons butter and almond extract; blend. Shape dough into 12x13-inch heart on large ungreased cookie sheet.
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Step2Bake at 375°F for 12 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown around edges. Cool on cookie sheet 20 minutes. Carefully remove to cooling rack. Cool completely.
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Step3Beat powdered sugar, 3 oz. cream cheese, remaining butter and cherry juice with electric mixer on low speed until smooth and creamy. Stir in maraschino cherries. Spread over cooled cookie.
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Step4Spoon chocolate frosting, reserving 2 tablespoons, into decorating bag, with small star tip (#21); pipe around edges of cookie. Using reserved frosting pipe message on top of cookie. Store any leftover cookie in refrigerator.
Nutrition
330
Calories
11g
Total Fat
2g
Protein
56g
Total Carbohydrate
43g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1/18 of Cookie
- Calories
- 330
- Calories from Fat
- 90
- Total Fat
- 11g
- 16%
- Saturated Fat
- 5g
- 24%
- Trans Fat
- 1 1/2g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 7%
- Sodium
- 160mg
- 7%
- Potassium
- 55mg
- 2%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 56g
- 19%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 43g
- Protein
- 2g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 4%
- 4%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 4%
- 4%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 3 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 2 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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