Show how much you care by baking something special for your sweetheart.
Surely, you’ll find something to make your loved one’s heart go a-flutter.
Strawberry Dust Meringues
The combination of sugar andwhipped egg whitescreates a light, airy, melt-in-your-mouth experience.
Photo:Caitlin Bensel
These delicate meringue cookies are made Valentines Day-ready with a light dusting of pulverized freeze-dried strawberries or cranberries.
Theyre soft and buttery on the inside, coated with decadent chocolate, and topped with crushed peppermints.
The design seems hard to replicate, but its easier than it looks.
Caitlin Bensel
Cardamom Bun Cookies
Serve up a heart-melting cookie and cinnamon bun all in one bite.
A final dip in white chocolate and sprinkles makes them look as good as they taste.
Jam Sandwich Cookies
These jam-filled cookies are light, delicate, and highly irresistible.
Jen Causey
They may not look fancy, but they’re delicious and simple to make.
Nutella Cones With Hazelnut Praline
These mini-cone cookies are anything but ordinary.
They are filled with creamyNutellaand roasted hazelnuts and coated with luscious chocolate and pralines.
Johnny Miller
Rest assured, they’ll melt your loved one’s heart.
Macaroon Thumbprints
Fred Hardy
This cookie is part macaroon, part thumbprint, and wholly adorable.
Hazelnuts play double-duty here: They’re pulverized in the doughandblended in the chocolate filling.
Caitlin Bensel
Finish with a smidgen of shredded coconut for maximum cuteness.
Chocolate Drizzled Shortbread
A classic shortbread cookie looks and tastes even better with a drizzle of chocolate.
(Let’s be honest: Doesn’t everything?)
Pull out your cake pan for this recipe and enjoy each cookie by the wedge.
These soft peanut butter cookie balls dipped in silky chocolate are so pop-able, better make a double batch.
Lace Cookies
Put on a flirty lace dress and accessorize it with these irresistible lace cookies.
Caitlin Bensel
They look complicated to make but only take about 10 minutes to throw together.
Serve it in large or small shards to whoever you love the most.
Cinnamon Sugar Cookies
This cookie recipe is full of sugar and spice and everything nice.
Caitlin Bensel
The store-bought puff pastry shortcut makes this one of the easiest Valentine’s Day cookies ever.
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
If youre looking for a delicious,gluten-free dessert, these macaroons are it!
Theyre super simple to throw together and only call for seven ingredients.
Caitlin Bensel
Its a butter cookie with choppedpecans, but walnuts or macadamia nuts work nicely, too.
And if you want to omit the nuts altogether, you certainly can!
Angeletti Cookies
This popular Italian Christmas confection is just too delicious to enjoy only once a year.
Caitlin Bensel
Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies
Homemade chocolate chip cookiesare always a good idea.
They’re the perfect dessert for a day dedicated to love.
Not to mention, theres just no better aphrodisiac than the scent of fresh cookies baking.
Raymond Hom
This super-simple, no-bake recipe essentially jazzes up store-bought cookies with your homemade frosting.
If you cant find gingerbread cookies in the store, any pop in will do!
The recipe guides you through the stacking and kneading technique that gives these cookies their mesmerizing look.
Johnny Miller
It’s easier than you think!
Chewy Spice Cookies
Spicy meets sweet in this simple yet classic cookie recipe.
Chewy Salted Brown Butterscotch Cookies
Calling all butterscotch lovers!
Fred Hardy
These cookies are rich in sweetness and irresistibly chewy, as if they just came out of the oven.
If youre also baking for a big chocolate lover, fear not!
This recipe calls for milk chocolateandsilky butterscotch chips.
Levi Brown
Glazed Lemon Cookies
The bright lemony flavor of these little bites foretells the coming of spring!
The recipe results in an easy slice-and-bake dough you could make and freeze up to 2 months ahead.
Bonus: It’s gluten free!
Raymond Hom
Chocolate Ganache Sandwiches
How do you serve store-bought cookies but get credit for homemade?
Sandwich them with a luscious homemade ganache that’s simply melted chocolate blended with heavy cream.
Half of the chocolate chips get melted into the dough, and the rest are folded in.
Greg DuPree
Buckle up for a non-stop trip to Chocolate Town for two.
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