Easy Sourdough Valentine Sugar cookies
Sourdough Valentine sugar cookies are such an easy way to have some fun with your family. We love baking sugar cookies around Christmas and it’s such a bummer to have to wait until the next Christmas to make more…. so why not make some fun Valentine’s Day sugar cookies?!
Why sourdough?
We love to bake using sourdough starter to help break down the gluten and be kinder to our tummies. They taste amazing and if they are better for us, why not? Win, win if you ask me :).
How to make sourdough starter
Here’s a great resource for how to start and maintain sourdough starter if you’ve never done one. It seems intimidating at first, but trust me if I can do sourdough, so can you! No really, you CAN!
Ingredients
Butter
Sugar (we like to use cane sugar)
Egg
Sourdough Starter
Cream or Milk
Vanilla
Flour (we like to use organic unbleached AP flour)
Baking powder (make sure it is aluminum free!)
Salt
Instructions
Cream butter and sugar.
Beat in egg, sourdough starter, cream or milk, and vanilla.
Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
If you would like to ferment your dough, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for about 2-4 hours. Then place in the fridge over night to ferment a little more. If you are worried about the eggs and dairy in the dough, you can wrap two discs of dough in plastic wrap and place in fridge right away for up to three days.
If you are not fermenting, place dough in the fridge to chill. This is optional, however I find that when I chill the dough my shapes turn out way better.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
Roll out dough to about 1/8 to 1/4 inch depending on your preference on a lightly floured surface. Thicker cookies will require longer baking time. Use desired cookie cutters to cut out your shapes.
Line baking sheets with parchment paper and place cookies about one inch apart. Sprinkle with sugar if desired.
Bake sourdough valentine sugar cookies anywhere from 5 to 12 minutes depending on size of cookie. The cookie cutters in my pictures are about four inches and the cookies were a little smaller than 1/4 inch. I baked them for 11 minutes in my oven. The cookies should be slightly browned on the edges. I was able to get 22 cookies out of the dough.
Let cool before frosting if desired.
Sourdough Valentine Sugar Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 cup Butter softened
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 Egg
- ½ cup Sourdough starter active or discard
- 3 tbsp Cream or milk
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 3 cups All purpose flour
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- ½ tsp Salt
Instructions
- Cream butter and sugar.
- Beat in egg, sourdough starter, cream or milk, and vanilla.
- Stir in flour, baking powder and salt.
- If you would like to ferment your dough, cover with plastic wrap and let it sit at room temperature for about 2-4 hours. Then place in the fridge over night to ferment a little more. If you are worried about the eggs and dairy in the dough, you can wrap two discs of dough in plastic wrap and place in fridge right away for up to three days.
- If you are not fermenting, place dough in the fridge to chill. This is optional, however I find that when I chill the dough my shapes turn out way better.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Roll out dough to about 1/8 to 1/4 inch depending on your preference on a lightly floured surface. Thicker cookies will require longer baking time. Use desired cookie cutters to cut out your shapes.
- Line baking sheets with parchment paper and place cookies about one inch apart. Sprinkle with sugar if desired.
- Bake anywhere from 5 to 12 minutes depending on size of cookie. The cookie cutters in my pictures are about four inches and the cookies were a little smaller than 1/4 inch. I baked them for 11 minutes in my oven. The cookies should be slightly browned on the edges. I was able to get 22 cookies out of the dough.
- Let cool before frosting if desired.
