Valentine’s Day Chocolate Chip Cookies
Last Updated on January 24, 2020 by Annie
These perfectly soft double chocolate chip cookies are ready for your love this Valentine’s Day! Each soft and delicious bite is packed with chocolate chips and festive red sprinkles.
Happy accidents make for some of the best recipes. These monster cookies happen to be an accident I would be willing to make again and again. You see, when I set out to make these Valentine’s Day cookies for that special Valentine in my life, I figured I would follow my Salted Chocolate Chunk Cookie recipe.
Instead of using two kinds of sugar, I thought I would simplify the recipe and use only brown sugar. This would have been doable except when I opened my pantry, my 4 qt brown sugar container sat empty. I’m talking, scraped out the corners, not a crumb left kinda empty.
Typically I would grab a coat and head to the grocery store (apron and all) to get the missing ingredient, but I felt lazy. Not the ‘I don’t want to do anything lazy,’ because I had just tested a batch of oatmeal cookies, but ‘I don’t want to gear up for the snow, just to get a bag of brown sugar’ kind of lazy.
My laziness will be a gift that keeps on giving. Instead of layering up and running to the store, I dug deep into the depths of my pantry to find a bag of dark brown sugar. Replacing all of the sugar in my recipe with dark brown sugar resulted in the tenderest and soft, chocolate chip cookies to grace my mouth.
What are Valentine’s Day Chocolate Chip Cookies?
These Valentine’s Day cookies are bursting in flavor and festive colors! The red sprinkles and white chocolate chips add a wonderful nod to the season of love! You can also mix in other sprinkles if you have them such as pink or white long sprinkles. You could even add some heart shaped sprinkles!
Dairy Free Changes
To make dairy free cookies a few quick swaps include:
-Using unsalted vegan butter instead of regular butter.
-Use dairy free chocolate chips such as Enjoy Life or Nestle Simply Delicious.
How to make Valentine’s Day Chocolate Chip Cookies
Begin by allowing your vegan butter and egg to come to room temperature. This allows the butter to cream evenly with the sugar and prevents the egg from chilling the butter when it mixes into the dough later leaving it chunky instead of smooth.
Once your vegan butter gets to room temperature, cream the ½ cup of unsalted vegan butter in the bowl of a standing mixer together with ¾ cup of dark brown sugar with a paddle attachment.
When the butter and sugar have mixed until fluffy, about 3 minutes, stop the mixer and scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to make sure the butter and sugar evenly mixed.
Next, slowly mix in the egg and the vanilla. Once they have mixed in, add the salt and baking soda, stir until combined.
With the mixer on slow, add the 1 ½ cups of flour, one- half cup at a time until it has all been added and it’s just combined.
Remove the bowl from the mixer, and scrape the extra dough off the paddle. Fold in the white chocolate, dark chocolate, and sprinkles.
Using a 1 ½ Tablespoon cookie scoop, scoop roughly 24 balls.
To Bake
Preheat the oven to 360 F, place the dough on a Silpat lined cookie sheet and bake for 11 minutes. Allow the cookies to sit on the tray for about 1 minute before transferring to a cooling rack and enjoying!
To Freeze
If you are making these cookies in advance, scoop the dough into 24 balls and freeze on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet for about 30 minutes. Then transfer to a freezer safe container or Ziplock bag. When you are ready to bake them, follow the baking instructions listed above.
Making these delicious cookies for Valentine’s or Galentine’s Day? Share these deliciously dairy free Valentine’s Day Chocolate Chip Cookies with me on Instagram by tagging @mylifeafterdairy so I can share your life after dairy adventures!
Other Delicious Cookies You May Enjoy
Fluffernutter Cookies– For the peanut butter lover in your life or in your squad, these soft and chewy, marshmallow stuffed peanut butter cookies are a MUST.
Chocolate Crinkle Cookies– The chocolate lover in your life will love these moist and chocolaty cookies!
McKay’s Sugar Cookies– The cookies that got me into the cookie making game! These sugar cookies are soft and wildly addictive!
Valentine’s Day Chocolate Chip Cookies
This beautiful combination of white chocolate chips, dark chocolate chips, and festive sprinkles bring the season of love together in one tasty cookie!
Ingredients
- ½ c. Vegan Butter room temperature
- ¾ c. Brown Sugar dark
- 1 tsp. Vanilla
- 1 Egg room temperature
- ½ tsp. Salt Kosher
- ½ tsp. Baking Powder
- 1½ c. Flour all purpose
- ½ c. White Chocolate Chips dairy-free
- ½ c. Dark Chocolate Chips dairy-free
- ¼ c. Sprinkles
Instructions
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Allow the butter and egg time to come to room temperature.
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In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together butter and brown sugar.
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Add vanilla and egg and mix until combined.
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Next, add the salt and baking soda and beat until combined.
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Then, slowly stir in the 1½ cup flour, adding about ½ cup at a time. Once all of the flour has been added stir until combined.
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Fold in the chocolate chips and sprinkles and scoop into 1½ tablespoon sized balls.
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Freeze the balls for about 30 minutes.
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When you are ready to bake, preheat the oven to 360°F. Place dough balls about 2 inches apart on a rimmed, lined cookie sheet. Bake for 11 minutes.