Kids will love making these simple Cake Mix Valentines Cutout Cookies on sucker sticks and decorating them with festive red, pink and white sprinkles and candies!
I just love Valentine’s Day! It’s the perfect opportunity to show an added measure of adoration and appreciation for the ones we hold dear. I always like to include my kids in the holiday too, because I kinda like them. 🙂
Every day of February leading up to the 14th, I place a special love note, goodie surprise, or mini toy treasure in their mailboxes. They talk about this tradition year round and always can’t wait for February to arrive.
One of my daughter’s favorite things to do with me is to bake, so we’re always trying to come up with fun and creative desserts to concoct together. We especially love the excuse of a holiday to bake up festive confections in the kitchen. I saw this idea for cookie suckers over at Glorious Treats, modified it a bunch and came up with a doctored yellow cake mix recipe instead of the chocolate chip cookie dough.
The kids went wild for these! We even took one to a three-year-old neighbor friend who was ill and left them at her door and shortly thereafter I received a picture text with her beaming from ear to ear with it.
They’re super simple to make since they are semi-homemade and I love that the kids’ creativity can really shine in the decoration phase.
My daughter had a blast cutting them out and making them into suckers.
{CAKE MIX CUTOUT COOKIES}
Makes about 13
1 box yellow cake mix (15.25 oz.)
1 large egg
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 Tbsp. milk
Homemade buttercream frosting (just omit the baking cocoa in this recipe) or canned icing
Sprinkles and Valentines Candy for Decorating
6″ Sucker Sticks
Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick baking spray or use a nonstick baking mat. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. In the bowl of an electric mixer, mix together cake mix, egg, melted butter and milk. Dough will be thick.
Lightly flour a surface and roll cookie dough out to be 1/4″ thick. Cut out with a heart cookie cutter that’s 3″ at the widest portion. Use a metal spatula to remove them from the surface. Lightly press a 6″ sucker stick onto each heart. Grab a piece of excess dough and press it on top of the sucker stick and down onto the cutout cookie dough. Use the metal spatula to transfer it to a prepared baking sheet. You’ll want the sucker stick bulge to be facing up. Bake for 10-12 minutes. In my oven, 10 minutes yielded a nice soft cookie and 12 minutes made them slightly on the crunchy side.
Let them sit on the cookie sheet for a few minutes and then remove them carefully to a cooling rack to cool completely. Turn them over and frost and decorate the flat side.
That’s it! They’re cookies. They’re suckers. They’re cookie suckers!
These would be perfect for class parties and goodie gifts for friends! We wrapped some in decorative Valentine’s cellophane bags and tied them with ribbon before giving away.
Happy baking with kids! This is a new holiday tradition around our house! I’m pretty sure we’ll be making them many more times before Valentine’s Day arrives.
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