These Valentine Play Dough Cookie Pops are a fun colorful treat for the kids to help make and give to their friends or teacher. They aren’t really made of Play Dough, but their fun colors remind us for Play Dough!
Shape them into hearts for an even more special Valentine’s Day goodie, just like my Heart Shaped Valentine Cupcakes, which are another great V-day edible gift!
Valentine Play Dough Cookie Pops
My play dough cookies are made from a simple sugar cookie dough tinted with paste food coloring, then rolled into balls and eventually snakes to twist up and make fun color combinations.
You can find this recipe in several places, but I used some Valentine colors and shaped some into hearts.
These cookies last a while too! I wrapped them in plastic wrap and tested one each day (it’s a dirty job, I know), they tasted just as good on the 6th day as they did the 1st. These were lots of fun, well received and easy to make.
Valentine Playdough Cookie Pops Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup white sugar
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- assorted colors of paste food coloring
- 24 lollipop sticks
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How to make Play Dough Cookie Pops
- In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
- In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough according to however many colors you plan to use. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 3-4 different colored balls together to make 1 large ball. Roll it just enough to form a rough ball, then shape into a 12-inch long roll (like a snake).
- Starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
- For hearts, follow the instructions above. After inserting the stick, use your fingers to squeeze the dough at the bottom of the circle and combine at the stick, then use a separate lollipop stick or a butter knife to create an indent in the top and shape the heart.
- Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.
These Valentine’s Day treats would look so cute wrapped in a decorative treat bag and tied with some ribbon!
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Valentine Play Dough Cookie Pops
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Print It Rate ItIngredients
- ¾ cup butter softened
- 3 ounces cream cheese
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- assorted colors of paste food coloring
- 24 lollipop sticks
Instructions
- In a bowl cream butter, cream cheese and sugar until fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; beat until smooth.
- In a medium bowl combine flour, baking powder and salt. Add dry ingredients to the creamed mixture. Stir till soft dough forms. Divide dough according to however many colors you plan to use. Tint each with a different food color. Wrap in plastic wrap and chill for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Shape dough into 3/4 inch balls and for each cookie place 3-4 different colored balls together to make 1 large ball. Roll it just enough to form a rough ball, then shape into a 12-inch long roll (like a snake).
- Starting at one end, coil roll to make a 2 3/4 inch round cookie. Place cookies 3 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheet. Carefully insert lollipop sticks into bottoms of cookies.
- For hearts, follow the instructions above. After inserting the stick, use your fingers to squeeze the dough at the bottom of the circle and combine at the stick, then use a separate lollipop stick or a butter knife to create an indent in the top and shape the heart.
- Bake cookies for 8 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool and store in an airtight container.
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This post was originally published on this blog on Jan 19, 2014.
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Natalie says
So cute! Fun idea for Valentine’s day ♥
Dina Awad says
Hi Amanda, please I don’t know what the ounce equals in grams or cups, please clarify it to me coz I live in Kuwait and we only know measurements in cups or grams. Thanks a lot!
Amanda Formaro says
Hi Dina, 1 ounce equals 28.3495 grams. So in this recipe, we are calling for 3 ounces that would total about 85 grams. Hope this helps!
tricia says
When you say white sugar do you mean granulated sugar or powdered sugar?; )
Amanda Formaro says
Hi Tricia! Granulated :)
Erin says
After the dough is in the fridge for 2 hours, can I shape the balls ahead of time? I want to make these with my sons preschool class but would like to prep the dough and have it divided into the colored balls the night before. Can I shape the 3/4 inch balls in the evening, refrigerate them and then make the cookies the next afternoon? Will the dough get too dry? Any tips for prep/what I can do in advance would be great!
Amanda says
I dont see why you couldn’t do that. Maybe cover in plastic wrap to keep it from drying out
Aninda says
Hi Amanda, they look great and I can’t wait to try them. Can I keep the dough in the fridge longer than 2 hours? Would it make the dough too hard to shape it? Thank you.
Amanda says
Yes it should be fine. If you find it too difficult to work with you can let it sit out for 10-20 minutes :)
Cindy says
Hey how come I can’t access the st Patrick bread?? :( keeps saying its been removed :(
Amanda says
HI Cindy, I’m not sure which link you were clicking trying to find that?
Cookamama says
Is this recipe peanut free??
Amanda Formaro says
There are no peanuts in the ingredient list, however you would need to check the ingredient lists on the products that you use.
Amanda says
Hi Carolyn! This should yield 24 cookies :)
carolyn says
hi amanda: i love these, and would like to make them during my turn baking with my daughter's preschool class. about how many cookies does a batch of dough make?
creative hearted says
Thanks for checking into it for me. I think to be safe I many just stick to sugar. We will see. When I make them I will also post it on my site and link it back to you as where I found the idea ; ) Thanks! I lam excited to see the results.
Amanda says
@Pink – thank you for the link love!
@creative – Oh how I wish I could give you an educated and accurate answer to that question. I can't, but I did a google search and there were several results. Here's the search, hope it works out! I have heard Splenda can be substituted with exact measurements, but Stevia is very, very different in that you use a lot less of that.
Google search
http://www.google.com/search?q=substituting+stevia+for+sugar+in+baking&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
creative hearted says
HI Amanda. I just saw this post and LOVE the idea to make as a treat for my son's second bday. I was wondering if I can substitute the sugar with stevia? I have a child who is sensitive to sugar consumption. Thanks!
PinkPowerRangerMom says
I linked this up on my blog and reposted the recipe and a pic of the final products. I did give you credit and a link back so I hope that is OK. If not just let me know.
Tracey
http://garciamania.blogspot.com