Valentine’s Day Cookie Boxes: Fun & Festive DIY Gift Idea
Valentine’s Day cookie boxes are the sweetest way to spread love this season!
Whether you’re surprising your special someone, delighting your kids, or gifting friends this thoughtful sweet treat are a fun and festive way to show you care.
Check out all of our Valentine’s Day recipes for even more inspiration to make this holiday extra special!
Packed with homemade cookies, candies, and even a little flair of your own design, these boxes are as much fun to make as they are to give.
How to Make an Edible Cookie Box
Start by rolling out the dough for your favorite sugar cookie recipe.
Roll your dough evenly to ensure cookies bake uniformly.
Use heart-shaped cutters to form solid and cut-out heart cookies.
After baking, glue the cookies together with royal icing to create a box shape.
Aim for a thick yet pourable texture, like school glue, for easier assembly and decorating.
Let icing dry completely. Be patient! Allow at least an hour for the icing to set before filling or handling the boxes.
Decorate the lids with sprinkles or icing for a festive touch, keep in mind that it’s easier to add intricate details or sprinkles to the tops before putting the pieces together.
Fill your Valentine cookie boxes with treats like chocolate truffles, candy or sprinkles.
Scroll down for the full recipe and printable instructions.
Prepare the cookies 2–3 days ahead and assemble them a day before gifting for the freshest results.
Keep assembled boxes in an airtight container at room temperature for up to a week. Avoid refrigeration, as it may cause the icing to soften.
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Valentine’s Day Cookie Boxes
Spread love this season with DIY Valentine’s Day Cookie Boxes! Perfect for gifting and so easy to make. 💕
Ingredients
- sugar cookie dough
- royal icing
- sprinkles
Instructions
- Prepare the sugar cookie dough.
- Lightly dust your surface with flour and roll out dough to ¼ inch thickness.
- Use a Joseph Rolling Pin or two skewers on either side of the dough to ensure evenly shaped cookies.
- Using 2 different heart shaped cutters cut out twice as many full heart cookies as the double cut out heart shape.
- To create the double heart cut out, use two identical shapes but two different sizes.
- Place cut out cookie dough on parchment lined baking sheets and bake for 12 mins in a 350 degree oven.
- Let cookies cool on baking sheet until fully cool (about 30-45 mins)
- Prepare ½ of the icing.
- The icing should be the consistency of the thick pourable elmers glue.
- Use a piping bag or sandwich sized ziplock bag cut a medium sized hole in the tip once you are ready to glue the pieces together.
- For the stand sized heart shaped box, glue one full heart to one cut out heart.
- Remove any exposed wet icing in the center and let dry for at least 45min-60 min.
- For a taller cookie box glue two of the cutout cookie shapes instead of just one.
- Decorate the top of your box.
- You can spread icing on the top one of the full heart shaped cookies with your finger and dip into a bowl of sprinkles.
- Once the cookie bottoms have dried, fill the open cavity with sprinkles.
- Place the top cookie onto the bottom ones. You can either seal them with icing or not seal them.
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