Valentine Cream Wafers

Recipe Ingredients

Let's dive into the delightful ingredients that make these Valentine Cream Wafers so irresistible and perfect for sharing.

All-Purpose Flour: This is the foundation. Flour provides the structure for these light and crispy cookies, ensuring they hold their shape while baking into perfect heart-shaped treats.

Butter: Butter is the secret to an incredibly rich flavor and a perfect texture.

Heavy Whipping Cream: This adds a touch of richness and helps bind the dough, making your cookie wafers extra delicate and smooth.  

Granulated Sugar: Used for coating the cutouts, this sugar adds a lovely sparkle and a subtle sweetness to the exterior.

Powdered Sugar: Powdered sugar dissolves easily, creating a super smooth and sweet base for your buttercream filling. 

Vanilla: A classic flavor enhancer! Vanilla adds a warm, aromatic note that elevates the sweetness of the filling, making these sandwich cookies even more delicious.

Red Liquid Food Color: This is how you get those beautiful shades of pink for your filling.

How to Make Valentine Cream Wafers

Here's how to make these delightful Valentine Cream Wafers, see the full recipe below for all the details.

1. Prepare and Chill the Dough

When mixing the wafer dough, mix just until combined and don’t skip chilling it.  Properly chilled dough is much easier to roll out thinly without sticking, and it helps the cookies maintain their shape during baking.

2. Roll, Cut, and Sugar the Wafers 

On a lightly floured surface, roll out one-third of the chilled dough at a time. When rolling, try to handle the dough as little as possible and get as many cutouts from your first few rolls. Sugar and prick each cutout with a fork.

3. Bake Wafers

The wafers are meant to be light-colored and delicate. Keep a close eye on them in the oven and remove them as soon as they are set, but before they start to brown around the edges. Overbaking will make them dry and crisp rather than tender.

4. Prepare Filling 

Have fun with the red liquid food color! Adding different amounts to separate bowls of frosting allows you to create a beautiful gradient of pinks.

5. Assemble Your Cream Wafers

Make sure your wafers are completely cool before you attempt to fill them. Spread about 1 teaspoon of your colorful frosting onto the bottom of one wafer and top with a second wafer, gently press them together to create a sandwich cookie.  

How to Store Valentine Cream Wafers

For the assembled Valentine Cream Wafers (with the creamy filling), here's how to store them to keep them fresh.

Room Temperature

Store the filled cookies in an airtight container at room temperature. They should stay fresh and delicious for about 3 to 5 days.

Refrigeration 

If you need to store them longer, you can store them in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a week. Just be aware that the texture of the wafers might become slightly firmer when chilled. Let them come closer to room temperature before serving for the best taste and texture.

Make Ahead

Baked, but not filled cookies can be made ahead and stored tightly covered in the freezer for later filling and assembly. Store up to 2 months.