Cute & Easy Easter Cookies
Step aside, carrot cake–these Easter sugar cookies are about to take over as the star of the Easter dessert table! With their colorfully sugared bodies and and tiny icing faces, these cookies look just like your favorite marshmallow Peeps, minus the gooey filling. Besides their obvious cuteness, these cookies are so easy and fun to make. You may be familiar with my easy sugar cookie recipe, which is exactly what I’m sharing today, just in Easter form. As always, the dough comes together flawlessly, makes crisp, even cuts, and tastes as good as it looks. It’s been a favorite on the blog for years now, and it’s the perfect choice for Easter sugar cookies!
Why You’ll Love Them:
NO spreading! These cookies hold their shape after baking, so you’ll get gorgeous cuts every time.Can easily be rolled thin for crisp cookies OR thick for soft cookies–you decide! They have a wonderful buttery flavor and an equally delicious frosting.The frosting is extra simple and is not royal icing (though I do have a royal icing recipe, if that’s what you’re looking for!)It’s the perfect recipe to make with kids and could be a great alternative to dying eggs if your family is looking for a new Easter tradition (anyone else make hot cross buns every year?).
What You Need
Here’s what I used to make my Easter sugar cookies; I’ll be sure to link to some of the more specific tools in the recipe card so you can use them too!
Cookie cutter. I used this adorable bunny shaped cutter, but you can always use another cookie cutter of a similar size/shape. Carrots would be cute too!Sanding sugars. These can be found in pretty much any grocery store–pick whichever colors you like. Since I’m decorating my cookies to look like marshmallow Peeps, I stuck with colors similar to those.Piping bags and tips. Using piping bags and tips makes cookie decorating SO much easier! I like using the Wilton #3 tip for the brown face details and the Wilton #5 tip for the main icing. Decorating tool. Use this to help evenly distribute the icing after you’ve piped it on your cookies. A toothpick can work too.
SAM’S TIP: When making your cookie cuts, try to keep them as close together as possible to get the most cookies as out of your dough. Once you’ve made as many cuts as you can, regroup the dough scraps and reroll until you’ve cut all of your cookies.
How to Decorate Easter Sugar Cookies
SAM’S TIP: If you’d prefer to skip the sanding sugar, your cookies will still turn out beautifully! You can always color your icing with festive food coloring and pipe that on instead. Just be sure to wait until the bodies fully set before adding the face details, or the colors could all bleed together. Enjoy! Let’s bake together! I’ll be walking you through all the steps in my written recipe and video below! If you try this recipe, be sure to tag me on Instagram, and you can also find me on YouTube and Facebook Luke is happy to demonstrate that these cookies are, in fact, NOT too cute to eat 😉
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