Easter Cookies Ideas | Festive Springtime Treats

Recipes

1. Easter Bunny Face Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Round cookie cutter
3. Royal icing (white, pink, black)
4. Mini marshmallows or candy for cheeks

Instructions:

1. Take the dough and make round biscuits out of it. Then bake the round biscuits and let them cool.
2. Flood the cookies with white icing. Wait until it has thoroughly dried.
3. Tube icing adds pink ears, cheeks, and nose. Put a few small black dots for the eyes and whiskers.

2. Bunny Butt Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Round cutter + small circle cutter
3. White and pink icing
4. Mini marshmallow (tail)

Instructions:

1. Using a large round cutter, cut off the top, bottom, and sides of the circle. Use two smaller round cutters to make legs.
2. Attach the tiny rounds to make the bunny feet. Cook and let cool.
3. Flood with more white icing. Footprints are upper decorated with pink icing. Use a marshmallow with the bottom of its dip in yellow food coloring for the tail.

3. Easter Egg-Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Egg-shaped cutter
3. Pastel royal icing (multiple colors)

Instructions:

1. Bake cookies in the shape of eggs.
2. Then add zigzags, polka dots, lines, and pastel-colored flowers.

4. Carrot-Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Carrot cookie cutter
3. Orange and green royal icing

Instructions:

1. Cut out carrots. Bake and cool.
2. Cover the body in orange icing. Nearly at the top, making sure that it still looks like an orange. Add texture lines if you want to, then turn it over and draw the areas that are not supposed to be covered in green.

5. Chick-Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Click or oval cutter
3. Yellow, orange, and black icing

Instructions:

1. Cut chick shapes and bake.
2. Cover with yellow. Add an orange beak and feet, and black eyes.

6. Lamb Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Lamb or cloud-shaped cutter
3. White icing, mini marshmallows or white sprinkles
4. Black icing for the face

Instructions:

1. You could bake shape cookies into lambs or clouds.
2. Ice with lemon frosting. Add cloves to make wool – or currants.
3. Pipe in the nostrils and eyes with black icing, Then frost the ears.

7. Cross-Shaped Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Cross-shaped cutter
3. White, pastel, or gold royal icing

Instructions:

1. Roll cookie dough until it’s about 10 mm thick. Then cut into cross cookies and bake.
2. With something elegant, Just put simple lines on, or dress it up with some flower elements strategically placed. For a more rustic feel, outline everything in the palest pink and use filigree.

8. Tulip Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Tulip-shaped cutter
3. Pink, yellow, purple, and green icing

Instructions:

1. Bake tulip-shaped cookies.
2. Flood petals with bright spring colors, add green for the stem and leaves.

9. Butterfly Sugar Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Butterfly cutter
3. Colorful icing or glaze

Instructions:

1. Bake butterfly cookies.

2. Decorate wings with swirls, dots, and vibrant colors. Use piping or brush techniques.

10. Spring Flower Cookies Recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar cookie dough
2. Flower-shaped cutter
3. Royal icing (a variety of pastel colors)
4. Sprinkles or pearl candies (center)

Instructions:

1. Cut flower shapes, then bake them. Wait for the flowers to cool down.
2. Frost with pastel icing and add icing decorations to the center. For example, decorate the middle of each floral with sprinkles or pearls settled in a swirl pattern around on top.

11. Royal Icing Easter Eggs Recipe

Ingredients:

For the Sugar Cookies (Egg Base):

• 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 large egg
• 1 ½ tsp vanilla extract

For the Royal Icing:

• 4 cups powdered sugar, sifted
• 3 tbsp meringue powder
• 6 tbsp warm water (adjust for consistency)
• Gel food coloring (variety of colors)

Instructions:

1. Make the Cookies:

1. Whisk flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl and keep aside.
2. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy (about 2-3 minutes).
3. Beat in the egg and vanilla until well incorporated.
4. Add all the dry ingredients gradually, mixing until a soft dough is formed.
5. The dough is then divided into two parts, wrapped in plastic wrap, and chilled for 1 hour.
6. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C). Prepare baking sheets by lining them with parchment paper.
7. Roll out dough to a thickness of ¼ inch. Cut into egg shapes with cookie cutters.
8. Place on prepared baking sheets and bake 8–10 minutes, or until the edges just begin to brown.
9. Cool completely before decorating.

2. Prepare Royal Icing:

1. In a mixing bowl, powdered sugar, meringue powder, and warm water are combined.
2. Beat at the lowest speed for 7-10 minutes to retain stiff peaks.
3. Divide the icing into small bowls. Add color as needed.
4. Add water in ½ tsp increments to thin icing to flood consistency (if needed).

3. Decorate Easter Eggs:

1. Outline the eggs with a small round-tip piping bag.
2. Fill the outlines using icing thinned to flood consistency. Use toothpicks to spread icing and pop any bubbles.
3. Add dots, stripes, zigzags, and flowers with various colors and tips.
4. Leave the decorated cookies to dry on a countertop for 4-6 hours or overnight.