Easter Bunny Cookies
Cookies are the perfect treat for any holiday - and Easter is no exception! And what better way to celebrate Easter than with some adorable Easter bunny cookies? This simple sugar cookie recipe features candy topping and Easter sprinkles, making these fun cookies look just like animal crackers. Your kids will love the colorful decorations. And you'll love how easy they are to make!
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What Do I Need to Make Easter Bunny Cookies?
These adorable Easter bunny cookies are made with a sugar cookie dough, then decorated with chocolate and sprinkles. But the best part about this quick and easy recipe is its simple list of ingredients. To make your own animal cracker inspired Easter bunny cookies at home, you'll need:
- Butter
- Sugar
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract
- Flour
- Baking powder
- Salt
- White candy melts
- Pink candy melts
- Easter sprinkles
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How Do I Make Easter Bunny Cookies?
While these fun bunny-shaped sugar cookies look adorable, they're actually super simple to make. That's because instead of making a complicated icing recipe, you get to decorate your cookies with melted chocolate! That means you can cut your prep time in half when you follow these five easy steps:
Step One: Mix the Wet Ingredients
To make these simple cookies, start by preparing the sugar cookie dough. First, beat together the butter and sugar until the mixture is smooth and creamy. After that, add the eggs one at a time, beating the dough after each addition. Continue mixing the dough and add the vanilla extract.
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Step Two: Add the Dry Ingredients
In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder and salt. Use a whisk to combine. Add the flour mixture a little bit at a time to the wet ingredients, beating the dough continuously. If the dough begins sticking to the sides of the bowl, stop mixing and scrape the bowl with a spatula.
Step Three: Chill the Dough
Once the dough is well mixed, use your hands to form the dough into a large ball. Wrap the dough ball in plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator. You should allow the sugar cookie dough to chill for at least four hours. But you can keep the dough in the fridge up to overnight, if needed.
Step Four: Cut out the Easter Bunny Cookies
When you're ready to bake your Easter cookies, preheat the oven to 400 degrees and remove the dough from the fridge. Lightly flour your work surface and separate the dough ball into four portions. Place one portion on the floured surface and use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into a ¼-inch thick disk. Use the bunny cookie cutter to cut out the shapes and place each cut-out on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
Step Five: Bake the Cookies
Bake the cookies for around eight minutes, until the edges of the cookies are just beginning to brown. When your cookies have finished baking, allow them to cool for a few minutes on the pan, then transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
Step Six: Decorate the Easter Bunny Cookies
When the cookies have fully cooled, you can start decorating. Place the pink candy melts in one microwave safe bowl and the white candy melts in a separate bowl. Heat the candy melts in the microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring between each interval, until the chocolate is fully melted. Spread the melted candy over the top of each cookie and immediately decorate the cookie with sprinkles. Place the coated cookies back on the cooling rack and allow the chocolate to cool and harden before enjoying.
Easter Bunny Sugar Cookie Tips & Tricks
This sugar cookie recipe and decorating idea couldn't be simpler to pull off. And with these baking tips, you'll have delicious Easter cookies that will impress everyone at your dinner table!
- Don't forget to chill the dough: Chilling your cookie dough is an essential step in this recipe. In order to cut the cookies into the adorable Easter bunny shapes, you need to give the dough time to set up and harden. That means you need to allow at least four hours for the cookie dough to chill before rolling and cutting it with the cookie cutters. If the dough isn't chilled, it will be too soft and sticky to roll.
- Allow the dough to rest at room temperature after chilling: Sometimes, chilling your sugar cookie dough for an extended period of time will cause it to become too hard to roll. If that's the case, simply place the cookie dough on the counter for around 10 minutes. This will give the dough time to soften enough to make it pliable without allowing it to become too soft and sticky to roll.
- Place the dough back in the fridge if it becomes too soft: On the other hand, your sugar cookie dough may become too soft to roll if it's left sitting out for too long. If you're worried about the extra dough becoming too sticky as you're working, try working in batches instead. While you're rolling out one section of dough, place the remaining sections back in the refrigerator to chill to prevent the dough from becoming too soft.
Easter Bunny Cookies
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups butter softened
- 2 cups white granulated sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 12 oz white candy melts
- 12 oz pink candy melts
- Easter sprinkles
Instructions
To prepare the cookie dough:
- In a stand mixer, beat together the butter and sugar until the mixture is smooth and creamy.
- Add the eggs one at a time, beating the dough after each addition. Continue mixing the dough and add the vanilla extract.
- In a large bowl, add the flour, baking powder and salt. Use a whisk to combine.
- Add the flour mixture a little bit at a time to the wet ingredients, beating the dough continuously. If the dough begins sticking to the sides of the bowl, stop mixing and scrape the bowl with a spatula.
- Once the dough is well mixed, use your hands to form the dough into a large ball. Wrap the dough ball in plastic wrap and place it in the refrigerator. Allow the dough to chill for four hours or overnight.
To make the cookies:
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit and remove the dough from the fridge.
- Lightly flour your work surface and separate the dough ball into four portions. Place one portion on the floured surface and use a rolling pin to flatten the dough into a ¼-inch thick disk. Use a bunny cookie cutter to cut out the shapes and place each cut-out on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Bake the cookies on the center rack in the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit for around eight minutes, until the edges of the cookies are just beginning to brown. When your cookies have finished baking, allow them to cool for a few minutes on the pan, then transfer them to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
To decorate the cookies:
- When the cookies have fully cooled, you can start decorating. Place the pink candy melts in one microwave safe bowl and the white candy melts in a separate bowl. Heat the candy melts in the microwave in 30-second intervals, stirring between each interval, until the chocolate is fully melted. Spread the melted candy over the top of each cookie and immediately decorate the cookie with sprinkles. Place the coated cookies back on the cooling rack and allow the chocolate to cool and harden before enjoying.
