Indulge in the delightful flavors of Easter Egg Cookies, a festive treat that captures the spirit of spring and celebration. Whether you're a seasoned baker or a novice in the kitchen, these easy-to-follow recipes will guide you in creating delicious and visually appealing cookies that are perfect for Easter gatherings, gifting, or simply enjoying as a sweet treat. From classic sugar cookies adorned with pastel icing and sprinkles to creative chocolate chip cookies filled with colorful candy eggs, each recipe offers a unique twist on the traditional Easter egg theme. Get ready to delight your taste buds and impress your loved ones with these delightful Easter-inspired cookies.
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EASTER EGG COOKIES
My mother started baking these cookies with me and my eight brothers and sisters when I was a child, and I carried on the tradition with our four youngsters when they were little. Now, my children are grown and can make these cookies with their own tots. -Barbara Neuweg, West Point, Iowa
Provided by Taste of Home
Categories Desserts
Time 40m
Yield 3 dozen.
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- In a large bowl, cream butter and brown sugar until light and fluffy. Add egg and vanilla; mix well. Combine the flour, oats and salt; stir into creamed mixture. Divide dough into three equal portions. , Form 12 egg-shaped cookies from each portion. Place on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until set. Cool completely. , Combine glaze ingredients until smooth; spoon over cookies. Decorate as desired.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 126 calories, Fat 6g fat (3g saturated fat), Cholesterol 19mg cholesterol, Sodium 102mg sodium, Carbohydrate 18g carbohydrate (8g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 2g protein.
EASTER EGG PUZZLE COOKIES
We've hatched a new way to decorate and hunt for eggs, using our clever cookie-puzzle technique. Cut oval shapes out of sugar-cookie dough, "break" them into pieces after baking, and finish with pastel royal icing and sanding sugar. All that's left is to put these eggs back together again.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes about 3 dozen
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
- Beat butter and granulated sugar with a mixer on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time. Reduce speed to low; add flour mixture, and beat until combined. Add vanilla. Wrap dough in plastic, and refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Roll out dough to 1/8-inch thickness on a lightly floured surface. Cut out egg shapes with a 2 1/2-inch oval cutter. Transfer cookies to parchment-lined baking sheets, spacing about 1 inch apart. Refrigerate until firm, about 30 minutes. Bake until edges are golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Upon removing from oven, cut into pieces with a sharp knife (if they're cool, it will be difficult to create clean edges). Let cool. Using a pastry bag fitted with a 1/8-inch tip and filled with royal icing, decorate as desired. Sprinkle with sanding sugar while icing is wet. If adding dots or stripes, let base layer dry first.
ROYAL ICING FOR EASTER EGG PUZZLE COOKIES
Use this recipe to decorate our Easter Egg Puzzle Cookies.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes
Yield Makes 2 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 4
Steps:
- Combine sugar, meringue powder, and water in the bowl of a mixer. Beat on medium speed until smooth, about 4 minutes. (If icing is too thick, add more water, 1 teaspoon at a time.)
- Divide icing into batches, and mix in a different shade of food coloring to each to tint.
EASTER EGG COOKIES
This year your decorated Easter eggs could be plump cookies--a treat that will delight children and adults alike. You bake light-textured cookies shaped like eggs, glaze 1/2 of the cookies with lemon icing and 1/2 with chocolate, then decorate all of them with the colored icing you can buy in tubes or pressurized cans.
Provided by EIDT
Time 3h55m
Yield 20
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Cream powdered sugar and butter for cookies in a bowl with an electric mixer until smooth. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in lemon zest.
- Combine sifted flour with baking powder and salt. Sift again, then add to the butter mixture alternately with the milk, stirring after each addition until just combined. Cover and refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease a cookie sheet.
- Remove cookie dough from the refrigerator. Lightly dust your hands with flour and roll 2 tablespoons dough between your palms into a 3-inch long cylinder with tapering ends. Place 2 inches apart on the prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are a pale straw color, about 12 minutes. Remove from the oven and immediately transfer cookies to wire racks. Allow to cool thoroughly, about 30 minutes.
- While the cookies are cooling, prepare icings. Combine powdered sugar, lemon juice, and warm water for lemon icing in one bowl, and combine powdered sugar, warm water, chocolate, and vanilla for chocolate icing in a second bowl. Stir both icings until smooth and thin enough to pour.
- Put waxed paper under the racks of cookies. Pour about 1 tablespoon lemon icing over a cookie, beginning in the center and continuing around the sides until cookie is evenly coated. Repeat to frost 1/2 of the cookies with lemon icing and the other 1/2 with chocolate icing. Scoop up an icing that drips on the waxed paper and stir into the remaining icing. Use extra icing as needed to coat cookies. Let icing dry until no longer sticky, about 30 minutes.
- Use tubes or pressurized cans of decorating icing to make your own fanciful design of flowers, geometric shapes, or Easter motifs.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 206.6 calories, Carbohydrate 36.3 g, Cholesterol 31.3 mg, Fat 6.1 g, Fiber 0.7 g, Protein 2.7 g, SaturatedFat 3.5 g, Sodium 76.6 mg, Sugar 23.4 g
EASTER EGG COOKIES
Cookie mix makes cookie baking super simple. A few decorating tricks makes you a pro!
Provided by Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 36
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Heat oven to 375° F. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, flour, butter and egg until dough forms.
- On lightly floured surface, roll dough about 1/8-inch thick. With 3-inch egg-shaped cookie cutter, cut out eggs; place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets.
- Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling racks. Cool completely, about 15 minutes. Frost and decorate. Marbled eggs In small bowl, stir 1/4 cup frosting and 1 to 2 drops favorite food color until well blended. Frost cookies with contrasting colored frosting. Pipe three lines colored frosting onto each egg; using toothpick pull through frosting for marbled appearance. Candy designs Frost cookies. Decorate with candy strips, jelly beans or candy-coated chocolate candies. Easter chicks In small bowl, stir 1 1/4 cups frosting and 2 to 3 drops yellow food color until well blended. Frost top half of each cookie with yellow frosting and bottom half with white frosting. To decorate, use black sprinkles for eyes, yellow sprinkles for feathers and pieces of orange candy slices for beak and feet.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 110, Carbohydrate 17 g, Cholesterol 10 mg, Fat 1, Fiber 0 g, Protein 0 g, SaturatedFat 2 1/2 g, ServingSize 1 Frosted Cookie (Undecorated), Sodium 65 mg, Sugar 12 g, TransFat 0 g
MARBLEIZED EASTER EGG COOKIES
Strategically applied icing turns basic oval sugar cookies into marbleized masterpieces. Download templates one and two for decorating instructions.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes about 1 dozen 6-inch cookies
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt into a bowl.
- Put butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Mix on medium speed until pale and fluffy. Mix in eggs and lemon juice. Reduce speed to low. Gradually mix in flour mixture. Divide dough in half; flatten each half into a disk. Wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate until firm, at least 1 hour or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees, with racks in upper and lower thirds. Let one disk of dough stand at room temperature just until soft enough to roll, about 10 minutes. Roll out dough between two pieces of plastic wrap to 1/4 inch thick. Remove top layer of plastic wrap. Cut out cookies with a 6-inch fluted egg-shaped cookie cutter. Transfer cookie dough on plastic wrap to a baking sheet. Transfer baking sheet to freezer; freeze until very firm, about 15 minutes. Remove baking sheet from freezer and transfer shapes to baking sheets lined with nonstick baking mats. Roll out scraps, and repeat. Repeat with remaining disk of dough.
- Bake, switching positions of sheets and rotating halfway through, until edges turn golden, 15 to 18 minutes. Let cool on sheets on wire racks.
- Divide royal icing evenly among three small bowls. Color each portion of icing with desired shade of food coloring, stirring with a toothpick to combine. Transfer each color of icing to a separate small squirt bottle. Using the colored icing, decorate according to template instructions.
EASTER EGG BROWNIE COOKIES
How cute are these Easter celebration cookies? Adults and kids alike will love them! Colorful sprinkles and Cadbury™ mini eggs are baked into these chocolaty cookies (made easy with Betty Crocker™ fudge brownie mix!) for an easy, fudgy treat that will be a hit at your springtime party. Each batch bakes 21, so you don't have to double the recipe for your crowd.
Provided by By Betty Crocker Kitchens
Categories Dessert
Time 1h30m
Yield 21
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Heat oven to 350°F. In large bowl, mix brownie mix, melted butter, egg and water until well blended. Stir in candy sprinkles. Let stand 15 minutes.
- Shape dough into 21 (1 1/2-inch) balls. Place 2 inches apart on parchment-lined large cookie sheets. Press each ball slightly to flatten. On each cookie, press 3 Cadbury™ mini eggs in center, reshaping if necessary.
- Bake 9 to 11 minutes or until edges are set (center will appear slightly wet). Cool 5 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling racks. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 30 minutes. Store covered in airtight container.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 200, Carbohydrate 30 g, Cholesterol 20 mg, Fat 1 1/2, Fiber 0 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 4 1/2 g, ServingSize 1 Cookie, Sodium 120 mg, Sugar 15 g, TransFat 0 g
GLUTEN-FREE EASTER EGG COOKIES
As you can imagine, Easter treats are huge in Italy! And because I wanted to stick to this delicious Italian tradition, I created a recipe for Gluten-Free Easter Egg Cookies together with a quick video that shows you how to make them. You should really be in Italy at this time of the year: Chocolate Easter eggs are ubiquitous, chocolate shaped rabbits and hens are in every store, and all of the bakeries and pastry shops fill their windows with amazing sweet and savory treats, from Colomba to Torta Pasqualina. There's really something for everybody.
Provided by Little Bites of Beauty
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European Italian
Time 45m
Yield 12
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Combine cassava flour, potato starch, and stevia powder in a bowl; add coconut milk, coconut oil, egg yolks, orange liqueur, and honey and knead until dough is well mixed.
- Roll dough on a work surface using a rolling pin until 1/4-inch thick. Cut egg-shaped cookies using an egg-shaped cookie cutter. Place egg-shaped cookies on a baking sheet. Spread jam over each cookie and top with sprinkles.
- Bake in the preheated oven until edges start to become lightly browned, about 25 minutes. Cool completely.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 194.9 calories, Carbohydrate 27.1 g, Cholesterol 68.3 mg, Fat 9 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 1.3 g, SaturatedFat 6.9 g, Sodium 6.3 mg, Sugar 4.5 g
Tips:
- Use room temperature butter. This will help the cookies cream together more easily and result in a smoother dough.
- Don't overmix the dough. Overmixing can make the cookies tough.
- Chill the dough before baking. This will help the cookies hold their shape and prevent them from spreading too much.
- Bake the cookies until the edges are just beginning to brown. Overbaking will make the cookies dry and crumbly.
- Let the cookies cool completely before decorating. This will help the frosting set properly.
Conclusion:
These Easter egg cookies are a delicious and festive treat that are perfect for spring. They're easy to make and can be decorated in a variety of ways, making them a great activity for kids of all ages. So gather your ingredients and get baking!
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