EASTER BUNNY COOKIES
Gather the family and hop to making Easter memories when everyone joins in to decorate Easter Bunny Cookies. Any seasonally shaped cookie will work here – chicks, eggs, carrots, lambs, etc. Have fun with our Easter Bunny Cookies. They're the perfect Easter treat to share with your family. There's no doubt your kids will love them!Directions:
- - Mix together some royal icing with pink food coloring until desired shade is reached. Transfer to a small squirt bottle with a thick tip. Leaving a ¼-inch border
- - outline bunny portion of a cookie and draw a jagged edge where the bunny meets the egg. Draw several zigzags across entire surface of outlined area. Use a spatula to spread evenly
- - and then shake cookie gently to settle icing. If there are any air bubbles
- - use a toothpick to pop them.
- - Using a sharp paring knife
- - cut one blue Jelly Belly jelly bean in half crosswise. Place the halves
- - cut side down
- - on cookie to resemble eyes. Add a pink one to resemble a nose. While the icing is still wet
- - transfer cookie to a paper plate and sprinkle bunny generously with sanding sugar. Working over the paper plate
- - shake off any excess sugar and reserve for remaining cookies. Using a toothpick
- - remove any remaining grains of sugar along the edge where bunny meets egg. Let dry at least 15 minutes before proceeding.
- - Mix together some royal icing with yellow food coloring until desired shade is reached. Transfer to a small squirt bottle with a thick tip. Leaving a ¼-inch border
- - outline egg portion. Draw several zigzags across entire surface of outlined area. Use a spatula to spread evenly
- - and then shake cookie gently to settle icing. If there are any air bubbles
- - use a toothpick to pop them.
- - Following shape of egg
- - use tweezers to add Jelly Belly jelly beans closely together to fill
- - forming a mosaic pattern. You'll want to work fairly quickly
- - as the icing will begin to dry. Repeat process with remaining cookies. Let cookies dry completely before packaging
- - about 8 hours.
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Ingredients:
- - Royal Icing
- - Rose pink and lemon or golden-yellow gel paste food coloring
- - 8 sugar cookie cutouts
- - White sanding sugar
- - Kids Mix Jelly Belly jelly beans