Get Your Crunch On with these 20 Delicious Easter Cookie Recipes
As Easter approaches, you might want to try your hand at some delicious cookies that spell “spring is here” and that you can decorate to your heart’s desire. These recipes are crafted for all skill levels and are the perfect opportunity to gather your family for a fun-filled baking session.
Get ready to create not just tasty treats but lasting memories as you and the little ones embark on a delicious journey of mixing, rolling, and decorating.
1. Bunny Face Cookies
These adorable cookies will take about an hour to bake – and the fun starts right after, when you get to decorate them with marshmallows and sprinkles, creating the appearance of cute bunny faces. The cookies themselves contain regular ingredients that you most likely already have at home, while the baking process is easy and straightforward.
2. Bunny Cookies
These simple sugar cookies are soft and light – you can personalize them with your favorite combination of flavors, should you want to, but they’re delicious as is, buttery and with a hint of vanilla. You’ll need a bunny-shaped cookie cutter and some fondant and marshmallows to decorate, but the end result will make everyone, kids and adults alike, very happy.
3. Egg-shaped Lemon Curd Cookies
This Easter, don’t forget to prepare some delicious egg-shaped filled cookies that are sure to delight both kids and adults.
4. Bird’s Nest Cookies
These cookies are no-bake and made with just three ingredients, but they look spectacular and are a great addition to your Easter feast. All you need to do is melt peanut butter, chocolate, and butter, mix it with puffed rice, and make small nests out of it using muffin tins. Once the nests are set, you simply add a few mini eggs to each.
5. Italian Easter Egg Cookies
If you want to go down the traditional route this Easter, try these Italian easter cookies with a twist that comes in the form of a hard boiled egg. The flaky dough is very tasty, and you’ll have lots of fun creating shapes out of it, and incorporating the hard boiled egg into your design.
6. Koulourakia – Greek Easter Cookies
The Greek koulourakia contain both sour cream and butter and are flavored with citrus zest, hitting just the right spot in terms of texture and taste. They go perfectly with a glass of milk or with coffee, or you could serve them next to some lemon curd for your Easter brunch.
7. Cantucci (Italian Almond Cookies)
Twice-baked, these cookies are filling, delicious, and they keep very well for a long time. This is the ideal cookie for dipping – you can dip it in your favorite drink, be it tea, coffee, chocolate milk, or even sweet dessert wine.
8. Italian Easter Cookies
You can make these cookies well in advance as they stay fresh for weeks in an airtight container. They’re also a great option if you prefer desserts that are not overly sweet. You can play around with the dough and create all sorts of shapes – knots, pinwheels, ropes, and so on.
9. Easter Bunny Cut Out Cookies
Fun for the kids and easy to make, these cookies bank on simple ingredients and… creativity. Once the cookies are baked, use a mini cookie cutter in the shape of a bunny (or any shape you prefer) and some pastel-colored frosting to decorate them.
10. Easter M&M Cookies
Soft and chewy cookies that are done in 20 minutes – what more could you ask? The classic butter and brown sugar combination ensure plenty of flavor and just the right texture, while switching the chocolate chips for M&Ms gives them a festive look, perfect for Easter.
11. Flower Cookies
These cookies look sophisticated, elegant, and, frankly, straight from a fairy-tale. The only uncommon ingredient are the edible flowers – but, with a little bit of an effort, you will probably be able to find some in grocery stores or farmers’ markets.
12. Pizzicati (Italian Pinch Cookies)
Pizzicati are even better than pizza – it’s a delicious shortbread cookie filled with your favorite jam. You can use other types of fillings as well, such as Nutella, or even dry fruits. Use a round cookie cutter to cut the dough, place the filling, then lift the opposite sides of the dough and pinch the edges, forming a sort of cylinder. Bake and enjoy!
13. Easter Sugar Cookie Sandwiches
Roll out the dough for these very tasty sugar cookies, cut them out using a round cookie cutter, then cut out a small circle close to the edge (a piping tip is perfect for the small cutout). Bake and then, using your favorite frosting, assemble the cookie sandwiches, with the round cutout decorated as a bunny head.
14. Raspberry Brownie
The delicious flavor of raspberries is reminiscent of spring, so these brownies are an excellent choice as an Easter dessert. Plenty of dark chocolate and plenty of raspberries make them irresistible – bake them in individual tart molds for a more sophisticated look.
15. Gâteau Magique (French Magic Cake)
This little bit of French magic looks and tastes like you slaved away for hours in the kitchen – when, in fact, you can whip it up in literally minutes. The magical bit happens in the oven, with the cake mixture separating into three layers: a shortbread, a light custard, and a dense one.
16. Mascarpone and Chocolate Sandwich Cookies
There’s mascarpone in both the cookie dough and in the sandwich filling, which makes them incredibly rich and crumbly. The mascarpone and dark chocolate combo in the cookie sandwich filling is truly exquisite, and not overly sweet.
17. Chocolate Chip Cookies with Candied Fruit
These chocolate-y cookies are topped with a black chocolate icing and dried fruits. Make sure you get as many different colors as possible when it comes to the candied fruits. They will look like festive jewels on your Easter table.
18. Sprinkle Sugar Cookies
Talking about festive meals, it can hardly get more festive that these happy sprinkle cookies – and they’re so easy to make. Once the batter is mixed and chilled, you simply make balls of dough, roll them through the sprinkles, and bake.
19. Carrot Cake Cookies
Carrot cake truly spells Easter – so why not some delicious cookies inspired by the beloved cake? These cookies are chewy and flavorful, and they’re also a pretty healthy alternative to other types of desserts. They contain oats, raisins, nuts, shredded carrots, and plenty of spices, and are topped off with a delicious cream cheese frosting.
20. Chocolate Strawberry Cookies
It wouldn’t be Easter without strawberries, the quintessential spring fruit. In these cookies, strawberries are combined with dark chocolate and a little bit of mint. They’re decadently rich, but burst with a fruity, minty freshness.
21. Coconut Macaroon Nutella Nest Cookies
These adorable cookies will enchant all the kids in your family, and the combination of flavors is equally enchanting. Coconut and chocolate are used to create delicious little nests that melt in your mouth, and the egg-shaped candies on top are an extra treat.
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