These delicious Sweet Easter Sugar Cookies will help you to celebrate Easter’s happiness! Perfectly soft, buttery, and pastel color adorned, these cookies are a delightful treat the entire family will adore.
These cookies capture the festive mood whether your Easter celebration is small-scale baking for fun or filling hampers. Even novice bakers may produce lovely, Instagram-worthy sweets using basic sugar cookie dough and easy-to-follow decorating techniques.
Customize them using Easter-themed cookie cutters like bunnies, eggs, or flowers; let your imagination go wild with vibrant frosting and sprinkles. Made as much fun as they are consumed, these cookies are easy!
Ingredients for Sugar Cookies:
- 2 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon almond extract (optional)
Ingredients for Royal Icing (optional):
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons meringue powder
- 5–6 tablespoons warm water
- Gel food coloring (in pastel shades)
Instructions:
Start by mixing together in a medium-sized bowl the flour, baking powder, and salt in a medium-sized bowl and putting aside. Using a hand or stand mixer, beat the softened butter and sugar in a separate large basin until the mixture becomes light and fluffy—about two to three minutes.
Add the egg, vanilla, and almond extracts—if using—then keep mixing until everything is thoroughly blended. Add the dry ingredients gradually to the liquid components, mixing until a soft, smooth dough results.
To let the dough firm up and simplify rolling, split it in two equal pieces, flatten them into discs, wrap them in plastic wrap, and chill for at least one hour.
Chill the dough; next, prepare your oven to 350°F (175°C) and parchment paper line baking pans. After lightly dusting your work area, roll out one disk of dough about ¼-inch thick.
On the ready-made baking sheets, cut out shapes using Easter-themed cookie cutters—such as bunnies, eggs, or flowers—then arrange them one inch apart. Using the second dough disk, repeat the procedure collecting and re-rolling scraps as necessary.
Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for eight to ten minutes, or until the edges just beginning to become a light golden brown. Steer clear of overbaking if you want soft cookies.
Before moving the cookies to a wire rack to cool totally, let them sit on the baking sheet for five minutes. Before decorations, these cookies must be very cool.
You may make the royal icing while the cookies chill. Combine in a large bowl the powdered sugar, meringue powder, and warm water. Turn the mixture on high speed for around five minutes to develop firm peaks.
To produce pastel tones, divide the icing into smaller bowls and add a few drops of gel food coloring to every one of them For simple decoration, pipework bags or squeeze bottles should hold the coloured icing.
To decorate, ice each cookie’s edge and let it set for a few minutes. Then evenly distribute the extra icing you fill the middle with using a toothpick.
Before the frosting solidifies, you can add sprinkles or more designs. For optimal effects, let the decorated cookies dry totally at room temperature—many hours or overnight may be needed.
These sweet Easter sugar cookies are ready for consumption or gift-giving! Perfect for holiday festivities and equally enjoyable to create as they are to consume.