Easter Egg Cookies

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Inside: These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant! Keep reading for step-by-step photo recipe to make one of our favorite holiday desserts!

These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant!

Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

Decorating Easter eggs is a tradition in our family, as I’m sure it is for many of you. After all of our eggs are decorated, we hide them in the yard and the kids hunt for them.

Then we eat egg salad sandwiches for a week!

Don’t get my wrong, I love egg salad, but this year we thought it would be fun to decorate a sweet treat too!

Decorated Easter egg cookies are a fun activity for the holiday week, a cute gift idea for family and friends, or you could even make a batch to leave as a thank you for the Easter Bunny!

We provide a sample pattern here so you can get some ideas, but the possibilities are unlimited! You can use any color fondant, add sprinkles, or even incorporate edible markers.

Decorating Easter egg cookies is just as much fun (if not more) as decorating traditional Easter eggs…and they definitely taste more delicious!

If you want to make them a little healthier, try our Sugar Cookie Easter Egg Fruit Pizzas!

— Stacey

Related: For another fun Easter activity, check out our Easter egg potato stamping!

These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant!

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These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant! Click for photo step-by-step recipes.

How to Make Easter Egg Cookies with Fondant Icing

A free printable copy of our Easter Egg Cookies recipe is available at the bottom of the post.

We’ve also provided step-by-step photos to show how we decorated our Easter egg cookies, but feel free to use your own ideas and let your imagination run wild!

For Your Sugar Cookies:

First, prepare your cookies according to package or recipe and allow to cool completely.

Baking Easter egg sugar cookies

While your cookies cool, roll your fondant out to 1/4 inch thickness.

We used our cookie cutter that we used to make our Easter egg cookies to cut a base layer of fondant to cover each cookie. We used yellow fondant for all, but you can mix it up or use your favorite color:

decorating Easter egg sugar cookies with pastel fondant

Use 2-3 other fondant colors to make decorations for your Easter egg cookies: stripes, polka dots, etc.

Cutting pink fondant icing into strips

If making stripes, don’t worry about getting the length just right before you place them on your Easter egg cookies. You can trim the edges after you put the stripes on the cookies:

decorating Easter egg sugar cookies with pastel fondant

To cut out perfect small circles to make polka dot Easter eggs, we used the wide end of a frosting decorating tip:

cutting purple fondant into circles to decorate sugar cookies

We then pressed our fondant decorations onto our base layer of fondant:

decorating Easter egg sugar cookies with pastel fondant

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These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant! Click for photo step-by-step recipes.

Grab a free printable copy of our Easter Egg Cookies recipe:

Yield: 12 cookies

Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant! Click for photo step-by-step recipes.

These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy for kids to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant! Click for photo step-by-step recipes.

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 package sugar cookie dough
  • 8-9 oz. yellow fondant
  • 4-5 oz. pink fondant
  • 3-4 oz. purple fondant

Instructions

  1. Flour your work surface, as well as a rolling pin.
  2. Place sugar cookie dough on flour, then roll out to 1/4 inch thickness.
  3. Use an egg-shaped cookie cutter to make about one dozen Easter egg sugar cookies, or until all dough is used.
  4. Bake cookies according to the directions on packaging, or your favorite recipe.
  5. Remove from oven and allow to cool completely.
  6. Roll out your yellow fondant so that it’s about ¼ inch thick. Using the same egg-shaped cookie cutter, cut out one dozen egg-shaped fondant pieces.
  7. Press one egg-shaped fondant onto each cookie.
  8. Roll out pink fondant so that it’s about ¼ inch thick, then cut into strips about ½ an inch wide and 3 inches long.
  9. Place one pink fondant strip onto each cookie, on a slight curve. Trim any excess.
  10. Roll out purple fondant to about ¼ inch thick. Using Wilton tip #11, cut out 60 small purple circle fondant pieces.
  11. Place 5 purple circles on each cookie, just above the pink stripe. I recommend starting with the middle circle and working your way out - this ensures that the circles look even and centered.

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