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Best Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies – Easy Easter Cookie Recipe

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Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Best Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies - Easy Easter Cookie Recipe

Super fun and delicious Easter Peeps sugar cookies you can make at home.

Easy from scratch Peeps sugar cookies everyone will love.

Learn how to decorate bunny cookies with this simple idea.

Peep bunny cut out cookies that kids and adults love.

Yummy sanding sugar cookies with icing for cute Easter desserts, snacks or party food.

These decorated bunny sugar cookies will be your new favorite Easter treat this year – better than Easter candy.

Get ready to bake up the best Easter Peeps sugar cookies.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

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Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

How to Make Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Beat together the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Add the flour, baking powder, and salt.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Beat until a soft dough forms.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Separate the dough into two balls and flatten each ball into a disk.

Wrap with plastic wrap and chill for at least 4 hours or up to overnight.

When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Roll out the dough until it’s around 1/8th inch thick.

Use a bunny cookie cutter to cut out the dough and place them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.

Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes, until the cookies are just beginning to brown on the edges.

Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for five minutes, then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

When the cookies are cool, prepare the icing by beating together the butter, marshmallow crème, and vanilla extract until fluffy.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Add half the powdered sugar and one tablespoon of heavy cream.

Beat to combine

Add the remaining powdered sugar and beat until smooth.

Add more cream as needed to thin the frosting.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Separate the frosting into three bowls and add pink, yellow, and blue food coloring to each bowl.

Stir until the coloring is fully mixed into the icing.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Transfer each color to a piping bag and pipe the icing onto the cookies.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Pour the sanding sugar onto a plate and dip the cookies into the sugar.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Finish decorating each cookie by adding eyes and a nose with the black gel icing.

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

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Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

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Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

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Best Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies - Easy Easter Cookie Recipe

Easter Peeps Sugar Cookies

Super fun and delicious Easter Peeps sugar cookies you can make at home.
5 from 1 vote
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Prep Time 30 mins
Cook Time 12 mins
Total Time 42 mins
Course Desserts
Cuisine American
Servings 24

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • Bunny cookie cutter from Wal-Mart

For the Icing:

  • 1 jar 7 ounces marshmallow creme
  • 1 cup butter softened
  • 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 to 2 tablespoons heavy cream
  • 2 1/4 cups powdered sugar
  • Pink yellow, and blue food coloring
  • Pink yellow, and blue sanding sugar
  • Black gel icing

Instructions
 

  • Beat together the butter and sugar until smooth and creamy.
  • Add the egg and vanilla and beat to combine.
  • Add the flour, baking powder, and salt. Beat until a soft dough forms.
  • Separate the dough into two balls and flatten each ball into a disk. Wrap with plastic wrap and chill for at least 4 hours or up to overnight.
  • When ready to bake, preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
  • Roll out the dough until it’s around 1/8th inch thick. Use a bunny cookie cutter to cut out the dough and place them on a parchment paper lined baking sheet.
  • Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 10 to 12 minutes, until the cookies are just beginning to brown on the edges.
  • Allow the cookies to cool on the baking sheet for five minutes, then transfer to a wire cooling rack to cool completely.
  • When the cookies are cool, prepare the icing by beating together the butter, marshmallow crΓ¨me, and vanilla extract until fluffy.
  • Add half the powdered sugar and one tablespoon of heavy cream. Beat to combine
  • Add the remaining powdered sugar and beat until smooth. Add more cream as needed to thin the frosting.
  • Separate the frosting into three bowls and add pink, yellow, and blue food coloring to each bowl. Stir until the coloring is fully mixed into the icing.
  • Transfer each color to a piping bag and pipe the icing onto the cookies.
  • Pour the sanding sugar onto a plate and dip the cookies into the sugar.
  • Finish decorating each cookie by adding eyes and a nose with the black gel icing.
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