Easter Cookies

Ashleigh from Bee in Our Bonnet is here today with a cute post all about Easter Cookies! 

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I am beyond excited to be here on somewhat simple!  I love the new site and I'm stoked to have the chance to share my love of decorated cookies with you!  

Spring is officially here!  That means flowers, pastels, flip flops, (allergies), and Easter cookies are here!

Today I want to show you that an egg cookie cutter, (or a metal circle that you smashed into the shape of an egg), is all you need to create 3 fabulous kinds of Easter cookies!

I posted my recipes and instructions for sugar cookies and royal icing here.  But I'm sure you know all of that if you followed my cookie workshop at Crazy Domestic!  

After you have baked and cooled your egg-shaped cookies, you want to prepare you icing.  Remember that you need 2 different consistencies for each color that you want to use.  

You will use the thicker icing to make a border.  This will make your edges nice and precise.

With the thinner icing (add water), you will fill in, just full enough not to go over the edge.

Then you will need to pop the bubbles with a toothpick, right away.  You only have a minute or two while it's really wet to do this, otherwise it will leave a blemish in your smooth icing.  I like to quote Tommy Boy if that happens, "That's gonna leave a mark."

So now your have popped the bubbles and it is nice and smooth.  

If you decorate with your thin icing now, it will meld into the base layer and end up flat.

This is really cute for polka dots!  See how smooth these dried!  You could probably stop there and impress your Easter bunny with these cute eggs.  

But I wanted raised frosting on these, so I let the base layer dry for about 8 hours and the decorated with my stiff frosting (the one I made the border with).  

These are pretty cute, but I thought they for sure needed something...

So that's when disco dust entered the picture.  Some of these have a light sprinkling of disco dust all over the cookie.  Some have it on the embellishments.  The disco dust will stick to all layers that are wet or even slightly wet.  If your base layer has dried for a whole day, then you can sprinkle your disco dust on the wet icing, and brush the excess off with a clean, dry paint brush.  

Ahhh, I love a glittered egg!  You could just stop here.  

But if there are more cookies and icing left, you may as well go for it!

Some of my yellow eggs were dying to be chicks.  

I mixed up a little bit of stiff orange frosting and gave them a nose and feet.

Then I gave them some eyes and wings.  I did these eyes with an edible ink pen, but you could easily mix up some black frosting if you don't have one.  

And here is a combination of the chick and the egg cookie!  

Now if you're in the mood for some spring flowers, you can whip up a batch of tulips with your same egg cutter.  Before I baked them, I used a sharp knife to make the tops of the eggs look like a tulip.  I put sticks in them because I wanted to put them in a bouquet.  

After they were baked, I did a base layer (outline and fill like I did with the eggs) and let it dry.  

Then I came back and outlined the tulip and sprinkled with some pink sanding sugar.  

This added some fun dimension without more color.  

Then I put them in a pot with some foam in it.  

I also tied a green ribbon around the base of the cookie to act like a leaf.  

I always love to have tulips on my Easter table!  

So there you have it!  3 for the price of one!  So go get an egg cutter (or if your store is out, get a metal circle and lean on it) and decide which one you want to make!

Stop by and visit my sister and I and see what projects we're up to now!