40 Easter Cookies That Are Sweet and Easy to Decorate for Spring
Bake these cute and hoppy treats for everyone to enjoy!
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Easter Sunday comes with delicious desserts, "hoppy" puns, Easter egg hunts and gatherings with family and friends. When it comes to making the best treats for guests, you can never go wrong with a fresh batch of homemade cookies—especially when they're colorfully decorated with Easter bunnies, baby chicks and pastel-colored eggs.
To help you host an "egg-cellent" Easter party this season, we've rounded up the best Easter cookies that are easy and fun to make. From lemon-filled treats to desserts topped with Cadbury eggs and bunny paw prints, these mouthwatering (and cute) Easter cookies incorporate the colors and tastes of the spring season. So along with decorating your Easter eggs for guests to admire and upgrading your home decor with a "hoppier" theme (vibrant and DIY wreaths included), make sure to add these cookie recipes to your list to make this Easter the sweetest one yet!
Giant Easter Egg Cookie
After rolling out the perfect sugar cookie dough, cut it in the shape of an Easter egg using this template. Once it cools, decorate it with blue buttercream and sugar-topped cookie flowers and leaves.
Cocoa Bunny Cookies
Shape chocolate sugar cookies into bunnies and decorate them with icing. After they set, sprinkle on shredded coconut tails for a "hoppy" look.
Giant Sugar Cookie Bouquet
This giant sugar cookie has a beautiful bouquet design made from the base of a celery heart.
Peanut Butter Candy Egg Blondies
These mouth-watering cookie bars are baked and topped with peanut butter and candy eggs.
Pastel Color Blocked Cookies
These colorful cookies are made with a pistachio shortbread recipe and dipped in white chocolate for a mouth-watering taste.
Stained Glass Butterfly Cookies
These butterfly cookies are the perfect treat for spring and Easter. Plus, they double as cute decor!
Flower Fruit Tarts
After making mini flower tarts, fill them with lemon or jam curd for a delicious Easter treat you and your Easter party guests will enjoy.
Easter-Themed Macarons
Purchase or make plain macarons and paint them with royal icing to make your Easter designs (baby chicks and bunnies included).
Daisy Cookie Cake
Make these petal-shaped sugar cookies topped with cream cheese frosting, then put them together to transform them into an eye-catching daisy cake.
Citrus Shortbread Cookies
These buttery shortbread cookies are made from fresh citrus — perfect to enjoy in the warmer weather spring brings.
Chocolate Sugar Cookies
These chocolatey treats are as pretty as a picture! Oh, and you only need seven ingredients to make them.
Bunny Cookies
The kids will love these cookies, which are covered in colorful (and delicious!) royal icing.
Lemon Curd Egg Cookies
Tart, sweet, and absolutely delightful. The lemon curd takes ordinary sugar cookies to the next level.
Get the recipe from Woman's Day »
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Bunny Hug Cookies
It takes just 10 minutes to prep these adorable hugging bunnies (and yes, those are Cadbury chocolates!).
Flourless Fudge Cookies
Believe it or not, there's no flour or butter used in this recipe, but they are as fudgy as can be.
Cookie Dough Pops
Decorate these cookie dough pops with whatever you'd like: mini-marshmellows, nonpareils, sanding sugar — you name it.
Get the recipe from Woman's Day »
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Marbled Egg Sugar Cookies
Place some of these dyed eggs into your loved one's Easter basket for a pop of pastel (and extra sugar).
Easter Egg Cookies
You'll want to make a few batches of these egg-inspired sweets. They're sure to be devoured.
Easter Vanilla Sugar Cookies
What says "Easter" more than cookies shaped as adorable farm animals? These cute animal treats made from classic vanilla sugar cookie dough are easily dressed up with colorful frosting (and sprinkles!).
Spring Garden Cookies
Make one batch basic sugar cookies and one batch royal icing. You'll need a rectangular cookie cutter, green and pink natural food coloring, powder food coloring, or gel paste food coloring, and small round piping tips.
While cooling, prepare royal icing. Transfer half to bowl and thin slightly with water, then transfer to piping bag. Divide remaining icing between two bowls and tint it light green and pink; transfer to piping bags fitted with small round tips. Using white icing, outline and fill in the cookies; let set. Once set, with colored icing, pipe stems and flowers on each cookie and let set.
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