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Easter Cookie Recipes
Cookie Recipes For Easter To Make Fancy Easter Bunny And Easter Bonnet Cookies
With old-fashioned Easter cookie recipes, you can make colorful cookies for your holiday table. Imagine setting a tray of these delicious vintage treats before your guests: cookies shaped like yellow Easter bonnets decorated with green leaves and delicate pink flowers, and spicy cookies shaped like Easter bunnies.
Not only do these fancy cookies look good, but with their all-natural ingredients they taste good too. Everybody loves them, and they are a big hit with the kids.
Easter Bonnet Cookie RecipeThese old-time Easter cookie recipes are taken from Mom's old recipe scrapbook, circa 1929.
Easter Bonnet Cookie Recipe1-1/3 cups soft butter, 1/2 cup lightly packed brown sugar, 2-1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour, 3 cups sifted confectioner's sugar, 3 tablespoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, yellow food coloring, 18 large marshmallows halved, food coloring -- yellow, green, and red.
Method: Beat 1 cup butter until it is creamy, slowly add brown sugar, beating all the time; add flour gradually, turn dough onto floured board. Knead dough until it begins to crack, then roll to 1/4 inch thick and cut in 2-1/2 inch rounds; place 1 inch apart on ungreased sheet. Bake at 325°F about 20 minutes; remove and cool on rack. Makes about 3 dozen cookies.
Beat remaining 1/3 cup soft butter until creamy, blend in confectioner's sugar with milk, add vanilla, and mix for frosting. Divide frosting in 2 equal parts; tint one part with 1 or 2 drops yellow and divide remaining portion in 2 parts.
Ice each cookie with yellow, place a marshmallow half, cut side down, atop each iced cookie while the icing is still wet, arrange to resemble crown of bonnet, and ice marshmallow with yellow frosting.
Use 1 or 2 drops of green in one part of reserved icing; tint second part with 1 or 2 drops of red to make pink. Use green and pink frosting to decorate bonnets with flowers and leaves.
Easter Bunny Cookie Recipe1 egg 3 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 cup molasses 1/2 cup sugar 1-1/2 teaspoons ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves 1-1/2 teaspoons cider vinegar 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 2 teaspoons baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt
Method: Sift the flour, baking soda, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and salt onto a large piece of waxed paper. Blend the egg with sugar and shortening in a bowl until fluffy. Beat in the vinegar and molasses, then carefully roll up the wax paper and stir in the flour mixture until it's smooth.
Knead the resulting dough into a ball, then wrap and chill for a few hours. Once the dough has cooled long enough, you can preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C).
Roll out the dough onto a floured wooden surface until it's about 1/8 inch thick. Then use a bunny-shaped cookie cutter to shape pieces to go into the oven. If you don't have a bunny cookie cutter handy, just trace the bunny's outline using a sharp knife, as it will look fine after baking.
Bake cookies for about 5 minutes and remove from the oven. Allow to cool before serving.
 Grandma's Choice...

Enjoy trying these vintage Easter cookie recipes. Cookies are easy-to-make treats that are just right for Easter. And, if you simply don't have the time or inclination to prepare anything from scratch, not to worry. There are more than enough retro candies and treats available for purchase on the Internet to satisfy even the most devoted treat lover.
The Easter bonnet cookies and the Easter bunny cookies are perfect for serving with homemade ice creams. I can still recall Mom making these fancy cookies at Easter time when I was small. They made the day extra special. And be sure to get your kids involved in making these Easter cookie recipes. They'll have a great time making the bunnies and decorating the bonnets.
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