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These crispy Easter cookies are perfect for baking with children. Sweet bunny cookies with little fluffy tails – an easy recipe for Easter.

Children love cutting out cookies – not only at Christmas! My minis are no different! Over the past few years we have baked quite a few Easter cookies, including lemony cuddle bunnies, cute 3D stamp cookies for Easter and savory Parmesan herb crackers.

Today we’re showing you a particularly simple recipe for crispy Easter cookies: our sweet crunchy bunny cookies are cut out with bunny cookie cutters and decorated with a cute crunchy chocolate tail. Perfect for small children’s hands and a wonderful baking idea for the Easter season!

Recipe for Crispy Easter Cookies

These simple Easter cookies are perfect for baking with children because the dough is quick to make and can be rolled out and cut very easily. The minis can decorate the fluffy bunny tails not only with crunchy balls but also with Smarties and other treats.

Print Recipe 

Ingredients for approx. 40 Easter cookies

• 250 g flour
• 90 g sugar
• 125 g butter
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar (15g)
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 tsp vanilla paste
• 1 egg (L)
• 20 g white couverture chocolate
• 40 Giotto balls* (Smarties, chocolate balls, etc. can also be used as the bunny tails.)

Baking Accesories

Kitchen scale, mixing bowl, baking tray & baking paper, rolling pin, optional silicone mat*, bunny cookie cutter*, cooling rack, saucepan & melting bowl*, disposable piping bag*, cookie tin for storing the butter cookies

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Preparation

• Add the flour, vanilla sugar, butter, salt, vanilla paste and egg to the mixing bowl and knead everything into a smooth dough.
• Then chill the cookie dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
• Before cutting out the Easter cookies, preheat the oven to 175°C (top/bottom heat).
• Now roll out the dough with a rolling pin and cut out the Easter cookies using a bunny cookie cutter.
• Place the cookies on a baking tray lined with baking paper and bake them in the oven on the middle rack for about 10–12 minutes. Especially with cookies, you should keep a close eye on them during the last 2–3 minutes, since ovens heat differently and butter cookies can burn or become too dark quickly.
• Once the crispy butter cookies are baked, let them cool for 5 minutes on the baking tray, then transfer them to a cooling rack to cool completely.
• Now melt the couverture chocolate using a double boiler and fill it into a small disposable piping bag. Pipe small dots of chocolate onto the cookies and attach the Giotto balls (or other chocolate balls) to the cookies as bunny tails.
• Once the chocolate has hardened, the crispy Easter cookies are ready to be enjoyed or given away as a lovely Easter gift!

Preparation in pictures

Mini-Tip – Would you like to give away your delicacies as a lovely Easter gift? Then you will find great Easter gift tags, gift bags & labels for jars and cans to download in our shop.

Easter Cookies as a Gift from the Kitchen

You can also give the sweet crunchy bunny cookies as a small Easter gift to your loved ones.

For example, you can:

• give them in a cookie tin or an Easter basket
• package them in cute Easter cellophane bags
• decorate them with pretty Easter tags
• bring them as a small gift to an Easter brunch

My minis are especially proud when they can give away the Easter cookies they baked themselves. Your minis will probably feel the same!

Mini Tip for Easter Gifts

Would you like to package your Easter cookies in a particularly beautiful way?

In our shop you can find Easter gift tags, gift bags, and labels for jars and tins to download – perfect for homemade treats from the Easter kitchen.

Baking with Children During the Easter Season

Baking together with children is a wonderful way to spend time together and create delicious treats.

When rolling out the dough, cutting out shapes, and decorating, even the youngest children can help – and in the end the homemade Easter cookies taste twice as good.

My minis and I wish your minis and you lots of fun baking and snacking!

Yours, Lia

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