Use an egg cookie cutter to make adorable Easter basket sugar cookies with buttercream frosting! Two different styles! This post contains affiliate links.
You might also like our rainbow sugar cookies or our cinnamon bunny rolls—fun treats for spring!
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Easter Basket Sugar Cookies
You can make Easter egg sugar cookies with an egg cookie cutter, but today we’re taking it up a notch with Easter basket cookies! These Easter basket sugar cookies were so much fun to make—-and easy too! No royal icing, pouring or special skills are required. You’ll need a #5 round frosting tip and a #18 star frosting tip. Be sure to grab some colorful Easter M&Ms or jelly beans to add to your Easter basket cookies!
TIPS FOR EASY Sugar COOKIE DECORATING
- 5 and 7 are small round tips. They are very similar in size, so just use what you can find! Michael’s is actually the cheapest place to find these tips. They are $1 each and you can usually apply a 20% coupon making them $.80.
- 18 is a star tip. Again, I’d check Michael’s if you have one in your area.
Tips for using round tips: apply firm pressure for a smooth application.
Tips for using star tips: use short “bursts” instead of applying firm, steady pressure. You aren’t making lines or covering large sections, you are making small stars bursts all over the cookie.
Tip: Buy a few #5 tips. This makes it easier to work with a variety of frosting bags filled with different colors!
OTHER USEFUL ITEMS FOR COOKIE DECORATING
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- Disposable Frosting Bags: these are convenient to have and just toss after using.
- Couplers: couplers attach to the frosting bag and make it easy to switch out the frosting tip that you are using. With a coupler you can switch from a round tip to a star without filling a new bag with frosting!
- Food coloring: this one if my favorite and gives such bright and vivid colors.
How To Fill a Frosting Bag and use couplers
Ready to make your own? Let’s get started! Ready to make your own? Let’s get started! You can use any sugar cookie recipe, but ours is my absolute favorite! I add almond extract and vanilla extract. Such a delicious flavor combo. The cookies are soft and hold their shape and taste delicious.
How To Make Easter Sugar Cookies
Easter Basket Sugar Cookies
Equipment
- Rolling Pin
- #5 frosting tips (round tip)
- #18 frosting tip (open star tip)
- frosting/pastry bags
- frosting couplers
- egg shaped cookie cutter
Ingredients
- batch sugar cookie dough (favorite sugar cookie recipe)
- 1 cup butter room temperature
- 6 cups powdered sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or any extracts you'd like
- 6-8 Tbsp. milk
- food coloring
Instructions
- Roll out dough on a lightly floured surface and cut into egg shapes using a cookie cutter.
- Bake cookies in the oven on a cookie sheet (according to recipe instructions) and let cool completely on wire rack.
- Whisk ingredients together for frosting (or beat with a hand mixer). Separate into bowls and stir in food coloring.Fill piping bags with frosting and desired frosting tips. Use a #5 or #7 tip for the basket and background colors and a #18 tip for the grass.
- Outline cookies with basket color and a #5 frosting tip. Fill bottom half of cookie with the same color.
- Pipe the background color (blue) using a #5 frosting tip. Use the star tip (#18) to add grass.
- Pipe on bunny ears for the bunny cookie variation using white for the ears and pink for the pinks of the ears.
- Add M&M chocolate candy or jelly beans for the basic Easter basket variation. Add a few sprinkles if you'd like.
Notes
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Welcome! I'm Brandy, mother to 5 darling kiddos and a cute black lab named Toby. My husband is in the Coast Guard so we've lived all over the place, turning each house into a home. I love baking, sewing, making cute things with my kids, and sharing what I've learned with all of you!
The cookies are so cute. You make it look so easy to do. That is because you have the God given talent. I am going to try making them with your cookie recipe. But what about the icing recipe, did I over look it?
Thank you
Hi Cathy! Thank you for your kind words! I hope you have fun making them! The frosting recipe is in the recipe card at the very bottom of the post. You can click “jump to recipe” at the top of the post and it will take your right to it. Hope that helps!