These frosted chocolate bunny cookies look just like chocolate bunnies for Easter! Buttery shortbread cookies frosted with fudge frosting and topped with a chocolate bow.
You might also like our chocolate peanut butter eggs, our Easter basket sugar cookies, or our scotcheroo birds nest treats!
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Chocolate Bunny Cookies
These frosted fudge shortbread bunny cookies are delicious, ridiculously soft, and melt-in-your-mouth good. Once the frosting has had a chance to set up slightly it tastes just like the filling in Keebler E.L. Fudge cookies. I love the little chocolate bows which make them look just like the large chocolate bunnies that we all know and love from Easter baskets!
Shortbread Bunny Cookies
Did you know that shortbread cookies are made with only 3 ingredients? Butter, powdered sugar, and flour. That’s it! The main difference between a sugar cookie and a shortbread cookie is its density. Sugar cookies are lighter (made with baking powder), and shortbread cookies are more dense with a buttery taste. You can totally make these chocolate bunny cookies with our sugar cookie dough as well. Both are easy to make and both are delicious, but we're making shortbread today so let's get started!
DIY Chocolate Bunny Bows
Let's talk about those little bows for a minute. They are so cute and EASY to make! I found a silicone mold on Amazon and tinted white melting chocolate in different pastel shades. You can't tint melting chocolate with just any kind of food coloring. It needs to be gel food coloring or candy coloring, which is made especially for this purpose. You can also purchase a few colors of pre-tinted Wilton candy melts and melt them down to use for the mold.
The bows truly give them their signature chocolate bunny look!
SHORTBREAD COOKIE INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup butter
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups flour
DIRECTIONS
Combine ingredients in a large bowl using an electric mixer or a stand mixer with the paddle attachment. The dough will resemble coarse sand. Just keep mixing and it will come together! You can even turn the mixer off and form the dough into a ball with your hands. What first looked like coarse sand will end up forming a beautiful dough.
Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface. The dough should be about ½″ thick.
Cut out into bunny shapes using a cookie cutter (I used the smaller one from this set) and place on an ungreased baking sheet.
Note: If the cookie cutter set above is sold out try this one.
Bake at 325 degrees for 13-15 minutes. Let cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring them to a wire rack. Cool completely.
FUDGE FROSTING INGREDIENTS
- ½ cup melted butter (1 stick)
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 Tbsp. milk
DIRECTIONS
Mix melted butter and cocoa powder together. Add vanilla and powdered sugar. Add milk 1 tablespoon at a time, while beating the frosting, until desired consistency is achieved. Beat the frosting for an additional 2 minutes.
Spoon frosting into a pastry bag and pipe frosting onto cooled cookies (or spread with a butter knife). I like using a #12 round frosting tip.
I start with a circle on the head then pipe two lines going out for the ears.
Then I work my way around the edge of the cookie and fill in the center.
Place melting chocolate wafers in a small microwave-safe bowl. Heat for 30 seconds. Stir. Heat in additional 10-15 second increments if needed until melted and smooth.
Spoon chocolate into a small sandwich baggie. Clip corner.
Pipe melted chocolate into chocolate molds. Tap the mold against the work surface to spread evenly.
Chill until hardened.
Carefully remove bows from the mold and press them into frosted cookies.
Store cookies in an airtight container or cover the cookie sheets with plastic wrap.
Frosted Chocolate Bunny Cookies Recipe
Frosted Chocolate Bunny Cookies
Ingredients
Cookies
- 1 cup butter softened
- ¾ cup powdered sugar
- 2 cups flour
Frosting
- ½ cup butter melted
- ½ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 ½ cups powdered sugar
- 3-4 Tbsp. milk
Chocolate Bows
- melting chocolate wafers
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Combine ingredients in a large bowl using an electric mixer or a stand mixer with the paddle attachment.
- The dough will resemble coarse sand. Just keep mixing and it will come together! You can even turn the mixer off and form the dough into a ball with your hands. What first looked like coarse sand will end up forming a beautiful dough.
- Roll dough out on a lightly floured surface. Dough should be about ½″ thick.
- Cut out into small bunny shapes and place on an uncreased baking sheet.
- Bake cookies for 13-15 minutes. Let cool on baking sheet 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack. Cool completely.
Frosting
- Mix melted butter and cocoa powder together. Add vanilla and powdered sugar.
- Add milk 1 tablespoon at a time, while beating frosting with an electric mixer, until desired consistency is achieved.
- Beat frosting an additional 2 minutes.
- Spoon frosting into a pastry bag and pipe frosting onto cooled cookies (or spread with a butter knife). I prefer a #12 tip for piping the cookies.
Chocolate Bows
- Place melting chocolate wafers in a small microwave-safe bowl. Heat for 30 seconds. Stir. Heat in additional 10-15 second increments if needed until melted and smooth.Spoon chocolate into a small sandwich baggie. Clip corner. Pipe melted chocolate into chocolate molds. Tap mold against work surface to spread evenly.Chill until hardened.Carefully remove bows from mold and press into frosted cookies.
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