Easy Easter Egg Cookies (Simple Design That Looks Fancy)

Easter egg cookies look detailed, but most designs are just simple piping patterns anyone can do. You don’t need advanced decorating skills—just a bright icing or glaze and festive sprinkles.

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• How to Make Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
• Make the Royal Icing
• Royal Icing without Corn Syrup Ingredients
• How to Decorate Easter Egg Cookies with Royal Icing
• Do You Have to Use Royal Icing?
• Easter Egg Cookie Cutters
• Easter Sprinkles for Cookies
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How to Make Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

Note! Process photos are shown with a stand mixer but you can totally use a hand mixer.

This is a sugar cookie dough that you have to chill for two hours.

Chilling helps the dough from spreading while baking. You want to maintain those egg shapes!

This is my most popular foolproof no-chill rolled sugar cookie recipe if you don't want to mess around with a recipe you don't have to chill.

Make the Royal Icing

Royal icing is simple to make with just a few ingredients.

If you'd rather, you can also just use an easy cookie icing.

This quick icing forms a glaze that hardens but you can just dip the tops of the cookies in it and then top with sprinkles if you'd like.

Royal Icing without Corn Syrup Ingredients

• Powdered Sugar or Confectioner's Sugar
• Meringue Powder
• Water
• Gel food coloring (optional)
• Sprinkles (optional) Where can I find sprinkles?

Mix powdered sugar, meringue powder and water in a large mixing bowl using an electric mixer or your stand mixer with the balloon attachment.

This icing recipe as written is on the thicker side, which is easier for children to use.

But if this royal icing is too thick, add a tablespoon of water at a time until you reach the consistency you like.

Whoops, too much water? Add a tablespoon of powdered sugar until you get it right!

Once combined, separate the royal icing into bowls so you can dye individual colors.

Don't forget to leave a bowl of icing without color so you have a white accent to use if you like.

Put each color in a piping bag or a ziplock with a rubber band at the end so you don't have any icing fall out.

How to Decorate Easter Egg Cookies with Royal Icing

After you've outlined the cookie, move inward around the cookie until it’s mostly filled with icing.

Use a toothpick to help fill in empty spaces after the icing is piped.

Swirl the toothpick in a circular motion to move the icing into the gaps.

The icing will smooth as it dries.

Before the icing sets, decorate with sprinkles if desired. 

Do You Have to Use Royal Icing?

No, use what you want. If you don’t want to mess with meringue powder, just make my favorite powdered sugar cookie icing.

Or try these three simple cookie decorating ideas:

• Powdered sugar glaze
• Store-bought icing (I won't tell)
• Melted candy melts

Royal icing gives you cleaner lines but it’s not required to make cute Easter cookies.

Easter Egg Cookie Cutters

You can find cookie cutters, like sprinkles, almost anywhere that sells food and/or craft supplies.

I found this variety pack of egg shaped cookie cutters on Amazon. This is a good choice because you get four egg shaped cutter in a range of sizes from the larger 4-inch to two-inch.

I like a variety when I'm cutting out cookies in case I have a scrap of dough left that's not big enough for the big cutter.

But you can also just find a single egg cookie cutter like this Ann Clark.

But remember, if you do have leftover sugar cookie dough, you could just bake it as is, just like I do with leftover pie crust dough for pie crust cookies.

Easter Sprinkles for Cookies

Easter sprinkles can be found really anywhere, including Michael's, Amazon and most likely your local grocery store.

Remember that sprinkles really don't have an expiration date.

Maybe you don't want to use 10 year old sprinkles but I've used five year old sprinkles and no one died.

Check out this variety pack of Easter Sprinkles

Cottontail Sprinkle Mix (two-ounce bottle)

Spring Chicken Sprinkle Mix (adorbs!)

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