Take sugar cookies to the next level, just in time for Easter with these adorable Easter Egg Nest Cookies. These are perfect for making with the kids. They look so fancy but are so easy to bake and decorate!
If I have a food weakness, it is definitely homemade cookies. There is something about the texture and the burst of butter in a sugar cookie that makes my heart happy! This recipe captures the essence of all of my favourite things about cookies, and packages them into a really appealing package that is perfect for Easter, but also works all spring long!
Icing With Green Dyed Coconut
One of the things I like most about this recipe is the icing. It is so easy to make. It only takes a few ingredients and comes together in just about as many minutes. I love to add green dyed coconut to this cookie because it looks so adorable. You can use malted milk ball eggs, jelly beans, or even chocolate eggs to complete the eggs in the grass. All are delicious options.
Easter Egg Nest Sugar Cookies
My recipe starts with a basic sugar cookie recipe. This one is versatile and holds up to decorating really well, while providing a buttery flavor with just the right bite to the cookie. The recipe is easy enough to involve the kids from mixing the dough to decorating! When dying the coconut to use as grass, remember a little goes a long way with the food coloring and try not to go over 5 drops.
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PinThis Easter Egg Nest Cookies recipe will become a family favourite! Not only is it tasty, it’s also adorable to prepare and they make a great centrepiece to decorate your Easter table for snacks or desserts.
Easter Egg Nest Cookies Recipe
You will need the following ingredients:
(makes 2 1/2 dozen)
Cookie Ingredients:
- 3 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup soft unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
Equipment Needed
- Cookie Cutter: Circle
- Parchment paper
- Cookie sheet
- Rolling pin
- Wire rack
- Mixer
- Mixing bowl
- Ziplock bag
- Plate
- Metal spatula
Let’s get these made and enjoy a delicious treat:
Cookie Directions:
Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth and not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl. Add eggs and continue to mix. Add the vanilla and continue mixing.
Sift the four, baking soda, and salt together. Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture. Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball. Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit. Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into the batter. (if needed). Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper. Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked. Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. (About 10 minutes).
PinIcing Ingredients:
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cup powder sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- tooth picks
Icing Directions:
Combine all ingredients except the colours into a standing mixing bowl. Mix on medium speed onto stiff peaks form. Scoop icing into a bowl or onto a plate that has a dip and rim to it so that the icing doesn’t spill out.
Grass Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
- 5 drops of green food colouring
- 1 large ziplock bag
- 1 bag of chocolate mini eggs
Directions
Combine the coconut and food colouring in the ziplock bag and shake until coconut is dyed green. Add more food colouring to get the colour you want. Pour out the dyed coconut onto a plate.
Decorating directions
Take cooled cookie and dip the top part face down in the icing. Pull the cookie up so that access icing can drip off and then dip the cookie into the coconut . Tilt the cookie back over and place the cookie, bottom down, onto a cookie sheet. Take a tooth pick and dip it into the icing and then scrap off the icing onto the cookie and then place the chocolate eggs onto the icing dot.
Repeat process with all cookies until all done. Let sit for 30 minutes before enjoying!
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Easter Egg Nest Cookies
Equipment
- Cookie Cutter: Circle
- Parchment paper
- Cookie sheet
- Rolling Pin
- Wire rack
- Mixer
- Mixing bowl
- Ziplock bag
- Plate
- Metal spatula
- Toothpicks
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients
- 3 cup flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup soft unsalted butter
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
Icing Ingredients
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cup powder sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1 tsp vanilla
Grass Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coconut
- 5 drops of green food colouring
- 1 bag of chocolate mini eggs
Instructions
Cookie Directions
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth and not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
- Add eggs and continue to mix.
- Add the vanilla and continue mixing.
- Sift the four, baking soda, and salt together.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
- Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and sit it out to soften up a bit.
- Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and work some flour into
- the batter. (if needed).
- Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
- Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
- Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely.
- (About 10 minutes).
Icing Directions
- Combine all ingredients except the colours into a standing mixing bowl.
- Mix on medium speed onto stiff peaks form.
- Scoop icing into a bowl or onto a plate that has a dip and rim to it so that the icing doesn’t spill out.
Grass Directions
- combine the coconut and food colouring in the ziplock bag and shake until coconut is dyed green
- Add more food colouring to get the colour you want
- Pour out the dyed coconut onto a plate
Decorating directions
- Take cooled cookie and dip the top part face down in the icing
- Pull the cookie up so that access icing can drip off and then dip the cookie into the coconut
- Tilt the cookie back over and place the cookie, bottom down, onto a cookie sheet
- Take a tooth pick and dip it into the icing and then scrap off the icing onto the cookie and then place the chocolate eggs onto the icing dot
- Repeat process with all cookies until all done
- Let sit for 30 minutes before enjoying!
These are adorable and so perfect for easter! easy to make and put together too. I know my girls would love them especially with the added eggs on top 🙂
These are a blast from the past. My grandmother used to make something similar. Thanks for sharing!
Can’t wait to try these with my kids. Always look forward to finding new recipes for the holidays and this is a really cute cookie.
These are so cute and they look delicious too.
These look so cute!
Sweet and adorable, perfect for easter!
These look adorable!
These are so cute! My girls and I will definitely be making these for Easter this year.
I know that my young niece and nephew would love these; I will see if I can make these with them next weekend!
What a great idea to colour shredded coconut green for the nest. 🙂
A perfect Easter cookie. I love the eggs on top.
I am going to have to try this looks like a lot of fun thank you for sharing
These look really good and so perfect for Easter.Thanks so much for the recipe.
I bet my grandchildren would love these. They are so colorful and look so good. Thanks for sharing.
I can’t believe how cool your cookies are. They are so creative especially the coconut grass.
Such a cute idea will be saving for the season!