Easter Sugar Cookies
These delightful Easter Sugar Cookies are soft, sweet, and perfect for springtime celebrations! Made with simple ingredients and decorated with colorful icing and sprinkles, they’re as fun to make as they are to eat.
Ingredients
Cookie Ingredients
- 1/2 cup shortening
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
Icing Ingredients
- 2 cups powdered sugar
- 3–4 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Gel food coloring green pink, purple, yellow, and blue
- Spring-themed sprinkles
Instructions
Cookie Directions
- Preheat oven to 375ºF.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat shortening and sugar together.
- Add egg and vanilla. Beat again.
- Next, beat in sour cream.
- Add flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Beat until dough is smooth.
- On a floured surfaced, roll dough to ¼-inch thick.
- Cut out egg shaped cookies and place them 2 inches apart on a greased baking sheet.
- Reroll dough as needed.
- Bake for 8-10 minutes or until edges start to turn golden brown.
Icing Directions
- Whisk powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla together.
- If icing is too thick, add more milk. If icing is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
- Split icing between 5 small bowls.
- Add gel food coloring to each bowl, creating 5 different colors of icing. The amount used will depend on the type of food coloring gel you have.
- Dipped cooled cookies into colored icing, allowing excess icing to drip off.
- Immediately add sprinkles.
- Allow icing to harden and serve.