Looking for a fun Easter treat to make with the kids? Try these super cute Spring Easter Sugar Cookie Cups! Use our sugar cookie recipe or use pre-made refrigerated sugar cookie dough! Either way, your kids will love these cookies!
We love to get creative with food! Especially around spring and Easter desserts! Some our not-to-be-missed favorites include our Spring Flower Pretzel Bites, Chocolate Chip Easter Bunny Cookies and of course, our Bunny Butt Cookies.
Spring Easter Sugar Cookie Cups
So you want to make a delicious Easter dessert, but need a new idea. These Spring Easter Cookies are just the thing. What is so great about these cookies is that you can use store-bought cookie dough OR you can use this great sugar cookie recipe of mine.
These cookies are so easy to make. They look so much harder than they are. All you need to decorate them is some frosting, sprinkles and some cute Easter topping decorations. I found the adorable chick at Michael’s, but there are tons of possibilities.
How to make Easter Cookie Cups
These Easter Cookies are all about the decoration. Once you make your sugar cookie cups in a mini muffin pan and let cool, you will start the decorating.
You will frost the top of the cookies and then put your (affiliate links) green sprinkles in a small bowl and roll or dip the top of the cookie into the sprinkles!
Want to really have some fun with them, let the kids get creative. Grab a bunch of different decorations like these Bunny Icing Decorations or these sweet edible candy flowers or how about these chocolate mini Easter Eggs (these are my favorite) and let the give go to it.
They can add the cute toppings of their choice! No two Easter Cookie Cups need be the same!
This is also a great classroom project for a spring activity. Kids love to play with their food. You can have them baked ahead of time and then bring in a bunch of different toppings.
Looking for another great Easter project to do with your kids, try our Easter Bunny Handprint Craft. It is super cute for an Easter brunch centerpiece!
Spring Easter Cookie Cups
Ingredients
Cookie Cups
- ½ cup unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tsp vanilla
- 1 ½ cup flour
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 1 ½ tsp cornstarch
- ¾ cup rainbow sprinkles
Vanilla frosting
- ½ cup unsalted sweet cream butter softened
- 1 ½ cup powder sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2-4 tbsp heavy whipping cream
- Spring/Easter Candy Decorations
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Spray your mini cupcake pan and set aside
- Using a mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy
- Beat in the egg, egg yolk and vanilla until combined
- In a medium bowl, using a whisk, mix together the flour, salt, baking powder, baking soda and cornstarch together.
- Gradually mix in the dry ingredients with the wet ingredients
- Once the dough has forms, mix in the sprinkles
- Using the ice cream scooper, scoop out some dough into your hands and roll it into a ball
- Place dough ball into cupcake pan and lightly push down
- Repeat step with remaining dough
- Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes or until lightly golden brown
- Let cookies cool completely
- Using a mixer, combine the butter, powder sugar, vanilla, and heavy whipping cream.
- Mix the frosting until combined and stiff
- Pour your easter sprinkles into a bowl and separate the egg from the green sprinkles
- Using a butter knife spread the icing onto the top of the cookie cups
- Dip the cookie cups into the green sprinkles
- Add candy Easter eggs and other fun decorations
- Let sit for about 30 minutes to dry.
