Shortbread bunnies with eggs the cookies for Easter breakfast. Today I want to tell you a simple and delicious recipe to prepare delicious soft shortbread cookies in a special shape that resembles a sweet bunny. They are cookies decorated with a colorful egg very easy to prepare and also special to decorate the holiday table as a cute placeholder. They are also a perfect idea for lovely gifts for family and friends. I simply intertwined the dough leaving a hole where at the end of baking I inserted a colorful egg. If you prefer, you can also use chocolate eggs, both milk and dark. These cookies are perfect to prepare together with the little ones at home, it will be fun for them. My shortbread is soft with the result of delicious soft cookies with eggs that will win you over at the first bite. So let’s run to the kitchen and “hands in dough” let’s prepare the Easter Bunny Cookies
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Rest time: 30 Minutes
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: For 20 cookies
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Easter
- Energy 150.82 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 24.67 (g) of which sugars 9.04 (g)
- Proteins 3.37 (g)
- Fat 4.86 (g) of which saturated 2.85 (g)of which unsaturated 1.83 (g)
- Fibers 0.58 (g)
- Sodium 8.59 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 50 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for the Cookies with Eggs
- 1 egg
- 1 yolk
- 7 tbsp sugar
- 4 tbsp butter
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder (4 grams)
- 1 lemon zest (untreated)
- 4 tbsp milk
- 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 20 eggs (colored or chocolate)
How to prepare Easter Cookies
You can prepare the dough by hand or with the help of a mixer. Mix the softened butter in small pieces with sugar and flour in a bowl. Add a whole egg and a yolk. Mix.
Continue the preparation by adding the grated zest of an untreated lemon and a teaspoon of baking powder. Knead quickly until you have a soft but not sticky dough. Shape it into a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap and let it rest in the fridge for at least 30 minutes.
Take the dough. Cut a portion and roll it on a lightly floured work surface to form a roll about 8 inches long. Fold it in half and twist the two ends, they will be the ears of your bunnies. Widen the folded part, trying to have a space wider than the egg that you will insert later, as it tends to shrink during baking.
Place the Cookies slightly spaced on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush them with milk and sprinkle them with granulated sugar. Bake the bunny cookies in a preheated static oven at 340°F for 16-18 minutes or until golden.
Remove the cookies from the oven, let them cool slightly and insert a colorful egg into the hole of each shortbread bunny. Sprinkle them as desired with powdered sugar.
See you tomorrow with a new recipe, a hug, Loredana
Loredana’s Tips
The bunny cookies remain soft stored in a container for a few days
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