ICED EASTER COOKIES, easy and quick, shortcrust pastry sweets recipe covered with sugar icing, made with typical Easter cookie cutters.
Simple and delicious, these iced Easter cookies are made with a simple fragrant shortcrust pastry that melts in your mouth, iced but if you don’t want to prepare the icing you can always sprinkle them with powdered sugar.
The iced Easter cookies recipe is very simple, the shortcrust pastry can be prepared with a food processor or by hand, rolled out and cut with the appropriate molds, then the icing is prepared, and they are decorated as desired.
Obviously, if you don’t have the molds or don’t intend to buy them, you can make them rectangular or round; the shape doesn’t matter much, just decorate them a bit, and everyone will surely love them.
Follow me in the kitchen today, there are iced Easter cookies!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very cheap
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Cooking time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: 12-15
- Cuisine: Italian
- Energy 1,212.18 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 197.62 (g) of which sugars 125.69 (g)
- Proteins 18.06 (g)
- Fat 42.53 (g) of which saturated 26.62 (g)of which unsaturated 15.33 (g)
- Fibers 2.58 (g)
- Sodium 95.99 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 100 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
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 egg
- 5 tbsp butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 egg white
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 drops lemon juice
Preparation
Prepare the base dough, pour the flour into the food processor bowl, add the sugar, lemon zest, egg, and butter, knead everything quickly.
Place them on the baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake for 10-15 minutes.
Whip the egg white with an electric whisk, then add the lemon drops, sugar, and finish working.
Place the cookies on a cooling rack and decorate with the icing, add colorful sprinkles and let dry.
Bon appétit
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