Decorating Tutorial: Easy Easter Bunny Cookies

Discover 3 unique and easy ways to decorate Easter bunny cookies!

To master these techniques, you need to make sure that your royal icing is the correct consistency. Piping consistency is about as thick as toothpaste, and should hold its shape when piped. Flood consistency is a little bit more runny, like ketchup, and can be easily moved around the shape to fill it in.

Before decorating, prepare the following:

Sugar Cookies Pro Tip: Wait for your cookies to cool fully before decorating. Warm cookies will result in runny icing.

Homemade Royal Icing OR buy pre-packaged Royal icing mix buy pre-packaged Royal icing mix here

Sanding Sugar

Food Coloring

Fondant

Nonpareils or sprinkles

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Marshmallow Bunny

Before starting, make sanding sugar sanding sugar in your desired colors. You can use granulated sugar as well, it will have a finer texture.

Once your sanding sugar is made, you are ready to begin icing. Use piping consistency icing to pipe a neat border around the edge of the cookie.

Next, use flood consistency icing to fill in the entire cookie area. Use a toothpick to move the icing around, ensuring that there is full coverage.

While the icing is still wet, sprinkle sanding sugar over the surface of the cookie, ensuring full coverage.

Once the icing is slightly dry, poke holes with a toothpick to create eyes and a nose.

Using black piping consistency icing, pipe tiny black dots for the eyes and nose.

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Cute Polka Dot Bunnies

First, using piping consistency icing, pipe a neat border around the edge of the cookie.

Next, using your flood consistency icing, fill in the entire cookie area. Use a toothpick to move the icing around, ensuring that there is full coverage.

While the flood icing is still wet, pipe flood-consistency dots with a different color. By using the wet on wet technique, the dots will soften into the flood icing, making the dots and flood icing all on the same plane. If you want your dots to stand out above the flood icing, simply wait for the icing to dry before piping dots with piping consistency icing.

Once your flood icing and dots have dried, use a tipless piping bag and piping consistency icing to create a fluffy tail for your bunny.

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Cute Sprinkles Bunny

First, using piping consistency icing, pipe a neat border around the edge of the cookie.

Next, using your flood consistency icing, fill in the entire cookie area. Use a toothpick to move the icing around, ensuring that there is full coverage.

Once your base flood is dry, use piping consistency icing to pipe an outline around the bunny shape.

While the outline is still wet, dunk the bunny in a dish of nonpareils or sprinkles, using a toothpick to correct any wandering nonpareils once you have full coverage.

For the tail, use a piping consistency icing to pipe a dot where the tail will go. Use this dot to adhere a small candy piece to your bunny.

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All of these techniques are great for Easter treats, but can also be used on any other shape. They are simple and quick enough that you can decorate these cookies the night before or the day of your event. Great for bake sales, baby showers, Easter brunch, and spring celebrations. Happy decorating!