Decorating Tutorial: Easy Marshmallow Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies

First, make Ann Clark's Sugar Cookie recipe.

Next, make your own sanding sugar, using colors that you feel are appropriate. For a marshmallow bunny look, we like pink, yellow, and blue.

Next, make a batch of royal icing. Add food coloring to the royal icing--in the video below, we used Bubblegum Pink food coloring.

With a firmer royal icing, pipe around the outlines of your bunny. The icing should be roughly the consistency of toothpaste. We found it easiest to do the bunny in three sections.

Next, add water to your royal icing one teaspoon at a time until it is about the thickness and viscosity of shampoo.

Use the thinner royal icing to flood inside the boundaries you created with the first batch of royal icing. To ensure an even flood, use a toothpick to move the icing around until the entire cookie surface is covered.

While the flooded area of the cookie is still wet, lightly sprinkle your colored sanding sugar on the cookie until desired texture is reached.

Using a toothpick, make three indentations--two eyes and one nose

Using black royal icing and a fine-tipped piping bag, fill the nose and eye indentations you just made.

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Decorating Tutorial: Easy Marshmallow Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies

First, make Ann Clark's Sugar Cookie recipe.

Next, make your own sanding sugar, using colors that you feel are appropriate. For a marshmallow bunny look, we like pink, yellow, and blue.

Next, make a batch of royal icing. Add food coloring to the royal icing--in the video below, we used Bubblegum Pink food coloring.

With a firmer royal icing, pipe around the outlines of your bunny. The icing should be roughly the consistency of toothpaste. We found it easiest to do the bunny in three sections.

Next, add water to your royal icing one teaspoon at a time until it is about the thickness and viscosity of shampoo.

Use the thinner royal icing to flood inside the boundaries you created with the first batch of royal icing. To ensure an even flood, use a toothpick to move the icing around until the entire cookie surface is covered.

While the flooded area of the cookie is still wet, lightly sprinkle your colored sanding sugar on the cookie until desired texture is reached.

Using a toothpick, make three indentations--two eyes and one nose

Using black royal icing and a fine-tipped piping bag, fill the nose and eye indentations you just made.

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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!

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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

Food Coloring

Fondant

Nonpareils or sprinkles

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.

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Classic Easter Egg

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.

Wait for the flood consistency icing to dry. This will ensure that your piping has dimension, and will stand out more on the finished cookie.

Once the flood icing is dry, pipe your designs. We did a mix of straight lines, squiggles, and dots. Whenever you are ending a line (like at the edge of a cookie) or switching the way the line is going (like creating squiggles) it may help to gently touch the tip of the bag to the cookie so that the icing sticks to it. When piping dots, make sure that you lift the bag straight up off of the cookie.

If you made any mistakes, you might be able to move the icing around and correct them with a toothpick.

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Zig-Zag Marbled Piping Technique

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 lines in 2-3 different colors across the shape.

While the icing is still wet, use a toothpick to gently drag lines through the piped lines you just created. This will create a visually stunning herringbone pattern that is surprisingly easy to do!

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Easy Fondant Colorful Cracked Eggs

Roll fondant thinly. It should be about 1/8" thick.

Cut the fondant with a scalloped-edge round biscuit/cookie cutter to create the "fault line."

Using fondant pieces as a guide, fill negative space with royal icing and dip in nonpareils while the royal icing is still wet.

Brush the surface of the cookie with clear corn syrup to adhere the fondant to the cookie. Gently press the fondant & adjust it with a toothpick as needed so that it will adhere.

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Hatching Chick Decorated Cookies

Using piping consistency, pipe a white outline on the bottom half of your egg, using a jagged pattern to indicate the breaking shell.

Let the white piped icing to dry a bit and firm up before piping and flooding the yellow chick part of the egg. We outlined the shape with an edible marker to create the chick outline.

Once the yellow chick is flooded and firmed up, flood the white egg.

Let the yellow icing firm up a bit before applying black sprinkles or black icing dots for eyes and orange for a beak.

WATCH: Hatching Chick Sugar Cookies

Advanced Decorating: Easter Basket Sugar Cookies

Using thick detail icing, draw vertical line to begin, then pipe short horizontal lines, continue piping vertically, then horizontally until shape is filled.

Use tip 3 to pipe a basket outline, this will give it texture. Use tip 14 for the handle and top edge of the basket, and tip 133 for grass. Feel free to experiment with tips to get extra texture!

Pro tip: Make your own candy transfers! Pipe dots of colorful royal icing onto parchment paper. Once dry, peel the dots off and use them as eggs!

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The Easter egg shape is so versatile, and these techniques can also be used on a number of different shapes. Have fun experimenting and trying new techniques & tools while you make these cookies!
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