Sugar Cookie Easter Baskets
These Easter treats are cute, delicious and fun to make! You can change up this recipe by using different kinds of cookie dough such as chocolate chip, peanut butter or even store bought cookie dough.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup butter, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp vanilla
- colored sugar
- vanilla icing
- 1/2 cup flaked, sweetened coconut
- green food coloring
- licorice ropes
- jelly beans
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.In a mixing bowl, add butter and sugar.
Beat together until fluffy.
Add flour and mix until combined.
Add vanilla and mix until combined.
Using a cookie scoop that holds 1 1/2 tablespoons, roll the dough into balls and place onto parchment paper.
Spray a mini muffin pan with non-sitck cooking spray.
Roll each cookie dough ball into colored sugar and place into the mini muffin pan.
Bake in the oven for about 15 minutes or until the edges are slightly golden brown.
Remove from oven and place onto a wire rack.
Let the cookies cool down some until you are able to touch them.
Press your thumb or finger down into the center of each cookie.
Let the cookies cool completely.
Place some vanilla icing into the indent of each cookie.
Place coconut into a ziplock bag.
Add some green food coloring.
Zip up the bag and toss together until the coconut is evenly coated.
Repeat until you get the color you like.
Place some of the green coconut onto the icing of each cookie and slightly press down.
To make the decorative handles, take 4 inches of licorice rope and press each end down into the icing.
The handles are for decoration only. You will not be able to lift the cookie basket by the handle.
Press some jelly beans into the green coconut.
Recipe makes about 17 cookie baskets.
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