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    Bunny Butt Cookies

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    These bunny butt cookies are an adorable and tasty treat that makes a perfect springtime activity for the kids! You can make them entirely from scratch or use store-bought ingredients to fit your needs! Either way, they make a super delicious dessert that is great for spring, Easter, or birthday parties!

    Fun Easter Bunny Cookie Recipe

    One of my favorite parts about any holiday is all of the fun kid-friendly baking activities that come with it! Of course, there are tons of Easter arts and crafts you could do with your kiddo, but they certainly don't taste anywhere near as good as these adorable bunny cookies!

    You can either make the sugar cookies from scratch (which is super easy) or just buy some premade sugar cookie dough from the store for extra convenience. Let your kids help with frosting, dunking the cookies in sugar, decorating the feet, and then assembling the cookies!

    Cute bunny butt cookies are the perfect springtime dessert and a great Easter project to make with kids.
    These bunny butt cookies are a tasty and fun Easter activity!
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    • Fun Easter Bunny Cookie Recipe
    • 🥘 Bunny Butt Cookies Ingredients
    • 🔪 How To Make Bunny Butt Cookies
    • 💭 Angela's Tips & Recipe Notes
    • 🥡 Storing
    • ❓ FAQ
    • 🐰 More Easter Treats
    • 📋 Recipe

    If you are making these cookies from scratch, take a look at my guides on how to make sugar cookies and how to make cutout cookies!

    🥘 Bunny Butt Cookies Ingredients

    If you use store-bought sugar cookie dough, you only need the assembling ingredients to turn them into cute little bunny butts! However, I will say that these homemade sugar cookies are extra yummy!

    Bunny butt cookies ingredients measured out to make the dough, bake the cookies, and then assemble into adorable bunny behinds.

    Sugar Cookies

    • Butter - ¾ cup of unsalted butter, softened at room temperature.
    • Sugar - 1 cup of white granulated sugar.
    • Eggs - 2 large, room-temperature eggs.
    • Vanilla Extract - 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract (or the flavor you like the best).
    • Baking Powder - 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
    • Salt - 1 teaspoon of salt (if salted butter, reduce this to ½ teaspoon).
    • Flour - 2½ cups of all-purpose flour, spooned and leveled.

    Bunny Butts

    • Sanding Sugar - This will be used to color the cookies. I recommend using multiple colors to add variety!
    • Frosting - 16 ounces of vanilla buttercream frosting. You can try my homemade recipe or use a store-bought container of white frosting.
    • Marshmallows - 24 standard-sized marshmallows, cut in half. These will act as the bunny's feet.
    • Mini Marshmallows - 24 mini marshmallows for the tails.
    • Pink Decorations - You can use pink candy (I found some Easter M&Ms at the grocery store), pink sprinkles, pink frosting, or pink icing gel for decorating the feet.

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    🔪 How To Make Bunny Butt Cookies

    This recipe uses my favorite classic sugar cookie recipe that is then topped with vanilla buttercream frosting and turned into little bunnies that are great for Easter (or any springtime occasion). You will need an electric mixer, measuring utensils, a baking sheet, a rolling pin, and a round cookie cutter.

    You can easily customize your cookies' size based on the cookie cutters you use. I ended up with about 2 dozen bunny cookies.

    Prepare the Sugar Cookie Dough

    Bunny butt cookies process photo 1 softened butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 2 adding wet ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 3 adding the flour to the sugar cookie dough.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 4 fully combined dough ready to chill.
    1. Cream the butter. Use an electric mixer to cream together 1 cup of sugar and ¾ cup of room-temperature butter. Then, add 2 eggs and 1 teaspoon each of pure vanilla extract (or your preferred extract), baking powder, and salt, and mix well.
    2. Chill. Add 2½ cups of all-purpose flour and mix just until the flour has been well incorporated into the dough. Transfer the bowl to the fridge and allow it to chill for one hour (or you can wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill it for up to 3 days).

    Roll & Bake the Sugar Cookies

    Bunny butt cookies process photo 5 rolled out dough being cut into rounds for baking.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 6 baked round sugar cookies being topped with vanilla buttercream frosting.
    1. Preheat. Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C) and line your baking sheet(s) with parchment paper.
    2. Roll the dough. Once the dough has chilled, work with small portions of the dough on a floured surface. Use a rolling pin to roll the sugar cookie dough out until it is between ¼ and ½-inch thick. Then, cut the dough into your desired rounds using round cookie cutters.
    3. Bake. Place the cutout cookies onto the prepared baking sheet and bake at 375°F (190°C) for 6-9 minutes.
    4. Cool completely. Remove your sugar cookies from the oven before the edges turn golden. Let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then move them to a cooling rack. Allow the cookies to cool completely before frosting.

    Assemble the Bunny Butt Cookies

    Bunny butt cookies process photo 7 pour the sanding sugar into shallow bowls that fit your cookies.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 8 place the frosted side down cookies into the sanding sugar to coat evenly.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 9 colored cookies ready to finish assembling.
    Bunny butt cookies process photo 10 make the bunny feet using halved standard sized marshmallows.
    1. Prepare the sugar. Pour your sanding sugar onto separate plates or shallow bowls.
    2. Frost the cookies. Spread a thin layer of vanilla frosting over top of each of the cooled sugar cookies. Then, gently press the cookies with the frosting side facing down into the sanding sugar.
    3. Decorate the feet. Cut 24 marshmallows in half for the bunny feet. Decorate them to look like feet on the non-sticky side using either pink frosting, sprinkles, or pink candy.
    4. Assemble the cookies. Add a dot of frosting to the sticky side of the marshmallow and press them onto the cookie. Then, add a dot of frosting to a mini marshmallow and press it into the center of the cookie to act as a tail.
    5. Serve. Serve immediately or store for later.

    These cookies are great for Easter, springtime, or even birthday parties! For more Easter dishes, take a look at my collection of Easter brunch ideas and Easter lunch ideas! Enjoy!

    Bunny butt cookies fully decorated on light background with candies and marshmallows scattered around them.

    💭 Angela's Tips & Recipe Notes

    • These cookies could easily be made using store-bought cookie dough and frosting if you don't want to make them from scratch!
    • Reduce the salt to ½ teaspoon if using salted butter.
    • To mix it up, you could press the cookies into shredded coconut instead of sanding sugar for texture and flavor!
    • Shredded coconut is easily colored for making these cute cookies. See my Easter Basket Cookies for tips on coloring your coconut.
    • You can decorate the feet with pink frosting in a piping bag (or a storage bag with the corner snipped off), pink icing gel, some pink candies, pink sprinkles, or anything else you may have on hand! 
    Bunny butt cookies assembled and served on a light pink plate.

    🥡 Storing

    These cookies can be stored in a sealed container at room temperature. Try to keep from stacking them on top of each other, or use wax paper to separate them. 

    Check out my post on how long sugar cookies last here.

    >>>>See all of my recipes HERE<<<<

    ❓ FAQ

    Should Sugar Cookies Be Soft Or Crispy?

    Sugar cookies should have a texture that is both soft and tender. If your cookies are crispy then they were probably overbaked. Rolling the dough out to be ¼-inch thick will help to ensure wonderfully soft cookies!

    How Do You Keep Sugar Cookie Cutouts From Spreading?

    Chilling the dough is essential in making most sugar cookie recipes, and it cannot be skipped! If you don't properly chill your dough in the fridge for at least an hour, the cookies can spread in the oven and lose their shape. See my no-chill sugar cookies recipe if you want to make sugar cookies in a rush, skipping the chilling time.

    How Do You Know When Cutout Cookies Are Done?

    It's surprisingly easy to accidentally over-bake sugar cookies. You'll know they're done when the edges have set and they no longer look soft or melted. However, you do not want to wait until the edges have turned golden brown, as they will be overcooked.

    Tasty bunny butt cookies are a fun and festive treat to share for Easter.

    🐰 More Easter Treats

    • Easter Basket Cupcakes - Sweet cupcakes that look just like miniature Easter baskets!
    • Fudge Covered Oreos - A no-bake recipe that features Oreo cookies covered in homemade fudge!
    • Easter Peeps Nest - No-bake chocolate and peanut butter cookies are filled with shredded coconut!
    • Coconut Loaf Cake - Moist coconut cake is topped off with a homemade coconut glaze and shredded coconut!
    • Carrot Cake - Spiced cake is loaded with grated carrots and coated with cream cheese frosting!
    • Pineapple Upside Down Bundt Cake - Preparing pineapple upside-down cake in a bundt pan makes it extra beautiful!

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    Bunny butt cookies assembled and served on a light pink plate.
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    Bunny Butt Cookies

    These bunny butt cookies are an adorable and tasty treat that makes a perfect springtime activity for the kids! You can make them entirely from scratch or use store-bought ingredients to fit your needs! Either way, they make a super delicious dessert that is great for spring, Easter, or birthday parties!
    Author | Angela
    Servings: 24 cookies
    Calories: 247kcal
    Prep 20 minutes
    Cooking 6 minutes
    Chill Time 1 hour
    Total Time 1 hour 26 minutes
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    Ingredients
     

    Sugar Cookies

    • ¾ cup butter (unsalted, softened, at room temperature)
    • 1 cup sugar
    • 2 large eggs (at room temperature)
    • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract (or extract flavor of your choice)
    • 1 teaspoon baking powder
    • 1 teaspoon salt
    • 2½ cups all-purpose flour (spooned and leveled)

    Bunny Butts

    • sanding sugar (in various colors)
    • 16 oz vanilla buttercream frosting (or use store-bought)
    • 24 marshmallows (cut in half)
    • 24 mini marshmallows
    • assorted pink sprinkles (or pink mini marshmallows, pink candy, or pink icing gel)

    Instructions

    Prepare the Sugar Cookie Dough

    • Use an electric mixer to cream together the sugar and room-temperature butter. Then, add the eggs, pure vanilla extract, baking powder, and salt, and mix well.
      ¾ cup butter, 1 cup sugar, 2 large eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon baking powder, 1 teaspoon salt
      Bunny butt cookies process photo 2 adding wet ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar.
    • Add the all-purpose flour and mix just until the flour has been well incorporated into the dough. Transfer the bowl to the fridge and allow it to chill for one hour (or you can wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill it for up to 3 days).
      2½ cups all-purpose flour
      Bunny butt cookies process photo 3 adding the flour to the sugar cookie dough.

    Roll & Bake the Sugar Cookies

    • Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C) and line your baking sheet(s) with parchment paper.
    • Once the dough has chilled, work with small portions of the dough on a floured surface. Use a rolling pin to roll the sugar cookie dough out until it is between ¼ and ½-inch thick. Then, use round cookie cutters to cut the dough into your desired rounds.
      Bunny butt cookies process photo 5 rolled out dough being cut into rounds for baking.
    • Place the cutout cookies onto the prepared baking sheet and bake at 375°F (190°C) for 6-9 minutes.
    • Remove your sugar cookies from the oven before the edges begin to turn golden. Let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a cooling rack. Let them cool completely before frosting.

    Assemble the Bunny Butt Cookies

    • Pour your sanding sugar onto separate plates or shallow bowls.
      sanding sugar
      Bunny butt cookies process photo 7 pour the sanding sugar into shallow bowls that fit your cookies.
    • Spread a thin layer of vanilla frosting over top of each of the cooled sugar cookies. Then, gently press the cookies with the frosting side facing down into the sanding sugar.
      16 oz vanilla buttercream frosting
      Bunny butt cookies process photo 8 place the frosted side down cookies into the sanding sugar to coat evenly.
    • Cut your larger marshmallows in half for the bunny feet. Decorate them to look like feet on the non-sticky side using either pink frosting, sprinkles, or pink candy.
      24 marshmallows, assorted pink sprinkles
      Bunny butt cookies process photo 10 make the bunny feet using halved standard sized marshmallows.
    • Add a dot of frosting to the sticky side of the marshmallow and press them onto the cookie. Then, add a dot of frosting to a mini marshmallow and press it into the center of the cookie to act as a tail.
      24 mini marshmallows
    • Serve immediately or store for later.

    Equipment You May Need

    KitchenAid Professional 600 Stand Mixer
    Baking Sheet
    Silicone Spatula Set

    Notes

    • These cookies could easily be made using store-bought cookie dough and frosting if you don't want to make them from scratch!
    • Reduce the salt to ½ teaspoon if using salted butter.
    • To mix it up, you could press the cookies into shredded coconut instead of sanding sugar for texture and flavor!
    • Shredded coconut is easily colored for making these cute cookies. See my Easter Basket Cookies for tips on coloring your coconut.
    • You can decorate the feet with pink frosting in a piping bag (or a storage bag with the corner snipped off), pink icing gel, some pink candies, pink sprinkles, or anything else you may have on hand! 
    • To store: These cookies can be stored in a sealed container at room temperature. Try to keep from stacking them on top of each other, or use wax paper to separate them. 

    Nutrition

    Calories: 247kcal (12%) | Carbohydrates: 39g (13%) | Protein: 2g (4%) | Fat: 9g (14%) | Saturated Fat: 4g (25%) | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 31mg (10%) | Sodium: 190mg (8%) | Potassium: 45mg (1%) | Fiber: 0.4g (2%) | Sugar: 26g (29%) | Vitamin A: 200IU (4%) | Calcium: 14mg (1%) | Iron: 1mg (6%)
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    Angela is an at home chef that developed a passion for all things cooking and baking at a young age in her Grandma's kitchen. After many years in the food service industry, she now enjoys sharing all of her family favorite recipes and creating tasty dinner and amazing dessert recipes here at Bake It With Love!

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