Baking cookies is a great way to spend quality time with the kids. Have them help you bake some Easter-inspired treats that will be as fun to assemble as they are to eat! We’ve put together a super simple mini chocolate egg cookie idea, as well as tips on how your kids can turn plain sugar cookies into Easter-inspired ones!

DIY Easter cookies

Mini chocolate egg-studded cookies

Mini chocolate eggs lend an Easter-inspired touch to your standard chocolate chunk cookies.

Any regular chocolate chip cookie recipe will work. If you do not have a staple chocolate chip cookie recipe, try this Cityline.ca fave. The only difference is that you will need to substitute the chocolate chips for mini eggs.

A tip: You might want to place the mini eggs in the cookies once you have already placed the cookie on the cookie sheet. This way you can evenly place the eggs throughout the cookie so that they do not fall out or melt over the sides while they are rising. You might also consider chopping the eggs in half if they’re bigger.

Creative DIY decorative ideas for Easter cookies

If you want to make cookies with your children here are a couple ideas to help you decorate them!

What you need:

• Any sugar cookie recipe–try out Cityline’s recipe here.
• Cookie cutters (check at your local dollar store if not grocery store). Look for Easter shapes such as eggs, carrots and the Easter Bunny.
• Icing in Easter colours — purple, baby blue, light pink, yellow, light green, etc. (See quick icing recipe below.)
• Shoelace licorice (cut into about 1-inch pieces, curled up at the end)
• chocolate candies
• Easter sprinkles
• Icing pens (these make it easier to draw designs on your cookies)

Icing recipe

• 1 cup powdered sugar
• 4 tsp. milk
• Add 3-4 drops of food colouring to your icing based on the colour you would like

To make thicker, add more sugar, and to make thinner, add more milk.

Method for Easter Bunny cookies:

Ice the entire cookie white.

While the icing is still wet you are going to want to place the toppings on top so that when it dries the toppings stick to the cookie.

On the inside of the ears using the icing pen, outline a space for the pink icing. Spread the pink icing inside the outline and add pink sprinkles on top.

Using the chocolate candies, place two in the colour of your choice for the eyes and a pink or red one for the nose.

Using a pink or red icing pen, draw on the whiskers and then place the licorice on top so it sticks.

You have yourself an Easter bunny decorative cookie!

Method for Easter eggs

Ice the egg in the colours of your choice, in full or partially.

Using the icing pen you can design fun lines and dots to decorate the egg.

Add sprinkles to your design, as well as, any leftover candies and licorice pieces from your Easter Bunny cookies and design away!

Method for Carrot:

This one’s easy.

Ice the complete base of the carrot orange and the head of the carrot green for the root.

Outline the orange and green parts of the carrot with a corresponding icing pen.

Add orange sprinkles and green sprinkles on top of the icing if you would like.

Are you in the Easter spirit yet? If you tried to make your own Easter-inspired cookie creations, share them with us! Let us know in the comments below, or email a photo of your cookie to submissions@cityline.ca!