Bake up some Easter memories with swirly, sweet sugar cookies! Inspired by dyed Easter eggs, these colorful Easter egg sugar cookies are easy to make and fun to eat for the whole family. The marbled egg-shaped cookies make perfect additions to Easter baskets, but they also make adorable party favors and sweet gifts for loved ones. Try whipping up a batch and dividing them into gift bags—they're a sure hit!
Marbled Easter Egg Sugar Cookie Cutouts
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 1 hr 20 min
- Servings 22
- Ingredients 4
Ingredients
- 1 pouch (17.5 oz) Betty Crocker™ Sugar Cookie Mix
- Flour, butter and egg called for on cookie mix pouch for cutout cookies
- Betty Crocker™ blue, pink, purple and yellow gel food colors
- 2 tablespoons coarse white sparkling sugar
Instructions
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Step1Heat oven to 375°F.
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Step2In large bowl, mix cookie mix, flour, butter and egg with spoon until soft dough forms. Divide dough into 4 pieces. Place pieces of dough into 4 small bowls. Tint 1 bowl blue, 1 bowl pink, 1 bowl purple and 1 bowl yellow by stirring in each food color.
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Step3On floured surface, drop tablespoons of each dough in random pattern to make large rectangle. Dough pieces should be just touching together. Push dough rectangle toward center on all sides to make 7x6-inch rectangle. Roll dough 1/4 inch thick to create marbled pattern. Cut with 3-inch egg-shaped cookie cutter; place cutouts 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Sprinkle with sugar. Press any leftover scraps together, and reroll on floured surface to make more cookies.
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Step4Bake 7 to 9 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 2 minutes; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition
140
Calories
6g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
21g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Cookie
- Calories
- 140
- Calories from Fat
- 50
- Total Fat
- 6g
- 9%
- Saturated Fat
- 3g
- 16%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 20mg
- 7%
- Sodium
- 100mg
- 4%
- Potassium
- 20mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 21g
- 7%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 2%
- 2%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 2%
- 2%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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