Easter Thumbprint Cookies
Easter Thumbprint Cookies
With Easter literally “hopping” up around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about all the homemade Easter desserts and treats that need to be made! This year, you’re going to want to add these Easter Thumbprint Cookies to your baking list.
Since this cookie recipe takes less than 10 ingredients to make (just 8), you’re going to be enjoying homemade cookies in literally no time at all. The fun part about making these Easter Thumbprint Cookies is that you can easily make them in any color that you want. Have fun and play around with the recipe and see what color combinations you can create!
These cookies are so good, there won’t be one left. They’ll look great on a dessert table, or on a plate to pass around at Easter celebration. They are so easy to make, and so colorful, they are really eye pleasing. They are fun and festive and are full of crunch since they are made with so much butter. Three full sticks!! No wonder they are so delicious.
Everyone young and old will love these cookies. Young ones love all the color and of course the flavor too and adults just love everything about these cookies.
You can make them in any color you choose, but we made different colors just like Easter eggs, and they turned out fabulous. You’re going to love these cookies. All the decorations are edible too! The little chicks and the green grass that we used to decorate. These can be found at any craft store.
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How to make Easter Thumbprint Cookies
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together. Add the flour a little at a time until completely incorporated into the butter.
- Remove the cookie dough from the mixer, wrap in waxed paper, and chill for one hour. After one hour, remove the dough, and roll about a Tablespoonful of dough into a ball, and place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- With the knuckle of your finger, make an indentation into the cookie, so that if forms a dip in the center of the cookie, with an edge around the outside. SEE PHOTO.
- Bake cookies for 18 – 20 minutes at 350 degrees, or until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges. Remove from the oven, and cool on a wire rack.
- Once the cookies are cooled; melt 4 squares of the white chocolate almond bark in the microwave, and dip the bottoms of the cookies into the chocolate, and then immediately into the Nonpareils, and sit them on parchment paper to set the chocolate.
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Once the chocolate has set (about an hour) Melt the remainder of the white chocolate, in 4 separate small bowls and drop a drop of food coloring gel into the white chocolate, coloring it in pastel pink, purple, green, and blue. Place the pastel colored chocolate in the centers, or indentation of each cookie, and place one of the small edible bunnies on the top.
Is white chocolate almond bark and white chocolate the same?
They’re not. Many people like to bake using almond bark because it sets up nice and quick. Using chocolate can be fine as well but it’s a slower process and can be a bit more time consuming for the baker. Just make certain that you’re taking your time when you’re melting the almond bark so that you don’t burn it and have to start all over again.
And keep in mind that while it does set up pretty quickly, you still have some “working time” and don’t really need to rush with it.
Sharing these Easter Cookies with Others
When we make up a batch of cookies like this, it’s so much fun to package them up and share them with family and friends. As a matter of fact why not bake a double batch and share with neighbors and friends who have been there for you throughout the year.
Not everyone bakes for every holiday as we do, so it’s such a simple and nice gesture to be able to deliver the cookies and see the smiles light up their face. What a simple way to spread kindness and happiness to others!
This Easter holiday, have fun creating these adorable and delicious cookies. With the fun colored centers, they’re an easy way to bring in the fun Spring pastels and get excited about the changing of the seasons, too!
OTHER COOKIES YOU WILL LOVE:
Homemade Funfetti Cookies
Chocolate Orange Shortbread Cookies
Cherry Almond Thumbprint Cookies
Carrot Cake Cookies
Easter Thumbprint Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 3 ½ cups flour
- 2 packages white chocolate almond bark
- Food coloring gel; pink, purple, blue, green
- Easter Nonpareils
- Bunnies for the center purchase at walmrt or craft store
Instructions
- In the mixing bowl of a stand mixer cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together. Add the flour a little at a time until completely incorporated into the butter.
- Remove the cookie dough from the mixer, wrap in waxed paper, and chill for one hour. After one hour, remove the dough, and roll about a Tablespoonful of dough into a ball, and place on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet.
- With the knuckle of your finger, make an indentation into the cookie, so that if forms a dip in the center of the cookie, with an edge around the outside. SEE PHOTO.
- Bake cookies for 18 - 20 minutes at 350 degrees, or until the cookies are lightly browned around the edges. Remove from the oven, and cool on a wire rack.
- Once the cookies are cooled; melt 4 squares of the white chocolate almond bark in the microwave, and dip the bottoms of the cookies into the chocolate, and then immediately into the Nonpareils, and sit them on parchment paper to set the chocolate.
- Once the chocolate has set (about an hour) Melt the remainder of the white chocolate, in 4 separate small bowls and drop a drop of food coloring gel into the white chocolate, coloring it in pastel pink, purple, green, and blue. Place the pastel colored chocolate in the centers, or indentation of each cookie, and place one of the small edible bunnies on the top.
- Makes approximately 3 - 4 dozen cookies
