Easter Grass Sugar Cookies with M&M’s Eggs

These Easter Grass Sugar Cookies with M&M’S Eggs are an adorable cookie recipe for Easter!

My Carrot Cake Cookies are great cookies for Easter, but I’ve actually wanted to make these cookies for a long time.  Creating “grass” frosting on cookies and cakes is fun, and the addition of M&M’S cute, little milk chocolate eggs on top makes these so sweet and perfect for Easter. Lindt chocolate makes some candy coated eggs that are perfect for these cookies too. Or use spring-colored jelly beans!

How to make Easter Grass Sugar Cookies:

The cookies themselves are a soft sugar cookie.  The dough is chilled for a few hours (or overnight), then rolled into balls, flatted with a drinking glass dipped in sugar, and baked into nice, round cookies.  The recipe makes about 21 cookies.

Supplies needed for making grass out of frosting:

For the frosting “grass,” you’ll need one of these.  It’s a grass cake decorating tip specifically for squeezing frosting into the shape of grass on your cookies.  Pick it up at a craft store that sells cake decorating supplies (or a baking supply shop) or on Amazon.  While you’re there, grab a plastic disposable pastry bag (unless you already have one at home).  Of course, if you’re not into making frosting grass, it’s perfectly okay to just frost the tops of the cookies with green frosting and add the eggs on top.

The frosting “grass” is just squeezed through the tip of the pastry bag onto the cookies.  Short squeezes of frosting onto the cookies will create the grassy look you’re going for.  Candy coated milk chocolate eggs made by M&M’s and Lindt come in 4 colors, which is really great since four eggs will fit nicely on top of your Easter grass cookies.  

For best results, I’d frost these the day you’d like to serve them.  If you make them the day before, it’s probably best to keep them refrigerated in a single layer until the day of serving.

Here’s what you’ll get out of these delightful Easter cookies:  a soft and sweet sugar cookie topped with grassy green, vanilla buttercream and the *bonus* of crunchy, candy-coated milk chocolate eggs on top. They’re so fun for Easter. Be sure to make some Easter Cupcakes too. Enjoy!

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Easter Grass Sugar Cookies

By RecipeGirl.com

These are the best sugar cookies topped with green Easter grass frosting and chocolate eggs.

Prep: 45 minutes mins

Cook: 10 minutes mins

Total: 55 minutes mins

Servings: 21 cookies

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Ingredients

SUGAR COOKIES:

• ▢ 2½ cups cake flour
• ▢ ½ teaspoon baking powder
• ▢ ½ teaspoon baking soda
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon salt
• ▢ ½ cup (1 stick) salted butter, at room temperature
• ▢ ¾ cup + 2 tablespoons granulated white sugar
• ▢ ¼ cup + 2 tablespoons sour cream
• ▢ 1 large egg
• ▢ ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ additional sugar for flattening cookies

FROSTING AND DECOR:

• ▢ 1 cup (2 sticks) salted butter, at room temperature
• ▢ 3 cups powdered sugar
• ▢ 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ▢ 1 tablespoon whole milk or cream
• ▢ green gel paste food coloring (just a few drops)
• ▢ 10 ounces candy-coated milk chocolate eggs (M&M's and Lindt both make good eggs!)

Instructions 

PREPARE THE COOKIES:

• In a medium bowl, whisk together the cake flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to combine the butter and sugar.  Beat until creamy.  Add in the sour cream, egg and vanilla, and continue to mix until well-combined.  Add the dry ingredients and mix until incorporated.  Transfer the dough to the medium bowl, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate for several hours (or overnight) until the dough has firmed up.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  Line baking sheets with parchment paper or silpat mats.  Roll heaping tablespoonfuls of dough into balls and place them on the prepared cookie sheets 2-inches apart (the dough will be sticky).  Place a little bit of sugar in a small bowl.  Wet the bottom of a drinking glass with water, dip in the sugar and use the bottom of the glass to flatten each cookie-- dip in sugar again before flattening each cookie to prevent sticking.
• Bake the cookies for 8 to 10 minutes, or just until cooked through.

PREPARE THE FROSTING AND DECORATE:

• In a large bowl, use a mixer to combine the butter and sugar on low speed.  Continue to mix until the mixture becomes well-blended and comes together.  Add the vanilla and the cream and continue to beat until all is well-combined and a good piping consistency.  Add in a small amount of green coloring and mix until you have achieved the color you hoped for.  Scoop into a piping bag with a "grass" piping tip attached to it.  Pipe "grass" onto the cookies by squeezing the bag in short bursts onto the tops of the cookies.  Top each cookie with four chocolate eggs.
• Store at room temperature until ready to serve, if serving on the same day.  If serving the next day, it's best to refrigerate the cookies in an even layer.  Bring to room temperature when ready to serve.

Notes

• You might have a small amount of frosting left over.  I suggest you spread it between graham crackers for a sweet snack.  The frosting may be refrigerated and brought to room temperature when ready to use again.

Nutrition

Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 361kcal, Carbohydrates: 48g, Protein: 3g, Fat: 18g, Saturated Fat: 11g, Trans Fat: 1g, Cholesterol: 49mg, Sodium: 191mg, Potassium: 39mg, Fiber: 1g, Sugar: 36g, Vitamin A: 488IU, Vitamin C: 1mg, Calcium: 32mg, Iron: 1mg

Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.

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