Ombre Easter Cookies

We wanted a fun Easter cookie for our Sunday celebration so we combined our Best Ever Sugar Cookie Recipe with some Easter Bunny Cookie Cutters and came up with these lovely Ombre Easter Cookies.

Ombre Easter Cookies

How to Make Ombre Easter Cookies

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups Butter
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla
  • 4 tsp Baking Powder
  • 6 Cups Flour
  • Cookie Cutters

The first step for making these Ombre Easter Cookies  is to make the Best Ever Sugar Cookie dough.

Finished Sugar Cookie Dough

For detailed instructions on how to make this sugar cookie dough, please visit our Best Ever Sugar Cookie Receipe post.

Divide sugar cookie dough

We decided to make pink and purple Ombre Easter Cookies, so I divided the dough equally into six bowls.  Each portion of dough would be a different color.

Add food coloring to the dough.

I used the mixer to add the food coloring to the sugar cookie dough.  For each color (Pink and Purple) I made three shades of dough.  For the lightest I used 3 drops of food coloring, for the middle I used 6 drops and for the darkest (pictured here) I used 9 drops of food coloring.

Colored cookie dough

Here is what I ended up with.

Cut-out cookies

Roll out the darkest shade of dough on a floured board.  The dough should be as thin as you can make it so that it will still hold it’s shape without breaking.  This is about 1/8th of an inch wide. Use cookie cutters to cut-out your cookie’s first layer.  I used an Easter Bunny head.

First layer on the cookie sheet

Place your first layer on a cookie sheet.

Ombre Easter Cookies second layer

Using the middle shade of dough, cut out more cookies using the same cookie cutter.  Place this second layer on the first as shown in the picture above.

Third layer of the Ombre Easter Cookie

Repeat this process with the lightest shade of cookie dough.

Bake Ombre Easter Cookies

Bake the cookies in a 375 degree oven for 6-8 minutes.  I normally bake these sugar cookies in a 350 degree oven but I increased the temperature a bit because of the thickness of the cookie. Watch them closely though, you don’t want brown edges.

Let cookies cool

I think the Ombre pattern turned out really pretty. These Ombre Easter Cookies are going to taste really great with some coffee at Easter Sunday Brunch!

Laurie

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