Giant Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

Giant XL Decorated Easter Egg Sugar Cookies! This recipe makes really soft cake like sugar cookies!

Makes 2-3 XL Easter Egg Sugar Cookies or 4 Large depending on how big you make them.

This is a great Easter baking activity to involve the kids with. They can frost & decorate the eggs with sprinkles & candies. They can get really creative with designs. You can also color the frosting, I just left mine white. My niece helped me make this recipe & she had a blast frosting & decorating the eggs!  She used tons & tons of sprinkles, they went everywhere, but you can never have too many sprinkles can you? ;)

These Giant Easter Egg Cookies were easy to make too. I just hand mixed the sugar cookie dough. Divided it up. Placed a giant blob of it on a cookie sheet, used my hands to flatten it down into an egg shape about 1/4″ thick & baked it in the oven. If your making XL eggs then you can probably only fit one per cookie sheet. If your just making large ones you should be able to fit 2 per cookie sheet, just place them 2-3″ apart. I would make the eggs somewhere between 8×10″ and 6×8″ in size.

We used a Wilton #21 open star tip to make the lines across the eggs.

Giant Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

12 mins

Total time

32 mins

 

Author: Katie

Recipe type: Dessert

Serves: 2-4

Ingredients

• -Sugar Cookies-
• 1 cup sugar
• ½ cup sour cream
• 1.5 eggs (you need 1 egg, plus ½ of another, just add the 1st egg then break the 2nd egg into a small bowl, whisk it with a fork then pour in about ½, discard the rest)
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened (I used salted)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2¾ cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• -Frosting-
• ½ cup (1 stick) butter, softened
• 4¾ cups powdered sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 4½ tablespoon milk (I used skim)
• +sprinkles for decorating

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper or non-stick baking mat.
2. In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, sour cream, eggs, butter, & vanilla. Add flour, baking powder, & baking soda. Mix it up until a soft dough forms.
3. Divide dough into 2-4 parts (depending on how large of eggs your making).
4. Place dough onto prepared cookie sheet & use your hands to press the dough out into an egg shape ¼" thick.
5. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until edges are golden brown & middle is set.
6. Let cookies cool completely.
7. Mix up frosting by combining all the ingredients in a mixing bowl & using an electric mixer to mix it until smooth. *(You may need to add a little more powdered sugar or milk to get the right consistency).
8. Frost & decorate eggs as desired.

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