Plaid Easter Cottontail Bunny Cookies

Easter bunny cookies get the celebration started, with fun plaid patterns and jewel-tone colors. Use the Wilton Textured Comfort-Grip Bunny with Mini Cookie Cutter Set to cut the cute cookie shapes.

AmountEach cookie serves 1

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Ingredients

Roll-Out Cookie Dough
FoodWriter Color Fine-Tip Edible Markers, 5-Piece
Color Flow Icing
Teal Icing Color
Violet Icing Color
Rose Icing Color
White Sparkling Sugar

Tools
Rolling Pin
Comfort-Grip Bunny with Cottontail Cookie Cutter Set, 2-Piece
Cookie Sheet
Plastic ruler
food-safe scissors
12 in. Disposable Decorating Bags
Round Cake Decorating Tip 3

Instructions

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Note: Color Flow icing takes 24 hours to dry, so you will want to start your project at least 1 day in advance to serving.

Make cookies. Prepare and roll out dough cookie dough following recipe directions. Use cutters from set to cut one bunny and one flower cookie for each treat. Bake and cool cookies, separately.
Mark pattern when cookies have cooled completely. Use black edible color marker to draw diagonal lines on bunny cookies, 3/8 in. apart, leaving 1/8 in. open at edge of cookie.
Outline cookies after marking pattern. Prepare Color Flow icing following recipe directions. Tint portions light teal, dark teal, light violet and dark violet. Reserve some white icing.

Use tip 3, cut disposable decorating bag and full-strength white icing to outline bunny and tail cookies. Let set, about 1 to 2 hours, and then fill in.
Fill in bunny cookies. Use thinned icing in cut disposable decorating bag to fill in diamond shapes in pattern, working in diagonal rows as follows. Fill in one diamond in dark teal or dark violet. Immediately fill in the next diamond in the row in light teal or light violet. Continue filling in diamonds in each diagonal row in alternating shades. Start each row in the opposite color of the previous row. Let dry 24 hours.
Fill in tail cookies. Use thinned dark teal or dark violet icing in cut disposable decorating bags to fill in cookies. Immediately sprinkle with white sparkling sugar. Also, let dry 24 hours.