Easter Egg Cookies

The best butter cookies for kids, make them this Easter and enjoy them with your kids.
Ingredients
4
Servings
  • 450 grams flour
  • 250 grams butter
  • 250 grams sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 egg
  • food coloring, in various colors
  • 2 cups icing sugar
  • 2 limes
Preparation
30 mins
0 mins
Low
  • Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
  • In a bowl, cream the butter with a mixer; once well creamed, add the sugar. In another bowl, mix the baking powder with the flour and set aside.
  • Add the egg to the creamed butter with the sugar. Once the egg is well incorporated, add the salt and vanilla.
  • Then gradually add the flour mixture until a smooth dough forms.
  • Divide the mixture into two parts and wrap them in bags in the refrigerator for fifteen minutes.
  • Once the dough is chilled, sprinkle a little flour on a flat surface and roll out the dough to about half a centimeter thick.
  • Cut the cookies with an egg-shaped cutter.
  • To bake them, place them on a previously greased and floured baking sheet or lined with parchment paper and put them in the oven until the edges are golden.
  • Remove them from the oven and let them cool. Once cool, they can be decorated.
  • To decorate them, make the icing with powdered sugar and lemons, adding drops of lemon to the powdered sugar gradually until the icing reaches the desired consistency.
  • Separate the icing into different bowls and color them with food coloring.
  • Add the colored layer to each cookie, refrigerate them for 15 minutes, and continue decorating with dots, lines, etc., then refrigerate for another 15 minutes, and done.
  • Place them in an egg carton for a special touch.

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