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Bunny Paw Print Cookies Recipe

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These Bunny Paw Print Cookies are a charming and delicious treat perfect for Easter celebrations, featuring adorable paw-shaped sugar cookies decorated with red icing.

Ingredients

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Cookies

  • 1 cup butter, softened
  • 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1/2 tsp almond extract
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp cream of tartar

Icing

  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 2 Tbsp milk Plus add an extra 1 tsp milk
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 5–6 drops red food coloring

Instructions

  1. Mix butter and sugar: In a mixer, combine the butter and powdered sugar. Add the egg, vanilla and almond extract and mix well.
  2. Combine dry ingredients: In a separate small bowl, mix together the flour, baking soda and cream of tartar. Add the dry ingredients to the butter sugar mixture and mix until combined.
  3. Shape cookies: Take a Tablespoon measuring spoon of dough and roll it in a ball to make the foot of the paw print. Place it on a cookie sheet. Make three toes by using a teaspoon measuring spoon and rolling 3 separate teaspoons of dough into balls. Place the three small dough balls next to the large dough ball on a cookie sheet. (I only placed 6 paw prints per cookie sheet.) Using two fingers, slightly flattened the larger dough ball. This will help it bake more evenly.
  4. Continue shaping: Continue rolling out balls of dough for the paw prints until all the dough is gone.
  5. Bake cookies: Bake at 375 degrees for 7-8 minutes, no longer.
  6. Indent paw prints: Remove from the oven and immediately use a Tablespoon measuring spoon to make an indent on the foot of the cookies by pressing down, and use a teaspoon measuring spoon to make an indent on the toes of the cookies by pressing down.
  7. Cool cookies: Allow cookies to cool on a cooling rack.
  8. Prepare icing: To make the icing, in a medium bowl use a hand mixer to mix the powdered sugar, milk, vanilla and red food coloring.
  9. Decorate cookies: Place the icing in a piping bag, or make your own piping bag by placing the icing in a small re-sealable plastic bag. Barely cut an opening on one of the corners of the bag. In a circular motion, squeeze the icing in the indents of the paw prints.

Notes

  • I only placed 6 paw prints per cookie sheet to allow even baking.
  • Using two fingers, slightly flatten the larger dough ball to help it bake evenly.

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