Bunnies and Chicks and Eggs, Oh My!

Since I started doing sugar cookies with royal icing I love making cookies for the holidays and other special occasions and easter this year was no exception.   My initial plan for easter was to just do eggs and make a bunch of different colors and decorations.   But when I saw the chick and bunny cookie cutters I knew I had to do more than just eggs.  

I love the chicks-unfortunately they did not photograph very well.  I used yellow sparkling sugar over the icing, but it's hard to tell from this photo.   The sprinkles looked so much better in person.

Rather than plain white bunnies I made them a bit more colorful with pink and purple, which I think is a lot more fun than white.  I used white sparkling sugar to make the bunny tale, you can see it on the purple bunnies in the middle.  

(Disclaimer- I took this photo before I started blogging so I wasn't prepared to show different details for cookies in the photo.)

My favorite eggs are the purple with the diagnoial lines.   I used two different hues of pink for the lines and only put sprinkles on one of them, and I really liked the way they came out.  If I had more of the larger pink sugar pearls, I would have made more green eggs with the pink.  (I love putting pink and green together. It always reminds me of Lilly Pulitzer!)

I put green plastic easter grass on the platter to help dress up the cookies.  

Every time I work with royal icing I feel I learn something new.  This is was the first time I took on this many colors at once and it was definitely a pain to keep cleaning the squeeze bottles for flooding.  I have since bought a few more squeeze bottles to have so I don't have to keep washing them when I am trying to decorate.  With more squeeze bottles, Mr. Apron can help me with the clean when all the decorating is done.