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Recipe Summary

prep: 1 hr 45 mins

total: 4 hrs

Yield: Makes fifty 3-inch cookies or twenty-two 5-inch cookies

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Ingredients

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4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting

1 teaspoon baking powder

3/4 teaspoon coarse salt

2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature

1 cup packed dark-brown sugar

1 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

Large-Batch Royal Icing

Fine sanding sugars, in various colors

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Read the full recipe after the video.

Recipe Summary

prep: 1 hr 45 mins

total: 4 hrs

Yield: Makes fifty 3-inch cookies or twenty-two 5-inch cookies

easter-cookie-0055-d111341.jpg

Read the full recipe after the video.

Read the full recipe after the video.

Recipe Summary

prep: 1 hr 45 mins

total: 4 hrs

Yield: Makes fifty 3-inch cookies or twenty-two 5-inch cookies

Recipe Summary

prep: 1 hr 45 mins

total: 4 hrs

Yield: Makes fifty 3-inch cookies or twenty-two 5-inch cookies

prep: 1 hr 45 mins

total: 4 hrs

prep:

1 hr 45 mins

total:

4 hrs

Yield: Makes fifty 3-inch cookies or twenty-two 5-inch cookies

Makes fifty 3-inch cookies or twenty-two 5-inch cookies

easter-cookie-0055-d111341.jpg

easter-cookie-0055-d111341.jpg

Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 4 cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon coarse salt
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter, room temperature
  • 1 cup packed dark-brown sugar
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
  • Large-Batch Royal Icing
  • Fine sanding sugars, in various colors

Directions

Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl. In another bowl, beat butter with sugars on medium speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Reduce speed to low; gradually beat in flour mixture. Divide dough in half; flatten into disks. Wrap each in plastic and refrigerate until firm, 1 hour or overnight.

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Let dough stand at room temperature until pliable. Roll out on a lightly floured surface to just under 1/4 inch thick, dusting with flour as needed. Cut out shapes with cutters; transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets. Reroll scraps and repeat. Freeze until firm, about 15 minutes. Bake until golden, rotating sheets once, about 18 minutes. Let cool completely on sheets on wire racks.

For cookies with white and colored dots: Use a pastry bag fitted with a small round tip (such as #3) to make icing dots (about half as many dots as you want on finished cookies). Sprinkle with sanding sugar and let set, then shake off excess sugar. Pipe additional dots on cookies; let dry.

To coat cookie surface with icing: Place icing in a shallow dish and carefully dip cookie into icing, leaving a thin border. Transfer to a wire rack and sprinkle with sanding sugar, if desired. Let set and shake off excess sugar. If desired, pipe additional dots on cookies (or pipe a dot for a rabbit’s eye). Let dry overnight. Cookies can be stored between layers of parchment up to 1 week.

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