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Pink Bunny Peeps Cookies
Pink Bunny Peeps Cookies
I have long had a love affair with Peeps. Peeps are just so cute and delicious. You can do so many fun things with them. This time we are back with a fun recipe for Peeps Sugar Cookies and they are absolutely adorable. We hope that you love these delicious and festive Pink Bunny Peeps Cookies.
Pink Bunny Peeps Cookies
Sugar Cookie Ingredients
- 5 cups flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups soft unsalted butter
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 2 eggs
- Wilton 2 Count Peeps Cookie Cutters
- Pink Sanding Sugar
- black gel food coloring
Icing Ingredients
- 2 egg whites
- 1 cups powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- Pink gel food coloring
Directions for the cookies
- Cream the soft butter with the sugar until the combination is smooth not grainy to the touch in a mixing bowl.
- Add all 2 eggs at one time…Continue to mix.
- Add the vanilla. Continue mixing.
- Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt together.
- Add the dry mixture to the wet mixture.
- Continue mixing to make sure all ingredients are thoroughly blended.
- Make the dough into a ball, wrap it in cling wrap completely covering the entire dough ball.
- Put in the refrigerator for about 6 hours or overnight. Check to see if the dough is firm.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Pull the cookie dough out of the refrigerator and set it out to soften up a bit.
- Put flour out on the cutting board, rub flour on the rolling pin, and (if needed) work some flour into the batter.
- Roll the dough out on the cutting board and using the cookie cutter begin to make your cookies.
- Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a metal spatula move the cut cookies to the parchment lined cookie sheet.
- Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Check to see if the cookies are thoroughly baked.
- Take the cookies off of the cookie sheet and put on a wire rack to cool completely. About 10 minutes.
Directions for the icing
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- Combine all ingredients in a mixing bowl mixing on medium speed for 4 minutes. (except your food coloring)
- If icing is not stiff enough add 1/4 C powdered sugar. When this sugar is added stir to mix well.
- Take out several tablespoons of the icing into one bowl.
- Put the remaining icing into the other bowl.
- Add several drops of black gel food coloring to the first bowl of icing. Stir well to mix the color.
- To the second bowl of icing add several drops of pink food coloring mixing well to make sure the color is blended throughout the entire bowl of icing.
- Spoon each color of icing into individual frosting bags with a #2 tips. Twist the open end of the bag to push the icing to the tip.
- Set the black icing aside.
- Outline each of the cookies with the purple icing.
- Allow this to dry for 30 seconds before filling in the body with the* thinner pink icing.
- Squeeze the majority of the purple icing into a bowl then add 1 tsp of water, stir to mix,
- Using a butter knife spread the icing all over the cookie. Allow to dry for 1 minute.
- Gently shake the pink sanding sugar all over the cookies.
- Allow the cookies to set for about 5 minutes then shake the excess off of the cookies.
- Using the frosting bag filled with the black icing make each dot for the two eyes and one for the nose.
- Set aside the cookies to allow to completely dry… about 1-2 hours.
We hope that you are inspired by these Pink Bunny Peeps Cookies. Happy baking!
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These are fun-looking cookies!
They are perfect for the season.
These are adorable! I love the sparkly pink sugar!
How did you make the frosting look so perfect?? I need to know this! My frosting NEVER looks like that!
Now that’s my favorite way to use Peeps that I’ve seen. This is really cute!
They’re adorable and they look just as yummy!
I know people who would love peeps to be a year-round candy.
Those are super cute. Shae saw me reading this post and asked if we could make these, LOL. Thank you for sharing. Off to make these.
I love the look of these cookies. Yay for gllitter (sanding sugaar)!!!
These came out so cute! I love making cookie cutter sugar cookies and decorating them. I need some peep cutters!
These are so cute! My daughter would love making them. Thanks for sharing.
These pink bunny sugar cookie peeps are EVERYTHING! I don’t eat real peeps because I don’t like raw marshmallow like that, so this gives me the joy of cute peeps in a cookie without the marshmallow! Thanks!
Hi Stacie,
Those bunnies are so adorable! I want to try this recipe!
Zaria