Easter’s social activities and sweets are among the year’s highlights. Easter egg hunts, baskets of chocolates and Easter cookies never get old. Before whipping up your next batch of iced, sparkly, rabbit-shaped snickerdoodles, snatch up all the Easter cookie supplies you’re definitely going to need.
First Cut is the Sweetest
Homemade craft cookie connoisseurs know you can cut cookie dough from a semi-frozen log and pray that each cookie doesn’t over-spread, or you can cut each cookie from a rolled-out sheet of dough. The latter is preferred when whimsical shapes are on the menu, such as rabbits and unicorns: enter cookie cutters.
These aren’t your grandmother’s cookie cutters, by the way. Today’s cookie cutters come in every conceivable Easter-themed shape. Choose between spring insects (butterflies, dragonflies), birds and flowers. Cutters shaped like crosses and angels give your cookies a holy slant. There are cutters shaped like pretty inanimate objects, too, such as bows, plaques and baskets.
Taste or Looks? It’s A Tie
Regardless of what cookies you make, presentation is everything, and it begins with the way your cookies look. When it comes to cookie decorating, the sky’s the limit. Sweet icing is available dry or pre-mixed and pre-packaged, in basic colors as well as white.
White icing is particularly flexible, since you can dye it and create any hue you require. Meanwhile, vibrant and coarse sugar crystals as well as sanding sugar products give your cookies a layer of refinement, color and additional sweetness.
If granulated sugar seems like your next mess waiting to happen, clap eyes on edible colored food pens. These pens contain edible colored ink you can apply directly to your cookies’ surfaces. Hand-drawn portrait cookies for Easter anyone?
Since you’re whipping up batches galore to give away, get yourself some durable receptacles to hold your edible creations. Cookie boxes and tins are essential Easter cookie supplies. They simplify transportation, shipping and gifting while keeping cookies protected from debris and unwanted visitors.
