Vibrant Easter Egg Sandwich Cookies

Did we ever have fun today!

Mixing cookie dough into play dough colors and then

making Easter egg cookies out of those vibrant colors

and finally finishing them off with a nice center of frosting

was too much fun!

My daughters had made some chocolate sandwich cookies

together the other day and gave me some and I just couldn't

keep my hands off of them.  I had been wanting to make

some egg shaped cookies and the yumminess of their

sandwich cookies got me started.

(I picked up an egg shaped cookie cutter at the grocery store.)

I wanted to make them in a variety of fun spring colors 

and decided to make 5 colors.

It is really hard to judge the color of the finished cookie by the

color of the dough.  They seemed a little dark to me but

once they baked they all lightened up just enough.

The only one I would have changed is the one in the bottom

left hand corner - it was supposed to be a bright spring green and it

really lost its color while baking.

These were so easy to make and after sitting in a covered

container for a day, they were even better

I just made them using a Betty Crocker White Cake mix.

I used two cake mixes and split the finished dough into

5 bowls and colored each one separately with gel food

coloring.

Cake Mix Sugar Cookies

1 box Betty Crocker White Cake Mix

1 egg

1 cube (1/2 C.) butter, almost melted

gel coloring

Mix all of the above in your mixing bowl.

Divide and color as desired, mixing the gel coloring

in by hand.  There is no need to chill the dough.

Roll out on parchment paper using no

flour.  This way you can roll and re-roll and the

dough stays the same.  The parchment will get

a little greasy so change it as needed.  Simply lift

the parchment paper to help you peel off the cut out 

cookie dough and transfer it to a cookie sheet covered

in parchment paper.  I love this dough because it is so

easy to work with and holds its shape so well.  We love

the flavor too.

Bake at 350 for 7 minutes.  It should just look dry on the top.

You don't want the bottoms brown.

Let cool.  Then frost.  I piped the frosting on, starting

with the outside edge and filling in to give it a smooth 

finished look on the outside.  Top it with another cookie.

Store in a covered container.

This was such a happy baking project as the colors were

so pretty.

My daughter Jessica was baking them with me and she came

up with the idea to make the striped cookies.  We later

sandwiched those also.  Of course, those were the ones

chosen first by the little people!

My Fitz and Floyd bunny platter is the perfect spot for 

serving these up.  These were an addition to our Easter Egg hunt

lunch and they were a big hit.

These are definitely worth making and I can think of all

kinds of other ideas using vibrant cookie dough to 

make everyone smile!

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