Chocolate Sugar Cookies - Easter Bunnies

These chocolate bunnies remind me

of my granddaughter's chocolate

colored bunny that she had for a pet.

You can imagine how much fun little 

ones had munching on these and of

course the ears go first.

I found this adorable cookie cutter

and stamp at Wal Mart for $.97

and had too much fun making these

fun Chocolate Bunnies with Pink

royal frosting ears.

You cut the cookie out with

one side of the cookie cutter

and then turn it over and stamp the

other side.  

I found it was easier to stamp and

then cut so that the ear holes didn't

get cut off. 

I left the ear centers in some and 

removed them in others, filling in after

they baked with pale pink royal frosting.

I used the recipe from Allrecipes posted

by KRISTA3

with the only change that I added 1 tsp. almond

flavoring.  They were beautifully chocolate

and yummy and didn't stick around at all.

I love how the chocolate cookies look too.

Chocolate Rolled Sugar Cookies

1 1/2 C. flour

3/4 C. unsweetened cocoa

1 1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/8 tsp salt

3/4 C. softened butter

1 1/4 C. sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. almond flavor (optional)

Sift together the flower, cocoa, baking

powder and salt into a large mixing

bowl.  Set aside.

In a medium bowl cream together the

butter and sugar until smooth.  Then beat

in the egg and flavoring if desired.

Gather the dough into a ball  and flatten

it out and cover it with plastic wrap.  

Refrigerate for 2 hours.

(I rolled mine out on parchment paper

and didn't need to refrigerate it.  They

worked perfectly.

Bake in a preheated oven on

parchment paper for 7 minutes.

Remove and let cool on the pan

for a few minutes then remove to

a cooling rack to cool completely.

Decorate with royal frosting or

regular frosting if desired.

Click here for printable recipe.