Bake Easter Cookies with Your Little Bunnies!

Baking is always more fun when the whole family is involved - kids included! Kids enjoy being part of our everyday activities, especially ones with tasty results! Let them watch or help you mix the dough, come up with decoration ideas, and let their imaginations go wild! Rainbow sprinkle chick cookie - why not?! It's so much fun to see where their little minds go when we give them open space to be creative.

Maybe there's someone in your family, friends, or neighbourhood that you could bake some cookies for? Talking about what we like about those people while we bake something special for them makes it all the more heartfelt a gesture. 

While you wait for the cookies to bake and cool, or if your little ones are too small to help with the actual baking, pull out your modelling dough and let them "bake" along too. 

We've got you covered with all the Easter and spring themed scents and cutters, but limited quantities, so don't wait! 

Here's our favourite tried and true cookie recipe:

The Dough Parlour’s Old-Fashioned Sugar Cookie Recipe
• 1 cup unsalted butter, softened (or use salted butter and only 1/2 tsp added salt)
• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt (or 1/2 tsp if using salted butter)

1. Combine butter and sugar in the bowl and beat until creamy.
2. Add egg and vanilla extract and beat until well combined.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt.
4. Slowly add dry ingredients into wet until well combined.
5. Divide dough into two disks, cover well with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hours.
TIP: To make cutting easier, pre-roll your dough before putting it into the fridge, just make sure you cover it well so it doesn’t dry out, and use parchment or a silicone baking mat to keep the two layers separate.
6. Preheat oven to 350F (175C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
7. Dust a clean surface with flour and roll out one cookie dough to about 1/4″ thick. Add flour as needed.
8. Use our cutters to cut out shapes and transfer shapes to the baking sheet.
9. Bake for 9-10 minutes, or until edges begin to golden.
10. Allow cookies to cool completely on cookie sheet before frosting with your favourite frosting recipe!