Moss Bunny Cookies

Moss Bunny Cookies look just like a moss bunny decoration you’d see during the Easter holiday! A buttery soft sugar cookie is decorated with royal icing and cookie crumbs. This is an easy, elegant, decorated cookie idea for Easter. Great for kids! I’m sharing my best sugar cookie and royal icing recipes too!

When I saw this cookie idea in the depths of Pinterest, I literally lost my mind. I fell in love with this decorated cookie for Easter. Fell. In. LOVE.

These cookies are absolutely precious. I can’t wait to show you how I made them.

This decorated bunny cookie is so easy to make

No matter what level of cookie decorating you’re at, you can’t mess these up! That means they’re also great for kids to help with too!

There are three main steps:

1. Make the cookies
2. Ice the cookies
3. Cover the cookies in cookie crumbs

I used my perfect sugar cookie cut out recipe and my famous royal icing recipe. If you haven’t made either of these yet, I definitely urge you to go check them out! I have hundreds of rave reviews on both. The best part about my sugar cookie recipe is, that it’s a no chill cookie dough and the cookies do not spread at all. That means, you can capture every single detail of the cookie cutter and make perfect cookies!

I found this tall and elegant bunny cookie cutter through Ann Clark Cookie Cutters on Amazon. All of Ann Clark’s Cookie Cutters are amazing. There are an endless number of shapes and the quality of the cutter is great. As you can see in the other pics, I also made matching carrots (the carrot cookie cutter I used can be found here).

You can certainly use a different shape if you want to; an egg, a duck…anything Easter-y you can find.

We’ll be using leftover sugar cookies to create the crumbs for the moss. You can either plan on making extra cookies to use, or (my favorite tip) you can bake off the scraps of dough that are left over after you cut out your shapes.

I read about some folks using graham cracker crumbs too, but why bother to introduce a new flavor when you can use the scraps from the cookies you just made??

How to make moss bunny cookies

After your cookies are made and fully cooled, you can create the ‘moss’ crumbs.

In the bowl of a food processor, add about 7-8 cookies (or cookie ‘scraps’). For reference, each cookie should be about 3-4” in size. That's what I factored in order to create enough crumbs for a dozen of final decorated cookies. If your cookies are smaller, use a few more for good measure. It doesn't have to be exact.

Before you begin processing, add several drops of green gel food coloring. I used Americolor food gel in Moss, since we’re making moss!Process the cookies until super fine crumbs form. This took a couple of minutes; the mixture should be fully green.

Dump the crumbs out onto a flat plate and set aside.

Next, make a batch of royal icing. Reserve some of the icing in a small bowl if you plan to decorate the cookies with other colors.

Dye the royal icing the same color as the crumbs. Don’t worry about it being the exact same color. All of the icing will be covered with the crumbs, but be sure it blends into the background.

Outline and flood your cookies.While the icing is still wet, hold the cookies vertically over the plate and sprinkle the crumbs on top. I found this to be the best method, versus dipping the cookies right into the crumbs. I found that this smooshed all of the icing, which did not look great.

Continue to sprinkle the crumbs until all of the icing is covered. You can gently pat the crumbs into the icing if you need to, for full coverage.Place the cookie on a wire rack and allow to set.

How to decorate moss bunny Easter cookies

These cookies look absolutely fantastic bare, but definitely feel free to get creative! I made simple, little flowers on the bunny.

A word of caution....

Because we have a layer of crumbs over the cookie, any royal icing decorations for the top have nothing to stick to. Be very careful when piping more royal icing on top of the crumbs, as the royal icing can easily be lifted off of the cookie as you release your piping bag.

This made decorating the bunny a bit difficult, but it’s totally still doable (royal icing transfers would be great option here).

Please leave me a comment if you made these adorable moss bunny cookies for your Easter holiday!

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