Bunny Butt Cookies
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Posted: 02/26/24
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Adorable Easter Bunny Butt Cookies are the perfect spring or Easter cookie to make. It doesn’t get easier than using store bought sugar cookie dough, frosting, and marshmallows to make a cute “bunny butt”.
Bunny butt cookies are the cutest little dessert interpretation of fluffy little bunny butt! These adorable cookies are made from store-bought cookie dough, baked to perfection, and then decorated in the cutest way.
This is a fabulous recipe to get the kids to help with, since they can easily decorate the cookies. Just give them a butter knife or piping bag to ice, then candy to decorate and let them go to town.
I love to pair these with Easter cupcakes or bunny bait on my Easter brunch dessert table. It’s the cutest presentation and is so springy. Everyone always gets a kick out these funny cookies because they’re just so darn cute! So if you need a crowd-pleaser of a dessert, this is the recipe for you!
Why You’ll Love this Bunny Butt Cookies Recipe
- You can make this super easy Easter-themed dessert in just 20 minutes. No crazy long time in the kitchen required!
- Easter bunny cookies like these are always a hit at spring bake-sales, parties, and get-togethers. Make them any time you need a show stopping dessert!
- Since you are not making cookie dough from scratch, this recipe requires minimal clean-up. That’s a win in my book for sure.
Ingredients for Bunny Butt Cookies
- Sugar cookie dough – Store-bought sugar cookie dough is what make this fun recipe so easy. However, feel free to make your own homemade sugar cookies if you prefer.
- Mini marshmallows – Mini marshmallows will be used to mimic the little button tail on the bunny butts!
- Large marshmallows – Use large marshmallows, cut in half, to create the little legs for your bunny butt cookies.
- Vanilla frosting – Grab your favorite vanilla frosting at the grocery store to frost these yummy sugar cookies.
- Pink frosting – You’ll use a little bit of pink frosting to make the cutie bunny feet on the large marshmallows!
- Sugar – Grab some coarse, white sanding sugar to use as decoration for these Easter bunny cookies.
How to Make Bunny Butt Cookies
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and then line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Using a sharp knife, cut the roll of sugar cookie dough in to fifteen 1/2 inch slices. Place the cookie slices onto the prepared baking sheet. Then bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, just until they are a slight golden brown color.
- Remove the sugar cookies from the oven and transfer them to a wire rack to cool.
- While you wait for the cookies to cool, cut fifteen large marshmallows in half to use as the bunny feet.
- Once the cookies completely cool, spread a thick layer of white frosting over the top. Then sprinkle the frosting with white sanding sugar.
- Place the previously large cut marshmallows onto the bottom of the cookies as the bunny feet. Then, add a mini marshmallow to the center of each cookie as the tail.
- Fill a piping bag with the pink vanilla frosting and pipe a large dot of frosting in the center of the marshmallow feet as a heel. Add three toe pads onto each bunny foot too. That’s your bunny paws!
- Add any finishing touches and enjoy!
How to Store Bunny Butt Cookies
Place these bunny butt sugar cookies into an airtight container and store at room temperature for 3 days. Before storing, be sure the frosting has fully set! If you have to stack the cookies in the storage container, then put a layer of parchment paper in between the layers.
What can I use if I don’t have marshmallows?
Sometimes, you want to make a recipe but don’t have all of the ingredients! If that’s the case here and you have no marshmallows, there are a few different things you can use.
In place of the mini marshmallow tail, you could use a dot of the frosting or a large round sprinkle. A white jelly bean or even a white M&M would work too.
For the large marshmallows, you could use small cookies. Or, if your store is just sold out of regular marshmallows, see if you can find strawberry ones!
Can I use homemade sugar cookies?
Yes! You can use one of your favorite sugar cookie recipes if you’d like. A great option is our drop sugar cookie recipe or these roll out sugar cookies that you could cut using circle cookie cutters.
What can I use in place of a piping bag?
If you do not have a piping bag to pipe the pink frosting, just use a regular zip top plastic bag. Snip a corner off and then pipe the frosting on as normal. Since this recipe only uses the frosting in small dots, you could also dip a toothpick in the frosting and add the designs that way.
Pro tips For the best Bunny Butt Cookies Recipe
- Feel free to add Easter colored sprinkles to the bunny cookies to make them even more festive!
- You can use different cookie dough if you’d rather not use sugar cookie.
- Make sure you slice the cookie dough thin enough so that the cookie bake evenly and spread out enough for each little bunny butt.
More Spring Themed Desserts You’ll Love
- Carrot Cake Bars are the best shareable treat to bring to parties and get-togethers around Easter and spring time! They’re so tasty and travel well in a container.
- Make a Carrot Poke Cake if you need a super flavorful and moist dessert to serve after Easter dinner.
- This Strawberry Vanilla Poke Cake has all of the classic flavors of spring in an easy-to-make cake.
- Need another staple cookie recipe? These Carrot Cake Cookies are to die for!
Did you make this? If you snap a photo, please be sure tag me on Instagram at @julieseatsandtreats or #julieseatsandtreats so I can see your yummy treat!
Bunny Butt Cookies
Adorable sugar cookies decorated with frosting and marshmallows to make a cute "Bunny Butt Cookie"!
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Ingredients
- 16 ounces store-bought sugar cookie dough
- 16 ounces store-bought white vanilla frosting
- 2 Tablespoons white sparkling sugar
- 15 large marshmallows
- 15 mini marshmallows
- 16 ounces store-bought bright pink vanilla frosting will not use all
Instructions
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit and prepare a large nonstick baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Use a knife to cut the cookie roll into (15) ½-inch slices. Place the cookie dough on the prepared baking sheet 2 – 3 inches apart.
- Bake for 10 – 12 minutes or until just becoming brown. Remove from the oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.
- Cut each of the 15 large marshmallows in half to form the bunny feet. Set aside.
- Once the baked cookies are completely cool, spread white vanilla frosting over the cooled cookies.
- Sprinkle the white icing with white sparkling sugar. Then place 2 large marshmallow halves on the frosted cookies as the bunny feet.
- Then place a mini marshmallow in the center of the cookie, just above the feet, to form the bunny tail.
- Place the pink icing in a piping bag and pipe a small heel pad and toe pads on the marshmallow halves that form the feet.
Tips
Place these bunny butt sugar cookies into an airtight container and store at room temperature for 3 days. Before storing, be sure the frosting has fully set! If you have to stack the cookies in the storage container, then put a layer of parchment paper in between the layers.
Nutrition Information
Serving: 1cookie, Calories: 415kcal (21%), Carbohydrates: 67g (22%), Protein: 1g (2%), Fat: 16g (25%), Saturated Fat: 4g (25%), Polyunsaturated Fat: 6g, Monounsaturated Fat: 6g, Cholesterol: 3mg (1%), Sodium: 205mg (9%), Potassium: 65mg (2%), Fiber: 0.3g (1%), Sugar: 55g (61%), Vitamin A: 11IU, Calcium: 4mg, Iron: 1mg (6%)
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