Easter Bunny Adores These One-Egg Buttery Cookies
I’m sure the Easter Bunny is absolutely appalled by today’s egg prices.
These enduring symbols of spring and rebirth are a centerpiece of Easter celebrations, from egg hunts to Easter brunch.
Every year on Easter Saturday, my husband, Randy, and I spend a quiet evening dyeing hard cooked eggs. While I adore solid pastels, Randy takes a different approach. He dips one half of an egg in the dye with utmost patience to achieve his desired shade, sets it aside until the dye has set, then dips the other half in a different color, sometimes with a band of white in the middle.
Easter celebrations in our home also include something sweet — a cake, braided yeast bread drizzled with icing, meringue nests filled with fruit, or cookies.
Mindful of egg prices but unwilling to abandon my passion for Easter dessert, this year I’ve created Easter butter cookies that require only one egg yolk (Just be sure to save the egg white for scrambled eggs or meringue kisses).
To make meringue kisses, preheat the oven to 225 degrees. Whip the egg white at high speed with a pinch of cream of tartar and one-third cup of sugar until stiff peaks form. Add one-fourth teaspoon of vanilla, mix well, and transfer the meringue to a piping bag fitted with a star tip.
Pipe kisses onto a cookie sheet, bake one hour, then turn off the oven and allow them to dry 3 hours with the oven door closed. If desired, add a drop of pink food coloring to the meringue during whipping.
Easter butter cookies are a festive holiday dessert when the cost of a dozen eggs is a major investment. Pretty-as-a-picture and so light and tender they almost melt in your mouth, their buttery flavor is enhanced by buttercream swirls.
Bake and frost several days ahead and store in airtight containers.
Arranged on a platter covered with Easter grass and adorned with an Easter bunny, these springtime cookies create an irresistible, whimsical centerpiece for your dining table.
Happy Easter!
Christy Rost is a cookbook author, host of Celebrating Home cooking videos, and longtime Park Cities and Preston Hollow resident. Her ‘At Home with Christy Rost’ cooking series for Eat This TV Network airs on AmazonFire, AppleTV+, Roku, Samsung TV, and YouTube. Please visit christyrost.com for details and recipes.
