Nest Cookies for Easter

By srumbel

If there is one thing that I love more than Christmas baking, it's Easter baking. I adore the soft and happy feel of pastel colors and adding those colours to baking treats is something that I completely love. These Nest Cookies for Easter marry a soft and tasty cookie flavoured with the taste of delicious eggs and butter with a coconut 'nest' and candy-coated chocolate eggs to create a cookie that embodies everything that Easter is about...new beginnings, new life, growth and renewal. To me, the egg symbolizes all of those wonderful things about this time of year, and it really is a time to celebrate.
from echoesoflaughter.com

Ingredients

• To decorate:
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 Burnbrae Farms eggs
• 2 tsp. vanilla
• 3 cups flour
• 1.5 tsp. baking powder
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1.5 cups vanilla frosting
• 1.5 cups shredded sweetened coconut
• yellow food colouring
• candy coated chocolate eggs

Preparation

Step 1

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Cream butter and sugar together. Add egg and vanilla and beat well.
2. In separate bowl, stir together flour, salt and baking powder. Add to sugar mixture and blend well.
3. Roll dough into 1-inch balls and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Dent each ball with the top of a bottle cap to make a place for the nest.
4. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes or until bottoms are just golden brown.
5. While cookies are baking, mix a few drops of yellow food colouring into coconut to may 'hay' for nests.
6. When cookies are cool, add a small amount of vanilla frosting to 'nest'. Sprinkle yellow coconut on top of frosting and decorate with candy-coated eggs.
{makes approx. 2,5 dozen}