One: Mini cookies are a lot harder to resist eating. Don't say I didn't warn you.
Two: Flicking the food coloring, it's fun. It's so much fun that you should do it when your kids are at school...or where they can't see you. Otherwise, I see food coloring being flicked all over your house.
{This is a warning from the uptight mom-lifeguard-teacher-prison warden side of me. If you are one of those cool, laid-back moms I dream of being, by all means, let your kids loose with the flicking.}
To make the mini speckled egg cookies, you will need:
- mini egg sugar cookies
- royal icing, tinted with AmeriColor Chocolate Brown, Ivory, Avocado Green, and Turquoise mixed with Ivory
- coupler and tips (#1.5 or #2, #1, #15 star)
- disposable icing bags
- squeeze bottles
- toothpicks
- chocolate brown food coloring
- small ramekin
- small paintbrush
- glove
{Have I mentioned that piping egg shapes make me nervous? My eggs are never exactly perfectly shaped.}
Thin the ivory, green, and turquoise icings with water, a bit at a time, stirring with a silicone spatula, until it is the consistency of a thick syrup. You'll want to drop a "ribbon" of icing back into the bowl and have it disappear in a count of "one thousand one, one thousand two." Four is too thick, one is too thin. Count of 2-3 is good. Cover with a damp dishcloth and let sit for several minutes.
Stir gently with a silicone spatula to pop and large air bubbles that have formed. Pour into squeeze bottles as needed.
Let the cookies dry uncovered, 6-8 hours or overnight.
Speckled Egg Cookies...don't you want to try?!?
I loved them last year, and love them even more this year, so cute!
ReplyDeleteHow lovely...the speckles are great!! I could quite happily munch my way through these!! :-)
ReplyDeleteSo cute! I just love your cookies ideas Bridget!
ReplyDeleteAdorable! I think I'm to use this technique for something a little different...but I think it would work well :)
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, these are beautiful!! I would totally be making these if I weren't cribside in the NICU with my premie daughter!! She's healthy, she just is learning how to eat. I'll show here these cookie pictures to motivate her. (And file this idea away for next year!!) :-)
ReplyDeleteKT...I'm a mom of a preemie, too!!! Now he's 13 and bout ready to overtake me in height! Snuggle that little one. ♥
DeleteThese are adorable! I don't decorate a lot of cookies, but these just might be a changing point for me!
ReplyDeleteLove-love the speckles! These look delicious and the presentation in the blue cartons is awesome. I've got to try these :)
ReplyDelete-Molly
So cute!! I love them, great idea as always Bridget :)
ReplyDeleteThese are by far the cutest easter cookies I have seen. LOVE these!
ReplyDeleteJust darling once again! Yeah... I wish I had more days of being a laid back Mom..we are works in progress. Thanks for always sharing your yummy details. I need to make someday..today and order some coloring and tips and get my baking on!
ReplyDeleteMaureen
Beautiful, I am silent reader of your blog, finally give up and showed my face. Admire your decorating skills. I need to try .
ReplyDeleteThose are adorable! I think I will make them for the Easter Bake Sale. I'll def. need those cute little baskets. Thank you so much for the step by step how tos.
ReplyDeleteYou have inspired me to take on cookie making and selling! I'm excited and have been very busy already. 160 Dr. Suess Cookies for Read Across America Day!
So thanks again. Sometimes when I get an order, I think, I don't know if I can do that cookie. I need to look on Bake at 350 to see if she has showed us how!
I made your cowboy boot cookies for Western Day at my daughters school.
Again, Thank you SO much! You are awesome.
they are absolutely gorgeous! I love the shades of blue and teal, too. So classy and Tiffany-like :)
ReplyDeleteThe speckled look is SO adorable! Love these little eggs. :)
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute! I love the colors you chose. :) Thank you for the step-by-step. Will definitely have to try this.
ReplyDeleteIf these aren't the epitome of Easter Preciousness I don't know what is!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE LOVE LOVE these!!
ReplyDeleteOh so sweet....love the colors, Bridget! What a perfect little gift those baskets full of cookies would make!!!! Thanks for the tutorial!!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutamente adorables. Gracias por el tutorial.
ReplyDeleteThese are the perfect, adorable cookie for Easter
ReplyDeleteThese are the freakin' most adorable things EVER.
ReplyDeleteThese are so beautiful! I love the pastel shades of the icings and your photos are so good! Every time I look at your blog you make me think I could be a pro cookie decorator in no time but I'm sure it's not as easy as you make it look!!
ReplyDeleteI remember your cupcake bird's nest post and the speckled eggs. This baskets of eggs are really cute. Speckling for the kids would be a blast...with a big plastic sheet covering everything other than the cookies!
ReplyDeleteNo, I don't want to try.. I want to eat them ALL! All the cookies!!
ReplyDeleteYou make the most adorable cookies! Ree needs to have you over for another decorating lesson contest and I need to win!!!
ReplyDeleteThese are so pretty! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the colors you chose!
ReplyDeleteLove these eggs! And the soft colors you chose are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteEaster just has the cutest food!!
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable. Love the colors!
ReplyDeleteSo precious and clever. I love these, Bridget!! I remember seeing them when you shared them on instagram. :D
ReplyDeleteThese are so incredibly adorable!
ReplyDeleteI love all the speckle-diness!! love that they're mini AND they look so..earthy. These are beautiful! :)
ReplyDeleteMini eggs are my favourite easter eggs so I LOVE the idea of these in cookie form. So cute!
ReplyDeleteI AM IN LOVE WITH THESE!
ReplyDeleteSorry for *yelling* but...I. Die. Birds and eggs and nests? I J'adore. You've outdone yourself this time sweet peach!
These are too cute for words!
ReplyDeleteThese are way to cute, and they sure do look "EASY" enough! Ummmm....But after my last attempt...hahaha.....I am not sure I am up for making any more, 'decorated' cookies! LOL
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Adorable~Love the Easter Cookies :)
ReplyDeleteThese are absolutely adorable!
ReplyDeleteChocolate speckled eggs are one of the few Easter candies I can't resist...love these!
ReplyDeleteI'm completely stunned by your cookies. I have always enjoyed baking but have never been very good at decorating, but your step by step insructions make a decoration-phobe person such as myself want to run to the nearest store and buy food coloring! Your cookies look tasty and are just adorable! They also look like they are a blast to make. SUPER impressed over here, I am!
ReplyDeleteSo exquisite. You are so completely talented. I'll try my hand at these, but I'm pretty sure they won't come out looking anything like yours, lol.
ReplyDeleteI love these eggies! Can you come to my house and help me?!
ReplyDeleteLooooove these!!!
ReplyDeleteI LOOOOOVE these! I'm only a laid-back mom part time. For this, I'm definitely uptight because my toddler would definitely start flicking every piece of food from then on out. ;) Anyhow, these are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteThese are so cute! I borrowed a picture from this post, because this cookies are just too lovley to not talk about them! I looooove your Blog, thanks for all those wonderfull ideas!!!
ReplyDeleteGORGEOUS job, as per usual.
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I love your speckled cookies, so cute :)
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I love these, so adorable!
ReplyDeleteBridget, these are wonderful, and exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for the tutorial and for sharing with us all.
ReplyDeleteCan you mail me some please? ;)
ReplyDelete"Happy Cooking"
I think these are the cutest cookies I have seen you do! So sweet~
ReplyDeleteThese are the best looking cookies I have ever seen. Gorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteI am oh so very hooked on making minis... for wedding and baby showers, for birthday party favors, for every holiday and the weeks in between. Too much fun and, YES, very hard to resist.
ReplyDeleteI just tripped across your website and can't stop staring (okay, drooling) at your beautiful creations. You're very talented and I can't wait to read more.
ReplyDeleteThe colors and the details are perfect and so pretty! I adore the minis!
ReplyDeleteYou always have the cutest ideas B! I need to make some cookies again, it's been a while. Mini's sound like a great idea!
ReplyDeleteThese are adorable! I never have the patience to sit down and decorate cookies. I have a few times but I really admire your patience and attention to detail! I love how dynamic the speckled effect makes them look. Soooo cute.
ReplyDeleteMini cookies are more tempting to eat. Less guilt, but I wouldn't be able to stop at just one. These are super cute!
ReplyDeleteThese are gorgeous. Still not sure I could pull off making these, but I'd love to try.
ReplyDeleteThese are crazy adorable! LOVE them! And love how they are look in the berry basket.
ReplyDeleteWe always used tooth brushes to fleck the "paint" on. It works amazing, and it goes much quicker.
ReplyDeleteThose are amazing. I am not proficient in royal icing, however I am thinking I may need to give it a try!
I took these babies on, but I did big eggs to hand out at an Easter Egg Hunt. This is the first time I have decorated cookies (other than sprinkles) so I have a couple of questions: How thick did you roll the dough? How much Chocolate Brown did you add to the icing (mine never got really dark)? My flooding looks bumpy because I think it sank in some spots. What is the fix to this? Thanks!
ReplyDeleteMaggie...
Deleteright about 1/4"
lots of chocolate brown
bumpiness: flood a bit more next time to cover areas evenly. :)
Thanks Bridget! One more question... should the royal icing that was flooded become hard or should it still be a little soft?
DeleteThis mini egg cookies looks so lovely.
ReplyDeleteWhat cookie recipe did you use? I might be bling but alkl i see is icing and decoration directions
ReplyDeleteWren...look right above the picture of the icing colors. There is a link. You can also use any of the cut-out cookie recipes in the "recipe index" up top. :) Happy baking!
DeleteTe felicito por tu blog y por estas galletas tan originales. Me han gustado mucho.
ReplyDeleteUn beso,
These are SOOOO cute!! I just adore them Bridget!
ReplyDeleteSo cute! Where do you find the container?
ReplyDeleteMuy bonito blog. Espero que sepas español! la receta una belleza. Un abrazo,
ReplyDeleteI just love the speckles on these adorable cookies! Absolutely too cute!!
ReplyDeleteThese are beyond adorable, perfect for Easter! So excited I found your AMAZING blog! Cheers!
ReplyDeleteyes I do! Those are so cute!!!
ReplyDeleteLove it when you nestle cookies in the little produce cartons.
ReplyDeleteI know these little speckled eggs are the perfect~yuMMy bite!
So cute!
xoxoxo
hi there! where can i order your cookies? TIA!
ReplyDeleteThese were the inspiration for a batch of speckled dino egg cake pops I did for a friend's 3 year old son's birthday! Thank you so much!
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