30 Easy Easter Cookie Ideas to Sweeten Your Holiday
Cute and fun Easter cookie recipes! These festive cookies are easy desserts to share at your Easter celebration.
I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who didn’t like cookies!
They’re easy to eat (no silverware required), fun to bake, and offer the perfect bite-size treat.
If you’ve never made cookies for Easter, here’s your invitation!
You can decorate them for a creative and festive activity, or whip up a batch of easy cookies – no complicated steps required.
I put together a list of cute and easy Easter cookies, so you have tons of inspiration for what to make.
Any of these fun cookie ideas will be a hit at your holiday gathering.
Okay, let’s check out these festive Easter cookies!
(🐣 Looking for more delicious Easter food ideas? Try one of these festive spring charcuterie boards, or add a unique potato side dish, amazing vegetable side dish, easy fun Easter dessert, or mouthwatering Easter appetizer to your menu!)
Best Easter Cookie Recipes
Cadbury Chocolate Chip Cookies
Cadbury Chocolate Chip Cookies are the best Easter dessert! They’re chewy and loaded with chocolate chips and the iconic pastel Cadbury mini eggs.
They require no chilling time and whip up in just minutes!
Easter Blossom Cookies
Easter Blossom Cookies are a colorful, festive twist on the classic blossom cookies!
A soft and chewy sugar cookie base is rolled in colorful sugar, baked to perfection, and topped with a Hershey’s kiss to create these beautiful and tasty Easter cookies.
Lemon Curd Easter Egg Cookies
Lemon Curd Egg Cookies are such a unique treat to make this Easter.
From the crisp, buttery gluten free lemon shortbread to the silky-smooth, luscious lemon curd, they’re just an explosion of flavor and texture.
Plus, they’re really easy to make and look just ridiculously cute!
Sour Cream Easter Sugar Cookies
Are you looking for a recipe that’s guaranteed to bring a smile to your face and some sweetness to your taste buds? Well, you’re in luck!
These sour cream Easter sugar cookies with cream cheese frosting are so fun to make and delicious to eat.
Mini Easter Egg Fruit Pizzas
Mini Easter Egg Fruit Pizzas are made with a sugar cookie crust, a layer of cream cheese frosting, and a variety of fresh fruit.
The cookies are shaped like Easter eggs, and the fruit is arranged in a colorful design, just like decorated Easter eggs!
Bunny Butt Cookies
Easter Bunny Butt Cookies might become one of your new favorite Easter desserts!
Use any type of sugar cookie, frosting and some strategically placed marshmallows and you have the cutest Easter treat in no time.
Easter Meringue Nests
Easy-to-make Easter Meringue Nests are a delicious and festive treat that everyone will love.
With a sweetened cream cheese filling and a light and airy texture, these meringues are the perfect addition to your holiday dessert table.
Lemon Bunny Cookies
Crunchy lemon Bunny Cookies are almost too cute to eat. Colorful candy melt decorations make it easy to create adorable decorated Easter cookies.
Mini Egg Cheesecake Cookie Bars
Mini Egg Cookie Bars include a Cadbury mini egg-filled cookie layer followed by a cheesecake layer, and then topped with even more cookie.
Colorful, delicious and only 15 minutes to prep!
Double Chocolate Easter Cookies
Ooey-gooey Double Chocolate Easter Cookies are thick and soft, with chocolate chips and Chocolate easter eggs for extra crunch.
They have amazing chocolate flavor, are super easy to make, and can be done in under 30 minutes.
Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies
These Buttercream Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies and carrot cookies are so cute, everyone will want one!
Birds Nest Cookies
Celebrate Easter with these easy and quick Bird Nest Cookies.
Made with Easter chocolate eggs, chow mein noodles, dark chocolate and peanut butter, they make the perfect family-friendly Easter treat!
Greek Easter Orange Cookies
Hand-shaped Koulourakia cookies are traditional at Greek Easter and delightful with tea or coffee. They’re have a delightful orange, buttery flavor and a fun shape make them a fun holiday treat to share.
Easter Egg Cookies
These cute Easter Egg Cookies are easy to make using a sugar cookie mix shortcut and colorful fondant.
Decorated Easter egg cookies are a fun activity for the holiday week, a cute gift idea for family and friends, or you could even make a batch to leave as a thank you for the Easter Bunny!
Italian Easter Cookies
Festive Italian Easter Cookies may soon become your new annual tradition!
They’re a cake-like, buttery and soft, lightly sweetened sugar cookie frosted with a decadent almond glaze and colorful sprinkles.
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Nests
Chocolate Coconut Macaroon Nests are a spring twist on a classic coconut treat, featuring a chewy coconut cookie dipped in chocolate and topped with Cadbury Mini Eggs.
These easy cookies are perfect to make for your Easter and spring celebrations!
Stained Glass Easter Cookies
Stained Glass Easter Cookies look fancy, but they’re easy enough for the whole family to help.
So pretty, they’ll be a lovely addition to your Easter holiday table!
Easter Sprinkle Cookies
Easter Sprinkle Cookies are a quick and easy way to bake a batch of soft and chewy cookies covered in sprinkles in less than 30 minutes.
This recipe is made from scratch and the dough is simply rolled and baked; no refrigeration required.
Carrot Cake Stuffed Cookies
Easy Carrot Cake Stuffed Cookies turn your favorite spiced cake, complete with freshly grated carrots and cream cheese frosting, into soft and chewy carrot cake cookies.
Best of all, there’s a surprise filling that’s hidden inside.
Easter Cookie Cake
This Easter Cookie Cake is a crowd-pleasing holiday delight!
Soft, chewy, and thick, it’s studded with chocolate chips and mini Cadbury chocolate eggs.
Lemon Blueberry Cookies
Lemon Blueberry Cookies are soft, chewy, and delightfully tangy! Make them in just one bowl using either fresh or frozen blueberries and finish them off with an optional (but recommended!) lemon glaze.
Homemade Lemon Meringue Cookie Peeps
Instead of the classic marshmallow storebought treat, make these festive Lemon Meringue Cookie Peeps.
They’re so cute, and the fact that they're cookies will totally surprise all your guests!
Easy Easter Sugar Cookies
Are you super busy but still want to create fun Easter memories? These easy Easter Sugar Cookies use Pillsbury sugar cookie dough.
Baking doesn’t need to be time-consuming or complicated!
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are a soft lemon-kissed sugar cookie base, filled with sweet raspberry preserves and drizzled with a fresh lemon glaze.
Not only are these Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies delicious, they’re super easy to make!
Carrot Cake Mix Cookies
These Cake Mix Carrot Cake Cookies are made from a simple box mix and a little sour cream to add extra moisture, so you can expect supple, soft, and delicately spiced cookies with minimal ingredients.
Mini Pavlova Nests
Crispy on the outside, soft and pillowy inside, Mini Pavlova Nests are filled with sweet cream and lemon curd, and topped with fresh strawberries and mint leaves.
Colorful Easter Sugar Cookies
These super easy decorated and colorful Easter Sugar cookies are topped with a delicious lemon glaze and look so pretty.
With minimal ingredients and prep work required, there’s no need to mess with fancy cutouts or fussy decorating techniques.
Coconut Sugar Cookie Cups
Coconut Sugar Cookie Cups have a yummy coconut sugar cookie base filled with frosting and topped with coconut.
These are the perfect sweet treat for any time of year but are especially cute for Easter!
Easter Magic Cookie Bars
Easter Magic Cookie Bars are a simple dump and spread cookie bars with many layers, but super easy to make.
It's a festive twist on the classic magic cookie bars recipe.
Bunny Tail Easter Cookies
Soft Easter Bunny Tail Sugar cookies are easy and fun, and perfect for Easter parties.
Grab your bunny cookie cutter and make these cookies with adorable marshmallow bunny tails!
Ready to try some new Easter cookie recipes?
I hope this list of cute Easter cookies has given you tons of ideas for easy treats to share at your holiday celebration.
They look so festive on your Easter table, and everyone will keep coming back to gran another!
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