Surprise Inside Easter Egg Cookies!

These 3D Easter Egg cookies are perfect for hiding little surprises inside! I can’t wait to give one to my daughter on Easter morning.

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This is another time-consuming project – nothing new for me 😉 But you could just make one or two of your favorite designs and use them in a centerpiece for your Easter decor.

Visit Haniela’s to watch her tutorial on how to make these adorable Easter Basket Cookies. It just so happens that hers are also holding Cadbury mini eggs – we did not plan that! Hani and I always seem to be on the same wavelength when it comes to cookies.

My 3D Easter Egg Cookies are made using molds from Tunde’s Creations on Etsy. I used the small size and the large size.

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I was actually surprised at how difficult it was to find an egg-shaped mold online. Fortunately I remembered that Tunde had a heart-shaped mold that I used a few years ago for a similar project so I thought I’d take a look in her shop. Bingo! Thanks, Tunde 🙂

I used some of my favorite decorating techniques for this set. Filigree, brush embroidery, eyelet lace, piped roses, and painting with gold are all part of my online Premium Tutorials available to my Patreon Subscribers.

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3D Easter Egg Cookie Supply List

Find most of these supplies in my Amazon Store unless otherwise noted

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Egg molds and cutters (I purchased mine from Tunde’s Creations on Etsy – you could also use an egg-shaped cake pan)
Roll out cookie dough (use your favorite or get mine in the tutorial shop)
Flood consistency royal icing
Medium consistency royal icing
Stiff consistency royal icing
Wilton Garden Tone food coloring
Cooling grid
Baking sheet
Parchment paper
Decorating Bags
Decorating tips 1, 2, 3, 101, and 352
Couplers
Bag ties
Flower nail
Small parchment square for piping the rose
Square tip brush, round brush, thin brush from the Wilton decorator brush set
Gold luster dust (I used Crystal Colors Antique Gold, find it in my Amazon Store)
Alcohol or any flavor extract (Alcohol or flavored extracts are used for painting on royal icing because they evaporate very quickly, which means that the liquid won’t dissolve the icing as you are applying the paint. The stronger the alcohol, the better!)
Small dish or paint palette for mixing gold

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Instructions

Grease the egg molds.
Press the cookie dough into the molds and trim the excess dough (the dough seemed to fit better on the inside, but you could also try forming it to the outside of the mold. I’m really not sure which is the correct way!)
Cut a small hole in the bottom to help prevent the cookies from puffing up while baking.
Bake at 350˚F for 10-12 minutes.
Loosen the cookies while they are still warm. Remove them from the molds when they are completely cool.
Place the cookies on a cooling grid over a parchment-lined baking sheet. Cover them with flood consistency royal icing (no decorating tip necessary for this part – just cut a hole in the decorating bag).
Tap the cooling grid to remove the excess icing.
Move the cookies to a clean parchment-lined baking sheet to dry.
Pipe a filigree design with brown medium consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 2 (Join me on Patreon to learn more about filigree and other piping techniques shown in this tutorial)
Use stiff consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 3 for brush embroidered flowers and leaves.
Use a slightly damp square tip brush to bring the icing toward the center of the flower.
Use the brush embroidery technique to create layered scallops.
Pipe a rose with pink stiff consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 101 on a flower nail. Allow the rose to dry completely before removing it from the parchment square.
Pipe leaves with green stiff consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 352.
Pipe an eyelet lace design with medium consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 1.
Apply a small amount of medium consistency icing between the “eyelets” in the lace.
Use a slightly damp brush to spread the icing and stipple the icing to add texture.
Add details with medium consistency icing and a tip 1.
Mix gold luster dust with vodka or any flavor extract, such as vanilla, lemon, or almond.
Apply the gold to the filigree with a thin brush (read my blog post on painting with gold for more info).
Pipe a border with stiff consistency royal icing and a decorating tip 3.
Allow the icing to dry completely and then fill the eggs with your favorite Easter candy.