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Making of Easter Cookies:

Easter cookies have always been a source of delight and crisp for those are eagerly looking forward to Easter time and decorated Easter cookies are one of the important members of Easter menu which will make your Easter a super special event. Easter cookies are simple to make and comes in different shapes and sizes. For most of the people Easter cookies are remembered with the shapes of bunnies, rabbits, chicks, lambs and Easter eggs. You can find most of the shapes easily and get them through cookie cutters as well.

Ingredients:

3/4 cup sugar

1 pinch salt

3/4 cup softened butter

4 tsp orange juice

2 tblsp milk

3/4 cup currants

3 egg yolks

4 cup all-purpose flour

Easter cookie glaze:

Food color

2 tblsp powdered sugar

1 egg white lightly beaten

Easy way to make Easter cookies:

• Switch on the oven and allow it to heat up to 350 F (175 c).
• In the mean time you should grease several baking sheets with butter.
• Then take a large bowl and beat butter with sugar into it until creamy.
• A little later you can also beat in some more ingredients like egg yolks, orange juice and milk. Don’t forget to add currants.
• After that sift flour and salt into bowl and mix in so that it forms fairly stiff dough.
• You should knead it lightly and gently on a floured surface until it is smooth.
• Following this roll out to 1/8-inch thickness.
• With the help of a round 2-1/2-inch-fluted cookie cutter, cut out circular shapes from dough and place them on greased baking sheets.
• The trimmings will be as such. Knead and roll out the trimmings and cut out more same circular shapes out of the dough until it is used up and no trimmings are left.
• You should bake the cookies for 10 minutes and then remove from the oven.
• Now it is time to brush the baked cookies with egg white mixture and sprinkle them lightly with the powdered sugar.
• Return to oven once again for about 5 minutes longer or until the cookies is light brown in color.
• After 5 minutes remove them from baking sheets to wire racks and allow it to cool.
• You should always store it in an airtight container.
• Easter cookie glaze

How to make Cookie Glaze:

• For the cookie glaze, mix together egg and powdered sugar into a bowl.
• Later also add a few drops of food coloring, if needed.