Bunny Cookie

The bunny on this cute little cookie was made by simply dropping dots of icing onto a wet base coat and then manipulating the drops into a bunny shape using a scribe tool. Please don't be intimidated by this design. It's much easier than it looks.

Here's how:

You need a scribe tool, toothpick or skewer for this cookie. This is my favorite PME scribe tool.

Have your base icing as well as the icings you want to use for the bunny mixed and in piping bags. All of your icings should be flood consistency. Outline and fill your cookie.

Immediately add two dots of icing for the bunny — a larger drop for the body and a smaller drop for the head.

Use your scribe tool to manipulate the shape of the bottom drop for the body. I pulled it down to create a straight line at the base.

Add two small drops of icing for the ears and use your scribe tool to pull them upward to make them longer and add points.

Add a drop of icing for the tail.

Put a drop of pink flood icing next to where you are working and use your scribe tool to touch it and then touch it to the bunny's face to add eyes, a nose and color to the ears.

I also added a collar.

And, I added a few dots on the front of the bunny. Because this decorating technique is done freehand, you won't get perfectly identical bunnies, but that's what I kind of like about it. Each is a little work of art!

Mossy Bunny Easter Cookies

My friend Cindy invited me over to decorate Easter cookies. She had baked a double batch of egg-shaped cookies and so when I got to her house we just needed to come up with a design.

At first we thought we would decorate the eggs to look like "chicks" but decided that's been done and we wanted to come up with something different.

I mentioned to Cindy that I had seen a cool moss technique from one of my favorite decorators, "Semi Sweet Mike." She was immediately intrigued so I showed her the tutorial on his blog.

"Let's do it," she said. I love working with Cindy so much because she is enthusiastic and gets excited about cookie stuff just like me. So we decided to make a bunny cookie with a mossy background and got to work.

We drew a design, made our moss sprinkles, whipped up a batch of icing and spent the day visiting, decorating and learning. These cookies came out so cute and are perfect for your Easter celebrations.

One important note is that these cookies don't package well because bits of the moss will inevitable off inside the package. These are best served on a platter.  

Here's how we made them:

To make the moss, first make graham cracker crumbs using a food processor. Put the crumbs in a ziplock plastic bag.

Tint 1/4 cup vodka with gel coloring. We used a combination of leaf green and electric yellow.

Add the coloring to the crumbs and mix it in by squeezing and smooshing the outside of the bag. This takes a while but it'll happen.

Put the green crumbs on a sheet pan and spread them out and break them up as much as possible. Place them in a 200 degree oven to dry out. Check on them every 5 to 10 minutes and give them a stir to help break the crumbs apart.  It took about 30 minutes for them to dry out.

Moss sprinkles!

We sketched a design.

We cut out the bunny face and used an edible ink marker to transfer it to the cookies. We alternated the placement of the bunny face among the cookies.

Then using flood consistency green icing and a #2 tip, outline the bunny and then the cookie.

Fill in the outline and use a skewer to help distribute the icing.

Place the cookie on a piece of parchment paper and sprinkle on some moss. The parchment is important because it catches stray moss that can be reused.

Shake off the excess and set your cookies aside to dry.

After the cookies have dried you can use a soft brush to clean off even more excess moss.

Fill in the bunny with white flood consistency icing. This was a little tricky because if the tip touched the moss, the green got into the icing. It took us a while to get the hang of filling them in.

Let the cookies dry overnight.

The next day use black and pink edible markers to add the facial details.

A bunny closeup.

Double Decker Bunny Cookies

Arranged on a platter or individually wrapped and tucked into an Easter basket, either way these Double Decker Bunny Cookies are irresistible.

To make them, bake an equal number of small bunny cookies and large plain shaped cookies that will be used as the bases.

I found my small bunny cookie cutter at the The Decorette Shop here in Portland, but you can easily find similar cutters online. Just make sure to get a mini bunny cutter so that you don't have to make giant cookies for the base.

I added dots to some of the base cookies using the wet-on-wet technique. And, I kept some of them a single solid color just for variation and to add interest.

Here's how I made them:

I outlined all of the base cookies with white royal icing using a #2 tip and left them to dry for 30 minutes.

I then filled in the base cookies with flood consistency icing using a #2 tip.

After flooding, I immediately added white dots to some of the cookies using the same white icing I used for outlining. After all of the base cookies are decorated, leave them to dry completely. This takes about 8 hours.

Outline the bunny cookies using medium consistency royal icing and a #1 tip.

Using the same icing, immediately fill in the outline.

Use a skewer or scribe tool to move the icing to fill in the gaps.

Give the cookie a gently shake and leave it to dry.

Once the icing is dry, add a dot of pink icing for the nose and a blob of stiff icing for a fluffy tail. I didn't even use a pastry bag to add the icing to the tail. I just took a small spoon and dabbed it on.

Also add a tiny dot of black icing for the eye. Wait until everything is dry before assembling the double-decker cookie.

To assemble, add a blob of stiff icing to the back of the bunny. Keep it in the center so that it doesn't squish out too much when you press it onto the base cookie.

Set the bunny on its base cookie and gently press. Wait for the royal icing "glue" to  dry completely before serving or packaging.