Chocolate Chip Easter Egg Cookies

Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies

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Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookie
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies
Chocolate Chip Easter Cookies

These Easter Egg Cookies may look all blinged-out but underneath the over-the-top embellishments lies a familiar classic: ye old chocolate chip cookie. There’s no rule that says only cutout sugar cookies can be decorated for Easter. Enter the humble, but well-loved, chocolate chip cookie — shaped like an Easter egg, covered with chocolate or royal icing and decorated to the hilt.

“Appearances can be deceiving. Not every decorated cookie is a sugar cookie.” Kasha

The key to making Chocolate Chip Easter Egg Cookies is to take your favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe and replace the baking soda with baking powder so it will puff up instead of spreading out. Then add a tablespoon or so more flour to make a stiffer dough. To shape the cookies like eggs, press the dough into a floured tablespoon. Finally, freeze the raw cookies for about 10 minutes before baking to help them maintain their shape. After they’ve cooled completely, ignore the fact that they’re not a sugar cookie! Go ahead and dip them in chocolate or cover them with royal icing or stiff glaze, and decorate them exactly the way you would a cutout cookie.

Don’t overbake!
I always underbake my chocolate chip cookies by a few minutes so that they will be soft.

 

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What I’ve learned...

These cookies were made with the best ingredients I could find and baked in a small batch of two dozen. I’ve experimented with less expensive ingredients, but have come to the conclusion that flavor is best when I use the best. Why spend all this time baking and decorating if taste and texture are just so-so? Decorating the cookies takes time, but it’s an enjoyable process for me and I know that those who receive them appreciate that. Life is just better when you can share something you love with someone you love. Don’t you agree?

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