Spring has finally arrived, and what better way to celebrate than by baking a batch of delicious Easter-inspired cookies? With their pastel sprinkles, seasonal M&M’s, candy-coated eggs, and rich chocolate, these cookies are packed with festive flavors and cheerful colors. Whether you plan on hosting an Easter brunch, arranging a fun egg hunt, or are simply craving something sweet, these cookies are the perfect treat to brighten your holiday.
Why should Christmas be the only holiday celebrated with cookies? Especially when there are so many different kinds of cookie-dough-worthy Easter candy on the market these days? With the recipes below, Easter can finally join in the cookie-baking fun. So the next time you’re out at the store, don’t forget to pick up a bag of those pastel colored M&M’s or candy-coated chocolate eggs. Heck, if you’re feeling really adventurous, toss a chocolate bunny or two into your cart. Let’s make sure that Christmas isn’t the only holiday that gets to have all the cookie fun this year.
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Chewy Peanut Butter Crunchy Bird’s Nest Cookies
If you like your cookies to be both chewy and crunchy at the same time, then this peanut butter cookie recipe is going to become your new best friend. Not only are these cookies topped with everyone’s favorite candy, Peanut M&M’s, but they’re also packed with peanut butter flavor. Your biggest issue with these cookies will be finishing them before they crumble in your hands because these cookies are super-delicate. But you know what? A few crumbles are so worth it.
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Cornmeal Coconut Cake Mix Butter Cookies
You’ll have a hard time choosing whether these soft, tender, chewy, and crunchy coconut and cornmeal butter cookies are best served as a dessert or as a sweet side to a savory meal. They’re lovely on their own, however, they’re also the perfect accompaniment to a spicy or creamy bowl of soup, chili, or chowder. And since these sweet and salty, buttery cornmeal cookies are made with a coconut cake mix, you may just find yourself making them at least once a week.
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Crunchy Easter Bird Nest Granola Bites
These sweet peanut butter, oat, and chia seed bird nest granola bites are chewy and creamy with an added candy chocolate egg crunch to make them simply irresistible. This is definitely a dessert for breakfast treat you’ll want to find in your Easter basket this spring.
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White Chocolate Carrot Cake Tea Cookies
Nothing says spring more than carrot cake. It’s one dessert that seems to pop up every year when the trees begin to bloom and Easter approaches. This year, instead of making a traditional carrot cake, try making these tea cookies instead. These cookies are a convenient single-serving dessert with all of the cinnamon, pecan, and white chocolate flavors you’ve come to love.
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These charming little spring cookies get their nest-like appearance thanks to crushed pretzels and flaked coconut. After being filled with melted caramel and topped with a few chocolate candy eggs, these sweet heavenly thumbprint cookies are ready for some serious Easter munching.
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The Best Chocolate Easter Candy Egg Cookies
When it comes to Easter cookies, packed with egg-shaped chocolate candy, I can promise you that these are by far “The Best” you will ever eat. They’re super-soft, moist, tender, and have just the right chocolate to cookie ratio. They’ll definitely make you wish Cadbury Mini Eggs were accessible all year round.
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Lemon Raspberry Cake Mix Cookies
Never take a cake mix for granted. Not only are they easy to use, but you can make a myriad of other desserts with them, including these soft, moist, and lemony cake mix cookies. After being drizzled with a lemony glaze and dusted with dried raspberries, these delicious cookies are pretty much impossible to resist. Try them for yourself and see.
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Quick Easter Brownie Mix Cookies
With all of the fuss that goes into making Easter dinner, it’s nice to have a quick and easy dessert, which won’t take hours to make. These festive spring cookies are made using a boxed fudge brownie mix and Cadbury Mini Eggs. In my world, any dessert recipe that requires only dirtying one bowl and one baking sheet is one that I can instantly fall in love with, holiday or no holiday.
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Peanut Butter No-Bake Bird Nest Cereal Cookies
Just because you’re not a baker, doesn’t mean that you can’t have homemade cookies this Easter. These no-bake peanut butter cereal cookies are insanely easy to make, and they’re also pretty adorable as well. I mean, who doesn’t want to eat a cookie that looks like a bird’s nest full of candy-coated milk chocolate eggs?
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“Killer Bunny” Oatmeal Cookies
Do you dream of warm, gooey cookies fresh from the oven but cringe at the cost of premium chocolate chips? There’s a secret weapon hiding in plain sight, especially right after Easter. Discounted high-quality chocolate bunnies, commonly found in your local store’s clearance section, are easy to chop into small chocolate chunks for use in your favorite cookie recipes. These “Killer Bunny” Oatmeal Cookies are a chocolatey, chewy, budget-friendly sweet treat that will have everyone hopping for joy.
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