Every year, it's the same thing. I google "How to make the perfect hard boiled egg" follow therecipe, and still fail. Now that I think about it, that may be the real reason why I don't like to dye Easter eggs. It's like each colorful little egg is a reminder of my failure.
Rather then dye eggs, we opted to do two fun Easter themed cookies. The first is a Cookie Pizza. This basic recipe can turn in to something spectacular when decorated.
Cookie Pizza
adapted from Pizza Cookie Recipe in 500 Cookies by Philippa Vastone
Cookie
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup of white sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
Frosting
1/2 cup butter, softened
2 cups of powdered sugar
4 oz of cream cheese
Decorations
2 cups of sweet shredded coconut
a few drops of green food coloring
Reeces Pieces peanut butter eggs
Pastel Easter chocolate-I used Sixlets
Dark green sprinkles
Light green sprinkels
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a saperate bowl sift flour, and baking soda together.
Beat butter and sugar together. Then add vanilla and egg. Mix well.
Add dry ingredents, mix.
Form dough into a ball and place on a piece of parchment paper.
Cover with a nother piece of parchment paper and roll out to the sice of your pizza tray.
Remove top piece of parchment paper and place dough and parchment paper on pizza tray
**I found it helpful to start rolling the dough in the middle then flip over the dough while still in the parchment and roll both sides**
Bake for 18-20 minutes. While cookie is balking, prepare frosting. Remove cookie and parchment from pizza tray and cool on a rack.
Frosting
Beat together butter, powdered sugar, add cream cheese.
Frost cooled cookie, then decorate.
To make green coconut add a few drops of green food coloring to a coconut and shake in a zip lock bag. Spread on a parchment lined cookie sheet to dry.
The best thing about Cookie Pizza is that it can be decorated for any occassion!
For the record, it is the day before Easter...and I just googled "How to make the perfect hardboiled egg." I may not be out of the egg dying woods yet.
