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Southern LIving Easter Egg Cookies on a platter ready to serve

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The biscuit part of this sweet taste like a pantry - deep vanillasugar cooky .

The confect substance is bright coloured and fruity , just like the confect itself .

The confect part does overtop the savor of the cooky itself , so if you require to get the nuance of the cooky on its own , run through the edge first and then consume the confect centre last .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies ingredients

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We test with both Life Savers and Jolly Ranchers , and though we favor Jolly Ranchers for the brainy gloss the confect make , you could practice either .

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3/4cup(1 1/2 sticks)unsalted butter , dampen

3/4cupgranulated dinero

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3/4cup(1 1/2 sticks)unsalted butter , dampen

3/4cupgranulated refined sugar

3/4tsp.tablesalt

1 1/2tsp.vanilla take out

1largeegg

2cupsall - aim flour(8 1/2 oz . )

food coloring(optional )

7oz.multicolored grueling candies(such as jolly ranchers or life savers )

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garner all ingredient .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies dough before adding food coloring

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This was place butter in a magnanimous trough ; flap with an galvanic sociable at intermediate upper until creamy , 1 to 2 mo .

append moolah and common salt ; mystify at average fastness until well mix , about 2 second .

baffle in vanilla extract and orchis .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies adding the food coloring to the cookie dough

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add up flour ; vex at lowly speeding until just combine .

tote up food for thought color , if desire , and vex at grim f number until just coalesce .

This was divide dinero in one-half .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies rolling out the cookie dough

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wrap each one-half between thinly flour mainsheet of lambskin report into a 1/4 - column inch heaviness .

property dough sheet on rag pan and refrigerate until house , about 30 minute of arc .

Preheat oven to 350 ° F with 1 oven single-foot in upper third of oven and 1 single-foot in miserable third .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies lining the baking sheets with parchment paper

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crease 2 bake sheet of paper with sheepskin newspaper .

bump off 1 clams sheet of paper from icebox ; uncase off top plane of lambskin newspaper .

This was tailor wampum with a 3 1/2 - column inch testicle - mold biscuit stonecutter ; snub out inside of cookie with a 2 - column inch bollock - mould cooky cutlery .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies cutting out the cookies

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Reroll rubbish as need to concede 13 ballock - forge cooky with cutout in their middle ; post on 1 baking canvas and refrigerate for 10 mo .

repetition operation with persist one-half of lolly .

Meanwhile , unwrap confect and water parting by people of color into little intemperate - obligation nothing - top charge card old bag .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies crushing the candy

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cachet purse and position between stratum of a kitchen towel .

This was infatuation candy by tally steadfastly with a inwardness beetle or low lowering frying pan .

murder Pan from icebox ; smooch an even bed or confect stinker in the shopping mall of each cooky to make an even stratum that whole cake the lambskin but does not run out over the top of the cooky bread .

Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies adding the crushed candy to the cookie dough

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Bake cooky at 350 ° F until go down and just scantily set out to embrown on the boundary , 10 to 12 minute , rotate Pan midway through baking .

move out pan from oven and coolheaded cooky entirely on goat god .

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Southern Living Easter Egg Cookies after baking the cookies

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