The 40 Best Easter Cookies Perfect for Baskets and Spring Brunch Tables
Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies
Spring brings new life, sunny days, warmer temperatures and of course, the Easter holiday season. If you are like me and want to get a jump start on planning your big Easter menu, there's no time like the present to start! Decide what your main dish will be (did someone say holiday ham?) and choose some amazing make-ahead Easter side dishes. Then for the sweet ending, you'd be remiss not to serve up some dessert! That's where these whimsically wonderful ideas for Easter cookies hop in to play.
Spring-inspired sweet treats give us so many options when planning what we want to cap off the grand Easter meal with. And any one of our 40 best Easter cookies are the perfect way to make your holiday egg-tra special this year!
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When Is Easter This Year?
In 2024, we celebrate Easter on Sunday, March 31, which of course means Good Friday is March 29. Lent began on Wednesday, February 14 (Ash Wednesday) and it ends on Thursday, March 28. Passover begins on the evening of Monday, April 22, and ends on Tuesday, April 30.
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Best Easter Cookies
While Christmas might think it has the market cornered on being the official cookie holiday, there are so many spring and Easter-worthy cookies you can make this time of year. This collection is filled with cookie goodness your family won't be able to get enough of!
If you think lemon is the mascot flavor of springtime, so the Lemon Crinkle Cookies, Lemon Drop Cookies and Meyer Lemon Greek Butter Cookies are a great way to add some bright flavor to your Easter menu.
Kids love anything frosted, so the Easter Egg Sugar Cookies and Lofthouse Cookies will get huge raves from the little ones (especially if they can help make them).
Related: Adorable Easter Cupcakes
If you can find Easter M&Ms—the pastel colored ones—they would be perfect for the No-Bake Monster Cookies and the M&M Cookies with those pretty colors!
The Easter Blossom Cookies are so colorful they scream spring the second you lay eyes on them. Carrot Cake Cookies would be perfect to share with the Easter Bunny and the Birds Nest Cookies are too cute and could easily double as your Easter table centerpiece too!
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This year when you plan your big Easter Sunday menu, keep in mind cookies are a great option for dessert in lieu of a cake or pie. Many times cookies can be made ahead, so less stress on the actual holiday, the kids can get involved and they make a nice gift to share with friends and neighbors too!
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Easter Cookie Recipes
Andrew Purcell for Dash
These fun sweets have all the flavors of carrot cake, in sandwich cookie form!
Get the recipe: Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies
Marcie Bidou
Meyer Lemon Greek Butter Cookies are classic Greek holiday cookies with a refreshing citrus twist. They’re so easy to make, and are perfect for your holiday baking!
Get the recipe: Meyer Lemon Greek Butter Cookies
Bridget Edwards
Fun to make as they are incredibly tasty to eat, these cookies are topped with blue fondant and adorned with a pretty dandelion.
Get the recipe: Dandelion Cookies
Melanie Acevado for Parade
This thumbprint cookie recipe is quite adaptable; just use any fruit preserves you've got.
Get the recipe: Lidia's Almond-Apricot Butter Cookies
Con Poulous
These delicious macaroons are sure to impress your guests. They look both festive and elegant, thanks to the chocolate glaze, but they’re actually quite simple to make. To store, wrap tightly and keep in the refrigerator or freezer.
Get the recipe: Coconut Macaroons
Dan From Platter Talk
A light, springy, and delicious cookie treat that you can put together in just a few minutes.
Get the recipe: Lemon Drop Cookies
Andrew Purcell for Parade
These gluten-free treats are tender, moist, with a perfectly golden brown crisp crust
Get the recipe: Toasted Coconut Macaroons
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Laurie Farmer
M&M cookies are worth snacking on year round, but the colorful candies make these baked goods well-suited for Easter.
Get the recipe: M&M Cookies
The Country Cook
This cookie is so easy to whip up, you can get your kids involved!
Get the recipe: 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Cookies
Julie's Eats and Treats
Soft, delicious almond cookies glazed with cherry frosting with a surprise cherry in the middle! These sweet gems are fit for an Easter brunch.
Get the recipe: Almond Cherry Cookies
Julie's Eats and Treats
If you love the Almond Joy Candy bar you are going to want to make a batch or two of these easy Almond Joy Cookies! They start with a brownie mix and are topped with coconut, almonds and drizzled with chocolate to create flavors reminiscent of your favorite candy bar.
Get the recipe: Almond Joy Cookies
Spend With Pennies
Adorably cute birds nest cookies are so fun for Easter! And if you are a coconut fan, these little coconut nests are pure chewy goodness!
Get the recipe: Birds Nest Cookies
Spend With Pennies
These easy icebox cookies are perfect to make ahead before Easter rolls around.
Get the recipe: Butter Cookies
South Your Mouth
These chewy delights have brown sugar and toffee bits that double down on rich butterscotch flavor. Chopped pecans add crunch. Serve them alongside tea or coffee.
Get the recipe: Butterscotch Crunch Cookies
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Spend With Pennies
Coconut Sugar Cookie Cups have a yummy coconut sugar cookie base filled with frosting and topped with coconut. These are the perfect sweet treat for any time of year but are especially cute for Easter! When topped with jelly beans, these sweet little treats resemble Easter baskets that are just begging for you to dig into them!
Get the recipe: Coconut Sugar Cookie Cups
South Your Mouth
These soft and chewy cookie sandwiches filled with frosting make for an easy and satisfying Easter snack.
Get the recipe: Cookie Sandwiches
Oh My Goodness Chocolate Desserts
These blossom cookies are composed of sugar cookies rolled in sugar sprinkles for a festive touch, with yummy chocolate candy in the center. They will certainly brighten up your Easter celebration.
Get the recipe: Easter Blossom Cookies
Ahead Of Thyme
These Easter egg sugar cookies are the definition of edible art.
Get the recipe: Easter Egg Sugar Cookies
Passion for Savings
Grab that cookie press and whip up a batch or two of these incredible Easter Spritz Cookies! A cream cheese spritz cookie that is so buttery, rich, and melts in your mouth. A simple cookie recipe that you will want to make over and over again.
Get the recipe: Easter Spritz Cookies
The Country Cook
All of the sublime flavors of a classic cinnamon get swirled into this cookie. But wait there's more! The recipe starts with store-bought sugar cookie mix.
Get the recipe: Easy Cinnamon Roll Cookies
Spend With Pennies
These soft baked, chewy, bakery style Funfetti Sugar Cookies are the ultimate sugar cookie. They are super soft, loaded with tons of sprinkles, taste sweet and buttery, but aren’t at all greasy, and are very easy to make.
Get the recipe: Funfetti Cookies
Related: Best Sugar Cookies
An Italian In My Kitchen
Bake up a batch of these traditional holiday cookies.
Get the recipe: Italian Easter Cookies
Two Sisters
These crinkle cookies are truly the life of the Easter party. They're light and fluffy on the inside, sweet and crunchy on the outside, bursting with lemon flavor and all dressed up in pretty pastel colors.
Get the recipe: Lemon Crinkle Cookies
South Your Mouth
Baking isn't for everyone. These no-bake cookies come together in under 20 minutes and you don't have to crank on the oven.
Get the recipe: No-Bake Monster Cookies
Plain Chicken
The Oreo pudding in the cookie dough makes these cookies irresistible.
Get the recipe: Oreo Pudding Chocolate Chip Cookies
The Country Cook
A classic cookie with a twist, these Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies are a favorite holiday cookie that have minimal ingredients and bake up quickly!
Get the recipe: Raspberry Thumbprint Cookies
Spend With Pennies
These yellow lemon cookies shine as bright as the spring sun. Flavor-wise, they have a cakelike texture and a bright, tangy lemon flavor! Snack on them all through the Easter holiday season.
Get the recipe: Soft Lemon Cookies
The Country Cook
These easy homemade Sprinkle Cookies are flavorful, colorful and a deliciously fun cookie recipe that delights even the pickiest cookie eater!
Get the recipe: Sprinkle Cookies
Related: Ice Cream Cookies
The Country Cook
These pretty pastel pink strawberry cookies come together using boxed cake mix.
Get the recipe: Strawberry Chocolate Chip Cake Mix Cookies
Julie's Eats and Treats
You can change up your frosting color to match the different times of the year!
Get the recipe: Sugar Cookie Bars
South Your Mouth
Who needs Easter candy when you can have triple chocolate cookies? These classic no-bake cookies are chock-full of chocolate goodness.
Get the recipe: Triple Chocolate No Bake Cookies
Spend With Pennies
Enjoy spring and eat your vegetables too with these super-moist frosted zucchini cookies.
Get the recipe: Zucchini Cookies
Plain Chicken
Celebrate Easter with some peanut butter cookies packed full of Butterfingers.
Get the recipe: Butterfinger Cookies
The Country Cook
Super easy and absolutely tasty, these Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookies are thick, soft and full of chocolate!
Get the recipe: Chocolate Chip Cream Cheese Cookies
Tutti Dolci
Soft and pillowy Easter cheesecake cookies studded with pastel Cadbury mini eggs and dark chocolate Easter M&M’s are perfect for spring!
Get the recipe: Easter Cheesecake Cookies
Related: 14 Chocolate Chip Cookies
InstruPix
Summon the Easter bunny to your house with these soft lofthouse carrot cake cookies. You'll love how easy they are to whip up and everyone in your house will thank you for baking them.
Get the recipe: Easy Carrot Cake Cookies
An Italian In My Kitchen
Perfect melt in your mouth Lemon Cookies. If you love anything lemon then you are going to love these cookies. Light and easy to make, with a tasty lemon glaze, they are sure to satisfy any lemon lover!
Get the recipe: Italian Lemon Cookies
Julie's Eats and Treats
These light-as-air Lofthouse cookies are a must-add treat to any Easter basket.
Get the recipe: Lofthouse Cookies
Deanna Samaan
You're going to love this version as much as you love the original Girl Scout Cookie!
Get the recipe: No-Bake Caramel deLites
Life In The Lofthouse
Cap off your Easter celebrations with the best sugar cookies. These pastel pretties are soft, full of flavor and topped with a fluffy buttercream frosting.
Get the recipe: The Best Sugar Cookies
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