Bunny Butt Cookies

🧂 Ingredients

• ¾ cup butter

  (unsalted, softened, at room temperature)
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs

  (at room temperature)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

  (or extract flavor of your choice)
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2½ cups all-purpose flour

  (spooned and leveled)
• sanding sugar

  (in various colors)
• 16 oz vanilla buttercream frosting

  (or use store-bought)
• 24 marshmallows

  (cut in half)
• 24 mini marshmallows
• assorted pink sprinkles

  (or pink mini marshmallows, pink candy, or pink icing gel)

Instructions

• 1 Use an electric mixer to cream together the sugar and room-temperature butter.
  Then, add the eggs, pure vanilla extract, baking powder, and salt, and mix well.
• 2 Add the all-purpose flour and mix just until the flour has been well
  incorporated into the dough. Transfer the bowl to the fridge and allow it to
  chill for one hour (or you can wrap the dough in plastic wrap and chill it for
  up to 3 days).
• 3 Preheat your oven to 375°F (190°C) and line your baking sheet(s) with parchment
  paper.
• 4 Once the dough has chilled, work with small portions of the dough on a floured
  surface. Use a rolling pin to roll the sugar cookie dough out until it is
  between ¼ and ½-inch thick. Then, use round cookie cutters to cut the dough into
  your desired rounds.
• 5 Place the cutout cookies onto the prepared baking sheet and bake at 375°F
  (190°C) for 6-9 minutes.
• 6 Remove your sugar cookies from the oven before the edges begin to turn golden.
  Let them cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes and then move them to a cooling
  rack. Let them cool completely before frosting.
• 7 Pour your sanding sugar onto separate plates or shallow bowls.
• 8 Spread a thin layer of vanilla frosting over top of each of the cooled sugar
  cookies. Then, gently press the cookies with the frosting side facing down into
  the sanding sugar.
• 9 Cut your larger marshmallows in half for the bunny feet. Decorate them to look
  like feet on the non-sticky side using either pink frosting, sprinkles, or pink
  candy.
• 10 Add a dot of frosting to the sticky side of the marshmallow and press them onto
  the cookie. Then, add a dot of frosting to a mini marshmallow and press it into
  the center of the cookie to act as a tail.
• 11 Serve immediately or store for later.

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