With homemade sugar cookies and a sweet buttercream frosting, these Easter sandwich cookies are the perfect Spring cookies to bake with your kids or share with your neighbors!
Enjoy your Easter cookies in an array of pretty colors, sandwiched together with irresistible vanilla buttercream frosting! These Easter Sandwich Cookies are fun to make and will be gone within a matter of minutes!
Get the kids excited this Easter by helping you make these adorable Easter Sandwich Cookies! Simply color your cookie dough, bake, and sandwich the individual cookies with homemade buttercream frosting! Gift them to friends and family or serve them alongside this Easter Poke Cake and Peeps S’mores Dip for a fantastic Spring dessert spread.
*If you love holiday-inspired cookies, be sure to also check out my other Spring and Easter-inspired cookies – Easter Blossom Sugar Cookies and Peeps Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies!
Why You’ll Love These Easter Sandwich Cookies:
This Easter sandwich cookie recipe takes ordinary vanilla cookies and turns them into adorable holiday treats with a blast of vibrant color, sandwiched together with delicious buttercream frosting. If that’s not enough, here are more reasons to love them:
- An edible Easter gift. Make a few batches of these Easter sandwich cookies and gift them to friends, family, and neighbors.
- Make ahead. These Easter cookies can be made a day or two ahead of your Easter celebrations or you can refrigerate or freeze the dough and bake a fresh batch over the Easter weekend.
- Versatile. Play around with the colors by mismatching the cookies, flavor the cookies and frosting with a different extract, or cater to gluten allergies by making a simple ingredient swap.
- Loved by everyone. The pretty colors of these pillowy and soft cookies combined with sweet buttercream frosting is sure to be a hit with kids and adults alike!
Ingredients for Easter Sandwich Cookies
All of the ingredients for Easter sandwich cookies are readily available in grocery stores. In fact, if you love baking homemade cookies, you probably just need to gather these ingredients from your fridge and pantry! Here’s what you’ll need:
- Flour – All-purpose flour is a sturdy flour commonly used in baking. You could use gluten-free flour, like Bob’s Red Mill, which is a 1:1 substitution.
- Baking soda and powder – Always check the expiration date for these ingredients to ensure a good rise in the cookies.
- Salt – Omit if using salted butter in this recipe.
- Butter – Unsalted butter is best, especially if you include the salt listed in this recipe. If you only have salted butter on hand, omit the salt. Allow the butter to soften at room temperature for easy mixing.
- Sugar – I’ve used granulated sugar in the cookies, but since the dough will be tinted by the food coloring, you could also use light brown sugar.
- Egg – Bring to room temperature.
- Vanilla extract – I’ve used vanilla extract in both the cookie dough and the buttercream frosting. You could use a combination of vanilla and almond extract in these Easter cookies or use almond extract only as a delicious substitute for vanilla extract.
- Food coloring – You’ll need pink, blue, green, and yellow food coloring to replicate the pretty colors of these Easter sandwich cookies! Feel free to also experiment with other colors.
- Buttercream frosting – I’ve combined butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla extract to make the frosting for these sandwich cookies. Add a splash of water or milk to the buttercream mixture if it’s too dry to spread easily onto the cookies.
How to Make Easter Sandwich Cookies
You only need to set aside 30 minutes in total to make these stunning and scrumptious sandwich cookies! Here’s how to get started:
Step 1: Prepare
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and line a cookie baking sheet with parchment paper. Combine the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in a small bowl and set aside.
Step 2: Make the Cookie Dough
Next, prepare the cookie dough by following these steps:
- Beat the butter and sugar in a larger mixing bowl until light and fluffy.
- Add the egg and extract and mix.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, 1 cup at a time, and beat with a hand mixer.
Step 3: Assemble the Cookie Dough Balls and Bake
Divide the cookie dough equally between 4 bowls and add 4-5 drops of the food coloring to each bowl. Use clean beaters on the hand mixer to fully incorporate the food coloring into the cookie dough.
Tip: You can increase the intensity of the colored dough by adding more food coloring as you mix. Clean the beaters of the hand mixer as you move along to avoid mixing colors in the dough.
The dough will appear to be very crumbly, but you can mold it and press it down, similar to Play-doh.
Scoop a teaspoon of dough and roll it into a ball to place on the lined baking sheet. Repeat this for all of the cookie dough, leaving about 1 1/2 inches apart from each dough ball. Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes and then allow them to cool for a few minutes on the baking sheet before transferring them to a wire rack to cool completely.
Step 4: Make the Buttercream Frosting
While the cookies cool, make the buttercream frosting. Beat the butter with half of the powdered sugar, and then add the remainder of the sugar to combine. Add the vanilla extract and beat for about 3 minutes until pale and fluffy.
Step 5: Assemble the Sandwich Cookies
Add the buttercream to a piping bag or zip lock bag with the corner cut off, and pipe the frosting on the bottom of one cookie. Take another cookie and place it on top, pressing it slightly to make a sandwich. Repeat this for all cookies and serve!
Tip: Only frost the cookies once they are completely cool or the frosting will melt and become a runny mess. I have color coordinated the top and bottom cookies of these cookie sandwiches, but you could have some fun and mismatch the cookie tops and bottoms!
FAQs about Making Easter Sandwich Cookies
What is a sandwich cookie?
A sandwich cookie consists of two cookies held together with a filling. The filling could include a type of frosting, icing, ice cream, marshmallow fluff, melted chocolate, or jam!
Can I make gluten-free Easter Sandwich Cookies?
Absolutely! Use gluten-free flour, such as Bob’s Red Mill which is a convenient 1:1 substitution.
What variations can I make to this recipe?
There are so many ways that you could adapt this sandwich cookie recipe! Here are a few ideas to get you started:
- Color the buttercream frosting instead of the cookie dough.
- Use different food coloring to suit a different holiday or party theme.
- Flavor the cookie dough and frosting with a different extract, such as almond, strawberry, lemon, or peppermint for Christmas sandwich cookies.
- Color the cookie dough by rolling the dough balls in pastel sanding sugar instead of mixing food coloring in the dough.
How should I store these Easter Sandwich Cookies?
Store leftover Easter sandwich cookies in an airtight container in the fridge for 3-4 days due to the buttercream frosting filling.
Easter Sandwich Cookies with Buttercream
With homemade sugar cookies and a sweet buttercream frosting, these Easter sandwich cookies are the perfect Spring cookies to bake with your kids or share with your neighbors!
Ingredients
- 2 3/4 cups flour
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1 cup butter (softened)
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- pink, blue, yellow and green food coloring
For the Buttercream Filling:
- 2 sticks unsalted butter (softened)
- 6 cups powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Stir well to combine and set aside.
- Make the cooke dough. In a large bowl, beat the butter and sugar together with a hand mixer until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla extract, and beat together well. Working 1 cup at a time, slowly add the dry ingredients (from step 2) to the wet ingredients, beating with a hand mixer.
- Color the dough. Divide the dough into 4 bowls. Add 4-5 drops of the food coloring to each bowl. Use clean beaters on the hand mixer to fully incorporate the food coloring into the cookie dough, wiping the beaters in between each color to not mix the colors. You can increase the intensity of the colored dough by adding more food coloring as you mix.
- Roll the cookie dough into balls. Scoop a teaspoon of dough and roll it into a ball to place on the lined baking sheet. Repeat this for all of the cookie dough, leaving about 1 1/2 inches apart from each dough ball.
- Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes in the preheated oven, or just until the edges barely start to brown. Then, remove from the oven and allow the cookies to cool down for 3-4 minutes on the baking sheet. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool completely.
- While cookies are cooling, make the buttercream filling. Beat the butter with half of the powdered sugar, and then add the remainder of the sugar to combine. Add the vanilla extract and beat for about 3 minutes until pale and fluffy.
- Assemble the sandwich cookies. Add the buttercream to a piping bag or Ziploc bag with the corner cut off, and pipe the frosting on the bottom of one cookie. Take another cookie and place it on top, pressing it slightly to make a sandwich. Only frost the cookies once they are completely cool or the frosting will melt off the cookies. Repeat this for all cookies and serve!
Notes
Nutrition Information:
Yield:
12Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 694Total Fat: 31gSaturated Fat: 19gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 10gCholesterol: 97mgSodium: 354mgCarbohydrates: 102gFiber: 1gSugar: 79gProtein: 4g
Nutritional information is provided as a courtesy and is an estimate only. Different online calculators may calculate nutritional information differently. Also, the addition of optional ingredients and varying brands and products may change the information. For the most accurate data, you should calculate the nutritional information with the actual ingredients that you use.
Other Easter Treats to Make
Easter Blossom Sugar Cookies – If you’re looking to add to your collection of Easter-inspired cookies this year, give these pretty Easter Blossom Sugar Cookies a try! They’re colored with pastel sanding sugar and topped with decadent Hershey’s Hugs Kisses!
Peeps Easter Bunny Sugar Cookies – These adorable Peeps-inspired Easter cookies transform regular sugar cookies into fun and colorful treats topped with a marshmallow frosting that the kids will love!
Easter Poke Cake – Give your homemade cake a facelift this Easter and Spring with multi-colored cake batter, white chocolate pudding, and a sweet whipped topping! It’s a stunning cake with maximum flavor!
