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If you have been following along the past week or two, you may have noticed that I have been sharing A TON of Easter themed recipes. I absolutely love the Easter holiday, and I have so much fun sharing Easter recipes each year – so much so, that I have my friend Kari helping me to provide even MORE Easter recipes for you guys for this year, like this PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe! This PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe is super, super easy to make, and it comes out really cute and whimsical. These sugar cookie bars will look adorable sitting on your Easter dessert table at your family gathering, and they’re really fun to make with the kids.
This PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe is so fun and easy to make…because we totally cheat and use refrigerated, pre-made sugar cookie dough! Yes, of course you can make your sugar cookie dough from scratch if you like, but why waste time when you can use ready-made dough? Let the kids spread it out for you and feel super accomplished…without any of the mess usually involved in making sugar cookies!
Oh…and bonus? There are no dishes to wash afterwards either! I really despise washing dishes, ever since we realized that our new kitchen faucet wasn’t compatible with the connector for our portable dishwasher. BOO!
Easter is such a fun holiday for the kids, what with Easter Egg Hunts, Easter plays at church, dying Easter eggs, getting to take their photo with the Easter bunny at the mall (do they still do that? Angeline is WAY too old for me to know about these things anymore!), and waking up looking for that Easter basket on Sunday morning! I still give Angeline a stuffed animal and Easter candy, even though she’s 21…probably because my own mother still gives ME an Easter basket – and you guys know that I am well beyond the appropriate age of receiving an Easter basket! Ha ha! Hey, some traditions die hard, okay?
PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe
PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe Ingredients
- 1 package, 16.5 oz, refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 1 tub, 16 oz, white frosting
- green food coloring (I use Wilton Color Gels in Leaf Green)
- Marshmallow Peeps
- Mini Robin’s Eggs
- Edible Easter Grass
PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe Directions
Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9×13 baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Break apart cookie dough and press evenly into pan. Bake for 16-20 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool completely.
Add food coloring to frosting and mix well to color green. Set aside.
Before cutting cookie bars, set a peep or two onto the cookies in the pan.
Use a knife to cut the bars, the peep bars will be a little bigger than the nest bars. You should end up with about 15 bars.
Frost each bar with green frosting.
To create the nest, take 3 strands of edible grass and roll it into a small circle, about the size of a dollar coin. As you release the grass, it should open up a bit to be about the size of the cookie. Place on top.
To make the nest cookies, place three to four eggs into the center of the nest.
Once you alternate, you will have a cute little assortment of Easter Sugar Cookie Bars!
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PEEPS Easter Sugar Cookie Bars Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 package 16.5 oz, refrigerated sugar cookie dough
- 1 tub 16 oz, white frosting
- green food coloring I use Wilton Color Gels in Leaf Green
- Marshmallow Peeps
- Mini Robin's Eggs
- Edible Easter Grass
Instructions
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Preheat oven to 350 and grease a 9x13 baking sheet with nonstick cooking spray. Break apart cookie dough and press evenly into pan. Bake for 16-20 minutes or until golden brown. Let cool completely.
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Add food coloring to frosting and mix well to color green. Set aside.
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Before cutting cookie bars, set a peep or two onto the cookies in the pan. Use a knife to cut the bars, the peep bars will be a little bigger than the nest bars. You should end up with about 15 bars.
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Frost each bar with green frosting.
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To create the nest, take 3 strands of edible grass and roll it into a small circle, about the size of a dollar coin. As you release the grass, it should open up a bit to be about the size of the cookie. Place on top.
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Place a peep on top of the grass with two eggs next to it. To make the nest cookies, place three to four eggs into the center of the nest.
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Do you love the Easter holiday? If you are looking for more fun Easter recipes, check these out! I love sharing Easter recipes on The Rebel Chick!
OTHER SPRINGTIME & EASTER RECIPES ON THE REBEL CHICK
I have made a lot of sweet snack ideas on The Rebel Chick over the years, and this Springtime Cake Batter Puppy Chow Recipe happens to be one of my favorite recipes that I have shared. It’s so fun and pretty!
This is one of my all time favorite Easter recipes, and it is perfect for Spring brunches as well! The colors are great for anything spring themed, I mean, you really can’t go wrong with pastels, can you? I love making blondie bars year round, but especially during the holidays! They’re just like a big chunk of cookie! Check out this Springtime M&M Blondie Bars Recipe and let me know what you think!
Of course, an Easy Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe is suitable for serving year round, but it is especially fun to serve as a dessert at your family’s Easter dinner or picnic!
Carrot Cake Whoopie Pies Recipe
Bunny PEEPS Easter Cake Recipe
And who can go wrong with this Mini Lemon Cheesecakes Recipe? They are just so cute and so tasty! They are perfect for spring and summertime get togethers!
Tropical Fruit Cheesecake Recipe
Easter M&Ms Thumbprint Cookies Recipe
Easter Carrot Dipped Berries Recipe
Easter Bunny Poop Cookie Recipe
Some of my most recent Easter Recipes are these Easter Easy Lemon Trifle Dessert Recipe, and these adorable White Chocolate Sugar Cookie Bites!
Oh…and check out my Easter Cinnamon Roll Bundt Cake Recipe!
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