If you're looking for a fun and delicious way to celebrate, these Easter chick cookies are a great activity to do with kids or as a fun, festive addition to your holiday spread. They are super easy to make and takes no more than an hour!
Recipe
Yield
~30 mini chick cookies
Prep time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 12 minutes
Total: ~42 minutes
Ingredients
300g butter
250g caster sugar
300g almond flour
300g 00’ flour (or extra fine sponge flour)
1/4 tsp baking soda
50g egg white
1 pinch of salt
250g caster sugar
300g almond flour
300g 00’ flour (or extra fine sponge flour)
1/4 tsp baking soda
50g egg white
1 pinch of salt
½ tsp Yellow food colouring
For the Icing
50g icing sugar
4g egg white
Black, orange food colouring
Directions
1. Soften the butter and whisk in sugar. Add almond flour and whisk until smooth. Stir in egg whites. Finally, add flour, baking soda and salt, mix until just combined.
- Add yellow food colouring to the dough. Roll 5g of dough into a ball. Repeat with a 2g dough. Gently press the 2g dough on the 5g dough for the chick. Repeat until you have a batch.
- Bake for 12 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C.
- For the icing, combine egg whites and icing. Divide into three equal portions and add food colouring to two (1x white, 1x black, 1x orange).
- Finally, decorate the chick (eyes, beak and feet).
Happy Easter baking,
Vaniece xx