I always loved the butter cookies my friend Kim would bring to bridal showers…rich, buttery cookies that looked so sweet and tasted wonderful.  They were small round sandwich style cookies, with a pastel tinted filling.  At one point I finally asked her if I could have the recipe and I started calling them “Kim’s shower cookies” whenever I would make them.

For Easter, I decided to make “Kim’s shower cookies” but cut them in egg shapes rather than circles.  I chose to tint the filling a lavender color.

Don’t they make a great “Kim’s Easter cookies?”

Easter Butter Cookies Recipe

Cookies

• 1 cup softened unsalted butter
• 1/3 cup heavy cream
• 2 cups flour

Filling

• 1/4 cup softened unsalted butter
• 3/4 cup confectioner’s sugar
• 1 egg yolk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• food coloring

Combine the cookie ingredients and chill for 1 to 2 hours.  Roll dough out to 1/8″ and use a cookie cutter to cut out cookies, putting on an ungreased baking sheet.

Sprinkle with granulated sugar and pierce each cookie 3 times with a fork.  Bake in a 375 degree pre-heated oven for 7 to 9 minutes.  Cool cookies.

Combine filling ingredients and mix well.  Tint the filling to desired color with food coloring.

Assemble the cookies, sandwich style, spreading the filling on one cookie and placing a second cookie on top.

The number of cookies will vary depending on the size of your cookie cutter.  I made two dozen completed cookies using a 2 1/2″ egg shaped cookie cutter.

These cookies can be made ahead and stored in your fridge to make your holiday a little less hectic :)

I hope you enjoyed sharing my Easter butter cookie recipe.  Thanks Kim ;)

Thanks so much for visiting, Jackie

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