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Birds Nest Cookies with Cream Cheese Frosting

Ingredients

  • 1 package Sugar Cookie Mix (& Ingredients to make it)
  • 1/2 Stick Butter
  • 1 1/3 Cup Powdered Sugar
  • 1 Teaspoon Vanilla
  • Food Coloring
  • 1 package Cadbury Shimmer Mini Eggs (or similar)

Instructions

Birds nest cookies

  1. Prepare cookies using directions on the back of the package.
  2. Create 1” Balls and press the balls down in the center and build up the edges so that you make a “birds nest”.
  3. You will want the bottom of the cookies to be very thin.
  4. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes or until the edges start to lightly brown.
  5. Do not over cook.
  6. Remove from oven and leave the cookies on the baking sheet.
  7. Press the cookies down in the center before they cool so that they keep the “birds nest shape”.
  8. Allow cookies to cool completely.

Cream cheese frosting

  1. Soften Cream Cheese & Butter.
  2. Add in Vanilla and Mix Well.
  3. Slowly add in Powdered Sugar & Mix Well.
  4. Separate icing into 3 different containers.
  5. Add desired colors with a toothpick so that the colors do not get too dark.
  6. Mix well.
  7. Once your cookies are cooled and the icing is colored, fill cookies with cream cheese icing & add Cadbury Chocolate Eggs to garnish.