Mini Easter Baskets Recipe

Recipe Rating:	13 Ratings5
Categories:	Cookies, Quick & Easy, For Kids
Collections:	Food on the Run
Keywords:	Fun, and
Serves:	24 if using 2 pans
Prep Time:	30 Min
Cook Time:	15 Min

Ingredients

1 pkg	refridgerated sugar cookie dough
1 btl	colored sugar crystals
1 pkg	fresh coconut
1 btl	green food coloring
1 pkg	speckled jelly beans
2 sm	mini muffin pans
1 pkg	pipe cleaners

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Nettie Perry

Full Flavored

Sevierville, TN (pop. 14,807)

Grannysnookandcranny

Member Since Feb 2011

Nettie's Notes:

I made these for the kids but the adults took them over...They are so cute and very yummy

Comments from the Test Kitchen:

What a great idea! These darling cookie baskets will be the hit of your Easter celebrations.

Directions

Spray mini muffin pan with Pam throughly. Roll each cookie dough in colored sugar and place each one in the mini pan. Bake at 350 for about 15 mins. when they puff in the middle touch the middle with a spoon and it will fall . That makes the well you will need. Don't overbake..Bake just until you see the edges turning brown and the center doesn't look done.

Take out of oven and let them cool for a couple of minutes..Leave them in the pan while finishing the other steps. Bend the pipe cleaners and carefully put in each cookie while warm. (when they cool pipe cleaners will stay put)

In the meantime put some coconut in a plastic bag and add the food coloring. Shake until the coconut is covered with the coloring.

Take pinches of the coconut and put in each cookie dough basket and then put in 3-4 speckled jelly beans in each one.

After the cookies are completely cool they will come out of the pan and look exactly like a basket.
Just move the cookie around a bit and it comes right out. These make an adorable Easter Basket

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Doreen Fish dfish

Mar 28, 2011

This is so cute!!Must pass on to my daughters..thank u!!

Arvetta Moore NaeNaeBoo

Mar 29, 2011

ADORABLE! I'M GOING TO MAKE THESE ON EASTER WITH THE KIDS

Karen Patricia... Karlea

Mar 29, 2011

Love this! I am also going to make these for Easter. Somehow, we all become kids again when something like this is brought to the table. It reminds me of many years ago, when my mom would make the crystal sugar eggs and her home made Easter Baskets...

Karen Patricia... Karlea

Mar 29, 2011

I m going to use red licorice instead of pipe cleaner.

Tina Baker bistro912

Mar 29, 2011

Can sugar cookie mix be used instead if sugar cookie dough in a roll?

Shirley Makekau tutuwoman

Mar 29, 2011

awwww how cute!!

kim keiser cowgirl1

Mar 30, 2011

Great idea!

LeAnna Lyons Eurolyons

Apr 4, 2011

Absolutely adorable...will have to make...(but maybe just one pan...6) and then figure out who to give them too...thank you for sharing.

Nettie Perry Grannysnookandcranny

Apr 6, 2011

Tina I used the Pillsbury sugar cookie squares in the flat package. They are perfect for the mini muffin pan...If you use the roll you would have to cut and round into 4 pieces to fit the pan. The little flat pieces sink in the middle when they are baking to make the well.

Tonya Ochs Sydneesmom

Apr 14, 2011

We bought edible Easter grass at Wal-Mart last year. My daughter does not like coconut so I'm going to see if they have it out this year and use that as the grass when I make them!