As one of the first cookie recipes ever published on Sally’s Baking Addiction, these jelly bean sugar cookies craved a facelift. I revamped the recipe, updated the photos, and added plenty of helpful success tips. If you’re looking for quick and simple Easter dessert ideas this year, may your search end with these jelly bean sugar cookies. 🙂
Let’s Talk Easter!
What are your favorite Easter recipes? Mine include deviled eggs, glazed ham, green bean casserole, and carrot cake. I would LOVE to hear what you usually serve.
Jelly Bean Sugar Cookies
This is a very basic sugar cookie recipe requiring just 9 easy ingredients. I doubled the original recipe and slightly increased the cookie size. In terms of ingredients and preparation, the recipe is very similar to my drop sugar cookies. Today’s jelly bean sugar cookies are slightly smaller (1 Tbsp dough balls vs 2 Tbsp dough balls), so they’ll spread less. Since they’ll spread less, we can get away with a shorter chill time. Remember that cookie dough chilling is a key factor in how to prevent cookies from spreading. These jelly bean sugar cookies are pretty buttery, so chilling the dough is important. You only need to chill the cookie dough for 1-2 hours. The cookie dough gets a little hard after 1-2 hours in the refrigerator, so I recommend rolling the dough into balls before chilling. These easy sugar cookies get all of their flavor from butter, vanilla extract, and almond extract. Make sure you’re using room temperature butter.
How About Those Jelly Beans?
Add the jelly beans after the cookies bake. Give them a couple minutes to cool down, then press a couple jelly beans into the tops of the warm cookies. The cooler the cookies, the less likely the jelly beans will stick. Use any jelly beans your heart desires. I like the “Just Born” brand and fit 3 into each sugar cookie.
Drop Sugar Cookies
This is a drop sugar cookie recipe. Save the rolling pin, ditch the cookie cutters, and break out a cookie scoop! These soft sugar cookies are perfect if you want no fuss sugar cookies. If you’re looking for an Easter activity, I also have these decorated Easter Cookies. Now, those recipes DO require a rolling pin and cookie cutters. They’re my basic sugar cookies in the shape of Easter eggs and bunnies. They’re actually really fun to decorate with royal icing or easy cookie icing! If you’re looking for something quicker and equally as festive, stick with these jelly bean sugar cookies. Or want to try making your own Easter candy? Try my Easter Egg Buttercream Candies or Peanut Butter Easter Eggs. So fun!
More Easter Recipes
Hummingbird Cake Easter Cake Carrot Cake Cupcakes Hot Cross Buns Lemon Meringue Pie Maple Pecan Sticky Buns Sour Cream Crumb Cake Easter Cupcakes
And don’t forget to share what you usually make on Easter Sunday!
