Easter Egg Sugar Cookies

My husband and kids said these were the best sugar cookies ever!

I found at "The Recipe Rebel" https://www.thereciperebel.com/grandmas-sour-cream-sugar-cookies/

The boys had too much fun decorating them with yummy frosting and sprinkles. We made a lot of these cookies to take out to our friends for easter. 

They were easy to make and don't require any rolling, chilling, or a lot of effort in frosting or decorating. My mom made her sugar cookies with sour cream and they always got eaten right up all the time. She said one time she brought a lot to a church function and she felt a bad because the other cookie trays hardly got eaten and all of her's were gone! But they were so so so good!!!!!

So, I'm glad that I found an easy no rolling, no chilling sugar cookie recipe and although I can't eat these they seem nice and soft and fluffy. 

Try out your own and enjoy!

Coconut Sugar Cookie Fruit Pizza

I made these mini fruit pizza cookies for my friends and they loved them!

I couldn't eat them because of the grains and sugar in them, so I'm very happy they passed the test!

Everyone said they were more than good and of course my family loved them too. 

My mom used the make this delicious treat for us every once in a while and oh my goodness she makes the best sugar cookie dough and this was one of our family's favorite treats. I didn't use my mom's recipe. I found one on my All Recipes app that wasn't going to take long... Easy Sugar Cookie Recipe. 

I didn't have any butter, so I used coconut butter (Artisana Coconut Butter, which is my absolute favorite), but it didn't work. The dough was super crumbly and not sticking together. So, I cracked in another egg and added coconut oil in tablespoon by tablespoon until the dough started sticking together.  I usually use coconut oil instead of butter, but because the weather is so warm here in Hawaii, our coconut oil is always liquid. I needed softened coconut oil, so the cookies wouldn't be flat as a pancake! 

I rolled them in balls and then mashed them and flattened them out in my hands. Which they were still a bit crumbly and would crack easily, but it worked!

Everyone said they were soft and delicious! Thank goodness!

I was going to make a coconut whip cream, but I didn't want to overdue it on the coconut and I was pressed for time. Luckily, thanks to Thanksgiving there was a can of whip cream in the fridge at my in-laws that all I had to do was shake the can and out it came. Then top it with apple-banana slices, strawberries, and kiwis and it looks beautiful!

Use your own favorite sugar cookie recipe and sub out butter with coconut oil for an extra good coconut-a-nutty taste and top it with your favorite fruits! 

Enjoy!

Valentine Coconut Sugar Cookies

These Sugar Cookies and frosting have the butter substituted with Organic Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil. Right now with the cold weather, the coconut oil is pretty solid and I needed it to be smooth and creamy. To do that I ran a glass bowl under hot hot water, scooped the coconut oil out with an ice cream scooper, and dropped it into the bowl. Once it hits the bowl it starts to melt. I continue to heat up the oil by mashing it with a rubber spatula until it's nice and creamy. If that's not quite doing it then I also heat it up just a few seconds at a time in the microwave (covered with a plate on top). You don't want it to be liquid, so you need to do it nice and slow until you can get it soft and creamy.

 I used this recipe, altered a little....

1 1/2 cups Organic Extra-Virgin Coconut Oil

2 cups Organic Sugar (I added a little less than 2 cups)

4 Organic Eggs

1 tsp Vanilla Extract

5 cups Organic Unbleached White Flour

2 tsp Baking Powder (Rumford Aluminum/GMO Free)

1 tsp Sea Salt

"In a large bowl, cream together butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Stir in the flour, baking powder, and salt. Cover, and chill dough for at least one hour (or overnight). 

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Roll out dough on floured surface 1/4 to 1/2 inch thick. Cut into shapes with any cookie cutter. Place cookies 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. 

Bake 6 to 8 minutes in preheated oven. Cool completely." (I had to bake them longer abt 9mins)

 Here's the frosting recipe I used too....

1/4 cup Unrefined (Virgin) Coconut Oil
16 oz Powdered Sugar
4-6 tablespoons Coconut, Soy, or Almond milk
1 teaspoon Vanilla

This is much easier with a hand blender, but you can definitely do it with a whisk - and build some muscles! It's also best if you can measure out the powdered sugar with a scale. If you don't have one, feel free to just use two cups of powdered sugar and a little less soy milk. :)

steps:

1. "cream" the coconut oil until it breaks up and gets nice and smooth
2. add in 1/4 of the powdered sugar, the vanilla and 2 tablespoons of soy milk
3. mix together until nice and smooth
4. keep adding powdered sugar along with tablespoons of soy milk as needed until everything is combined - you don't want any clumps of powdered sugar or coconut oil.
5. frost everything in the vicinity

This frosting melts pretty easily, so make sure whatever you put it on is nice and cool. It should be enough to cover one 9x13 sheet cake.

*I usually make my own organic powdered sugar in my dry-grains blender. I also used Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Milk. 

We had fun delivering these yummy cookies to daddy, teachers, and friends!