• Preheat the oven to 350°.

  Once your butter and egg is room temperature you can begin mixing the cookie dough
• In the large mixing bowl, cream together the softened butter with the sugar. Use a hand mixer on medium speed to combine the two ingredients. Scrape the sides of the bowl when done mixing.
• To the creamed mixture, add the egg and the vanilla. Using the hand mixer, combine all the ingredients for 30 seconds on medium speed. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and be sure all the wet ingredients are combined evenly.
• Once all the wet ingredients are combined it is time to add the dry ingredients. Add the baking powder and 1 cup of flour. Mix on low to medium speed for 30 seconds to combine. Scrape down the sides of the bowl and add another cup of flour. Mix again for 30 seconds. Repeat with the final cup of flour.
• Do NOT overmix the dough or it will get tough. The dough will be crumbly. I should resemble large grains of sand as seen above.

  Once the dough is done mixing, use your hands to gather about ¼ or ⅓ of the dough together. Your warm hands will help the butter continue to soften and bring the cookie dough together. 
• This dough DOES NOT need to refrigerate. You can begin rolling, cutting, and baking right away.

  Roll into a large ball and flatten it on a lightly floured cutting board or your clean counter.
• Lightly flour your rolling pin and roll out the dough until it is ½" thick. Using the bunny-shaped cookie cutters, cut out shapes.

  Place each one on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or prepared with cooking spray. 
• Bake at 350° for 8-10 minutes. These cookies do not spread, nor do they brown. They will still be white when done cooking. If they are brown on the edge of the bottom they have been cooked too long - see image above.
• Let the cookies rest on the baking sheet for one minute after removing them from the oven. Then use a spatula to move them to a wire rack for cooling.
• Cool the cookies for 30 minutes on a wire rack.
• Make the Easy Cookie Icing. See link above.

  Add food coloring to coconut if you wish to have pink, yellow, or some other fun Easter color.

Decorating the Cookies

• Begin by spooning on a bit of the icing and spreading it around the top of a cookie. Next, add a mini marshmallow in the middle of the bottom section of the bunny shape.
• I like to hold the cookie over a plate so that all the excess falls and collect there versus on my counter or the other cookies. Once the marshmallow cottontail is in place, now comes the coconut or sugar.

  Sprinkle on the coconut or sugar over the rest of the bunny. Work around the marshmallow and try and cover as much of the icing as possible Tap off or gently brush off any excess sugar or coconut.
• Place the cookie back on the wire rack. After 30 minutes, the icing will harden and the toppings will remain on the cookie. You can tip them over and everything will stay on!