Gluten-Free Easter Bunny Cut-Out Sugar Cookies (Vegan, Allergy-Free)

March 25, 2019 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 43 Comments

Everyone will love this easy and festive Easter treat! These Gluten-Free Easter Bunny Cut-Out Sugar Cookies are vegan, allergy-free, kid-friendly, and fun to decorate and customize with sugar-free icing! A delicious, cute, and healthier dessert recipe to serve to your holiday guests!

Spring is in the air and that means Easter is right around the corner! While that also means it’s prime time to go carrot cake crazy, a little traditional holiday cookie baking and decorating is called for too! Classic cut-out sugar cookies are always a great holiday dessert to serve to guests, but these Gluten-Free Easter Bunny Cut-Out Sugar Cookies are a perfect allergy-free and vegan alternative to Easter egg dying and traditional baking!

A vegan and food allergy friendly Easter egg dying alternative

These Gluten-Free Easter Bunny Cut-Out Sugar Cookies are the perfect alternative to your traditional Easter egg dying! These cookies are completely top allergy-free, gluten-free, and vegan! No eggs needed and the results are still edible! Bonus points for being all natural and 98% sugar-free! No artificial dyes here. Cookie decorating is always a great holiday activity and totally beats boring plastic or wooden egg alternatives.

Ingredients in gluten-free Easter bunny sugar cookies

You don’t need much for a simple cut-out sugar cookie! This recipe is modeled off of my classic cut-out sugar cookie recipe; this time, just cut out as bunnies! You’ll need some gluten-free 1-to-1 flour and millet flour. Why use two flours? when working with gluten-free flours, sure, you can use an all-purpose or 1-to-1 pre-blended flour, but I like to play with taste, texture, and crumb. Millet flour is super light and provides a natural sweetness that’s perfect for some cookies! Can you use all 1-to-1 flour? Sure, if you’re in a pinch! Besides the flour, all you need is sweetener (erythritol for sugar-free), vegan butter, a powdered egg replacement, baking powder, vanilla, and a touch of non-dairy milk!

How to make gluten-free cut-out sugar cookies

To make these gluten-free cut-out sugar cookies you only need to mix together the cookies dough, allow it to chill just for 30 minutes, then you roll on the cookie dough on a flat surface. I suggest rolling the dough out on a Silpat. A silicone baking mat allows for easy non-stick rolling and picking up of the cut-out cookies. You’ll need to transfer the cut-out cookies from the mat to a new mat or parchment paper for baking in the oven. Reroll the dough as needed to get as many cookies as you can out of the dough! Then you just need to bake the cookies for 14-16 minutes and allow them to cool completely before you move on to decorating!

What’s the best Easter bunny cookie cutter?

I hit the jackpot when I stumbled upon this exact bunny cookie cutter at The Christmas Tree Shop and was able to snag it for a mere 69¢! (The moment this entire recipe idea came to fruition in my mind!) Lucky for you, I also found it online. However, feel free to use whatever Easter bunny cookie cutter you can find or already have on hand!

What if my cut-out sugar cookies spread when baking?

Here is a life-saving tip. If you end up not chilling your dough enough and your cookies spread too much and no longer look like bunnies when you take them out of the oven, all is not lost! While the cookies are still warm, “re-cut” your spread out cookies with your cookie cutter and remove the excess cookie. Cookie shape is saved!

How to decorate Easter bunny cut-out sugar cookies

This is the fun part and your time to customize your sugar cookies! To make an easy sugar-free icing, you’ll need a powdered sweetener (erythritol) and a few teaspoons of water! That’s it! I kept my icing white as I wanted white bunny “fur”, but you can add some natural food coloring as well if you’re feeling wild. I used a mini chocolate chip for the bunny’s eye, food gel for a mouth, and naturally dyed crystal sugar for a pink bunny tail! I kept these bunny cookies simple (I am not a baked good decorator by any means!), but feel free to use whatever you have on hand in the pantry!

I found the easiest way to get the white body icing on the cookies was to simply dip the front of the cookie in a bowl with the mixed icing! Then smooth the icing out with a butter knife and you’re good to go! If you want to make this easy for kids, you can use a spoon to ice the bunny, so they have full control. While the icing is still wet, place a mini chocolate chip as the eye in the icing, and the bunny tail pink sugar. The gel mouth can be done last as it will stick to the icing by itself.

Troubleshoot your sugar cookie icing:

What if your cookie icing dries?

If you weren’t able to finish sticking decorations on your cookies, simply add a dab more icing to the specific part of the cookie you want something to stick to!

What if my icing is too runny?

Add more powdered sugar (sweetener!)

What if my icing is to thick?

Add more water! You can’t mess it up. There is no exact ratio you need to stick to.

How to store sugar cookies for freshness

These cut-out sugar cookies are slightly soft and with a bit of chew. Once they are completely cooled, decorated, and dry, storing them in an airtight container at room temperature is fine for 2-3 days. Extend their freshness by storing them in the fridge for 4-6 days. Any longer, I would suggest freezing them for longterm freshness. They’ll keep in the freezer for about 6-8 months if stored properly in an airtight container, in a single layer or multiple layers if you place wax or parchment paper between the layers.

How do you thaw frozen sugar cookies?

You’ll need to take your cookies out of the freezer and thaw them overnight in the fridge, in a single layer. Before consuming or serving the cookies, take them out of the fridge and let them naturally come to room temperature again.