These adorable decorated Easter Sugar Cookies are as delicious as they are cute! Include these easy to make cookies in Easter Baskets, holiday platters, and care packages.
Why you'll love this recipe
- No special cookie cutter shape is needed.
- Round, iced sugar cookies travel well and are an ideal addition to an Easter Care Package.
- The simple sheep design is easy for beginner decorators as well as those with decorating experience.
These adorable Easter Sugar Cookies look like fluffy sheep. Delicious vanilla sugar cookies or chocolate sugar cookies are decorated with glaze icing and just one food coloring.
Glaze icing is both easy to make and easy to use. A batch of white icing is used for the dots of curly wool. Adding a bit of black food coloring produces gray icing. for the sheep faces and black icing for the details.
Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Pipe the gray icing in a "u" shape, then fill in the "u" with additional gray icing.
- Use a tweezer to add black sprinkle pearls for eyes.
- To make the nose, use black icing to pipe two tiny dots at the bottom of the “U”. Use the tip of a toothpick to drag each dot downward to create a heart shape.
- Use the black icing to make small oval ears.
- For the wooly body of the sheep use the thick white icing. Starting on the outer edge of the cookie, pipe dots of varying sizes around the cookie.
- Continue piping around the cookie (3 or 4 times) until the body is filled.
Storage
Always air dry iced sugar cookies overnight to allow the icing to harden before packing.
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Use plastic wrap to double wrap each cookie or use self sealing cellophane cookie bags. Then place wrapped cookies snuggly in a column in freezer weight ziplock bags.
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Easter Sheep Sugar Cookies
Equipment
- 3 disposable piping bags
- 1 Wilton #2 round opening piping tip
- 1 Wilton #4 round opening piping tip
- 24 3" x 4" self sealing cellophane cookie bags
Ingredients
- 1 recipe chocolate sugar cookies or vanilla sugar cookes
- 1 recipe glaze icing
- black food coloring gel
- 48 black sprinkle pearls
Instructions
- Make 1 batch of Glaze Icing , a consistency thick enough to hold its shape when dripped.
- Remove ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons of the icing into a small bowl. Use a tinydrop of black food coloring to make it gray, then thin the gray icing to theconsistency of white glue.
- Place ½ cup of the gray icing into a decorating bag with a small circle tip(#4).
- To the remaining gray icing, add additional food coloring to create blackicing. Place the black icing into a decorating bag with a very small circle tip(#2).
- Place the remaining thick white icing, in a decorating bag with a smallcircle tip (#4).
- Slightly below the center of the cookie, use the gray icing to outline, thenfill in, an elongated “U”.
- Use a tweezer to add black sprinkle pearls for eyes.
- To make the nose, use black icing to pipe two tiny dots at the bottom of the“U”. Use the tip of a toothpick to drag each dot downward to create a heartshape.
- Use the black icing to make small oval ears.
- The wooly body of the sheep is made with the thick white icing. Starting on the outer edge of the cookie, pipe dots of varying sizes aroundthe cookie. Continue piping around the cookie (3 or 4 times) until the body isfilled.
First Published: April 2, 2015. Last Updated: March 29, 2025. Updated for additional information and better reader experience.
Joyce @ My Stay At Home Adventures
These are so cute! Thank you for sharing it with us at Funtastic Friday.
The Monday Box
Thanks, Joyce!
April J Harris
Love all these cookies, Wendy, they all look delicious! The sheep are so cute, and although I'm not that great at decorating, I think I could definitely make the circle sugar cookies. Love the Italian Easter cookies too - they look yummy. Thank you so much for sharing this post with us at Hearth and Soul.
Colleen
I love these little guys...so cute! They'd be fun to do in pink and white too!
Frugal Hausfrau
What a great assortment. Love the lambs. Thanks for linking with us on Throwback Thursday!
Mollie
Petra @ CrumblesAndKale
These are soo sweet, I would have a problem eating them looking at those cute faces!
Tricia @ Saving room for dessert
How did I miss these adorable little sheep???? They are so gorgeous - you really have a wonderful talent. Hope you had a lovely Easter / Passover holiday . The polka dots are beautiful too!
The Monday Box
Tricia, you are truly too kind, but I do appreciate your support! 🙂 There are so many blogging cookie artists whose work makes my jaw drop. I will never be that talented, but I hope my cookies show that even if you aren't an artist you can have fun playing in icing. I DO have fun. The best part (besides that the cookies actually taste good) is that the soldiers always tell me that the cookies make them smile. 🙂 I hope you and your family had a lovely Easter!
Marjie @ Home Again Jiggety-jig!
What a wonderful thing you do! I love all the details you've added. I'll be sharing this on my facebook!
The Monday Box
Thank you, Marjie, for your kind words and for the Facebook share! I have fun creating the care packages and imagining the reactions of our deployed heros when the box arrives. 🙂 Its a small "thanks" and a piece of home.
J @ A Hot Southern Mess
Haha! A dog hiding in cotton! That made me laugh so hard! I didn't think that at all! I thought, "oh, what cute sheep cookies!". The easter eggs are so cute too with the polka dots! Thanks for the laugh! 🙂
The Monday Box
I truly am glad you saw the cookies as sheep first, J! 🙂 My husband thought they were dogs...and then I couldn't stop seeing a dog peaking out of the white puffs! My objective is to find EASY decorating designs so that even bake-a-phobic people can make fun homebaked care packages. I am a cookie decorating novice myself. 🙂
Monica
Love all this Easter cheer! Too bad about the chocolates but I think the soldiers will understand. The cookies are fantastic, Wendy, and these packages are just so thoughtful. You are very good, my friend. : ) Keep up the great work!
The Monday Box
Thanks, Monica! It is always sad when warm weather causes a chocolate shortage in the desert. I will try to work around it (chocolate chips inside of cookies seem to be ok) so that no soldier will go into chocolate withdrawal. 😉 I don't know if you are quite accurate in your evaluation of my efforts (though I ALWAYS appreciate your support and encouragement). I wouldn't say I am very good, but I AM enthusiastic. 🙂
Reeni
What a fun care package - so colorful and uplifting. It makes me happy just looking at it. The cookies are super cute and the sheep are adorable! This is going to make somebody's day. They're going to love it.
The Monday Box
Thanks, Reeni! The military care packages are fun. I have fun attempting the cookies, and Soldier B. and his buddies have fun trying to figure out what the crazy baking lady will send them next! 🙂 The soldiers get a piece of "home" and know they are appreciated.
Ashley
I hope you have a wonderful holiday Wendy!! I always love these posts and seeing what you send each time - I just really love that you send these packages. Everything looks wonderful as always!
The Monday Box
Thanks, Ashley! I remember that your husband served in the military, so you understand first hand how meaningful a little taste of home can be. I had no idea before i started this "operation" how meaningful my thank you packages would be! i hope you have a wonderful Easter! 🙂
Theresa @DearCreatives
That is super awesome and love the cookies! Someone is going to love their care package!!
The Monday Box
Thanks, Theresa! I'm always crossing my fingers that Soldier B. and his buddies will smile and know they are appreciated. 🙂
Liz
Everything looks so cute and delicious... great job! I was so curious what you used for the sheep's wool. The faux royal icing is so glossy. really nice. My boys would go crazy for these 🙂
The Monday Box
Thanks, Liz! The sheep's wool was the whole reason I chose this design.:) I think the texture is so much fun! I learned (the hard way) that the consistency of the icing is key. If it is too liquidy, each dot just blends into the ones next to it leaving no texture at all.