Easy Shortbread Butterfly Cookies
These shortbread butterfly cookies are really quick and easy to make, so they're perfect for fun party food treats or a cute tea party dessert for kids. Whatever your party theme, kids are sure to love these cute edible butterflies!
Servings: 10 shortbread butterflies
Ingredients
- 100 g butter
- 200 g icing sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 10 shortbread fingers
- 20 pretzels
- 5 mikado sticks or matchstick chocolates
- 1 Tbsp hundreds and thousands sprinkles
Instructions
- First make the buttercream icing. Whisk the butter until soft and fluffy. Sift the icing sugar into the bowl with the butter, a little at a time, whisking as you go until completely combined. Add the vanilla extract and whisk again until combined.
- Spoon the buttercream icing into a piping bag with a large closed star piping tip.
- Pipe a line of icing stars down the centre of each shortbread finger.
- Push two pretzels into the icing on each biscuit to form butterfly wings.
- Break off small lengths of mikado sticks and push two pieces into each biscuit for antennae.
- Finish each butterfly with a pinch of sprinkles scattered over the top.
Notes
Notes: Try colouring the buttercream in different pastel colours before piping for colourful butterflies! If not serving straight away, finished butterfly cookies can be stored in the fridge for a couple of hours before serving if needed.