I feel like these Mini Egg Cookies are all the rage this year – I have seen them absolutely everywhere! So I obviously had to give them a go, too! Last year it was brownies and I created this Mini Egg Easter Chocolate Brownie recipe from my basic Best-Ever Brownie Batter, but this year the choice fell on cookies!
I based the below recipe on one of the most popular recipes out there (Jane’s Patisserie, check out the original here), but have put my own twist on these Mini Egg Cookies. You know me – can’t ever leave a recipe alone!
How to make Mini Egg Cookies
These Mini Egg Cookies are super quick and easy to make and only require a few simple ingredients! I used the cookie dough to make 12 large cookies (the original recipe made 8 giant cookies), but you could probably make about 20 smaller (normal-sized?) cookies from this amount of dough, similar to in my Best Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe.
While Cadbury’s Mini Eggs are obviously a classic, you can also use other hard, sugar coated Easter eggs for this recipe. Some other favourites of mine include the Orange Smartie Mini Easter Eggs and Terry’s Chocolate Orange Easter Eggs.
What I really like about this recipe, is that these Mini Egg Cookies are absolutely packed with chocolate! Besides the mini eggs, the recipe also calls for even more chopped chocolate! You could use milk chocolate, but I am much more of a dark chocolate fan myself so opted for that when making my Mini Egg Cookies! But the choice is yours!
More Easter Baking Recipes
I have a lot of other great Easter baking recipes on my blog, so make sure you go and check out some of the others, too!
- Easy Lemon Drizzle Cake Traybake
- Spiced Carrot Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting
- Classic Fruit Scones with Orange Zest
- Chocolate Easter Egg Cupcakes
- Mini Egg Chocolate Brownies
- Mini Egg Cookies | Easter Baking Recipe
- Red Onion and Balsamic Soda Bread
- Lemon and Poppy Seed Drizzle Cake
- German Nusszopf | Sweet Nut and Chocolate Loaf | German Baking Classic
- Cheddar Cheese and Chive Scones
- Seeded Sourdough Loaf
- No-Bake Lemon Cheesecake with a Ginger Nut Base
- Caramelised Onion and Thyme Sausage Rolls
- “Laugenbrezeln” | Pretzels | Classic German Baking Recipe
- Crusty Sourdough Loaf | Homemade Sourdough Bread
- Homemade Mini Pork Pies
- Hot Cross Buns | Classic British Easter Recipe
- Lemon Yoghurt Cake
Mini Egg Cookies | Easter Baking Recipe
Recipe
Ingredients:
- 125 g butter, softened
- 100 g soft light brown sugar
- 75 g white granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 275g plain flour
- 10g cornflour
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- ½ tsp fine sea salt
- 100 g milk or dark chocolate, roughly chopped
- 250g Cadbury’s Mini Eggs
Method:
- Start by preparing the chocolate and Mini Eggs. Roughly chop the chocolate into small chunks. Reserve about 50g of Mini Eggs for later, then put the remaining ones into a freezer bag. Bash them with a rolling pin to break them into smaller pieces. Then set aside until needed.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, soft light brown sugar and white granulated sugar using an electric whisk for about 2 minutes until fluffy and paler in colour.
- Next, beat in the egg and vanilla extract until fully combined. Then add in the plain flour, cornflour, baking powder, bicarbonate and salt and mix to form a cookie dough. It may be easier to use your hands at the end to bring the mixture together.
- Add in the chopped chocolate and Mini Eggs and mix into the cookie dough until evenly distributed throughout.
- Roll the dough into 12 large balls (about 70g each). Place onto 2 large baking trays lined with baking paper and flatten them slightly by gently pressing down on them with your hand. Then stick the reserved Mini Eggs into the cookies and chill them in the fridge for at least 60 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C or 180°C fan. Bake the cookies in the preheated oven for 12-14 minutes until golden brown around the edges.
- Place the tray onto a wire rack and leave the cookies to cool on the tray for at least 30 minutes until firm.
