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I’m obsessed with Cadbury Mini Eggs, are you? I hope so, because today I made you Cadbury Egg Cookies! This is my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe full of Cadbury Eggs – the perfect Easter Cookie!
Best Ever Easter Cookies
I really have no defenses when it comes to holiday candy, do you? The second it pops up in the stores I’m studying every aisle, looking for new and old favorites like a kid in a candy store. What’s your favorite Easter candy? Mine are the Cadbury Mini Eggs. I literally could eat an entire bag without even blinking an eye – so making cookies with them is just an obvious thing to do!
These Cadbury Egg Cookies have crispy edges and chewy centers and are full of the best Easter candy – Cadbury mini eggs! This is one of my favorite Easter cookie recipes – I make them every year.
Ingredients in Mini Egg Cookies
- Brown Butter: The secret to amazing chocolate chip cookies is…starting with MELTED BUTTER. Or, better yet. melted and BROWNED butter. Yup, these cookie start with brown butter. It makes the flavor in the dough almost toffee like combined with all the brown sugar. Melted butter adds an underlying flavor to your cookie you don’t get when you start with softened butter. Browning it adds even more undertones to that flavor; it’s worth the extra time. It’s easiest to start with room temperature butter.
- Eggs: Add fat and structure – be sure to buy large eggs.
- All Purpose Flour: Be sure to measure it correctly and never pack it!
- Cadbury Mini Eggs: You make them even better by adding Cadbury Mini Eggs. Together, they make the perfect easy Easter treat!
How to Make Cadbury Egg Cookies
- Brown your unsalted butter in a sauce pan over medium low heat.
- Place butter in a large bowl or bowl of a stand mixer. Mix or stir in granulated sugar and packed brown sugar.
- Mix in eggs, vanilla, salt and baking soda.
- Stir in flour, then mix in Cadbury eggs. I like to crush my mini eggs in a food processor or in a ziplock bag – hit them with a rolling pin!
- Scoop dough onto cookie sheet then chill the dough. Once chilled, separate cookies on to prepared baking sheet and bake until no longer glossy on top. Cool on a wire rack.
Tip From Dorothy
Expert Tips
- The secret to this recipe: Chill time. Because you’re starting with liquid butter, you MUST chill the dough. The ingredients mix together quite easily (you could even just use a wooden spoon) because of the melted butter, but if you bake them right away they’ll just turn flat.
- Chilling tip: cold dough that’s been chilled overnight is practically impossible to scoop. Do yourself a favor and scoop the cookie dough balls right after making the dough. Place the balls close together on a cookie sheet, cover with plastic wrap, then chill until you’re ready to bake.
- On chopping Cadbury Mini Eggs: do this carefully. They roll. They’re hard. Don’t attack them with the knife; take your time, or better yet crush them in the food processor or in a bag with a rolling pin.
- These stay soft for days stored in an airtight container, but can also be made ahead and frozen for up to a month.
Cadbury Egg Cookies Recipe
Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies – this easy chocolate chip cookie recipe is filled with Cadbury Mini Eggs. It’s the perfect Easter dessert recipe!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Chill Time 2 hours
Total Time 2 hours 45 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 cup (226g) unsalted Challenge butter
- ¾ cup (150 g) granulated sugar
- 1 cup (200g) light brown sugar packed
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 3 cups (372g) all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 2 ½ cups Cadbury Mini Eggs chopped, plus more for topping
Instructions
- Note: This dough requires chilling!
- Note on Cadbury Mini Eggs: they’re hard to chop – they roll – so do it carefully and slowly.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Cook, stirring often, about 6 minutes, until it becomes brown in color. It will foam, reduce, then foam again. Once it’s done cooking the foam is a light brown and it will dissipate after you remove it from the heat. Once it starts to brown, keep stirring so it doesn’t burn. Let sit for about 5 minutes to cool.
- Pour butter into an electric mixer fitted with paddle attachment. (You can also use a hand mixer.) While still hot, add both sugars and mix on low until combined. Let sit to cool for a few minutes, then mix in the eggs and vanilla. Mix in the baking soda and salt, then slowly mix in flour until mixture is just combined. Stir in the chopped Cadbury Mini Eggs.
- Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat. Scoop 2 tablespoon balls of cookie dough a place balls on cookie sheet. Spacing doesn’t matter, you’ll be chilling the dough. Cover cookie sheet with plastic wrap and chill at least 4 hours (but overnight is better.)
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Place cookies 2” apart on 2 cookie sheets and bake (while the balls are cold from the refrigerator) for about 12-15 minutes or until they just begin to turn brown and are no longer glossy on top. Cool at least 5 minutes on cookie sheet before removing.
- Store in an airtight container for up to 3 days or freeze for up to one month.
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Recipe Nutrition
Serving: 1Cookie | Calories: 197kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 36mg | Sodium: 889mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 16g
Nutritional information not guaranteed to be accurate
I could totally eat a dozen of these right now! I’m with you–Easter in March is throwing me off. It’s way too early!
Glad it’s not just me!
Oh wow! These look amazing… everything is better with browned butter (and Cadbury eggs)!! My husband is going to LOVE these!
Thanks Holly!
I have no self-restraint when it comes to holiday candy either. Love that you used chopped Cadbury eggs in these cookies! The browned butter is an absolute must!
Thank you!
I love the idea of using browned butter in cookies! Totally trying that next time! And I can’t believe Easter is just about three weeks away. I’ll take this entire batch, please….sounds delicious!
Wish I could send them to you!
Browned butter? Sign. Me. Up. That’s all I need in life!!
Like you, I’m a total sucker for holiday candy. When the Reese’s Eggs come out, I just lose it completely. They’re too good. And the chocolate bunnies. I just hit up a CVS and go crazy!
I ate an entire bag of the eggs. AN ENTIRE BAG.
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