When it’s spring, I love to make fun themed Easter recipes like a spring colored pink cake, peanut butter eggs, birds nest cookies and these easy and delicious mini egg cookies. Easter candy is my favorite kind of candy! I can’t resist all the fun marshmallow and chocolate treats that fill the stores. I make sure to stock up on candy like mini eggs, and I use them in these Cadbury mini egg cookies for a fun and festive sweet offering. You can never have too many cookie recipes, and this is one of my all time favorites.
Mini Egg Cookies Ingredients
To make this recipe, you will need butter (salted and unsalted butter both work great), granulated sugar, light brown sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, corn starch, salt, baking soda, baking powder, semisweet chocolate chips and chocolate mini eggs.
How Do You Make Mini Egg Cookies?
Cream the room temperature butter and sugars together with an electric mixer or stand mixer until the mixture is light and fluffy. Add the eggs and vanilla extract, then beat until everything is well combined. In a separate bowl, mix together the flour, corn starch, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Add half of the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and beat it all together. Stir in the rest of the dry ingredients until a dough forms. Fold in the chocolate chips and chopped mini eggs. Shape the dough into balls and place the cookie dough balls on a baking sheet. Chill, then bake until golden brown. Immediately press a few whole mini eggs into each cookie when they come out of the oven, then cool and serve.
Tips For The Perfect Cookies
Use a cookie dough scoop to get evenly sized cookies. Leave the chopped mini eggs in larger pieces. If they’re chopped finely, they’ll just melt into the batter and you won’t get that crunchy texture contrast. Mini egg cookies will stay fresh in an airtight container for up to 5 days. I prefer to use Cadbury mini eggs in this recipe, but you could use a different brand of candy coated chocolate eggs if you prefer. Adding the whole mini eggs immediately after the cookies come out of the oven makes them more likely to hold their shape. If you add the whole eggs to the dough balls, they may crack in the oven. Use a serrated knife to chop the mini eggs, it makes it easier to crack through the hard candy shells.
Flavor Variations
These mini egg cookies are delicious as-is, but you can add other ingredients to customize them to your tastes.
Chocolate: Instead of dark chocolate chips, try using milk chocolate or white chocolate chips. Add-Ins: Swap out some of the mini eggs or chocolate chips for other ingredients such as shredded coconut, nuts, toffee bits or other types of Easter candy.
I stock up in mini eggs when they’re in season so that I can make these cookies all year round!
