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Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies are Easter chocolate chip cookies filled with mini chocolate candy eggs. This easy cookie recipe is perfect for Easter!
If you are looking for an easy Easter treat or a new addition to your Easter dessert table, try these adorable Cadbury mini egg cookies. This is a basic chocolate chip cookie recipe with crushed mini eggs added into the cookie dough and more candy eggs on top. With the extra chocolate, it’s pretty much the perfect cookie — at least, my family thinks so!
Why you’ll love this Cadbury egg cookie recipe
They’re super easy to make, and kids can help!
The blend of milk chocolate and semi sweet chocolate plus the crunchy chocolate shell make these a chocolate lover’s dream!
The pretty pastel colors are perfect for Spring and Easter!
What You Need
Here are the basics. Full amounts are in the printable recipe card below.
- Mini Cadbury eggs — or your favorite Easter candy eggs. Choose either milk chocolate or dark chocolate. You will need some for the dough and some to add to the top of the cookies
- Flour — all purpose flour works best
- Cinnamon — ground cinnamon for extra flavor
- Baking soda
- Salt
- Butter –salted butter or unsalted butter. Use room temperature butter for best results. Not cold butter or melted butter
- Brown sugar — light brown sugar or dark brown sugar.
- Granulated sugar
- Vanilla extract
- Eggs
- Semi sweet chocolate chips
How to Make Cadbury Egg Cookies
First, you need to crush up the chocolate egg candy. The best way to do this so the eggs don’t get completely crushed is to add them to a large freezer bag. Use the flat end of a meat mallet or a rolling pin to break them up.
Next, combine the dry ingredients in a medium bowl. Set aside. Then, in a large mixing bowl, cream the butter with an electric mixer or stand mixer on medium speed.
Gradually add the flour mixture to the wet ingredients, and miix the ingredients on low speed, working up to medium speed as the ingredients are blended. Then, add the brown sugar and white sugar, vanilla extract and eggs. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips and the crushed candy eggs using a spatula or large spoon.
Place the bowl into the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes to chill the dough, and preheat your oven. Line baking sheet with parchment paper or aluminum foil for easier clean up. Or use silicone baking mats.
Use a cookie scoop or tablespoon to scoop the dough up and place cookie balls on the parchment-paper lined baking sheet about 2 inches apart.I like to place more crushed eggs on top of the cookie dough balls. It’s a lot of candy, but the taste is worth it!
Bake the cookies for 9-12 minutes or until the edges are firm and golden brown. The exact baking time may vary with individual ovens.
Storage
Allow these Easter chocolate chip cookies to cool completely. Then, place cookies in an airtight container. They should stay fresh for about 5 days at room temperature. A slice of bread in the container will help keep these soft chewy cookies fresh longer! You can freeze the cookies for up to 3 months for best taste. You can make the dough ahead of time and freeze the dough balls until ready to use.
Quick Tips
Be careful not to crush the mini eggs up too much. You want large enough pieces for best taste and texture.
Chilling the dough helps prevent cookies from spreading out too much while baking. If your kitchen is cold, you can skip this part. The first batch always tends to spread a little, though.
Use a cookie scoop for evenly sized cookies.
You can use the glass trick to help cookies puff up after baking. Just place a drinking glass over the baked cookies and swirl it around a couple of times. The cookies should stay nice and round.
Don’t over bake them, as the cookies will firm up as they cool.
Variations
Add whole mini Cadbury eggs to the top of the cookies after baking for extra chocolate flavor.
Use milk chocolate chips or dark chocolate chips instead of semi sweet.
Make double chocolate chip mini eggs cookies for a different flavor. You can use my double chocolate chip cookies recipe.
More Sweet Treats for Easter
If you’re looking for more sweet Easter recipes try my Mini Eggs Dip, or these Easter sugar cookies or carrot cake cookies or this easy Easter Brownies Recipe, this cute Easter Lamb Cake or these adorable Bird’s Nest Easter Cupcakes.
Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp sea salt
- 1 cup butter softened
- 1 cup brown sugar firmly packed
- ½ cup white sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 cup mini eggs candy crushed
- 1 cup semi sweet chocolate chips
Instructions
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the flour, cinnamon, baking soda and sea salt until evenly combined. Set aside.
- In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter until smooth.
- Add the brown sugar and white sugar and cream together until well combined.
- Mix in the vanilla extract.
- Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each egg is added.
- Gradually add in the flour mixture and mix until completely blended.
- Crush the mini eggs and add them and the semi sweet chocolate chips into the dough.
- Refrigerate dough for 15 to 30 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 350℉.
- Drop tablespoon sized balls of dough onto a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper, leaving two inches between each dough ball. Top with extra crushed up mini eggs.
- Bake for 9-12 minutes (depending on your oven), or until edges are just slightly brown. Do not over bake.
- Remove from oven, top with even more crushed mini eggs if desired, allow to cool slightly, then transfer to cool surface or baking rack to cool completely.
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I’m so happy I saw your TikTok because these are the best cookies ever!! They’re SO soft and the flavor is outstanding. I’ll be making them until stores stop selling mini eggs!!
That’s no sweet, Audrey. Thanks for the wonderful review!
Made these with the grandkids today! So easy and fun! Hard not to eat the ingredients as you go!
These are so cute!!! I love how colorful they are with the eggs- perfect for Easter! I also never heard of the trick to use a glass to make cookies puffy and round!! Super helpful
Thank you so much! I’m glad you liked the cookies!
Awesome Easter dessert! Grandkids loved making them too!
I made these for a picnic lunch and everyone loved them! Will have to make them for the family gathering on Easter!