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Easter Mini Egg Cookies

March 20, 2022 Kristy Richardson Leave a Comment

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These sweet Easter Egg Mini Cookies are melt in your mouth delicious! Perfect for Easter or spring with mini Cadbury eggs, these delicious buttery cookies are so pretty, and will disappear faster than the Easter Bunny can hop!

Mini Egg cookies close up

Why We Love Mini Egg Cookies

  • Easy Easter Or Spring Dessert– These delicious cookies are perfect for Easter parties, spring events, potlucks. These Easter egg sugar cookies topped with milk chocolate are perfect to share with family and friends, and an easy treat to make.
  • Soft Sugar Cookie– With a sweet, soft and chewy sugar cookie base studded with chocolate mini eggs, these cookies are a delicious treat. No cookie cutter or rolling pin is needed for these Easter Egg cookies.
  • Fun To Make– This is a fun cookie to make with the kids, they love adding the colorful Easter candy. It’s a fun recipe to make for the whole family and makes the best Easter cookies.

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Ingredients For Mini Egg Cookies

Ingredients for chocolate mini egg cookies in bowls with labels from overhead
  • 1ย cupย butterย softened, unsalted
  • 1ย cupย white granulated sugar
  • 2ย large eggs
  • 1ย teaspoonย vanilla extract
  • 1/2ย teaspoonย almond extract – You can substitute more vanilla extract for almond extract in a pinch, but the flavor is better with almond extract.
  • 3ย cupsย all-purpose flour
  • 1 1/2ย teaspoonsย baking powder
  • 3/4ย teaspoonย salt
  • 1 1/2ย cupย chocolate mini eggs– about 9 ounces, like a bag of Cadbury mini eggs, MM’s Eggs, Robin’s Eggs, or other egg or spring-themed chocolate.

How To Make Mini Egg Cookies

Making The Cookie Dough

  • In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar into a mixture that is smooth. This will take about 2-3 minutes.
Softened butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl
  • Add the eggs, vanilla and almond extract to the butter mixture. Mix until the wet ingredients are fully combined, 1-2 minutes.
  • In a separate mixing bowl add the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix well until the dry ingredients are fully combined, about 1 minute.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix on low then medium until a cookie dough forms and the dry flour is fully mixed into the dough.
Dry ingredients being mixed in a large mixing bowl with wet ingredients for cookie dough
  • Chill the cookie dough for 30 minutes.

Mini egg cookie dough in a large mixing bowl from overhead

Baking The Cookies

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or spray lightly with cooking oil.
mini egg cookie dough on pan
  • Portion the cookie dough into two tablespoon dough balls. Place the cookie dough balls on the pan with at least two inches between each cookie. Press 3-4 mini chocolate eggs into the top of each dough ball
Bake mini egg cookies on pan
  • Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes until they just start to brown on the bottom, then remove from the oven.
  • Let the cookies cool on the pan for 1-2 minutes. Then transfer the cookies to a wire rack or clean kitchen towel to finish cooling. Enjoy!

How Long Do Mini Egg Cookies Last?

These mini egg cookies will taste freshest if eaten within about three days after baking. Store cookies in an airtight container on the counter.

Can I Freeze Mini Egg Cookies?

The dough can be frozen for 1-2 months while still maintaining freshness. I find it easiest to freeze cookie dough in round portions on a cookie sheet so I can add the mini eggs to each cookie easily before freezing.

Once the dough balls freeze on the cookie sheet you can transfer them to a zip-top freezer bag or another covered storage container.

Expect frozen dough will likely take an extra minute in the oven to bake, but watch carefully so as not to overbake cookies.

I have not tried freezing these cookies after baking. If you try freezing the cookies after baking, let me know how it goes in the comments!

Most cookies freeze ok after baking and this recipe should also freeze ok.

What Can I Use Instead Of Mini Chocolate Eggs?

Chocolate mini eggs are most often found around spring and Easter on grocery store shelves. If you’re hoping to make a similar cookie, but can’t find any mini Cadbury Eggs here are a few options to swap.

  • Hershey’s Eggs– This is Hershey’s version of the Cadbury eggs. These are MM’s shaped like eggs, and work great in these cookies.
  • Spring Colored MM’s – While they are smaller pieces of chocolate, these spring colroed MM’s give these cookies a pop of spring color.
  • Robin’s Eggs– These malted milkeggs are speckled on the outside with chocolate and malt in the middle. They’ll be crunchier but still delicious.
  • Chocolate Chips And Easter Sprinkles– Regular chocolate chips, chocolate chunks and white chocolate chips are available almost everywhere. Add some colorful sprinkles to your cookie dough at the end before scooping the dough into cookies and they’re beautiful! I recommend using the longer jimmie style sprinkles or the flat shaped sprinkles if you are adding the sprinkles to the dough. Other types of sprinkles like the round balls tend to bleed.
Cookies with mini chocolate eggs piled on a plate with a glass of milk from overhead

Other Recipes You Will Love

Easter Egg Popsicles– Sweet frozen popsicles on a stick made in an Easter Egg, kids love this fun treat!

Chocolate Chip Cookie Sticks– Gooey, thick and perfect for dunking. Chocolate chip cookie sticks are a delicious dessert you have to try!

Lemon Oreo Ball Truffles– These Lemon Oreo Ball Truffles taste just like sunshine and are perfect for spring. This is the perfect treat for impressing a crowd, and are delicious for lemon lovers!

Close up of cookie with mini chocolate eggs

Easter Mini Egg Cookies

Kristy Richardson
These mini egg cookies topped with chocolate Cadbury eggs are melt in your mouth delicious and perfect for Easter or spring.
5 from 1 vote
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PREP TIME 22 mins
COOK TIME 8 mins
Chill Time 30 mins
Total Time 1 hr
Course Baking, Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings 24 Cookies
Calories 228 kcal
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Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup butter softened, unsalted
  • 1 cup white granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 3/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 cup chocolate mini eggs about 9 ounces
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Instructions
 

Making The Cookie Dough

  • In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream together the butter and sugar into a mixture that is smooth. This will take about 2-3 minutes.
  • Add the eggs, vanilla and almond extract to the butter mixture. Mix until the wet ingredients are fully combined, 1-2 minutes.
  • In a separate mixing bowl add the flour, baking powder and salt. Mix well until the dry ingredients are fully combined, about 1 minute.
  • Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients. Mix on low then medium until a cookie dough forms and the dry flour is fully mixed into the dough.
  • Chill the cookie dough for 30 minutes.

Baking The Cookies

  • Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Line baking sheets with parchment paper or spray lightly with cooking oil.
  • Portion the cookie dough into two tablespoon dough balls. Place the cookie dough balls on the pan with at least two inches between each cookie. PRess 3-4 mini chocolate eggs into the top of each dough ball.
  • Bake the cookies for 8-10 minutes until they just start to brown on the bottom, then remove from the oven.
  • Let the cookies cool on the pan for 1-2 minutes. Then transfer the cookies to a wire rack or clean kitchen towel to finish cooling. Enjoy!

Notes

A cookie scoop can help you to portion these cookies quickly and easily. I used a #40 cookie scoop, which holds 2 tablespoons of dough per scoop.
Adding the chocolate eggs to the top of the cookie dough is the best way. If you mix the chocolate eggs into the dough they tend to break too much.
You can also substitute other candy-coated chocolates such as MM’s, Sixlets, Robin’s Eggs or other chocolates.

Nutrition

Sodium: 174mg | Calcium: 37mg | Vitamin C: 1mg | Vitamin A: 285IU | Sugar: 17g | Fiber: 1g | Potassium: 25mg | Cholesterol: 36mg | Calories: 228kcal | Trans Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 7g | Fat: 11g | Protein: 3g | Carbohydrates: 29g | Iron: 1mg
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