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Easter Chocolate Chip Cookies are a hearty chocolate chip oatmeal cookie filled with Cadbury Egg pieces and mini chocolate chips. These Cadbury Mini Egg cookies are always a hit with the whole family.
Easter Chocolate Chip Cookies
You may disagree, but it is my deeply held conviction that Easter has the best candy of all the holidays! Seriously, when it comes to Easter candy, I am here for all of it! But the queen of Easter candy…the undisputed champion, is the Cadbury Mini Egg! And these brown sugar oatmeal based cookies are packed with them!
As you know by now, most of my cookie recipes do not contain oatmeal. But every now and then there is a cookie recipe that just needs the hearty chew of an oatmeal cookie base. And these Chocolate Chip Cadbury cookies are just that, hearty, chewy, soft on the inside but slightly crisp on the outside. They are absolute perfection!
So stock up on Cadbury Eggs, because these are Easter egg Cookies that you will want to make year round!
Ingredients for Cadbury Egg Cookies
- Butter- You will want to make sure that the butter is softened so that it creams well with the sugar. I always use salted because that is what I have on hand, but if you use unsalted you can always add a pinch more salt to the recipe.
- Brown Sugar– The brown sugar base is KEY to the caramelly cookie flavor that we want!
- Eggs
- Vanilla
- All- Purpose Flour
- Rolled Oats– Use old fashioned, rolled oats here! Not quick oats!
- Salt
- Baking Soda
- Cadbury Eggs Pieces– I usually put my eggs in a zip top bag and then use my rolling pin to smash them into pieces. Great way to get out pent up anger. 😉
- Mini Chocolate Chips- I personally love using the mini chips in this recipe, it ensures that each bite has an equal ratio of chocolate to cookie, but you can use regular chips if you want!
How to Make Cadbury Egg Cookies
Start by preheating your oven to 350 degrees.
While the oven is preheating, prepare your Cadbury Eggs by placing the mini eggs into a large zip-top bag and breaking them up with something heavy, like a rolling pin. Measure out a cup of Cadbury Egg bits and your mini chocolate chips and set them aside.
In a large bowl or in a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugar until it is light and fluffy. This will likely take a few minutes, I know it is tempting. But don’t cheat this step. Scrape the sides of the bowl and add the eggs, vanilla and mix again until just combined.
Now stop the mixer and add your dry ingredients, the flour, oats, salt and baking soda and mix again until the dry ingredients are about half way incorporated into your dough. Next add the Cadbury Eggs and chocolate chips and mix again just until everything comes together.
Be careful not to overmix. Overmixing the dough once you have added the flour will result in dry, cakey cookies rather than the soft chewy cookies you want!
Measure out 1/3 cup of dough for each cookie. Loosely form the cookie into a tall ball rather than rolling the dough into a tightly packed ball. You will want to leave the top of the cookie rough and jagged for texture!
Bake at 350° for 13-15 minutes, or until the cookie dough has spread and the edges are turning a nice golden brown. The center of the cookie may seem a little gooey still, that’s okay. I’ll explain why in the next paragraph.
Immediately after removing the cookies from the oven, use a metal spoon to push the edges of the cookie towards the center to create a perfect circle. Allow the cookies to cool on the hot pan for 20 minutes. Letting them sit on the hot pan while everything cools actually will continue to bake the center of the cookies, which is why it is okay to pull them out of the oven while they are still a little gooey inside.
How long will the cookies stay fresh?
These cookies are best eaten within 24 hours but will stay fresh for up to 3 days. Put a slice of bread inside of the container to keep them soft.
Can I make smaller Cadbury Egg Cookies?
Definitely!! You’ll still want to bake them at 350°, but start checking them for golden edges around 10 minutes. Pull them out of the oven when the edges are golden brown and they have spread.
Cadbury Mini Egg Recipes
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Cadbury Egg Cookie Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (200 g) crushed cadbury mini eggs
- 1 cup (240 g) mini chocolate chips
- 1 cup (222 g) salted butter
- 1 cup (246 g) brown sugar
- 1/2 cup (115 g) granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 cup (304 g) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (50g) rolled oats
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/2 tsp salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350° F (180°C).
- Measure out the crushed cadbury mini eggs and mini chocolate chips. Set aside.1 cup (200 g) crushed cadbury mini eggs, 1 cup (240 g) mini chocolate chips
- In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream together the butter and sugars until smooth, light in color and fluffy. This will take a few mintues.1 cup (222 g) salted butter, 1 cup (246 g) brown sugar, 1/2 cup (115 g) granulated sugar
- Scrape the sides of the bowl and mix in the egg add vanilla.1 egg, 1 tsp vanilla
- Once completely combined, stop the mixer and add in the flour, rolled oats baking soda and salt.2 cup (304 g) all-purpose flour, 1/2 cup (50g) rolled oats, 1 tsp baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt
- Start mixing slowly, once the flour mixture is about half way incorporated into the dough, pour the cadbury mini eggs and chocolate chips into the mixer and allow everything to mix together.
- Stop the mixer as soon as the flour is completely incorporated. Avoid over mixing.
- Measure out the dough into 1/3 cup portions of cookie dough for each cookie. Loosely gather the dough together in a tall 'ball' leaving the top jagged, for texture. Avoid packing the dough together tightly.
- Repeat this with all of the cookie dough.
- Bake at 350°F (180°C) for 13-15 minutes, or until the cookie dough has spread and the edges are turning golden brown.
- Immediately after taking the cookies out of the oven, use the back of a metal spoon and push the edges of the cookie towards the center, creating a perfect circle.
- Allow the cookies to cool on the pan for 20 minutes.*
- Serve warm.
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These cookies turned out great!
These cookies are the best! My family asks me to make them for every family gathering, especially my 10 year old niece, Kai!
Has anyone found an appropriate substitute for the Cadbury eggs that is available year round? I’d like to make some but it’s August and back to school, Halloween, fall and Christmas are everywhere. Thanks!
Use Cadbury snowballs at Christmas. That is my go to cookie for the holidays.
I’m thinking Whoppers, not sure how easy they’ll be to crush up but that’s the only candy I can think of that would compare to the mini Cadbury eggs.
Hi – Cadbury Mini Eggs are cadbury chocolate shaped like little eggs and covered in a candy coating. You can sub in more chocolate chips if you’d like.
Buy extra and freeze
I finally got around to making these! Since it’s November I replaced the cadbury eggs/choc chips with a mix of semi-sweet, milk chocolate and salted caramel chips. They smell SO GOOD and they look like they came from a bakery. I wish I had this recipe last year for our holiday family cookie baking championship 🙂 This is going to be my go-to cookie base going forward!
Hi Karli!
I make these cookies every year for my daughter’s and my cookie bake. In the past, I have made them, baked them, and then froze them until the day of. This year I am just making the dough balls. How long can they stay in the refrigerator before they need baking? I know you can freeze them, but there’s only three days so I just thought I would refrigerate it.
3 days is probably okay, I wouldn’t go further than that though! Refrigerating sometimes dries out the dough, so keep that in mind!
I love Cadbury mini eggs and was so excited to try this recipe. I made the smaller version and baked for the suggested 10 minutes and they came out perfect!I love the combo of the mini eggs and chocolate chips and they were soft and the edges just a little crispy. Thank you so much for this recipe!
I tried making these multiple times and they always spread and are super thin. I just realized after another failed attempt that you have it listed as 2 cups of flour or 304 grams, but 2 cups of flour is only 240 grams so I’ve likely been adding not enough flour.
Hi, it definitely sounds like you might need more flour. But did you know that metric measurements for a cup actually differ based on how you measure out the cup? I have a post all about it here: https://cookingwithkarli.com/metric-measurements/
This is by far the best cookie ever!
I wanted to have your opinion on whether or not I could use a substitute of gluten-free flour that says replace one for one when baking. Have you tried this or do you think it might work?
Hi! A 1:1 flour will work! You will want to ensure that the rest of your ingredients are gf as well!
Can you brown the butter and then mix with the sugar instead of creaming the softened butter?
Yes, you can. I recommend letting the browned butter cool until almost back in a solid state before mixing with the sugar.