Mini Egg Easter Cookies
One of my favourite treats at Easter is Cadbury’s Mini Eggs and I’ve combined my easy cookie recipe that requires no chilling of the dough with the candy coated dreams.
It’s always so much fun to bake with the family at Easter and these cookies really make the occasion, the kids will love making and eating these!
I like to keep some of the mini eggs aside, and I cut them in half, and just place them on top of the warm cookies gently pushing them in. This way you get that extra special Easter look.
Remember when making cookies, it’s really important not to over bake them. To know when to take them out of the oven, what you want to look out for with these, is a little browning around and firmness around the edges but still soft in the centre. Cookies firm up whilst their cooling, and if you over bake them they’ll be too dry.
Ingredients
165g plain flour
85g unsalted butter, melted and cooled
85g light or dark brown sugar
27g granulated sugar
¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
1 medium egg
½ tbsp vanilla bean extract
¼ tsp salt
100g mini eggs, set aside 20g for topping the cookies
Method
Pre-heat the oven to 160°C and line two large baking trays with parchment
Melt the butter and allow to cool for 5 minutes
Whilst the butter cools, measure the flour, salt and baking soda into a bowl and set aside for now
Add the sugars into a bowl, and add the cooled melted butter, using a stand mixer, beat the butter and sugar mixture until a thin paste has formed
Add the egg and vanilla extract to your butter and sugar and continue to beat on a low speed until combined
Next add your flour mix to the butter, half at a time and mix on a low speed
Add the second half of the flour, until just about coming together then add the crushed mini eggs
Mix just until combined, you don't want to over mix
Spoon out a medium scoop of dough onto the prepared trays
Making sure the scoops dough are well spaced, this recipe makes about 8 cookies. Bake for 13-14 minutes, the cookie should be browning slightly on the edges but be soft in the centre. Do not over bake, cookies continue to firm up after they've been removed from the oven
Just after taking the cookies out of the oven, add the halved mini eggs to the tops of the cookies, pressing them in gently
Leave to cool on the trays for 5 minutes, then transfer the cookies to a wire rack and leave to cool completely and enjoy!