Making Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies at Home!

It's nearly Easter and the stores are filled with tasty Easter treats! One of my favorites happens to be Cadbury Mini Eggs. Recently, while visiting Canada, I found Chips Ahoy! Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies! Cadbury Eggs and cookies! Could be delicious right? 

Well, they were a bit disappointing. I wrote about it on the blog and a commenter suggested that we should make our own cookies.  

Great idea! I love it! So, we did! 

This is what we found while visiting Canada. I know the picture on the package isn't always the best indicator, but it showed tiny little eggs on the top of the cookie. The truth of it was that the eggs are mostly buried in the cookie dough and look nothing like the package. 

Alli is in disbelief. 

A regular size Cadbury Mini Egg versus what is in these cookies. Plus all the color in the eggs leeches out into the dough. And then, it's a Chip Ahoy cookie. It's not the most tasty. These seemed especially dry. We can do better. 

We started with our Aunt Rita's recipe for her delicious chocolate chip cookies. Butter and sugar. 

Brown sugar. 

All that gets creamed together. 

Then we add an egg and vanilla. 

For the dry ingredients, flour, salt, and baking soda. 

Sifting that together to get no clumps. Then just barely mixing until it comes together. 

First we'll need some chocolate chips. 

But the star of the show are these Cadbury Mini Eggs. We have the smaller Canadian version. 

Plus a bunch more of these American Cadbury Mini Eggs. 

We scooped out some pretty big dough balls, then buttered our hands and rolled them to make them more symmetrical. 

After spending a couple hours in the freezer, they set up enough for our liking. Time to bake them! 

We're going to be experimenting a little bit with these. Our first batch, we tossed in as dough balls. Alli rotated them halfway through the help them cook more evenly. 

And this is how they came out. Exactly like I was expecting, but not exactly what Alli and I want them to look like when we're done. The Cadbury Mini Eggs are there, but they're buried in the cookies. We want them prominent! 

And so for our next batch of cookies, we let them cook for 8 minutes or so until the cookie dough had spread out but not browned, then we pulled them out and hand-placed Cadbury Mini Eggs into the tops of the cookies ourselves! 

Back into the oven for a few minutes to cook. 

And when they were done, they looked so much more fun! These are Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies to be sure! 

The Mini Eggs that were inside the cookie dough still leached out their colors into the cookie dough, but they're hidden for the most part. Those big bold colors on top really stand out! 

That was a lot of fun making them together! Great job Alli! But now come the best part! 

Eating them! 

Alli - How many calories are in these? 

Joe - Those aren't questions we ask. 

Alli - Me and Ian will split one.

Ian - Really? 

Alli - Then me and mom will split one. 

Jacob - I can see they were made with real butter. It's on my fingers. 

We did count and found that some of these cookies have 10 Cadbury Mini Eggs in them! That's a lot! The bag we got these from said 9 Mini Eggs was a serving! 

Ian - Those other Chips Ahoy cookies were disgusting. These are amazing. 

Theresa - It does seem like some of them have more Cadbury Eggs than cookie. 

Jacob - Oh yeah. These are WAY better. 

Theresa - So much better. 

Joe - You really can taste the Cadbury Chocolate in these. With the eggs being so large, you can still get a crunch from the shell and taste the chocolate inside. 

Alli - Whoever said to make these on the blog was a GENIUS! That's so good! 

Joe - Are these better than Aunt Rita's chocolate chip cookies? 

Theresa - Them's fighting words. 

Ian - No, I like Aunt Rita's better. 

Alli - Me too. 

Theresa - But they're a good Easter cookie. 

Thank you for the suggestion to make these ourselves! We had fun with it!