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Milk Chocolate Easter Egg Cookies

March 6, 2016 by jessfuel 18 Comments

These cookies start out with a perfect, chewy base, and are packed full of milk chocolate Easter egg candies. They’re a perfect festive spring Easter dessert!

Milk Chocolate Easter Egg Cookies

It’s hard to believe that Easter is just around the corner. This year has been flying by at lightning speed, thanks in part to Baby P’s impending arrival, and I swear we were just celebrating Christmas, like, yesterday.

When I lived in Boston, we had a few snow covered Easters, but here in California it’s already creeping into the 70’s by March, so it feels springy and definitely bunny season. All the orchards are blooming, I’ve broken out the flip flops, and I don’t feel too bad buying Easter candy in February! Yes, I might have done that. Whoops.

Do you have a favorite Easter candy? I can never decide between the milk chocolate eggs and the malted milk eggs. So I always have to get both. And some marshmallow chicks, of course. And jelly beans. Clearly, candy is my favorite part of the season!

Since I’ve got lots of seasonal candy around, it’s time to start thinking about Easter baking!

Milk Chocolate Easter Egg Cookies

Though I love to branch out and make cakes and pastries sometimes, the family favorite seems to be cookies. Whenever I make any kind of delicious, chewy cookies, they are gone within minutes. So for the last few holidays I’ve been making different spins on a classic. Since I had so much Easter candy around, I thought using chopped up chocolate Easter eggs as chocolate chips would be a fun and festive twist.

Although it’s not quite Easter yet, we had a house full of guests this weekend and these cookies disappeared pretty quickly. Using milk chocolate instead of the semi-sweet chips gave these cookies some extra decadence and silkiness. I’ll definitely be making another batch of these for the holidays! These would also be a great way to use up anything you have leftover after the bunny comes visiting.

I love Bob’s Red Mill products, and though I’ve used a lot of their alternative products like coconut flour and almond flour, I had never tried their regular all-purpose flour until now! I used the Bob’s Red Mill Organic Unbleached All Purpose White Flour in these cookies this time and they turned out great!

Bob's Red Mill Flour

I love to use really good quality ingredients whenever I can, and the Bob’s Red Mill flour was super silky and lovely. It’s freshly milled from Organic hard red wheat and is not enriched with any additives. It’s the same high protein flour used by professional bakers and produces high, well-textured loaves of bread equally as well as it produces light, airy baked goods.

Milk Chocolate Easter Egg Cookies
 
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Author: Flying on Jess Fuel
Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: Cookies
Serves: 2 dozen cookies
Ingredients
  • ¾ cup butter, room temperature
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • ½ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tbsp vanilla
  • 2 cups Bob's Red Mill Organic Unbleached All Purpose White Flour
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • ¾ tsp salt
  • 1½ cups roughly chopped milk chocolate Easter eggs
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Using a stand or hand mixer on medium speed, beat together butter and sugars until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the egg and vanilla and continue beating until combined.
  3. Turn the mixer to low and slowly add flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt until combined. (You can mix the dry ingredients in a bowl first, but I just add them directly to the mixing bowl to save dishes.)
  4. Add the chopped Easter eggs and mix until just combined.
  5. Scoop heaping tablespoons onto a nonstick or parchment-lined baking sheet, about an inch and a half apart.
  6. Bake 9-10 minutes until bottom edges are JUST barely golden.
  7. Remove from oven and let cool on the pan a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
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Milk Chocolate Easter Egg Cookies

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Comments

  1. Shelby @ Go Eat and Repeat says

    March 7, 2016 at 7:04 am

    These cookies are so fun! I totally agree with you that Easter candy is just so amazing! How can you not want to use it whenever you can??

    Reply
  2. marcie says

    March 7, 2016 at 11:57 am

    These cookies are perfect for Easter baking, and I love the chocolate eggs here — they make the cookies so festive and colorful! And I LOVE Bob’s Red Mill products. 🙂

    Reply
  3. Rachel @ Bakerita says

    March 7, 2016 at 3:36 pm

    Mmm those little eggs are the best! Easter candy is so awesome, and I love that you added it to these delicious cookies. I know what I’m doing with my extra Easter candy 😀

    Reply
  4. Denise @ Sweet Peas & Saffron says

    March 7, 2016 at 8:01 pm

    I don’t have a favorite Easter candy, I like them ALL haha! These cookies look perfect for Easter!

    Reply
  5. Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says

    March 8, 2016 at 5:53 am

    How cute are these cookies?! I love the chocolate Easter eggs in here. So festive! And I know I would devour these ALL!!

    Reply
  6. [email protected] says

    March 9, 2016 at 9:18 am

    These look so delicious Jess!! And these are so perfect for Easter!

    Reply
  7. Sarah @Whole and Heavenly Oven says

    March 10, 2016 at 4:23 am

    It got close to 70 here the other day and I was seriously SO excited! And these cookies are kinda making me super excited right now too! I LOVE the idea of using candy eggs in ’em!

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      March 14, 2016 at 2:56 pm

      Thanks, Sarah!! Enjoy the warmth! Spring is the best season around here so I’m loving it!

      Reply
  8. [email protected] says

    March 10, 2016 at 7:04 am

    Easter candy is so pretty and I love the malted eggs! These cookies look perfect for Easter. Yay for spring!

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      March 14, 2016 at 2:55 pm

      Thanks, Christin! Easter candy is definitely my weakness this time of year. 😉

      Reply
  9. Amber @ Dessert Now, Dinner Later! says

    March 10, 2016 at 12:14 pm

    Hey Jess! I just learned from Kelly’s blog (life made sweeter) that you are expecting a baby boy! That is super exciting! Congrats lady! And I should probably save some of my cadbury chocolate eggs for these cookies! YUM!

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      March 14, 2016 at 2:53 pm

      Thanks, Amber!! It’s actually a GIRL!! Which we are super excited about! Hoping the ultrasound lady got it right because we have SO MUCH PINK! LOL!

      Reply
  10. Danielle says

    March 10, 2016 at 4:21 pm

    Those little milk chocolate easter eggs are soooo good! I love that you used them in these cookies, they look so perfect.

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      March 14, 2016 at 2:53 pm

      Oh I am TOTALLY addicted to them!! LOL. Thanks, Danielle!

      Reply
  11. Amanda says

    March 12, 2016 at 6:35 am

    My favorite Easter candy is definitely the Cadbury egg. Back when I was a kid those were such an instant sugar high. I was basically climbing the walls. ? These cookies are so super cute. They would definitely bring a smile to everyone’s face.

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      March 14, 2016 at 2:52 pm

      Thanks, Amanda! Surprisingly I was never a huge Cadbury egg fan… I think the fact that it looks like an egg inside weirded me out, LOL! But those mini eggs… LOVE those! 😉

      Reply
  12. Tanya says

    February 18, 2021 at 11:31 am

    can you freeze these cookies?

    Reply
    • jessfuel says

      February 19, 2021 at 8:55 am

      Yes, definitely! They freeze great!

      Reply

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