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!
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!
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.
- ¾ cup butter, room temperature
- ¾ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tbsp vanilla
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ¾ tsp salt
- 1½ cups roughly chopped milk chocolate Easter eggs
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- 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.
- 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.)
- Add the chopped Easter eggs and mix until just combined.
- Scoop heaping tablespoons onto a nonstick or parchment-lined baking sheet, about an inch and a half apart.
- Bake 9-10 minutes until bottom edges are JUST barely golden.
- Remove from oven and let cool on the pan a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
What are your favorite Easter desserts?
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??
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. 🙂
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 😀
I don’t have a favorite Easter candy, I like them ALL haha! These cookies look perfect for Easter!
How cute are these cookies?! I love the chocolate Easter eggs in here. So festive! And I know I would devour these ALL!!
These look so delicious Jess!! And these are so perfect for Easter!
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!
Thanks, Sarah!! Enjoy the warmth! Spring is the best season around here so I’m loving it!
Easter candy is so pretty and I love the malted eggs! These cookies look perfect for Easter. Yay for spring!
Thanks, Christin! Easter candy is definitely my weakness this time of year. 😉
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!
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!
Those little milk chocolate easter eggs are soooo good! I love that you used them in these cookies, they look so perfect.
Oh I am TOTALLY addicted to them!! LOL. Thanks, Danielle!
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.
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! 😉
can you freeze these cookies?
Yes, definitely! They freeze great!