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Easter is my favourite time of year for baking sweet treats and I love finding new ways to use Cadburys Mini Eggs in the kitchen. Easter wouldn’t be Easter without Mini Eggs! Our latest bake are these delicious Mini Egg Cookie Bars which are like a super easy Mini Egg traybake.

How to make these easy Mini Egg Cookie Bars

To make these Easter cookie bars you just need typical ingredients you’d use for chocolate chip cookies – butter, flour and sugar along with an egg, a little milk, vanilla and Mini Eggs. For this recipe we use plain flour and a little baking powder but you could give self raising flour a go if it’s all you have. But, one thing you really need to do is make sure you use real butter – this isn’t a time to be using margarine and you really will taste the difference.

We also use two different types of sugar in this recipe – caster sugar and light brown sugar which work together to give such a great cookie flavour, especially when accompanied by the vanilla extract and chocolate Mini Eggs.

This recipe simply uses Mini Eggs for the chocolate flavour but you could also add milk chocolate chips if you wanted for extra chocolate flavour. We also leave the Mini Eggs whole but if you prefer you can add crushed Mini Eggs to the mix and they would work well too.

For this recipe we use an 8 inch square baking pan but you can use a bigger pan and just spread the mixture out as much as you want to in the baking dish to give whatever thickness cookie bar you would like.

These Mini Eggs Cookie Bars are just like Mini Egg Cookies but they look much more sophisticated, have a uniform shape and look great in Easter treat bags, as part of a buffet spread or on the table at a school bake sale. This Mini Eggs tray bake is easy to slice and can make as many portions as you like – although our 8×8 square tin makes 16 good size square Mini Egg bars.

I actually can’t wait to make more cookie traybakes in all different flavours. These perfect Easter egg bars were such a hit with the children and everyone else who has tried them. They are delicious and such great Easter treats.

If you’re looking for other Mini Egg recipes to try, here’s our Mini Egg Rocky Road, Mini Egg Brownies and Mini Egg Fudge recipes. You can see all our recipes to date here and plenty more Easter recipes here too.

What equipment do you need for this cookie recipe?

You can make this recipe simply with things you already have in your kitchen but here are the things we use in case there’s something you don’t already have:

As you can see, it’s all things you probably have already – that is what makes any kind of cookies so simple and convenient to make.

Here’s our Mini Egg Easter Traybake Recipe – happy baking!

Ingredients

120g unsalted butter at room temperature
100g soft brown sugar
85g caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 egg, beaten
1 tbsp milk
275g plain flour / all purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda / baking powder
250g Cadbury Mini Eggs

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180c/Gas Mark 4. Line a brownie pan with baking paper or parchment paper.
Cream butter and sugars in a large bowl. Mix in the vanilla extract and gradually add the egg – beating well. Stir in the milk.
Sift the dry ingredients – flour and baking powder – into a large mixing bowl and then fold into the butter and egg mixture.
Stir in the mini eggs
Transfer the cookie dough to the prepared brownie tin and smooth with a spatula. It’s fine if it doesn’t quite meet the edges.
Bake for 20 mins or until lightly golden browned. It should still be slightly soft in the centre – like a giant cookie!

If you’d like to print or pin the Mini Egg Cookie Bars Recipe for later you can do so below. Enjoy!

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