Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies

These Cadbury Mini Egg Cookies are an easy Easter dessert or an anytime of the year fun project with the kids! The cake mix cookies come out soft, chewy, and so delicious! If you have little ones, you may also want to try these yummy Resurrection cookies that tell the story of Easter.

I don't have grandkids (yet) but if I ever do, you can bet these Easter egg cookies with mini Cadbury eggs will be on my list of fun projects to do with them to make lasting Easter traditions.

I always keep a few extra boxes of cake mix and instant pudding boxes in my cupboard to make cookies anytime the mood strikes. Usually the cookies are for my husband, Scott, who's a self proclaimed Cookie Monster. He also gladly taste tests all of my cookie recipes! What a tough job!

These delicious thimbleberry white chocolate chip cookies are prepared in a similar fashion, but without frosting. There are so many possible flavor variations depending on the combination of cake and pudding mixes you use!

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• 🧐Why This Recipe Works
• 🛒What You Need For This Recipe
• 🔖Recipe Ingredients & Substitutions
• 🥚How To Make Easter egg Cookies
• 👩🏼‍🍳Pro Tips
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🧐Why This Recipe Works

• This mini egg cookies recipe is so easy, you don't need baking skills or decorating skills to make them!
• The cookie dough does not need to be chilled.
• You can use food coloring to make various colors of frosting. If you prefer to keep things easy, just keep the frosting white.
• The cookies only take 8 minutes to bake and only a few additional minutes to decorate.
• Mini egg cookies are perfect for Easter or after Easter if you want to do something with leftover Easter candy.

🛒What You Need For This Recipe

🔖Recipe Ingredients & Substitutions

• Cake Mix: I used 1 box of super moist party rainbow chip cake mix. You can substitute with yellow or white cake mix if needed.
• Jello Pudding Mix: Cheesecake flavored pudding mix, or your favorite flavor.
• Butter: You'll need unsalted butter for the cookies. If you don't have butter, substitute coconut oil or avocado oil. You will also need butter for the buttercream, no substitutions.
• Powdered Sugar: Powdered sugar (confectioner's sugar) is needed for the buttercream.
• Sprinkles: Rainbow sprinkles or other Easter pastel colored sprinkles to decorate the cookies.
• Cadbury Eggs: Cadbury mini chocolate eggs are used in the final step of decorating the cookies.

*A full list of ingredients can be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the post.

🥚How To Make Easter egg Cookies

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F

Step 1: Add cake and pudding mixes to a large bowl or a stand mixer. Use a paddle attachment or a hand-held mixer on low setting to blend the flour mixture. Add eggs and melted butter and mix on medium until batter comes together.

Step 2: Using a 1 ½" cookie scoop, scoop out batter and arrange the cookie dough balls on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. Bake in preheated oven for 8 minutes or until golden brown around the edges.

Pro Tip: If you don't have parchment paper, you can use silicone mats instead. Just remember, you can't use waxed paper in the oven because it's not heat resistant.

Step 3: While the cookies are still warm, gently flatten them with the back of a spatula just until they have a flattened surface. Transfer to cooling rack to cool completely before frosting.

Prepare Frosting

Add powdered sugar, softened or melted butter, milk, and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract to a mixing bowl. With a whisk attachment, mix on low, then high speed, until the buttercream is light and fluffy. If the mixture is too dry, add milk, a teaspoon at a time, until the ingredients come together.

Pro Tip: Add one drop of  food coloring to frosting to make pink, blue, green, or yellow frosting.

Decorate Cookies

Add buttercream to a piping bag with a small round tip and use it to frost the cookies. Immediately sprinkle the cookies with rainbow sprinkles before the buttercream starts to harden. Add three mini Cadbury eggs on top of each cookie.

👩🏼‍🍳Pro Tips

• If you find the frosting too sweet, adding a pinch of salt can help!
• The baking time can vary depending on your oven. Start with 8 minutes and adjust the time from there.
• If you don't have a piping bag, you can use a small ziplock bag with the corner end snipped off or use a spatula.
• Store the cookies on the counter in an airtight container up to three days.
• If you refrigerate the cookies they will last longer, but will harden and will need to be left out to come to room temperature.
• Cadbury egg cookies can also be frozen in freezer bags to enjoy later.

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