Easter Thumbprint Cookies
These festive Easter thumbprint cookies are filled with a rich chocolate frosting and topped with a mini Cadbury egg.
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Cadbury Egg Easter Thumbprint Cookies
In my humble opinion, an Easter basket is not complete unless it contains at least one Cadbury Creme Egg!
There’s just something about those rich cream-filled chocolate eggs — I crave them once a year and that’s enough to hold me over until next time! (And I’ve always wondered how the “white” and the “yolk” never seem to mix inside!)
A while back, my best blogging buddy Jennifer at Sugar, Spice, & Glitter made me this over-the-top Cadbury Creme Egg Dessert Lush — seriously one of the most decadent desserts ever! But if you love Cadbury eggs, it is a must-try!
This year, we made these simple, but flavorful cookies, using the candy-coated solid chocolate Cadbury eggs. They’re a festive twist on thumbprint cookies just for Easter — so much fun to bake…and eat!
The base is a shortbread-style dough, filled with a creamy fudge frosting, and finished with the crave-able crunch of a mini Cadbury egg.
These bite-sized Mini Cadbury Egg Cookies are perfect for parties, teacher gifts, or just to enjoy together as a family. Hope you love them too!
Related: Try our Copycat Crumbl Cadbury Egg Cookies too!
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter (softened)
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Chocolate Frosting Ingredients:
- 1 Tablespoon melted butter
- 3 Tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 – 3 tablespoons hot water
Toppings
Kitchen Supplies Used to Make this Recipe:
Instructions
To Prep: Preheat oven to 350°F and line a cookie sheet with parchment paper or silicone baking mat.
To Make The Cookie Dough
- In a large bowl with an electric mixer, or in the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla until fluffy.
- In a separate mixing bowl, sift together dry ingredients.
- Gradually mix dry ingredients into wet ingredients until fully incorporated. Add egg and mix until everything is combined.
- Portion out the cookie dough into Tablespoon sized balls of dough and place them about 1 1/2″ to 2″ apart on a prepared cookie sheet.
To Make The Cookies
- Bake cookies at 350°F for 8-10 minutes, until just starting to brown. You don’t want them to brown completely because then they might be overdone. They’ll cook slightly more after removing from the oven, so be sure to take them out before they brown!
- After taking cookies out of the oven, allow to cool slightly (so you can touch them without burning yourself), then press into the middle of each cookie with thumb. (Do this step carefully!)
- While cookies cool to room temperature, make the chocolate frosting. To do so, mix together the frosting ingredients until smooth. Spread frosting inside the thumbprint of each cookie.
- While frosting is still wet, gently place one mini Cadbury Egg into the frosting. Allow frosting to set completely then enjoy!
Prep Tips
- Gluten-Free Variation – To make these cookies gluten free, simply substitute your favorite all-purpose gluten free baking flour for the regular flour used in this recipe. You may also want to check the labels on the other ingredients used to make sure that they are processed without cross-contamination from gluten.
- Candy Eggs – If you can’t find Cadbury Mini Eggs or if you have another favorite, feel free to substitute! Any candy coated chocolate egg that’s similar in size should work.
More Easter Cookie Recipes To Try
- Easter Bird’s Nest Cookies
- Nutter Butter Chicks
- Easter Sandwich Cookies
- Easter M&M Cookies
- Carrot Cake Oatmeal Cookies
Easter Thumbprint Cookie Recipe (Printable Recipe Card)
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Easter Thumbprint Cookies
Equipment
- Stand mixer
- Cookie sheet
- Silicone baking mat or parchment paper
- Wire cooling rack
- Mixing bowls
Ingredients
Cookie ingredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 egg
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
Chocolate Frosting Ingredients:
- 1 tablespoon butter melted
- 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 – 3 tablespoons hot water
- 24 Cadbury mini candy-coated chocolate eggs
Instructions
To make the cookies:
- Preheat oven to 350°F and line baking sheet with parchment paper or a silicone baking mat.
- In a standing mixer, beat together butter and sugar until creamy. Mix in egg and vanilla.
- In a separate medium bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Gradually pour dry ingredients into wet ingredients, continuing to mix until well combined. Add egg and mix until incorporated.
- Portion out the dough into about 2 dozen balls (about a Tablespoon or so each).
- Place these dough balls onto the cookie sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes.
- Remove from oven and quickly press thumb into the top of each cookie. Use caution, as cookies will be hot – wait until they've cooled slightly.
- Place cookies on wire cooling rack until they reach room temperature.
To make the chocolate frosting:
- Melt butter in small mixing bowl in microwave, then pour into a larger mixing bowl.
- Add cocoa, powdered sugar, vanilla and hot water. Mix until smooth and creamy.
To decorate:
- Spoon the chocolate frosting into each thumbprint and top with a mini Cadbury egg. Press egg gently to secure in chocolate.
- Allow to set completely and enjoy!
Notes
- Gluten-Free Variation – To make these cookies gluten free, simply substitute your favorite all-purpose gluten free baking flour for the regular flour used in this recipe. You may also want to check the labels on the other ingredients used to make sure that they are processed without cross-contamination from gluten.
- Candy Eggs – If you can’t find Cadbury Mini Eggs or if you have another favorite, feel free to substitute! Any candy coated chocolate egg that’s similar in size should work.
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I was looking for a gluten free thumbprint cookie recipe using mini eggs when I found your recipe. I just tried it using my gluten free flour and they came out perfectly! Thank you for such a simple and easy cookie recipe. Will be a keeper!
Awesome! We use gluten free flour a lot in our baking recipes but hadn’t tried it for this one yet. Thank you for letting me know!
Just an untested thought..lol. Instead of frosting I would use the chocolate baking wafers and as soon as you take them from the oven push a chocolate wafer into the top of each cookie (just like the Hershey kiss cookies). Then as soon as they melt put the egg on top and let cool.
Thanks for the idea! 🙂