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Cadbury Mini Egg Scones

Name: Cadbury Mini Egg Scones
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1/2 tsp baking soda; 1/4 tsp salt; 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, chilled and diced into small pieces; 1/4 cup granulated sugar, (plus 1 tsp for sprinkling on top); 1/2 cup vanilla Greek yogurt ((if you can't find vanilla, use plain and add extra vanilla extract)); 1/4 cup whole milk, (plus 1 Tbsp for brushing on top); 2 tsp vanilla extract; 3/4 cup crushed Cadbury Mini Eggs; 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar; 1 Tbsp whole milk

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Instead of mindlessly eating an entire bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs, put them to good use and make Cadbury Mini Egg Scones! These scones make the perfect addition to your Easter brunch spread or for a sweet seasonal treat.

Overhead view of a Cadbury Mini Egg scone on a bunny towel with a bowl of mini eggs and a cup of coffee in the background and recipe title at top

(This recipe for Cadbury Mini Egg Scones was originally posted in April 2011, but the post has been updated with new photos and content in 2018.)

I have a very important question for you... Cadbury Creme Eggs or Cadbury Mini Eggs? You can only choose one, so what's it going to be? Huh?? Huh?? Come on, hurry up and choose one.

Just kidding!! I could never be so cruel as to force you to make that choice. It's just not fair.

While I was in the kitchen baking with Cadbury Mini Eggs last week, Chris asked me why I kept calling them Cadbury Eggs. When I explained they were "Mini Eggs" and not "Creme Eggs," he was like, "that makes no sense! They are completely different from each other!"

And he's right. So different, but both delicious. Though I suspect that in a nationwide survey, Mini Eggs would win as favorite based only on the fact that some people are bothered by the "creme" in the Creme Eggs (I think those people are crazy, but whatever).

Cadbury Mini Eggs are freaking addictive and I think most of you will agree with me that the bags are dangerous to have around. But now that they've been in stores for over a month already (in fact, I saw them in one store almost immediately after Christmas was over), I finally broke down and bought a couple bags.

You know, for recipe testing purposes and all. Ahem. But really, I made these Cadbury Mini Egg Scones back in 2011 and decided it was time to update the post. Not only did I update all the photos, but I made some edits that vastly improve the recipe.

And I added a video with step-by-step instructions!

Cadbury Mini Egg Easter Scones Recipe

These are not your grandmother's scones. Oh no. They're definitely not your sit down with a cup of tea and nibble on a scone scone.

Cadbury Egg scones are more of a pour yourself a mug of hot cocoa with extra rum and whipped cream and break these bad boys out scones (or possibly a Cadbury Egg Milkshake!).

And I'm OK with that. Because they're chocolatey and sweet scones perfect for Easter morning... And the months leading up to Easter.

Ingredients Needed

All-purpose flour
Baking powder
Baking soda
Salt
Unsalted butter
Granulated sugar
Vanilla Greek yogurt (you can use plain if you can't find vanilla)
Whole Milk
Vanilla Extract
Cadbury Mini Eggs

Tools Needed

You really don't need any special tools to make scones... You don't even need a stand mixer or a hand mixer since you make the mixture in a bowl. But there are a couple things that will make your life easier for these Easter scones.

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Pastry Cutter (you can blend scone mixture with your fingers or a fork, but it's so much easier with a pastry cutter)
Parchment Paper or Silpat Baking Mat
Meat Mallet (I use this for crushing the Cadbury Mini Eggs)

How to Make Mini Egg Scones

The hardest part of making these Easter scones is crushing the Cadbury Mini Eggs. You can either chop them up with a knife (that's what I did) or put them in a bag and crush them with a mallet.

The second method will help you get any pent up aggression out.

Collage showing bowl of Cadbury Mini Eggs whole and Cadbury Mini Eggs Crushed

OK, I lied. Really, the hardest part of making these scones is not eating all the Cadbury Mini Eggs before you bake them.

Otherwise, they're super easy to make. Scones are a great baking project for anyone who wants to start working more with dough, but is a little nervous.

You'll get experience cutting butter into flour, but you don't have to be super precise when it comes to forming the scones. It's OK if they're not all exactly the same size!

Collage showing Scone batter being made and scones being formed

I think scones have a not-so-great reputation and I'm on a mission to change that! I promise they aren't just for grandmas! Or for English tea times.

They don't have to be hard and dry. And they can be packed with candy!

Overhead view of Cadbury Mini Eggs out of oven on parchment paper lined baking sheet with icing and crushed mini eggs sprinkled over the top

When I first posted these Easter scones, I got some good reviews on them, but man, this new improved version is so much better! When I look at my old photos vs these new ones, it's clear how much more buttery and moist these ones are. With the perfect golden tops.

Not only are these scones packed with candy, but I obviously sprinkled even more crushed Cadbury Mini Eggs over the top. Because Easter comes but once a year and I'm going to take as much advantage of the candy as I can!

And devise as many Cadbury mini egg recipes as I can, muhahaha.

More Easter Treat Recipes

Easter candy is one of the things that gets me most excited about the spring (besides, you know, fabulous warm weather!) and I have lots of Easter treats that I love making. Here are some of my favorites:

Easter Candy Popcorn
Mini Easter Pavlovas
Easter Oreo Bark
Cadbury Creme Egg Ice Cream
Carrot Cake Oreo Truffles
Chai Carrot Cake Scones
Mini Egg Brownies (from Little Sugar Snaps)
Easter Bunny Bottom Cupcakes (from Hostess at Heart)

Overhead view from a distance of Cadbury Mini Egg scone on a bunny towel with bag of mini eggs and cup of coffee in the background

While I never want to tell you to eat candy for breakfast, I do think these would make a fantastic addition to an Easter brunch spread. But they're also great for an afternoon pick-me-up, along with a cup of coffee.

Landscape view of a Cadbury Mini Egg scone on a bunny towel with bag of mini eggs, bowl of mini eggs, and cup of coffee in the background

Let's be honest, if you have a bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs laying around, you're probably going to find yourself eating the entire thing within days, right? So, you may as well put the candy to good use!

What's your favorite kind of Easter candy?Are you feeling tortured that Easter candy has been on the shelves so long?

How-To Recipe Video

Want to see how easy it is to make these Cadbury Mini Egg Scones? Watch the video!

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