Photography, Christie Vuong. Produced by Aimee Nishitoba. Food Stylist, Michelle Lucas Larving. Prop Stylist, Madeleine Johari.
If you stocked up on a huge bag, here's a host of mouth-watering Mini Eggs recipes to put them to good use.
Baked in one pan, this candy-egg-dotted skillet treat (above) is sure to be an Easter hit. Get our mini egg skillet cookie recipe.
Cake and Loaf Bakery in Hamilton, Ont.—now sadly closed—was famous for its lineup of mini egg Easter treats. Luckily, they shared their mini egg chocolate chip cookie recipe with us, so bust out that bag and try it!
During the Easter Rush, Cake & Loaf used to go through more than 700 lbs of mini eggs. (That’s equivalent to the weight of two full-grown gorillas.) A customer request led to the creation of these mouth-watering cookies. Get this mini egg shortbread cookie recipe.
Cake and Loaf created hundreds of scone variations over the years, but they rarely did a chocolate base. Cocoa powder tends to dry out baked goods, and it took some testing to get the right balance to make this scone super chocolatey but still moist. Get their chocolate mini-egg scones recipe.
Italian and Greek cuisines both feature a braided Easter bread dotted with colour-tinted hen's eggs. In a spin on the classic recipe, the Test Kitchen team tucked candied eggs into these mini loaves just after baking for a hit of chocolate. Get this braided mini egg bread recipe.
Replace the nuts and fruit in this wildly popular chocolate bark recipe with an equal amount of mini eggs.
For a seasonal mix-in, make like Vancouver ice cream parlour La Glace and add mini eggs to homemade ice cream.
Cherry Birch General in Hamilton, Ont. studs its brown butter Rice Krispies treats with these pastel-hued treats. Try adding them to this crowd-pleasing salted brown butter Rice Krispies square recipe.
Toronto-based food influencer Jamie Milne ups the ante on blondies with a healthy dose of mini eggs. Try substituting the cashews in our blond chocolate and brown butter blondies recipe with mini eggs.
Toronto cafe Pomarosa builds a scaffolding of whipped cream to hold up mini eggs, as well as individually roasted marshmallows on top of its decadent hot chocolate. Try making your own version with one of our favourite supermarket hot chocolates or go big with our homemade hot chocolate recipe and homemade whipped cream.