Try our easy Easter biscuits topped with festive favourites including chocolate mini eggs. You can also top with Maltesers Mini Bunnies for cute Easter bunny biscuits. Try more Easter baking ideas here such as our Easter tiffin, Easter cheesecake, Easter cupcakes and Easter rocky road.
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How to decorate Easter biscuits
Once you’ve made your cookie dough, split into balls and flatten onto a smooth surface. Gently push your toppings of choice into the cookies then put in the fridge for another 30 minutes to chill.
Easter biscuits recipe
Ingredients
- unsalted butter 85g, softened
- caster sugar 75g
- light brown muscovado sugar 75g
- egg 1
- vanilla extract 1 tsp
- self-raising flour 175g
DECORATION
- Maltesers Mini Bunnies 5
- Galaxy Golden Eggs 15
- M&M’s Eggs 24
Method
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Step 1
Beat the butter and sugars together until light and fluffy. Add the egg and vanilla, beat to combine, then mix in the flour and ¼ tsp salt. The dough will be very soft, so put it in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to firm up.
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Step 2
Once chilled, divide the dough into 16 pieces and roll each piece into a ball. Put the balls onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper and flatten each ball into a disc with your hand.
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Step 3
Gently push 1 Maltesers Mini Bunny into 5 of the cookies, 3 Galaxy Golden Eggs into 5 of the cookies and 4 M&M’s Eggs into 6 of the cookies. Put in the fridge for another 30 minutes to chill.
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Step 4
Heat the oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Bake the cookies for 10 minutes until golden. Cool on the tray before eating.
Nutritional Information
- Kcals 185
- Fat 8.4g
- Saturates 5.0g
- Carbs 24.5g
- Sugars 15.7g
- Fibre 0.4g
- Protein 2.3g
- Salt 0.2g