These Creme Egg chocolate cookie bars are the perfect Easter traybake, with a soft and chewy cookie base packed with chunks of gooey Creme Eggs. Easy to mix and bake in one pan, they’re a fun seasonal treat that’s ideal for sharing with family, bake sales or Easter celebrations.
Cookie bars are a simple alternative to individual cookies, baked in a tray and sliced into squares once cooled.
These Easter cookie bars are perfect for sharing a gooey Easter treat.
A thick layer of cookie, a very thick layer of chocolate, a LOT of mini Creme Eggs, with icing to decorate.
Would you share? My work colleagues were rather happy when I brought this in. Can’t think why!
Make a batch this Easter, slice into pieces and enjoy.
Simple to make with store-cupboard ingredients, you really can’t go wrong with this recipe, and it is great for a party. This would fly off the plate for an Easter bake sale too.
Ingredients
Here’s what you will need for the recipe (you’l find the quantities in the recipe card below):
- butter
- dark brown sugar
- caster sugar
- egg
- vanilla bean paste – or extract
- plain flour
- self-raising flour
- baking powder
- salt
- dark chocolate
- white chocolate
- min Creme eggs
- icing sugar
- orange food colour
Method
- Freeze your mini Creme Eggs the night before, to make them easier to cut in half.
- First make the cookie layer.
- Place the butter and two different sugars in a large bowl. Beat together with a wooden spoon (or mixer) until the mixture is creamy.
- Add the egg and vanilla bean paste and beat well.
- Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Mix together with a wooden spoon until the mixture starts to come together.
- Place the cookie dough in a square pan (I used an eight-inch silicone pan) lined with baking paper.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees, until golden brown and cooked through.
- Leave the cookie to cool for a couple of hours.
- Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie (bowl over a pan of simmering water).
- Pour melted chocolate over the (cooled) cookie layer, spread with a spatula until smooth.
- Leave the remaining chocolate in your bowl to set again, and make chocolate shavings with it using a knife.
- Cut the mini Creme Eggs in half along the join on the side and place them with the cut side up in the melted chocolate. Press them down into the chocolate. I used about ten mini Creme Eggs here in total, and arranged them in rows.
- Carefully transfer the pan to the fridge and chill until set.
- Once set, make up two small bowls of water icing. Make sure your icing is quite thick and not runny.
- Colour one bowl of icing with the orange food colour and leave the other white.
- Drizzle the white and orange icing over the top of the chocolate layer to give the effect of the Creme eggs running all over the place. Allow the icing to set.
- Decorate with the chocolate shavings, cut into pieces and enjoy!
More Easter recipe inspiration
If you like my Creme Egg Chocolate Cookie Bars, you might also like my Creme egg chocolate ganache tart, perfect for a posh dessert at Easter!
Or perhaps my Easter egg slow cooker fudge or Creme Egg slow cooker chocolate cake might tempt you?
If you are more of a mini egg fan, my mini egg bundt cake or mini egg white chocolate slice might be your preference.
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More Creme Egg recipes
This is the time of year when food blogs are going Creme Egg crazy! Here are some of the best Creme Egg recipes out there:
- Creme egg rocky road from Taming Twins
- Creme egg pancakes from Foodie Quine
- Creme egg meringue nests from Emily’s Recipes and Reviews
- Creme egg milkshake from Fuss Free Flavours
- Creme egg ice cream cake from Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
- Creme egg chocolate mug cake from My Fussy Eater
- Creme egg stuffed chocolate cookies from Munchies and Munchkins
- Creme egg peanut butter and Nutella cake from Recipes from a Pantry
- Spicy chocolate and orange Easter bundt cake from Tin and Thyme
Which Easter treat are you going to make? Let me know in the comments!
Recipe
Creme Egg Chocolate Cookie Bars
Ingredients
For the cookie layer:
- 120 g (½ cups + 1 tbsp) unsalted butter softened
- 90 g (¼ cups + 3 tbsp) dark brown sugar
- 35 g (2 tbsp + 2 tsp) caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- 1 medium egg
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 80 g (½ cups) plain flour (all-purpose flour)
- 120 g (¾ cups) self-raising flour
- 0.5 tsp (½ tsp) baking powder
- pinch of salt
For the chocolate layer and decoration:
- 150 g (¾ cups + 1 tbsp) dark chocolate
- 200 g (1 cups + 2 tbsp) milk chocolate
- 2 bags of Cadbury mini Creme Eggs approx 8 per bag
- 100 g (½ cups + 3 tbsp) icing sugar
- Orange food colour to colour half of the icing
Equipment
Instructions
- Freeze your mini Creme Eggs the night before, to make them easier to cut in half.2 bags of Cadbury mini Creme Eggs
- First make the cookie layer.
- Place the butter and two different sugars in a large bowl. Beat together with a wooden spoon (or mixer) until the mixture is creamy.120 g / ½ cups + 1 tbsp unsalted butter, 90 g / ¼ cups + 3 tbsp dark brown sugar, 35 g / 2 tbsp + 2 tsp caster sugar (superfine sugar)
- Add the egg and vanilla bean paste and beat well.1 medium egg, 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
- Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt.80 g / ½ cups plain flour (all-purpose flour), 120 g / ¾ cups self-raising flour, 0.5 tsp / ½ tsp baking powder, pinch of salt
- Mix together with a wooden spoon until the mixture starts to come together.
- Place the cookie dough in a square pan (I used an eight-inch silicone pan) lined with baking paper.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180℃ / 350℉, until golden brown and cooked through.
- Leave the cookie to cool for a couple of hours.
- Melt the chocolate in a bain-marie (bowl over a pan of simmering water).150 g / ¾ cups + 1 tbsp dark chocolate, 200 g / 1 cups + 2 tbsp milk chocolate
- Pour melted chocolate over the (cooled) cookie layer, spread with a spatula until smooth.
- Leave the remaining chocolate in your bowl to set again, and make chocolate shavings with it using a knife.
- Cut the mini Creme Eggs in half along the join on the side and place them with the cut side up in the melted chocolate. Press them down into the chocolate. I used about ten mini Creme Eggs here in total, and arranged them in rows.
- Carefully transfer the pan to the fridge and chill until set.
- Once set, make up two small bowls of water icing. Make sure your icing is quite thick and not runny.100 g / ½ cups + 3 tbsp icing sugar
- Colour one bowl of icing with the orange food colour and leave the other white.Orange food colour
- Drizzle the white and orange icing over the top of the chocolate layer to give the effect of the Creme eggs running all over the place. Allow the icing to set.
- Decorate with the chocolate shavings, cut into pieces and enjoy!
Linzi - Lancashire Food says
Thanks for linking up to week should cocoa, fab looking bake and perfect easter treat
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Linzi!
Helen Costello (@CasaCostello) says
Oh my goodness, this is amazing! I daren’t show my girls or they would have me making it NOW! Thanks so much for joining in with #BakeoftheWeek and for sharing my brownies x
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Helen! My kids loved the look of it but could only manage a tiny slice!
Sarah Trivuncic, Maison Cupcake says
Oh golly, these look amazing. What a TERRIBLE influence you are!
bakingqueen74 says
I’m sorry 😀 (or maybe not!)
Dominic Franks (@belleaukitchen) says
well now, I do adore a creme egg and i’ve seen many creme egg bakes before but nothing quite as lovely as these. I want all of them now! Thanks so much for linking to Simply Eggcellent xx
Hayley (@SnapHappyBakes) says
Holy Moly this looks good 🙂 Thanks for sharing it with #CookBlogShare
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Hayley!
confarreo says
Wow these look gorgeous Going to have to make these!! Xxx
Angela says
These look wonderful! I think they will be fun to make with the kids, Pinned 🙂 Would love for you to share at the Sunday Fitness & Food Link-Up at: http://www.marathonsandmotivation.com
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Angela! I will come over and visit your linkup 🙂
Angela / Only Crumbs Remain says
Oh boy Lucy, those look soooo good. I can certainly understand why your work colleagues were so happy!
Angela x
hijackedbytwins says
Oh wow this is so naughty yet so good! My diet will be on hold over Easter! Thank you for sharing with #CookBlogShare x
Eb Gargano says
This looks so gorgeous! I am loving all the creme egg recipes out there at the moment. Busy compiling a Pinterest board of all of them and have added this too it 🙂
jennypaulin says
YUM! yep looks darn good to me x
Sarah says
Definitely want to treat myself to these! 🙂
Rahul @samosastreet.com says
I can’t stop thinking about these! They look so fudgy and wonderful
gingey bites says
OH WOW this looks amazing! Sod the diet, I’m going in 🙂
bakingqueen74 says
😀 exactly what I thought Alex!
littlesunnykitchen says
Wow Lucy this sounds and looks heavenly! Would love to try a piece, or two, or the whole thing!! 🙂 Thanks for linking to my egg creme pavlova recipe!
bakingqueen74 says
Sending you a piece Diana! In return, please send me a bit of your pavlova
recipesfromapantry says
I was sondering what to do with my left over creme eggs. Now I know.
bakingqueen74 says
What is this phenomenon of leftover Creme Eggs I wonder? 😉
nicoleleemcneil says
No!! Please! I can’t see this! Now I’m going to have to make it and I will probably eat the entire pan!!! Thanks for sharing 🙂 Love Cadbury eggs….they make the best desserts in the spring time!!
bakingqueen74 says
Sorry for the temptation!! 😀
nicoleleemcneil says
It’s ok – I don’t mind 🙂
Platter Talk says
I love this classic Easter treat but have never seen a recipe for it; thanks so much for doing this one!
bakingqueen74 says
Glad you like it!
Kit Graham says
Oh yes! Easter candy is the best and this is a creative way to turn it into something even better!
bakingqueen74 says
🙂 thanks Kit
Jac -Tinned Tomatoes (@tinnedtoms) says
Those look heavenly Lucy. Now just push one this way!
bakingqueen74 says
Thanks Jac, sending one to you now!