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Mini Egg Shortbread

This Mini Egg shortbread is the ultimate Easter dessert! A buttery, melt-in-your-mouth shortbread base packed with crushed Mini Eggs, drizzled with milk chocolate, and topped with even more Mini Eggs for the perfect Easter bake. It’s easy to make, looks amazing, and tastes even better!
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Cooling & Decorating Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings: 9
Course: Dessert

Ingredients
  

  • 400g Plain Flour
  • 250g Unsalted Butter
  • 100g Caster Sugar (Plus extra for the topping).
  • 1 tsp Vanilla
  • 100g Chopped Mini Eggs
  • 100g Milk Chocolate (For decoration).

Method
 

  1. In a large bowl, add your flour, sugar, mini eggs and butter. Use your hands to combine the ingredients until the mixture looks like breadcrumbs, then squeeze until it comes together as a dough.
  2. Line a square tin 20cm by 20cm and add your shortbread mixture, pressing down the mixture evenly.
  3. Sprinkle extra caster sugar on top for the ultimate shortbread!
  4. Preheat your oven at gas mark 3 and bake for 30 minutes.
  5. Chill for one hour. Decorate with melted milk chocolate and crushed mini eggs and allow to set.
  6. Once set, remove from the tin and slice into rectangles or any shape you'd like!