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One good thing about lockdown is that it has led me to discover Jane's Patisserie, and all of her absolutely incredible recipes. About a month ago, I made her stunning Cookies and Cream cake, which you can read about here.
I decided to go rogue and make her Mini Egg NYC Cookies on February 1st, because there are no rules in a pandemic, aside from the obvious! I really thought that Mini Eggs wouldn't even be in stores yet, but how incredibly, (and happily), wrong I was. I managed to grab almost 300g of Mini Eggs, in the form of bags, little boxes - I even found the new Mini Egg Chocolate Bar in my local Tesco, and it pretty much made my day. We've eaten two or three bars between us since then.
Some things which are noteworthy in this recipe are that you absolutely can halve the ingredients so that you make smaller cookies. The recipe made 9 large cookies for us, and we loved them that way, but you can make them smaller if that's what you would prefer. In my limited baking experience, this is also one of the rare recipes where you need two different kinds of sugar, (light brown soft sugar, and white granulated sugar), but Jane explains that that if you can't access one of the sugars, you can use all of the other one - i.e. all granulated, or all light brown sugar, and that using other sugars can change the texture.
I also love that this doesn't just include mini eggs - her recipe also features little chunks of dairy milk, which really does add some extra variety and sweetness.
I think my favourite part of the recipe is pushing the whole mini eggs into the balls of dough, as it's so much fun and it makes them look so pastel and pretty. You then put them into the freezer for 30 minutes, or if you have the tiniest icebox for a freezer like we do, into the fridge for an hour. This was the perfect time for me to set up my softbox lighting, and paint my nails to look like little mini eggs, because that's the kind of person I am.
These cookies are so much fun to make, and they photograph beautifully too - even if you don't choose to paint your nails to match them like I did!
Happy baking!
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