I am sure my household is not the only one to have leftover Easter chocolate coming out of your ears, right? Now usually the words ‘leftover’ and ‘chocolate’ would not be uttered in the same sentence by moi, but this year I am trying to be good for my waistline’s sake the kids sake. Every year we freeze some of the chocolate or put some away to use as special treats. Frozen chocolate never usually turns out well and it ultimately gets thrown out so this year my in-house baker, AKA hubby, decided to rescue some of the chocolate bunnies and eggs. He did this by making cookies. The result is Leftover Easter Chocolate Cookies and they were pretty darn good! Raid your children’s stockpile and see for yourself. 🙂
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of brown sugar, packed
- 1 cup of granulated sugar
- 1/2 pound of unsalted butter, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons of pure vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 2/3 cup of unsweetened cocoa
- 2 cups of flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of kosher salt
- 1 & 1/2 pounds of leftover Easter chocolate, chopped up
Directions:
First you will want to preheat your oven to 350 degrees (Fahrenheit). Get out your cookie or baking sheets and line them with parchment paper or tinfoil. We use tinfoil. Decide which of your chocolate animals is getting the ax, so to speak. 🙂
Doesn’t he look sad?
In a large bowl cream the softened butter together with both the brown and white sugar. I strongly suggest making sure your butter is softened. Ours had not been left out long enough and it was a little tough to mix together. Using your electric mixer combine the three ingredients together until the mixture is light and fluffy. Then add in the vanilla, then each egg, one at a time, and mix well. Next mix in the cocoa.
The butter was not quite soft enough so the mixer got a workout, LOL
On a piece of parchment paper sift your flour together with the baking soda and salt. Once combined add the mixture of dry goods to your bowl. Next up is your leftover Easter chocolate. It is best to chop your chocolate up as if it were celery. You kind of need a good balance between grated and slightly chunky chocolate. It will melt either way and trust me it is good. 🙂 My hubby combined the mixture mostly by hand, but did give it a few zaps with the mixer to break up some larger chunks.
Chocolate, not quite grated, just chunky enough
Leftover Easter Chocolate Cookie dough
Using a spoon scoop up the Leftover Easter Chocolate Cookie dough making little balls and place them on your lined baking sheet. With slightly damp hands press down on the cookie balls to flatten them a bit. The dough is thick and needs this little push. 🙂 Pop your cookie sheet in the oven and cook for 14 to 17 minutes. The longer they are in the crispier they will be. Take them out of the oven and let them cool before enjoying your Leftover Easter Chocolate Cookies with a big glass of milk!
Melt in your mouth goodness!
Sounds good, right? Does your household have any “leftover Easter chocolate”?
FT&PD
Suz
lol yup, I just peeked in the basket today, we still have chocolate and loads of jelly beans leftover, we either need to toss it or look for other ways to use it up! These look great!
Thanks Jennifer! Ya I think the jelly beans are harder to cook with. Might just have to eat those, LOL
I couldn’t help but laugh when I saw his face, he looked so scared. Good thinking! I haven’t thought of using leftovers before (mostly because I don’t usually have any lol).
It was quick and painless, I promise 🙂
Hope they tasted as good as they look! Any left?
They sure did Mom and, ah, nope, none left 🙂
Great idea! I didn’t over buy this year, so we didn’t have any leftovers this year.
We have such a large extended family that there are always left overs, but now we have a new way to use them up!
My first thought was ‘left over chocolate’ is like ‘left over wine’………when does that happen? lol However, I also thought that if a person wanted to make a special chocolate cookie like these, Suzanne, maybe taking advantage of the after Easter sales in department stores or the bulk food store might be worth while? These look delicious!
Good idea Gemma! I am sure you can get tones of the stuff for less then half price in the days following Easter..
This recipe makes we wish we HAD leftover Easter chocolate.
LOL Deanna, ya gotta hit up those after Easter sales and get it on the cheap, or should I say “cheep, cheep”? 🙂
Oh we have a few on those Easter chocolate characters left around. This looks like a great way to use them up
Yup, super tasty Kate!
I am a chocoholic, so this recipe sounds great to me!
It is wonderful Ashley!
Super great idea! Thanks for the recipe!
Thanks Valerie!
Leftover chocolate? The shame. lol
LOL, I know Rick but it’s true, we really had some!
Now I know what to do with the leftover chocs I have in my fridge! Thanks!
Enjoy!
We don’t celebrate Easter here as big as in the US/Can. But we do have leftover chocolates from my Mom’s baking. Not enough for this recipe though. Thanks for sharing!
Just have to make a smaller batch 🙂
This is a great idea! Thanks for sharing… =)
You’re welcome!
The thing is… we do not have leftover chocolates. If we want to to bake cookies, we buy new packs and bake them immediately. Otherwise, we shortcut! The chocolate goes directly to the mouth. hehehe! The cookies look good!
LOL, yes that does happen here at times to 🙂
Hmmmm…. Yummmy! Pretty sure that’s so delicious! I love chocolates!
Totally delish and good with a glass of milk!
So hilarious! At first I thought this must be an old post. Easter was so long ago! Chocolate would never make it that long in my house.
Sad to say but we still have Easter chocolate hanging around, three months later! Must put it too good use!
A cookie would be an excellent byproduct of leftovers. This also looks so tasty.
Oh very tasty indeed 🙂
WOW! Sounds like an eventful day haha! I am also a chocoholic, I would have finished it
in a day but they look so delicious!
Very delicious Francine, you would love them!
In our house, chocolates never seemed to be enough, so I don’t have problems in having chocolate left-overs hehe. But let me commend you for a wonderful recipe.
Thank you!!
this looks great! and that’s a BIG leftover you have there (the bunny picture looks big to me)! thanks for recipe! you got me craving for cookies >XD
LOL, it was a big bunny and there was even a second one we could have used!
Added into my TO-Do List! Good idea to reuse the chocolates instead of spending money to get new ones! 🙂
Awesome!
VEry Delicious things they are ..Good post
Thank you!
Easy to make and quite delicious! That’s my kind of dessert to make.
LOL, totally me too 🙂
Haha funny post! I’m not much of a baker, but my mom has been making leftover Easter chocolate cookies for years. She gets a ton of bunnies after easter when they go on sale & saves them specifically for baking. They are soooo good!
I am going to have to remember this when Easter rolls around, such a great idea
I’m glad I am seeing this right now, with Easter right around the corner! Thanks for the idea and the recipe!
We always have left over chocolate. Good idea!
Yup, it ends up being way too much..
This is a cool idea! I sometimes have left over candy from holidays or if someone gives me candy. This is the way I want to have it!
What a fantastic idea!! Thanks for sharing :o)
And thank you for checking it out!
What a fabulous idea! These look so delicious! Thanks!
omg this is hilarious when i seen the Chocolate bunny,haha he looks scared
Great ideal. All the stores have the left over candy marked down after Easter.
These would be awesome cookies!! the best part out of this post is the look on the bunny’s face, it’s like he knows he is going to be chopped up..lol
we always have so many of those small foil wrapped chcocolate eggs left that no one wants to eat.. good recipe to use them up in! thank you for the recipe!
I love this. I am always left wondering what to do with all that leftover chocolate. My daughter doesn’t eat much of it and I am not a fan of dark chocolate. Instead of it sitting there or being thrown out you put it to use. and these look delish!
awesome , thanks for sharing , they looks delish 🙂
This is a great idea for Easter chocolate. These cookies look yummy and there’s a lot chocolate in them so double yummy !
Hahaha! I love this idea! the face on the chocolate puppy is priceless! We always have so much leftover chocolate. Since we love cookies, this is a great way to repurpose it!
This is one recipe I have to remember to try around Easter time. I usually have left over chocolate.
This is a delicious way to use up leftover chocolate
🙂