Looking for an inventive way to use up your leftover Easter candy? Everyone's favorite Cadbury Eggs are wrapped in buttery puff pastry and transformed into luscious and easy chocolate croissants. You're welcome!
Cadbury Eggs are not my favorite Easter candy, but when I had the idea to transform them into mini and easy chocolate croissants by using puff pastry?!? Hello! My life was changed for the better. I will now stuff my face with these all Easter long.
When the chocolate croissants are baked they get warm gooey centers tasting as if you're drinking a rich glass of warm,chocolate sweetened codensed milk.
Did you know you can also make sweetened condensed milk at home? That's a convenient trick to have on hand when the stores are all closed and you need to make a key lime pie.
I digress, back to the chocolate croissants!
Mini Cadbury Creme Eggs
These easy puff pastry croissants are best made with mini Cadbury CREME eggs. Not to be confused with the Cadbury mini eggs with a hard outer shell.
I'm talking about the mini Cadbury Creme Eggs with/ the foil wrapper in the small egg crate as seen in the pictures below.
How to Make Cadbury Eggs Chocolate Croissants
Making these chocolate croissants couldn't be any easier!
- Unfold a sheet of thawed puff pastry on a lightly floured surface.
- Slice it into 12 even sections.
- Roll each mini Cadbury Egg up into the pastry and seal any holes.
- Brush w/ egg wash and sprinkle w/ colored sugar. NOTE: Save the sprinkles for the end!
- Bake to perfection!
Tips for Chocolate-Filled Croissants
- Freezing your mini Cadbury Creme eggs before baking can help ensure the chocolate doesn't ooze out of the puff pastry but isn't necessary.
- Brushing the tops of the mini eggs w/ an egg wash helps the puff pastry look gorgeous and golden brown.
- Putting colored SUGAR on the top before baking is okay, but any other colored sprinkles or decorations before baking will melt and won't look pretty!
- Make sure to allow the chocolate croissants time to cool because the filling gets HOT, HOT, HOT!
- Be careful! It's hard to eat just one!
More Easter Brunch Recipes to try...
- White Chocolate Coconut Cream Eggs
- Chocolate Orange Hot Cross Biscuits
- Pineapple Orange Green Tea
- Robin's Egg Chocolate Malt Martini
- Carrot Cake White Russian
- Lemon Cream Cheese Danish
Easy Cadbury Eggs Chocolate Croissants with Puff Pastry
Equipment
- Large Baking Sheets
- Rubber Spatula
Ingredients
- 12 mini Cadbury Creme Eggs (NOT Cadbury Mini eggs!)
- 1 sheet puff pastry thawed
- 1 large egg beaten
- Easter sprinkles and colored sugar for decorations
Instructions
How to Make Easy Cadbury Egg Chocolate Croissants with Puff Pastry:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, line a baking sheet w/ parchment paper, and unwrap the Cadbury Eggs. Set aside.
- Unfold one sheet of puff pastry on a floured surface and roll out into a 10 inch square. Cut the sheet into 12 even squares.
- Roll the mini Cadbury Eggs up into one piece of dough and shape into an egg shape, making sure to pinch closed any holes. Repeat until all of the Mini Cadbury Eggs have been used.
- Brush the outside of the dough w/ the beaten egg, sprinkle w/ colored sugar, and bake for 12-15 minutes or until golden brown. Note: If using sprinkles other than colored sugar, add these on in the last few minutes or right at the end of baking, or they will melt in the oven.
- Allow to cool on the baking sheet for 5-10 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
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