Cracking Ideas: The Best Leftover Easter Egg Recipes

Leftover Easter eggs may, for many, seem like an oxymoron. But if you do count yourself amongst the restrained few not to have gobbled the lot this weekend, now that Easter’s over, you may have found yourself with a glut of half-eaten chocolate eggs hanging about the house. Fear not. Rather than resigning them to the back of the cupboard (only to be rediscovered, white with age, come Christmas), why not reimagine them in something just as sweet and spectacular to ease the return to school and work? After all, there are few problems in life that can’t be improved with a little chocolate.

Easter Traybake

BBC Good Food


We are all for a good, easy traybake – and all the better if it can be topped off with a crumbled medley of leftover eggs for added texture and excitement. The perfect thing to cut a square of for a special back-to-school lunchbox treat or for an after school nibble to make sure the memories of Easter hols linger on just a little while longer. Get the recipe.

Fitwaffle’s Easter Egg Chocolate Bark

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If you got through Easter en famille and swerved any meltdowns, we congratulate you – and encourage you to embrace one of a wholly different kind. Make the excellent Fitwaffle’s chocolate bark by melting down your leftovers and adding in decorations and flavours as you see fit. Easy, fun and one to get little hands involved with. Get the recipe.

Easter Hot Chocolate

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Is there anything cosier or more comforting than a simple hot chocolate? Usually we’d argue not, but top it with leftover mini eggs, whipped cream and marshmallows and you have something outrageously indulgent. Not one for every day, sure, but the perfect vehicle for hoovering up those sweet remnants. Get the recipe.

Easter Egg Rocky Road

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There are occasional moments scattered throughout the year when the culinary tastes of our inner eight-year-old are unleashed. This is one of them. Rocky Road? Tick? Easter eggs? Double tick? Put the two together? Tick, tick and tick again. Though do endeavour not to fall into a sugar coma. Get the recipe.

Chocolate Pizza

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If you’re cooking with your little chicks in tow, this recipe cannot fail to delight them. Pizza is the ultimate tear and share feast and, for pure novelty value (and that is a strong currency indeed when it comes to children’s culinary tastes), they will find this irresistible. Use up all those extra eggs, invite friends and neighbours over and top the whole sweet lot with marshmallows, bananas, pretzels or caramel sauce. A big sugar fest, yes, but one that clears the cupboards in the most satisfying of ways. Get the recipe.