Each year, the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection brings with it a celebration of a different kind: Cadbury Creme Egg season.
If you’re anything like me, you’re overcome with a fevered anticipation for these sugar-filled chocolate rabbit eggs. So much so, that you burst through the doors of CVS, plowing your way through the aisles to grab far more eggs than you can hope to eat, even though you’ll be eating 8 to 10 a day. Then, when May rolls around and your dentist bills start to pile up almost as much as the boxes of eggs under your couch, you need to find a new way to eat them.
Here are four delicious dishes made even more delicious when boring, old, normal eggs are replaced with Cadbury Creme Eggs. Mangia!
Sunny-Side Up Eggs
Cadbury Creme Eggs tend to stick to a pan a lot when you fry them, so you’re going to want a lot of oil or a stick of butter for this one. Use whatever amount you feel uncomfortable with, and then double it just to be safe. If there’s a doctor in the room advising you against this, plug your ears until he or she leaves. Put your pan on medium heat and crack the eggs directly into the pan. Cook the eggs for a few minutes until they start to bubble, then remove them with a spatula. If you encounter resistance, you may need to form a spatula out of steel wool like I did. It’s pretty easy. (Note: Your pan may be permanently ruined after this, so be emotionally prepared to say goodbye to it.) Serve the eggs with toast and bacon.
Deviled Eggs
Start with a dozen Cadbury Creme Eggs for this, but after you make your first batch, feel free to keep going. You can’t really make too many of these. Slice each egg in half lengthwise. (Chocolate can be hard to cut smoothly, so heat up your knife in a microwave or something first.) Scoop out the insides with a spoon and resist the urge to just eat it all right there. Mix into the yolk some mayonnaise, sugar, vinegar, mustard, salt, and pretty much anything else you want. Feel free to get creative — everything pairs well with a Cadbury Creme Egg. Stuff the mixture back into the chocolate shell and refrigerate it until your party guests arrive — or until you break down and eat them all yourself. There’s no judgment here.
Egg Salad
Despite your best instincts, start by hard-boiling your Cadbury Creme Eggs. This may not seem like something you’d want to do with chocolate eggs, but do it anyway. Place the eggs in cold water and bring them to a boil, then turn off the heat. When the eggs have cooled and no longer feel like a candy bar you accidentally left on your dashboard in the sun, remove the foil wrapper and chop the eggs up into chunks of whatever size is easy for you to chew. Place them in a bowl and mix in mayonnaise, mustard, and celery. Season the mixture with salt and pepper. You’re all done! This can be served on crackers with a cheese platter or as a sandwich, or you can simply nibble on them as finger food while you work.
Quiche
Get a pie shell from the supermarket. Mix four teaspoons of flour (powdered sugar if you’re out of flour) with grated cheese and sprinkle it all into the pie shell. Then, on top of that, sprinkle a half cup of diced red bell peppers (Twizzlers if you’re out of peppers) and some broccoli (you’re going to eat around this anyway, so don’t worry). In another bowl combine the eggs with milk (vanilla frosting if you’re out of milk) until it’s smooth, then pour it all over the bits of stuff sitting in the pie shell. Now it’s time to bake it. Hopefully, you preheated your oven to 400 degrees, because I forgot to mention that earlier. Bake the pie for an hour or until the pie crust is a golden brown. Remove and serve.
