Just a quick one from me Dearest Readers as I’m sure you’re on your way to do all sorts of things this Easter long weekend but I couldn’t let you go before giving you some chocolate love 
Mr NQN strictly forbade me from leaving bed while I was sick but as the urge to bake struck at an inopportune time (and coincided with a craving for chocolate brownies), I snuck into the kitchen while he was outside and did a spot of quick baking!
Now my favourite Easter treat is Lindor eggs – they’re the egg shaped offspring of the Lindor ball. I won’t tell you how many I can eat in one go because you would look at me oddly. I was sent a bounty of goodies from Lindt and amongst them were nine Lindor balls. So you might ask, why are there only 5? Well, ok I may have eaten some already … but with five Lindor balls you can still make a small batch of gooey, crunchy on top and soft in the centre melt in the mouth brownies.
The best thing is that these are really easy to prepare as brownies require no creaming or whipping or heavy equipment, just stirring in your saucepan. I used the base recipe from the Chocolate Chesnut brownies or Better than sex brownies originally from Celia but having no chestnut flour and considering I was supposed to be in bed, I made do with regular flour (although use chestnut flour if you have it and want to make gluten free brownies). I popped the Lindor eggs into the thick brownie mixture and baked these in a loaf tin to make them a bit thicker. And then set the timer for 30 minutes and went straight back to bed. He was none the wiser until of course the smell of baking brownies gave me away….
“Who baked the brownies?” he asked.
“I think some brownie fairies came to visit! Isn’t that nice?” I answered.
So tell me Dear Reader, what are you up to this Easter weekend? And what is your Easter chocolate of choice? I used to love those Humpty Dumpty eggs with the smarties inside.
Easter Egg Brownies
Makes 6-8 generously sized and rich brownies
- 90g (6 tablespoons) unsalted butter
- 300g (10 ozs) dark or semisweet chocolate
- 150g (¾ cup) sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 large (59g) eggs, at room temperature
- 40g (¼ cup) flour
- 6-8 Lindor eggs (or use any chocolate eggs you have leftover)
- 1 tablespoons Dutch process cocoa to sift over the top
1. Preheat oven to 175C/350F. Line a large loaf tin with parchment paper.
2. In a medium saucepan, melt the butter, then add the chocolate and stir over low heat until melted and smooth. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar and vanilla until combined. Add the eggs in one at a time and beat until smooth with a wooden spoon. Add the flour and mix to combine.
3. Pour into the prepared tin and unwrap Easter eggs and sink these into the top-ideally you would add in one egg per square of brownie but I only had 5 at the time. Bake for 30-35 minutes. Allow to cool in the tin and then refrigerate for 10 minutes or so to firm up. These are gooey so they can be hard to cut but once they’re refrigerated they set more and you can cut and serve them. Or….you can of course eat them while they are still melty and delicious and the egg insides are soft.
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These brownies look absolutely amazing! What a great idea
I sooooo want one of these! I am really ill as well at the mo. Might whip a quick batch of these
Have you ever tried freezing brownies? I used to freeze coffee brownies I made. I thought they woukd freeze all the way through. No. They turn into some sort of icecream/fudgey cake bar thing. It’s so yummy:)
I saw an egg at priceline. Wasnt too interested in the egg, but it was jammed into a pink leopard print mug! I fear I may have missed out. Cant go past the creme egg.
T x
OMG…this is so perfect, just what I need.
Lorraine, your blog is so impress, so inspire. Your recipes, the places you visit and of course, you pictures. Thanks you very much for all you teach me about how to manage a blog, that is why I gave you an award, you may have a lot, but I don’t care, it’s just the way I have to thank you for everything, specialy for your time to visit me and your comments…thank you very much: http://mividaenundulce.wordpress.com/2012/04/05/tengo-un-versatile-blogger-award/
I hope that you are feeling better
. The brownies look super delicious!!!
Happy Easter!!!
Ciao
Alessandra
Such beautiful brownies with the eggs! Lorraine, you are my chocolate goddess.
Happy Easter!
Magda
Ohhh great quick recipe Lorraine
I do hope you’re feeling much better now! It’s really sweet that Mr NQN doesn’t let you bake or do anything when you’re sick hehe ~
These easter brownies look and sound delicious! It’s also a great way to ‘use up’ easter egg!!! I know I love chocolate and Easter but I always get more chocolate than I can eat hehe Mr Bao spoils me
So i’m always looking for recipes to use the extra ones hehe
Happy Easter Lorraine
hope you have a lovely break with Mr NQN~
Those are just out of this world! I LOVE Lindt chocolates (well, I’m Swiss after all ;-D).
Happy easter!
Cheers,
Rosa
Oh my word you have some restraint to put those eggs into baking. I have an automatic reflex that when the wrapper comes off they are insanely attracted to my mouth
I think I might just give these a go (and hunt down some chestnut flour! that in itself sounds rather scrummy)!
Happy Easter!
Yum those Lindt eggs are very good I imagine they make super Easter brownies.
What a great use of lindt balls! How decadent, moist and rich do your brownies look. I was in a shop yesterday and saw bags of chestnut flour. I haven’t cooked with it before and was wondering if I should buy some – now I know I should have. We’re hoping to enjoy the beautiful weather that is so much better than what summer brought us. Hope you’re feeling better and Happy Easter.
Happy Easter Lorraine and hope you feel better soon. We are having a quiet one just relaxing and eating lots of Easter eggs
OMggggggggg,
I am drooling. I am growing…
I mean, My Ass is <3
I am baking these.
Love. X
Lorraine, you ROCkkk the chocolate.
OMG – I am ready for my choc overload. Was just about to search for a good brownie after watching Jamie make his version last night and then yours pops up – What joy there will be for me this long easter break!!!! Thank you!!!!
Did you just put lint easter eggs in a brownie?? OMG DROOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL!!! You are a brownie goddess. Happy Easter Lorraine!
Chocolate oozy goodness! These look irresistible. Don’t think I’ll have any problem with leftovers eggs but you may have just given me an excuse to buy some more!
Yum, this is dangerous reading this at 7:15am, I have a whole day of head of me to cook now
They’re my favourite eggs too! I only discovered them last year but I’ve requested them from the Easter bunny this year. Ooh I’m almost drooling thinking about them.
I have had a request for brownies for Easter Sunday so I might just have to make these. Not sure if I want to sacrifice my eggs though. I shall see how I feel and how generous the Easter Bunny is.
I hope you’re feeling better!
Nice one. Happy easter, and thanks for pointing out the typo. Much appreciated
Great minds… Made brownies yesterday and fed them to the boyfriend last night with vanilla ice cream and hot carmel sauce. I think I’m up on relationship points right now
I love the Lindt eggs too – one of my favourites! Hope you feel better soon. I probably would have done the same and baked something. These brownies look amazing, I’ll have to try them myself. Have a lovely Easter x
I want this!! I’m trying to fit in to a dress for an wedding I’m attending this weekend, but after that I want to eat some chocolatey dessert like this one! DROOL…
Ooh they look so delicious!!
WOW these brownies look deeeeelicious so dark brown and gooey in the centre. What a great use for easter eggs. I purchased on spreets 1kg chocolates from chocolatier and was wondering how I could ever eat them all but now I can use some to bake these brownies!
Better than sex! Happy Easter Lorraine and Mr NQN
I love it when brownie fairies come to visit!
…I wonder if they will come this afternoon…
Oh you poor thing Lorraine! I hope you feel better soon, and that the real brownie fairies and Easter bunny visit you as well
I looove Lidnt black chocolate balls, and they would be awesome in these brownies indeed!
OMG these brownies look devine!!!
The shops are closed, but I have some wonderful chocolate and I’l make some eggs for the top.
brilliant!! The brownies look so gooey – that’s the best.
Nice, I just put my Easter eggs on top of the brownies….. did you have to go one better.? Happy Easter Lorraine
i have a weakness for Turkish Delight egg or is it the ginger egg its hard to decide , cant go past either, and as for those brownies me got to have some of them , they look really decedent
Oh dear but what a sublime Easter treat this is! I’d be very happy to find that Lindor Easter egg hidden in my brownie!!
They look absolutely amazing! The brownie fairy really knows what she’s doing.
I crave caramello eggs at Easter as well as Turkish delight eggs. Mmmmmm
So delicious!! I too will be indulging in Lindor this long weekend. Happy Easter Lorraine xx
Lindt egg brownies! They look wicked! I used half a kilo of Haigh’s eggs in butterscotch bars a couple of years ago – it’s hard to know what to do with all the excess eggs!
A happy, healthy Easter, Lorraine [and Mr NQN!], and thanks a million for the best, most fun and informative daily read on the Net
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Yum! I would take these over eggs any day!
Hahah that sounds like so much fun, sneaking past Mr.NQN. I love the Lindor balls too, can’t get enough of them
Ooh, they look gooey and delicious! I actually haven’t had an easter egg at all this year yet… perhaps baking them into a brownie would be a good way to start!
I felt my arteries hardening just reading this! Said arteries may not stop me from making this though, I am practically licking the monitor as I type
I hope you are feeling better and that you and Mr NQN have a happy Easter and enjoy the long weekend xx
Oh my gosh, what a fantastic idea! My favorite candy is a bordeaux from See’s candy. I think I will buy some tomorrow and try this brownie recipe using them:) YUMMO!
Is there anything more delicious than lindor chocolate? Me think no!
Oooh, thanks for the portion-controlled recipe! I usually end up with ~12 brownies that I mostly eat myself. Smaller is better, in this case
Happy Easter, Lorraine
Haighs eggs, or Lindt. NOT the cheap and nasty ones – they taste so dry and horrible. Our 8 year old daughter only eats Haighs, Lindt or French/Belgian chocolates and shuns Pink Lady and all others!! A girl must have standards!!
Oh they sound and look divine! Those Lindor eggs are the best, I found bags of them in Melbourne a couple of weeks ago for $4 – 12 eggs in a bag! So of course I bought three
My daughter is getting a humpty egg
As for the long weekend, it’s the Snowy Mountains for me.
(deep, relaxed sigh)
oh my gawwwwd! These brownies looks AMAZING! I especially love that you added Lindt chocolates to it! Those are one of my definite favourites!
Plans for Easter? Son’s birthday. And he is turning 16…
I just came back from a 3.5hr bike ride – now very tired but very happy
Plans are to unfortunately work – the difficulties of being a casual. But still, not too bad considering today’s my first day of uni break 
Well, after working at Max Brenner AND the David Jones confectionary department, I am extremely particular about chocolate… so very little meets my standards. However, Haigh’s is good. I’ll take anything Haigh’s
I wish the Easter Bunny had given me Amadei chocolate so I could say that was my favourite
What gorgeous enticing gooey brownies! Now you go get better, lady!
You make me laugh – getting up off sick-bed to bake is totally something I would do too, hope you are feeling better! The brownies look evil in the best possible way – Happy Easter!
OMG These brownies look amazing. We discovered Peanut Butter Lindor balls on our visit to my fave place – The Lindt Cafe in Sydney. Now these would be interesting in the brownie!! Can you send me some over as I havent been able to find them here in Adelaide:( Being situated approx 2kms from the nearest Haighs, we will settle for an Easter Bilby!Happy Easter to all x
Oh my! Those look just delicious! I too love the lindt lindor balls! Hazelnut is the one I would dig into a packet of assorted ones for. hehe Heading down to Auckland to spend Easter with family! Can’t wait! Happy Easter babe! (: x
Easter is not only our most important Christian festival but a chance to indulge in chocolate and hot cross buns (fruit free please).
Sadly my 7yr old granddaughter is on a dairy, wheat, nut, gluten free diet but happily I found her some really delicious chocolate replacements for her to indulge her chocaholic addiction
This sounds like a great use for Lindt balls – I am not a fan in their native state. I am with my family for Easter. I have fond memories of the Red Tulip Easter trains.
Fabulous idea to use up Easter eggs, though I imagine not just any will do. These Lindor eggs look ‘top notch’. I’m thinking…mini cadbury cream eggs? I’m just imagining all that oozy molten chocolate.
This weekend, we are having about 50 people at our place for Easter, so basically I will be cleaning and cooking then cleaning some more.
One word only: YUM
Lorraine:
You had me a Lindt, and then seeing the gooeyness just confirmed my already made decision to make these.
:~D
Thanks for sharing.
Charlie
always have some room in my stomach for a good brownie !!pierre
I loved the humpty dumpty eggs and noticed that when I said she could choose one easter egg sylvia chose a kinder surprise because it rattled. Nowadays I prefer the lindt eggs too – though I love the bunnies (still a little rattle in the bell)
Hope you are well enough to eat your luscious brownies – they look so good I am sure I can smell them
Naughty, naughty, Lorraine! But I am glad you disobeyed Mr. NQN, those brownies are gorgeous! We are going to a lovely French restaurant tomorrow for brunch with my husband’s family. Other than that, not much!
Oh my goodness, Lindor eggs. I can’t get enough of them, they are my FAVORITE. This looks perfect!
OMG!!!
I love brownies… and these are heavenly…
OH God Lorraine, I am so badly craving everything I am seeing here on your blog….
I am really HUNGRY!!!
Deliciousness….
Nothing like a bit of chocolate and some baking when your sick to maybe soothe the soul if not the body! The brownies look so good. I have been on a mission to find a brownie to compete (don’t laugh) with a box brownie…the only thing I truly love from a box. These are on the do try list for sure!
Brownie fairies!!! Too cute
I love those Lindt eggs too! Best. Happy Easter, lovely. We’re down to red hill shortly 
Heidi xo
There’s something about chocolate brownies that make me go all gooey inside … oh, that’s the brownie isn’t it!! Thanks for this recipe. Will put it straight to the test. Happy Easter!
Haha I wonder if this recipe will work just as well with Cadbury chocolate eggs – probably not, hey.
My favourite chocolate eggs are also the Lindt ones. When I was younger, I used to LOVE creme eggs but now, I just find them disgusting!
OMG those look so thick and fudgy and decadently delicious. WANT!!
note to self: procure some brownie fairies.
Oh my, they look delicious. I might just have to try these!
Oh…MY… GOD.
Yes.
What a wonderful way to use Easter eggs! I also loved those Humpty Dumpty eggs as a kid! I think I’m one of the few who prefer Smarties to M&Ms … Hope you will get better soon
Clever idea! I love how thick and fudgy your brownies look!!
They look soooooooooooo decadent! Hope you had a wonderful Easter, Lorraine!
These look heavenly. Just devine and utter chocolate indulgence!
I happened upon the Darrell Lea Dark Chocolate Ginger egg last week. Very good sliced into “pop in the mouth” sized chunks. My favourite of favourite though is from Cocao in Melbourne, oohhhh soooo gooooooood, lucky I’m in Sydney.
Im drolling. On my computer. Must. Make!
Omg! Nothing looks better than these!
No words, just salivating (and I too can eat an unmentionable amount of Lindt in one sitting…!).
Hope you’re feeling better and had a wonderful Easter Lorraine!!
Briony xx
What a fabulous idea! You are ingenious. Definitely also prone to Lindt binging. It’s a very satisfing habit
I’m sure the chocolatey goodness of brownies was good for your health!
I made brownies with leftover chocolate from Easter too. It is a great way to use up masses of chocolate you don’t want lying around the house. This year I went with a chocolate mousse cake.
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