We study adhesive emulsion droplets that are stabilized with pure and mixed surfactant systems. By measuring contact angles between the droplets, we deduce the energy of adhesion and the Gibbs adsorption of ionic and nonionic surfactants onto the adhesive interfaces. We find that this adsorption is significantly different from the adsorption onto isolated monolayers. The difference reflects the coupling between adsorption and surface interactions. In addition, we investigate the consequences of these phenomena on the behavior of micron-sized emulsions. The adhesion between the surfactant layers leads to the aggregation of the particles and to their deposit onto solid substrates,being thereby potentially useful for applications related to coatings and colloidal deposits.