Friday, March 21, 2008

Bird Nest Recipe


I have no idea where I saw this recipe at so I don't have anyone to give credit to but just so you know, I am NOT creative enough to have come up with this on my own.

For the nest, we melted about a pound of chocolate in the microwave and added a bag Chinese noodles to the melted chocolate and stirred until the noodles we all covered in chocolate. Then we used all the small bowls in our house that were close to the size we wanted our nests to be. We sprayed the bowls with cooking spray and then formed the nests in the bowls. Then we put the bowls in the freezer for a few minutes until the chocolate was set up. Then we dumped the nests out, filled them with eggs (we used the M&M speckled eggs cuz they are our favorite. Then we melted a little more chocolate (we did a handful of chocolate chips) and then we dipped PEEP chicks into the chocolate and then set them on the eggs in the nest.

Okay, the parts we tweaked on this recipe are: if you use little bowls in the freezer, Cooking spray is a must. Other wise, the chocolate sticks to the bowl and the nest won't come out and then you have sad disappointed kids. Also, we added the part about dipping the Peeps in chocolate before putting them in the nest. When the chocolate set up it held the bird and the eggs nicely in the nest. Then they could actually be played with before they were eaten.

Very easy, VERY kid friendly, and very YUMMY!

4 comments:

Amy said...

Thanks! We even have time to go get ingredients!!

Carrie and Troy Keiser said...

Fun and cute!

The Cook Clan said...

Yummy! Thanks, I'll have to try it for next easter with our little one. Or just any day for a yummy snack.

Ashley said...

These are so cute! Maybe I call them Spring Nests and still it even though Easter is over!!