Recipe: Bird Nest Cookies
By the end of the winter months, we’re all looking for the first sign of spring. Embrace all that is good about this season — new beginnings, pastel colors, and get-togethers — with these playfully named, almost-too-cute-to-eat bird’s nest cookies. Appearances are deceiving. In a perfect twist, these cookies look pretty, precious, and painstaking, but you won’t even need to turn on the oven.
It’s an easy 1, 2, 3 process. The base is tidy little stacks of “twigs” — think crispy noodles, pretzel sticks, cornflakes, toasted coconut, or puffed rice. Your “cement” is warm, melted chocolate, and your choice of peanut butter or butterscotch chips. In the nest’s divots, you’ll snuggle pastel pink, yellow, and blue candy eggs.
Make these tiny treasures yours, whether you want rolled oat nests filled with yogurt-covered almonds, toasted coconut flakes cemented with dark chocolate, or cornflakes glued with butterscotch. Top white chocolate-covered pretzel stick nests with caramel-filled milk chocolate eggs that guests bite into for a gooey treat! Or make little nests of puffed rice drizzled with melted milk chocolate and peanut butter chips. Built by hand and shared joyfully, these sweet treats delight everyone. Happy spring!
Makes 24 cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups semisweet or milk chocolate chips, melted
- 2 cups peanut butter or butterscotch (or other chocolate) chips, melted
- 4 cups of pretzel sticks, cornflakes, oats, or toasted coconut
- 1 cup miniature candy-coated chocolate or malted milk eggs
Method
Step 1
Line a tray or baking sheet with parchment paper.
Step 2
Melt all of the chips in a microwave or double boiler. Gently stir pretzel sticks or other textured ingredient into melted chips; stir to coat.
Step 3
Drop a heaping teaspoon of the mixture onto parchment paper and press with the back of a spoon to form a nest. Working quickly, press 2–3 eggs into each nest.
Step 4
Refrigerate until firm (about 10 minutes). Serve cold.
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