Bird's Nest Easter Cookies

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These bird's nest cookies are a fun and easy no-bake Easter treat perfect for making with kids or if you need to bring something fun to an Easter party. Made with melted chocolate and crunchy fried noodles they're shaped into nests and filled with colourful mini eggs. You can add a hint of spice with cinnamon chocolate or keep it classic with milk or dark chocolate. Ready in minutes and so cute for Easter celebrations, parties or edible gifts!

About These Bird's Nest Cookies

These bird's nest cookies are a simple, delicious Easter treat that you can make with the kids. Crunchy fried noodles are mix with chocolate to create the nests that are then filled with speckled mini eggs! I'll also show you a gluten free version and a way to make this a bit extra with the flavour.

I actually use a combination of two different chocolates for my chocolate base. I use milk chocolate and Hersheys cinnamon baking chips. If you can't get cinnamon baking chips you can make something very similar yourself by using white chocolate and a pinch of ground cinnamon. I just wanted to give it a spiced flavour like what you get with Hot Cross Buns. OR you can just use my favourite combo of 50% milk and 50% dark chocolate!

The gluten free alternative to the fried noodles is shredded coconut! In fact Mr NQN loved the coconut version better than the noodle version but I preferred the crunchy noodle version because it was crunchy (typical for us!).

### Video How To Make Bird's Nest Cookies

Video: How to Make Bird's Nest Cookies

Ingredients For Bird's Nest Cookies

Milk chocolate - Use chocolate bits rather than melts as chocolate bits contain cocoa butter which tastes better than vegetable fat (melts aren't technically chocolate).

Cinnamon chips - These are Hersheys cinnamon chocolate chips which I love. I got a friend to mule me some over from America. Otherwise you can use white chocolate and a pinch of cinnamon. Or just go with dark chocolate if cinnamon isn't your thing!

Fried noodles - Available at the supermarket by brand Chang's. You'll need 2x100g/3.5oz bags.

Salt - Fine salt.

Mini Easter eggs - You'll need around 160g/5.6oz. Y'all know I counted and weighed these for you ;)

Tips For Making Bird's Nest Cookies

1 - You can use straight milk or dark chocolate in these Bird's Nest Cookies-it's up to you!

2 - Melt the chocolate at 60% power in the microwave at 30 second intervals. Low and slow is best for chocolate, especially white chocolate as it burns quicker and has a lower melting point. You can also melt the chocolate in a double boiler (a bowl set above a pot of simmering water).

3 - Look for those very small speckled "mini eggs" not just regular speckled eggs so that you can fit 3 per nest.

4 - If it is very hot or humid where you are, let the nests set at room temperature until matte and then pop in the fridge for 10 minutes to finish setting them.

Other cute Easter chocolate treats to try next are: Easter Chocolate Bark or Chocolate Easter Lambs!

Bird's Nest Cookies Recipe

An Original Recipe by Lorraine Elliott

Recipe Overview

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: 5 minutes

Makes: 16 cookies

Ingredients Needed

• 220g/7.7oz milk chocolate
• 220g/7.7oz cinnamon chips
• 200g/7oz fried noodles
• Pinch salt
• 48 mini Easter eggs (around 160g/5.6oz)

Step-By-Step Instructions

Step 1 MELT & MIX - Melt the chocolate in a double boiler or in the microwave at 60% power in 30 second intervals until melted and smooth. Add in fried noodles and salt and mix to coat well.

Step 2 SPOON - Line 2 baking trays with parchment. Using two tablespoons take around 35g/1.2oz of the mixture or a heaped tablespoon and place in a circle pressing down the centre. Place 3 eggs per "nest" before chocolate sets. Allow to set completely at room temperature.

Personal Note

The day that I made these cookies, I had one of the best days ever. At the moment my workload is high, I work 6 days a week as the blog is still just me and so when I get my one day off I am very happy indeed. And my perfect day involves me wandering around the house in pyjamas for the entire day. That to me is my little measure of when I can truly relax as it tells my brain that I don't have to get changed or work out.

Another way that really tells me that I'm having a proper day off is if I can watch tv during the day. For anyone that works regular hours, you know that that is mostly a night time or weekend activity. But getting to watch The Lincoln Lawyer while the sun is still shining outside is absolute heaven.

Of course with my day off I couldn't help but create this recipe because well you know me (I'm obsessed with my job!). But truly this was so quick that I think this was done in around 10 minutes.

And I'll amend my perfect day off to include snacking on these Bird's Nest Cookies in the afternoon too!

So tell me Dear Reader, what does your perfect day consist of? And have you ever made Bird's Nest cookies? And have you watched The Lincoln Lawyer?