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These Chocolate Bird Nests are a favorite for Easter in our family. My kids love helping to make the little nests and adding little chocolate eggs to the middle. They are the perfect spring-time, no-bake treat.
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Your family will love these Chocolate Bird Nests! They are easy to make and who doesn’t love peanut butter and chocolate?? These are rich, chocolatey birds nest cookies that are perfect Spring or Easter treats! We found the White Chocolate Cadbury Mini Eggs at the grocery store and we had to try them! I already love the regular Cadbury Eggs so I knew adding white chocolate would not disappoint. However, I had to redirect a hundred little hands away from the bowl of candy just so I could get this recipe done!
Ingredients in Chocolate Bird Nests
- Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips – you can use milk chocolate chips as well. Sometimes we do half semi-sweet and half butterscotch chips.
- Creamy Peanut Butter
- Chow Mein Noodles – the crunchy kind that come in a tin. You can also use pretzels.
- Sweetened Shredded Coconut
- Green Food Coloring
- Candy for the eggs – Cadbury eggs, jelly beans, Reese’s mini eggs, or any other egg shaped candy.
Tips for Making Chocolate Bird Nests
One warning…this recipe is a little messy. My hands were covered in melted chocolate and peanut butter before the process was done. However, it is totally worth it. When you are forming the chocolate bird nests, make sure that the edges come up enough that the eggs won’t roll off the sides. These will keep for a few days, just make sure to store them in an airtight container.
Substitutions for Cadbury Mini Eggs
There are a lot of ways to make this chocolate bird nests recipe your own. You don’t have to use the white Cadbury Mini Eggs. You can use the pastel colored Cadbury Mini Eggs. Try one of the candies listed below. You can also dye the coconut different colors to switch things up!
- Hershey’s Candy Coated Eggs
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
- M&M’s Peanut Butter Speckled Eggs
- M&M’s Easter Peanut Chocolate Candies
- Jelly Beans
Frequently Asked Questions
Store leftovers in an airtight container or storage bag on the counter at room temperature. If your kitchen is really hot you can store them in the fridge so they don’t melt. You will want to let them sit on the counter for a bit before serving.
The easiest way is in the microwave, as detailed in the recipe below. However, if you are worried about burning, you can use a double boiler. Make your own double boiler by placing a glass bowl over a pot of boiling water.
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How to Make No-Bake Chocolate Bird Nests
Chocolate Bird Nests
Ingredients
- 1 2/3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (you can substitute butterscotch or peanut butter chips)
- 3/4 cup creamy peanut butter
- 12 ounces crunchy chow mein noodles
Coconut Grass (optional)
- 1 cup coconut
- 3 drops green food coloring
Easter Candy Egg Options
- 1 bag Cadbury Mini Eggs
Instructions
- In a glass bowl, microwave chocolate chips for 1 minute on 70% power. Stir. Microwave for 15 second intervals, stirring between each one, until chocolate is smooth.
- Stir in peanut butter.
- Add noodles and mix until coated.
- Put a sheet of wax paper onto a cookie sheet.
- Form nests with the noodle mixture and place on wax paper.
- Refrigerate until chocolate is set.
- When nests are set, fill them with coconut grass and your favorite Easter egg candies.
Coconut Grass (optional)
- Place the coconut in a small bowl. Add 3 drops of green food coloring and stir until the coconut is all green.
- Sprinkle a little coconut on each nest before adding candy eggs.
Notes
- Hershey’s Candy Coated Eggs
- Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs
- M&M’s Peanut Butter Speckled Eggs
- M&M’s Easter Peanut Chocolate Candies
- Jelly Beans
We love birds nests! I love the addition of pb in this version, they are so good! PB & chocolate are I combo I never tire of!
What darling little Easter desserts! We make ours a little different but your recipe looks even better. Thanks for another great recipe!
Plan on making these with the following changes: thin pretzel sticks instead of chow mein noodles and shaved white chocolate tinted green in the place of the shredded coconut.
Love how easy and delicious this recipe is. It’s perfect for a gathering or a party.
These are SO cute!! What a fun treat!
They look good recipies to try