A cute Easter treat!

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Hey guys! I thought I’d share a cute little Easter treat I made this past weekend.

I remembered my grandma making these bird’s nests once when I was really little. When I was trying to think of a dessert to serve at my dinner for the Japanese girls (once a quarter my housemate and I have a dinner for the girls living here for the year from Japan, we’re getting quite popular among the international kids now!) and I wanted something unique and cute and this quickly popped into my head.

It’s really easy to make, cheap, and yummy if you’re into rice krispies treats-like food (and Peeps and chocolate). It was met with many screams of “Waa! Cho kawaii!” (Wow! So cute!) so I consider it a success.
Pictures!

Easter Nests (serves 12)

Ingredients:

2 ½ cups miniature marshmallows
½ stick butter
1 tbsp vanilla extract
5 cups crispy chow mein noodles (like the canned La Choy stuff)
1 bag of small chocolate eggs (I used Whopper Easter eggs but plain chocolate eggs would work well too)
12 Peeps (Use whichever strikes your fancy, I used the traditional yellow birds)

Directions

1.) Grease a muffin tin in advance (I just sprayed the tin with cooking spray).

2.) Over a low heat, melt the stick of butter. Add vanilla and marshmallows. Stir until the three ingredients are thouroughly melted and blended.

3.) Add chow mein noodles. Stir until the mixture is evenly coated. Turn off heat.

4.) Spoon mixture into the muffin cups. Mold into a nest shape, creating a little indent in the middle. The mixture will stick to your fingers, so it is best to butter them whenever you feel them start to stick to the marshmallow mixture (I just sprayed my fingers with cooking spray and it worked wonderfully).

5.) When the nests have cooled a little, twist lightly to make sure that they will turn and are not stuck to the muffin tin. Let cool in the open or in the fridge.

6.) Add 3 eggs and 1 Peep to each nest. Eat any leftover Peeps and chocolate.

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Aww! I remember those… they are so adorable!! And how could anyone not enjoy a recipe that requires you to eat leftover Peeps and chocolate? :wink:
Thanks for sharing. Now I’ll have to not use my marshmallow shooter until after Easter.

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My mom used to make the same thing but she coated the chow mein noodles in chocolate and used jelly beans instead of chocolate eggs.
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The Easter nests I remember from childhood were three small jelly beans in the middle of one of those small chocolate-covered donuts (like the kind that come 6 to a package).

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That sounds like the lazy version.

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Yep, it sure is! Or, alternatively, it’s the version that a little kid could make by him/herself.

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I may make some of these for work tomorrow, minus the Peeps. (There are, for some reason, always Peeps hanging around our party desk. Nobody is sure who brings them. Nobody, for sure, eats them.)

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Oh I’d still eat it.

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Go for it! Honestly, making them doesn’t take long at all, maybe 20 to 30 minutes from start to finish. I think they’ll be cute even without the Peep on top.

I ate my Peeps for the year. :smiley: 2, I think. They’re so sugary I can’t believe that I could inhale so many more when I was a kid! I tried some Splenda peeps too…I think they’re better, not as overwhelmingly sweet, but not worth the price for the small calorific change. I also feel bad when I eat a Peep because they’re so cute looking. I feel like a horrible predator when I stare into the dark (and often unaligned) eyes of the unsuspecting Peep. I even have a Peep stuffed animal I bought a few years ago.
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