PIN THIS RECIPE FOR LATER It always happens this way. I plan out my recipes (and make, photograph and schedule them) sometimes months in advance. And then at the last minute, weeks before a holiday arrives I suddenly start to feel guilty that I haven’t brought you enough cutesy holiday-themed recipes. I start to panic. What can I possibly make?!? I don’t have time. I should just forget about it, move on. The people don’t need another birds nest cookie recipe! And often, I do move on, and forget about it, and you get something boring like soup. Or stew. Or a one pot pasta. But this time… I guess I changed my tune. I figured I definitely needed an excuse to buy a giant bag of mini eggs (don’t we all?!?) and the kids would love them. And maybe I’d even let them help me make a batch for Easter (if there were any mini eggs still around by then). I wasn’t sure how to go about making these. I thought I would use these No Bake Christmas Tree Cookies as a base, and just shape them into little nests. But then I realized that nests aren’t green, so I’d have to fill them with something brown and that seemed silly. Brown. I can do brown. Peanut butter, chocolate and, oooo — Corn Flakes! These cookies are a cross between my 2 favorite no bake cookies — the traditional, chocolate and oats, and those insanely delicious butterscotch corn flake cookies. I thought I would need some glue to hold my eggs in my nest and I love the way toasted coconut looks so much like a nest, so I had big plans to make an indent, fill it with chocolate, rim with toasted coconut and THEN add my mini eggs…. but you know, life happened and I got lazy. Which makes these a pretty unoriginal version of a Birds Nest Cookie but I’m okay with that. If you want to go all out, feel free to do the whole melted-chocolate-toasted-coconut shebang. And then send me a sample to taste test 😉 Create an account easily save your favorite content, so you never forget a recipe again. Register Now Tag @thereciperebel or hashtag #thereciperebel — I love to see what you’re making!
