Chocolate Bird Nests (bird themed bridal shower)

I made these cute treats for the guests at Jamie’s Bridal Shower.






Ingredients:
2 bags of Candy Melts
1 bag of Chow Mein Noodles
Cocoa Riced Cereal
1 Bag Cadbury Mini Eggs






These are the ingredients I gathered. I had no idea how much I would need. What I have was way too much!




I poured in about 4 cups of the cocoa cereal, and about a half of the bag of chow mein noodles. (I didn’t use all of these dry ingredients)




I melted the candy melts in a makeshift double boiler. (a bowl over a pan of water on the stove)  I then poured most of the chocolate into the smaller mixing bowl. Gradually adding the cereal mix until a nice consistency was formed.

I scooped the mix into a muffin/cupcake pan. 

This was my first experience with these candy melts. I was shocked how quick this chocolate hardens back up.  After the nests firmed, I used a plastic spoon to loosen them from the tin.




I had left some of the chocolate in the bowl so that I could “glue” my eggs in the nests. I carefully dipped each egg into the chocolate then put them into the nest.  I resisted eating any of the Cadbury eggs, and it’s a good thing I did!  After putting 3 eggs in each nest, there was ONE egg left over!  I got 30 nests from my 2 bags of candy melts.  I chose to use cocoa cereal because I thought it would blend in better with the chocolate.

I placed them in cellophane bags, used a twist tie and a piece of jute to tie them shut.

I think they turned out really cute!

And… they were pretty tasty too!

These would make nice treats for Easter!

gail
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