Easy No Bake Chocolate Coconut Nests require just 2 ingredients!! Melt, mix, shape and then fill with your favourite Easter treat.
Birds nest cookies are so popular at Easter. These gluten free treats are so easy to make. Fill with eggs, smarties, jelly beans, or whatever you like.
Spring is here, the warm weather is finally starting to make an appearance every few days. Easter is just around the corner. Speaking of Easter the creative bloggers of #FoodBlogGenius have put together a wonderful collaboration of Easter Egglicious recipes. Great ideas to celebrate the day.
Festive Carrot Cupcakes from Veena Azmanov
Easy No Bake Chocolate Coconut Nests from Homemade & Yummy
Cadbury Creme Egg Cupcakes from Flour On My Face
Gluten Free Chocolate Cookie Dough Eggs from The Fit Cookie
Russian Egg and Onion Hand Pies from Imagelicious
Does the Easter Bunny come to your house?
My grandkids get so excited with this holiday. Hunting for eggs on Easter morning. I remember those days when my kids were young too. Trying to remember where all the eggs were hidden. Counting to make sure they found them all. Hoping the cats didn’t help themselves to treats during the night.
It’s great when the weather is nice this time of year. Lots of families like to plan egg hunts outside. Seems the Easter Bunny manages to leave a nice bag of treats and goodies for the kids here too (even the big kids get their favourite treats).
Do you have a favourite spring dessert?
When I was a child, every Easter we would gather for dinner with our very large family. Being Ukrainian I got the luxury of celebrating the holiday twice. My absolute favourite dessert was something I call Spring Delight. My aunt would make this every year. Simple, yet totally delicious. I can actually taste this as I sit and reflect back on those special times.
The first time I heard about birds nest cookies was from someone I used to work with. He told me about how his wife made these chocolate nests out of shredded wheat and chocolate bars.
This sounded like a delicious idea to me. Since he didn’t have a recipe, I just went by the trial and error method. With only 2 ingredients, how hard could it be? They turned out perfect the first time. Win!!!!
Chocolate and coconut are such a great combination. Have you ever had a Mounds Bar? One of my favourite chocolate bars ever. The inspiration for these Easy No Bake Chocolate Coconut Nests came from my memories of this delicious chocolate bar.
This easy treat is fun to make. Melt your choice of milk or dark chocolate, mix in some raw shredded coconut, shape and allow to harden. I place mine on a silicone mat and placed them in the fridge. Once set, you can fill them with your choice of Easter treats.
This is a great gluten free version of the original chocolate nest cookies I made a few years ago. How easy, 2 simple ingredients is all it takes. Easy No Bake Chocolate Coconut Nests are perfect to celebrate Spring and Easter.
What is your favourite Easter treat? I know my kids LOVE Cadbury Creme Eggs!!
Easy No Bake Chocolate Coconut Nests
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut
- 10 ounces milk chocolate (melted)
Instructions
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Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave (or stovetop if you prefer).
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Add the coconut and mix well.
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Scoop mixture (I used an ice cream scoop) into piles on a silicone mat.
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Form each pile into a nest.
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Let harden until set. (I placed mine in the fridge).
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Once set, remove from mat. Place on serving tray.
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Fill with your choice of Easter treats. (Eggs, Smarties, Jelly Beans etc.)
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ENJOY!!
Yummy! Chocolate and coconut is one of my favorite sweets! I love, love, love Bounty bars, especially with dark chocolate, so I’m positive that these are delicious!
These are totally addictive.
This looks fantastic! Love simple easy desserts.
Thanks so much…we like them too.
These look so cute and totally doable for a quick Easter dessert. I know the kids would go bonkers over them and they are so easy to make too.
Loved by little and BIG kids too.
Such a super quick and easy idea. I love it! I’ll have to try this for Easter.
Hope you enjoy them.
These nests look like a great weekend project with the kiddos! I am sure we’ll have a lot of fun making and eating them! Thanks for sharing.
Yes I am sure everyone will love them.
Great minds think alike! I also made a nest recipe this week! I like the chocolate version. These look tasty!
It is fun, easy and delicious Easter treat for sure.
This is a great Easter idea! Why bunny’s leave eggs for Easter is still beyond me but its fun!
That is a good question…but fun none the less.
Gloria I am in for this no bake chocolate coconut nests this one resembles the taste of bounty bars. I can eat few. my daughter is asking for an egg hunt. I don’t think I will do it in my house, I will take her to some place for egg hunt.
I loved doing the egg hunts…the kids always were so excited.
I love chocolate nests! We actually make them with potato sticks, which I love the sweet and salty combo but I’m loving all the coconut in these! A must make for sure!
Those would be delicious as well.
Gotta love fun and delicious holiday recipes that are EASY! My kids would have fun helping with make them.
Perfect for little hands to help with.
I’ve been seeing a lot of these on Pinterest lately. I never knew they were only two ingredients. Such a cute idea to make with my daughter for her to take to school next week. Love it! And, yes, Easter egg hunts still happen in our home. My daughter is 13 and my partner is 51, Both of them participate in the hunt while I sit back with a cup of coffee and watch. 🙂
HAHAH…well like my husband…some people NEVER grow up!! That is fine with me!!
This is such a FUN thing to make with kids And its just 2 Ingredients !! Gonna try them soon with my 4 year old 🙂
2 ingredient to delicious treats.
This is just s beautiful. For someone who is not so artistic, this is a great way to do something with my boys. No bake recipes are always so much fun!
HAHAH…yes as you can see my husband was making these.
These chocolate coconut nests are totally adorable! I make a white chocolate version of these that my kids really love so I can imagine how much they will love these too! YUM! 🙂
I love the coconut and chocolate combo!!
I love how simple and easy these are !! These would look so cute as cupcake toppers
Yes they would make great cake toppers too.
Perfect little treats for the season. Love the use of the chocolate eggs those look amazing and those colors. Overall a 10+ this recipe idea.
You are so kind.. Happy Easter!!
What a fun and easy Easter treat to make with the kids!
Yup…and totally enjoyed by ALL!!
These are so adorable and you really can’t beat that they are only two ingredients and so simple to make!
It really doesn’t get easier..and super addictive too.
super quick edible nest. i like the way u made this withjust 2 ingredents
Thanks…they are super easy and totally delicious.
Those are darling and filled with my favorite Easter candy! Plus, you made a video–wow! They do look so easy to make, too. Thanks for the great idea.
Really..really easy!!
I love how your video shows just how easy these are to make! What an incredibly cute Easter treat!
Super easy to make!!
I totally love it, it so very creative! Wow, just two ingredients? I’m a big fan of coconut and chocolate and now have a new easy snack we all would love. Thanks for sharing Gloria!
Coconut and chocolate are a great pair for sure.
These are so cute and perfect for Easter. I love the chocolate and coconut combination. And only two ingredients sounds even better 🙂
So EASY and delicious.
Those are so doggone cute! I wish I had a bunch of little ones still at home so I could make them. Truthfully, I think grownups would appreciate the taste and the appearance. I guess you could almost make something similar for Christmas — only for a dove. Great idea!!
Yes I LOVE being a gramma…they bring a smile to my face…and keep me on my toes.
Easy dessert always fun to make . Loved it!
Thanks…so do we!!
What a simple and cute idea! These would be adorable on top of cupcakes. Mini eggs are my weakness!
HAHA…yes cupcakes topped with nests would be awesome for sure.
I love how easy these are! We should definitely make some for Easter, these fit my kids food allergies
SO easy…I know you would LOVE them.
This chocolate nests are so simple to make and look so cute. It’s perfect Easter snack for my kiddo. He loves chocolate. I can even invite him to help me make it 🙂 Great!
Yes he would love helping you….ENJLOY!!
So easy to make with the kids at Easter and a perfect little treat for them
I LOVE them too…coconut and chocolate are awesome together.
such a lovely treat! nests are so adorable!
Thanks so much.
So easy! And so darn cute. I know my grandkids will love these too! Pinning.
My sure do!!
Such a cute and easy dessert for Easter!
Yes so fun and easy is right.
OOOO these look SO good! I love how easy and pretty they are! Fun to do with kids.
Yes they are…and they love eating them too.
Coconut and chocolate – what a great way to make those nests. They would go down a storm in my house.
They sure did not last long here.
how adorable are these, way cute. PLUS super easy, I would prefer dark chocolate, totally can see myself eating these all day while watching New Girl LOL.
I do find them totally addictive….I don’t even need the added candy treats.
These look yummy! Perfect for the kids for Easter! They are so festive! We used to have about 10 kids come over on Easter when the weather cooperated and they would run all around trying to find the eggs! They looked so forward it! I love how easy these are! My kind of dessert now a days!
So easy…only 2 ingredients to such a fun treat.
These chocolate nests look so real. Must have been a crowd pleaser.
Yes they sure are.
I love how you used shredded coconut rather than shredded wheat, that makes these so much better. I feel like my parents always forgot where at least 1 of the easter eggs was and us kids would find them months later. I would put whopper’s speckled robin eggs in these, those were my favorite Easter egg treat!
HAHAH…oh I so remember counting to see if they found all the eggs.
These are so cute and easy! My son would love making these!
I bet he would too.
I love that these are no-bake. We used to call them TOS cookies – but we didn’t add coconut. It adds a perfect touch for spring – and so cute with thet candy eggs.
They are a fun and delicious treat.
Cute little nests!!! The kids will go crazy on those fun and chocolat”y” easter treats! Great idea!
Thank so much. We LOVE them.
These little nests are adorable! So cute! Oh, and I bet they taste just like Bounty candy bars – I used to love those but haven’t had in a long time
I don’t recall Bounty…but they do taste like Mounds!!