Easter Chocolate Nests require just 2 ingredients and no baking involved. Melt, mix, shape, and then fill with your favourite treat.
I love easy no-bake recipes. Chocolate Coconut Drop Cookies are another fun recipe. They taste like a candy bar. Lemon Curd Parfait is so easy and delicious. A great dessert for any occasion.
Adorable bird nest candy treats are perfect for Easter. Chewy chocolate coconut goodness.
RECIPE and INSTRUCTIONS for these easy Easter nests can be found at the bottom of this post.
These easy homemade chocolate nests are gluten-free and peanut-free too. This no-bake recipe is the perfect place for young chefs to have some fun in the kitchen.
My grandkids get so excited about 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.
One day when they are older, we will decorate Ukrainian easter eggs. Preserving family tradition is so important. I love serving this Ukrainian Cheesecake for Easter 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. I even made an Easter ice cream of this childhood favourite.
Ingredients To Make No-Bake Birds Nests
- unsweetened shredded coconut
- good quality milk chocolate
- of course, you need something to put in the nests (jelly beans, Smarties, M&M’s my favourite is mini eggs)
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 nests out of shredded wheat and chocolate bars. He said they looked like a mini egg nest.
If you have had no-bake chocolate macaroons or haystack cookies these are similar. Chow mein noodle cookies are another great example.
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. It really does not get easier than this.
How To Make Chocolate Coconut Nests
This is a fun Easter treat. Super easy to make.
- Melt your chocolate either in the microwave or using the boiling water method on the stovetop. (see Recipe Tips below)
- Add the coconut and mix well.
- Place mounds of the mixture onto a silicone mat.
- Shape into a round nest, and be sure to make an indent for the eggs.
- Let harden.
- Fill with your special Easter treat and enjoy.
Suggestions/Recipe Tips
Mix and match the flavours. You can use a combination of milk and dark chocolate.
Use chocolate chips in place of regular chocolate. Please note that peanut butter chips, white chocolate, and butterscotch chips set much faster than milk chocolate. You will have to work a little faster forming the nests. You can also use candy melts for this recipe.
You can toast the coconut, and even use sweetened coconut flakes if you prefer.
Be sure to line your tray. I like to use a silicone mat (affiliate), but you can also use parchment paper, or line it with foil.
Melting the chocolate in the microwave. Microwave for 20-30 seconds, remove and stir. Place the bowl back in the microwave and repeat the process until it is melted.
Double boiler method of melting. Place chocolate in a glass bowl. Place the bowl over a pot of simmering (not boiling) water. The water in the pot should not touch the bottom of the bowl. Stir until all the chocolate is melted.
Store coconut nest candy at room temperature in an air-tight container for up to 5 days. Alternatively, if you make them in advance, freeze in a container or freezer bag.
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Easter Chocolate Nests
Ingredients
- 2 cups unsweetened shredded coconut
- 10 ounces milk chocolate (melted)
Instructions
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl in the microwave (or stovetop if you prefer).
- Add the coconut and mix well.
- Scoop mixture (I used an ice cream scoop) into piles on a silicone mat.
- Form each pile into a nest.
- Let harden until set. (I placed mine in the fridge).
- Once set, remove from mat. Place on serving tray.
- Fill with your choice of Easter treats. (Eggs, Smarties, Jelly Beans etc.)
Natalie
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!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes he would love helping you….ENJLOY!!
Bintu - Recipes From A Pantry
So easy to make with the kids at Easter and a perfect little treat for them
Homemade & Yummy
I LOVE them too…coconut and chocolate are awesome together.
Prasanna Hede
such a lovely treat! nests are so adorable!
Homemade & Yummy
Thanks so much.
Elaine @ Flavour and Savour
So easy! And so darn cute. I know my grandkids will love these too! Pinning.
Homemade & Yummy
My sure do!!
Cynthia | What A Girl Eats
Such a cute and easy dessert for Easter!
Homemade & Yummy
Yes so fun and easy is right.
Tiffany
OOOO these look SO good! I love how easy and pretty they are! Fun to do with kids.
Homemade & Yummy
Yes they are…and they love eating them too.
Lucy @ Supergoldenbakes
Coconut and chocolate – what a great way to make those nests. They would go down a storm in my house.
Homemade & Yummy
They sure did not last long here.
Andrea Broom
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.
Homemade & Yummy
I do find them totally addictive….I don’t even need the added candy treats.
Beth @ Binky's Culinary Carnival
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!
Homemade & Yummy
So easy…only 2 ingredients to such a fun treat.
aish das-padihari
These chocolate nests look so real. Must have been a crowd pleaser.
Homemade & Yummy
Yes they sure are.
Meg | Meg is Well
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!
Homemade & Yummy
HAHAH…oh I so remember counting to see if they found all the eggs.
Elizabeth @ SugarHero.com
These are so cute and easy! My son would love making these!
Homemade & Yummy
I bet he would too.
Alicia Taylor
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.
Homemade & Yummy
They are a fun and delicious treat.
The FoodOlic
Cute little nests!!! The kids will go crazy on those fun and chocolat”y” easter treats! Great idea!
Homemade & Yummy
Thank so much. We LOVE them.
Julia (@imagelicious)
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
Homemade & Yummy
I don’t recall Bounty…but they do taste like Mounds!!