Happy Easter!
Happy Easter! These simple to make cookies provide a tasty edible nest for small Easter egg candies.
NO BAKE EASTER EGG NEST COOKIES
Ingredients
3 cups oatmeal
ingredients for Candy Easter Egg Cookies
1 cup coconut
1/2 cup slivered almonds
2 cups sugar
5 tablespoons dark chocolate cocoa
1/4 cup almond butter
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
small Easter Egg candies
Directions
with peanut m&m’s
Mix oatmeal, coconut, and almond pieces in a large bowl.
Place sugar, cocoa, butter, almond butter, and milk in a large saucepan.
Cook, stirring frequently, until chocolate mixture comes to a full roiling boil.
Boil for 1-2 minutes.
Remove pan from heat and add vanilla. Stir in oatmeal mixture.
Scoop cookies out by spoonfuls onto wax paper. For regular non-holiday candy cookies they are finished at this point.
with mini robin eggs
Use a small spoon to make a depression in the center of each cookie and press in several small Easter Egg candies. Press the eggs into the cookie a bit so they will stick when it hardens. I used mini robin eggs and peanut m&m’s in Easter colors, but any small Easter Egg candy would work. Allow the cookies some time to harden before eating if you want them to stay together and not be sticky. Resistance is often futile though and some cookies usually get eaten right away.
Easter Egg Nest Candy Cookies
Substitutions
Different options for these cookies include using regular cocoa instead of dark, or half regular and half dark. Peanut butter and peanuts can be exchanged for the almond butter and almonds, or for a nut-free choice use 1 cup of butter and no nut butters or nuts at all. Coconut may also be omitted.
Game Day Treats
Decked out in team colors for the big game.
For a game day treat option, omit the vanilla and stir in 3 Tablespoons amaretto after removing chocolate from heat and before adding oatmeal and coconut. Decorate in team colors. Almond m&m’s are the closest to football shaped.
Cruise Stories 
Mmmmmm….I love your candy cookies. I made them for bible study once and everyone loved them. Of course they’d be even better with mini robin eggs on them 🙂
So cute. Have a wonderful Easter!
At first glance at the image, I thought, “What is that, an edible towel?” I’m sure these cookies actually taste much better than the towel.
I love your comments, they’re so funny (just like your blog.) The towel bunny is the My Cruise Stories version of the Easter Bunny. The cookies taste good, no comment on the towel since I didn’t taste that.
I am such an Easter ignoramus, I didn’t make the connection between the Easter Bunny and the cookies! Glad to know that the cookies likely taste much better than the towel bunny, even if its sprinkled with sugar.
I haven’t had those cookies in a long time. I might consider making them now but I think at the moment my wife wants me to spend a little less time in the kitchen. She says she likes the food but I make to many dishes when I cook. I have been doing more of the cooking lately but she still does all the dishes.