April 4: Chick and Egg Nests

"Laying" the eggs!



Mixing the "nests".



It's Spring Break so Koen is home for the week which means he gets to participate in all the activities again!  In celebration of spring, we made Chick and Egg Nests for our snack.  The boys loved them...even if they didn't eat every part of the final product (Ty liked biting the head of the peep and just eating the eggs).  :)  These were super simple to make and turned out really cute!  We only made a half-batch since we didn't really need 30 of these treats hanging around the house (18 was more than enough!!!)  You could click on the above link to get the recipe, but I'll post it here as well.  Happy Spring!

Chick and Egg Nests

5 Tbs. butter (I always use butter instead of margarine)

6 1/2 cups mini-marshmallows (about 1.5 - 10.5oz bags)

9 cups Cocoa Krispies cereal

90 candy eggs of your choice (we used Whopper eggs)

30 Marshmallows peeps

Lightly spray muffin tins with nonstick cooking spray.  In a large sauce pan over low heat melt the butter.  Add the mini-marshmallows and stir frequently over low heat until all is melted and mixed.  Remove from heat.  Stir in Cocoa Krispies and mix to coat well.  Immediately, spoon into muffin tins to almost full, but not packed down.  With a greased or wax-paper-covered-thumb press down on center of the Cocoa Krispies treats to form a nest shape.  Allow to cool and set completely -- about 20 minutes.  Place 2-3 eggs in each nest.  Set a marshmallow peep on each nest.  Remove from tins into storage (gallon bags, Tupperware, etc).  Store at room temperature.  Yield:  30 treats.