Happy Easter!

Eggtastic Easter Nests

Easter is another time for party food other than birthdays. Families often come together on the Easter Sunday and celebrate the day with a meal. Easter is a fun day for children with all the chocolate they get and is probably the second best holiday to their birthday! When I was young I remember we would always have an cake decorated with little fluffy yellow chicks sitting on top of the icing and my Mum would organise an Easter egg hunt for me.

Here's a quick and easy recipe to make Easter nest cakes which kids can help along with.

Makes 30

Ingredients

1 normal-size box of Shredded Wheat (16 large biscuits or 500g bitesize biscuits) - I only used 12 as the chocolate didn't look like it would cover any more shredded wheat!

400g milk chocolate, supermarket own-brand is fine

2 100g bags of Mini Eggs

Cake cases

Method

1. Crush the Shredded Wheat biscuits into a bowl using your hands or a food mixer. (I used my hands here and got very bored crushing so much shredded wheat! Maybe kids might find it more fun mucking around shredding the stuff, so definitely a job for a little one!)

2. Break the chocolate into pieces and melt in a microwave on a low heat, stirring every 30 seconds

3. Pour the melted chocolate into the bowl and mix with crushed Shredded Wheat

4. When mixed and all the Shredded Wheat is covered with chocolate, spoon the mixture into cake cases and press down in the middle of each to create a place for the eggs

5. Press two or three Mini Eggs into each nest.

6. Leave to set for at least 2 hours or less if refridgerated. (My mixture set very quickly just sitting out in the kitchen as it's so cold at the moment!)

Recipe from BBC Good Food website: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/10484/easter-nests

Simple but yummy Easter treats to make, these are so quick to rustle up that you can't not make them! 

They're my favourite to make at Easter and I remember we always used to make them at Primary school to bring home to your Mum, along with a hand made Easter card.

As my Mum still works at the school I used to go to, I asked her if she was making them this year and she was very disappointed to say they were not!

Enjoy your Easter whether it's munching cakes, Easter eggs or tucking into a traditional Sunday Roast!