Chocolate Crispy Easter Nests

Posted 2013-02-25 by Oxford Explorer ⇒ follow

Chocolate crispy Easter nests

It's always great to have a recipe that can be made from start to finish by young children with only minimal help from a grown up. These chocolate crispies can be easily turned into nests for a fun Easter treat.

If you have several children involved, they can take it in turn to do the mixing and then all make up their own nests.

Time: 15 minutes plus time to chill
Age: Under 5's
Level: Easy

Materials

150g cooking chocolate

125g rice crispy cereal (cornflakes would also work well or shredded wheat would give a more nesty look)

Chocolate eggs

Paper cases

Method

Break the chocolate into small pieces

Melt the chocolate in a microwave

Stirring the warm chocolate to make sure it has all melted

Pour in the rice cripies and mix well until they are fully coated in chocolate.

Make sure everything is covered in chocolate, you could even add some raisins too

If your mixture is still very chocolatey you can add some more crispies.

Spoon the chocolate mixture into paper cases. When you're doing this with little ones, you will end up having just as much outside the case as inside but you can scoop this up and pop in another case and it's great for improving their fine motor skills.