Great Spring fun!
The kids and I have been making these candy 'bird nests' for years.
Sorta like rice krispy treats only cute. It is a slow process but easy and takes only a few ingredients.
You can use just half the ingredients if you only want one pan. I love that these are not sickeningly sweet.
Some recipes use other things for nest material.
CANDY BIRD NEST RECIPE
Ingredients:
8 cups chow mien noodles (La choy in the bag at walmart is a cheap price)
1/2 cup butter
4 cups mini marshmallows ( I used a 10.5 oz bag)
non-stick cooking spray
Mini 'robin eggs' (I like the mini speckled blue ones) or whatever else you prefer such as jelly beans.)
Instructions:
Coat 2 muffin tins with non-stick spray.
In a large pan, melt butter and marshmallows over low eat.
Stir in the noodles until completely coated with the mixture.
This takes a while. Use a nice stiff spoon and don't put your hands in the hot goo!
Fill each of the cups in the muffin tins with the noodle mess. Don't overfill. I actually used a mini muffin tin to make little ones that are easier to share and a more reasonable portion for us...because they were turning out rather huge. So use however many tins you need to get them the size you want. Just don't forget to spray them.
Get your hands greasy or spray with non-stick spray.
Use your hands to carefully hollow out the center of each cup, pushing the noodles up the edges of the pan a bit to make a nest shape.
Cover the muffin pan loosely with plastic wrap and put it in the fridge for about 1/2 hour.
Reserving the plastic wrap you used, remove the nests from the pan and place onto your serving tray. Loosely cover again with your plastic wrap and return them to the fridge until completely set .
Once they are cold and firm remove them from the fridge and let them dry out a little bit.
They will be much less fragile as they dry and harden.
You are now ready to fill with your candy eggs and serve or place in cellophane bags.
Be sure to get the
RESURRECTION DAY POTATO CASSEROLE recipe too :)
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