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Home » Lifestyle Parenting » Seasonal Fun » Easter Cake Recipe| How to make Easter Egg Nests

Easter Cake Recipe| How to make Easter Egg Nests

April 26, 2014 | 12 Comments

Me and my youngest son decided to get creative and messy during the Easter Half Term School Holidays. Armed with simple ingredients like Shredded Wheat, chocolate and a few other magic things from the kitchen cupboard. We got to work on creating an Easter Egg Nest in an attempt to make an Easter Cake Recipe that would be good enough for the whole family to enjoy.

We had a few pointers from the chief chef at Centre Parks, Lynn Dixon. Lynn showed us how to mix some cereal, such as bran or broken up wheat and add a little chocolate to form the mixture into an Easter Egg Nest.

This is such an Easy Recipe you hardly need any knowledge about cooking to conjure up these wonderful Nest Cakes.

Before we begin. I can assure you lots of love, determination and thought was put into making this Easter Egg Nest by Jake. I am very proud of the effort and skill he showed whilst making the Nest. In fact, he also helped with the washing up too! and that is a first.

How to Make Easy Easter Egg Nests

The Ingredients for your Easter Cake Recipe.

  • 1 Full box of Shredded Wheat
  • 2 Large bars of Milk Chocolate
  • 1 bar of White chocolate
  • 1 bag of Mini-Eggs
  • Golden Syrup

All Ingredients can be purchased at your local Supermarket.

How to Make the Easter Cake shaped like a Nest!

  1. We placed our shredded Wheat into a large mixing bowl, With a rolling-pin, we had fun breaking up the cereal into tiny pieces.Easter Cake Recipe How to make Easter Egg Nests - Ingredients
  2. The next stage, we broke the milk chocolate in pieces  and popped them into a glass dish ready to be melted over a pan of boiling Water (This was my starring role.)Easter Cake Recipe How to make Easter Egg Nests Melted Chocolate
  3. Now it was time to get messy, we added the chocolate and shredded wheat together.Easter Cake Recipe How to make Easter Egg Nests Base
  4. With clean hands, we scooped handfuls of the mixture onto a flat surface, then we began to mould and shape the mixture into a circular nest shape, then just like building a wall we worked up and up layering until we had a perfect nest shape. To add a little bit of a different taste, and because Jake loves White Chocolate, we melted a bar of White Chocolate and spread on the bottom of our newly made nest.Easter Cake Recipe How to make Easter Egg Nests with bow
  5. Always save the best part for last – decoration, We placed mini-eggs inside the nest to decorate the nest, as well as pinching the odd few for ourselves.We   finished the decoration with a  pastel lilac decorated egg in the middle, we placed it carefully on Easter straw and gave it pride of place on the table.

Easter Cake Recipe How to make Easter Egg Nests Finished nest with chocolate eggs

A lovely fun way to spend our first day of the school holidays. If you like this recipe or  would love to share your own ideas, please comment below. I would love to hear your feedback!

Easter Cake Recipe How to make Easter Egg Nests Finished nest with chocolate eggs Rachel Hirst

And here is the finished Easter Cake our wonderful tasting Easter Egg Nest. I think Mr Willy Wonka would be envious that he did not invent this recipe himself ha!

Summary
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Recipe Name
Easy Cake Recipes | Easter Egg Nests
Published On
2014-04-26
Preparation Time
30M
Cook Time
10M
Total Time
40M
Average Rating
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About Rachel Marsden

A parent to 3 children ranging from 6 to 27! I love to write about parenting topics, Interior design, beauty and Money Saving Tips.

Comments

  1. Donna says

    April 26, 2014 at 12:59 pm

    What a great nest! I’m a bit of a mini egg addict – It wouldn’t last long! x

    Reply
  2. Jill Cordner says

    April 26, 2014 at 3:36 pm

    Looks brill, may have to give it a go x x

    Reply
  3. Karen Hannah says

    April 27, 2014 at 12:53 am

    The nest looks really good! My children like to make this kind of thing but melted chocolate is a bit too messy for my liking so they don’t do it that often.

    Reply
    • rachelhirst says

      May 1, 2014 at 1:35 pm

      Ha. I know the feeling Kids love to cook and bake but they hate the cleaning afterwards! They should make a special cleaning products just for chocolate, so we don’t have to scrub for ages afterwards!

      Reply
  4. Oksana says

    April 30, 2014 at 5:14 pm

    Amazing nest, amazing idea 🙂 I am for sure will try to do it by myself next Easter!

    Reply
    • rachelhirst says

      May 1, 2014 at 1:27 pm

      Thank you! It’s lovely to see that someone else may try this egg nest! It was so tasty.

      Reply
  5. Rachel Craig says

    June 15, 2014 at 8:20 pm

    Well Done! Great nest. I think the use of shredded wheat helps to make it look realistic. Whilst I am sure it also tasted delicious. Best Wishes.

    Reply
  6. Heather Haigh says

    June 27, 2014 at 1:58 pm

    Easter egg nests take me right back to when I was a kid. Yours are great.

    Reply
  7. Pam Francis Gregory says

    July 7, 2014 at 6:35 pm

    Looks great – One to save for next Easter!

    Reply
  8. Kat Tew says

    July 13, 2014 at 11:22 am

    loved these as a kid

    Reply
  9. welshmumof3@gmail.com says

    April 3, 2015 at 10:43 am

    Fab easy easter bake 🙂 I’ve not made them like this since I was a child, must give them a go

    Reply
    • rachelhirst says

      April 3, 2015 at 4:46 pm

      Yes, you must they are super scrummy and lots of fun to make.

      Reply

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