Chocolate-Peanut Butter Bird Nest Cookies {Recipe} (2024)

These chocolate-peanut butter bird nest cookies are a fun Easter treat! With only three ingredients plus some chocolate candy-coated eggs, you have a festive treat that is super yummy!

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Since my family is chocolate and peanut butter fanatics, this chow mein noodle bird nest cookie is right up our alley. The chow mein noodles not only bring a crunch to this treat but add all the character too. When you add the candy eggs they are absolutely adorable!

Fun fact, my kids enjoy them so much they call them birds nest candy. Who doesn’t love a crunchy peanut butter and chocolate candy!

What’s needed for Bird Nests Cookies?

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Ingredients:

• chocolate candy melts (You can get milk chocolate candy coating from my shop.)
• peanut butter
• chow mein noodles
• chocolate candy-coated mini Easter eggs

Supplies:

• double boiler (to melt chocolate and the cookie mix mixture in)
• large cooking spoon
• mini muffin tin
• cooking spray
• plastic wrap
• teaspoon (for filling the muffin cavities)
• wax paper or parchment paper (if you don’t have a muffin tin)

Tips:

This recipe is fairly versatile and can be made in more than one way. Here are some suggestions you can use for birds nest candy chow mein noodles.

• If you don’t have chocolate melts you can use chocolate almond bark instead. When you do this you can make a chow mein noodle candy with almond bark and peanut butter.
• Substitute white chocolate melts to make a cookie that has a stronger peanut butter flavor. By doing this your nests will be light brown in color.
• When you don’t have peanut butter you can use butterscotch chips instead. For the coating, you’ll need to melt these in with your chocolate melts.
• You can also make these cookies with milk chocolate chips and peanut butter.

How to make Chocolate-Peanut Butter Bird Nest Cookies

Prepare two 12 cavity mini muffin pans by lightly spraying pans with cooking spray. Lay a piece of plastic wrap over the top of each pan. Push plastic wrap into each cavity.

Slowly melt candy coating and peanut butter in a double boiler. Candy coating has a very low melting point so the water does not need to boil. If candy coating gets too hot it will actually thicken and harden cloudy. Take your time and candy coating will stay liquid and harden with a sheen.

Gently fold in 1 package of chow mein noodles.

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Drop a teaspoonful of chocolate mixture into each cavity. Make sure the mixture fills the cavity so they stand up once you remove them from the pan.

Immediately place chocolate eggs in the nest before candy coating hardens.

No mini muffin pans? No worries. Drop the mixture by spoonfuls onto wax paper.

Allow chocolate-peanut butter bird nest cookies to completely cool and harden! Enjoy!

Note: I also placed the mixture directly into ungreased mini muffin pans. After placing filled pans in the freezer for 10 minutes the cookies popped right out.

If you need a simple dessert, this recipe can easily be converted in to chocolate haystacks with a peanut butter twist.

More Easter nest Ideas

Easter nests are so simple to make and are a great decoration for the holiday. This sweet table decoration is perfect to share a chocolatey treat. Or you may want a treat that also doubles as a decoration, like this Spring Rice Krispie Treat Nest.

I hope you and your’s have a very Happy Easter!

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