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Fun, decadent, soft, Easy Birds Nest Cookies will be our Easter treat this year!!!  They are also one of the treats for our Chocolate Party hosted by Roxana’s Home Baking this month.

I must say that I initially intended to make a chocolate roll cake with coconut brigadeiro filling.  But when I was rolling the cake, disaster struck!!! The cake broke apart, and there was no way that I could present it here, deformed, for these two special occasions.  At first, I felt like fainting… Then, the furious chef took over me in such a way that I was about to smash the cake against a wall. I know, I know…Poor cake! But then at that moment, something somewhat unusual happened.  I backed off, took a deep breath, and decided to go with the flow.  And you know what?  My family and I took care of the entire roll within one day. 🙂

Since there was a bit of extra batter, I transformed into the chocolate cookies that you see here.  Next I topped the chocolate cookies with a quick coconut icing, sprinkled them with coconut flakes, decorated with Cadbury eggs, and voila… Delectable, easy birds nest cookies are what we had the pleasure of munching on for the next few days.

Easy birds nest cookies

Oh… and they are fun to decorate, too.  They make a great cooking project for children, to serve as Easter treats.  Perhaps you may still have fixed in your mind our Easter Chocolate Cake from last year, a favorite of many…

Easter Chocolate Cake

But for now, enjoy our birds nest cookies!!!

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Easy Bird's Nest Cookies

Fun, decadent, soft, and easy Bird's Nest Cookies...A great Easter cooking project for children!
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 10 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 22
Author Denise Browning

Ingredients

  • For the Bird's Nest Cookie Dough:
  • 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened, or 1 stick
  • 2/3 cup white granulated sugar
  • 2 large eggs at room temperature
  • 1 cup all-purpose flour
  • 3 - 4 tablespoons baking cocoa powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • For the Bird's Nest Cookie Topping:
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 tablespoons coconut milk
  • Sweetened Shredded coconut
  • Cadbury mini eggs

Instructions

  1. To prepare the cookie dough: Preheat oven to 180°C/350°F. Grease/Spray a large baking sheet with non-stick cooking spray. Set aside.
  2. In the electric mixer with a paddle attachment, cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add one egg at a time, beating well after each addition, until just incorporated into the dough. Add both the flour and the cocoa powder, beating only until mixture is homogeneous. Stir in the vanilla.
  3. Scoop dough with a cookie scoop and drop over the greased baking sheet, spacing at 2 inch (5 cm) intervals. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes. Transfer baking sheet to a rack and let cookies rest for about 3 to 5 minutes or until they can be handled without breaking apart.
  4. Meanwhile, prepare the topping. In a small bowl, whisk in the sugar and coconut milk together until smooth. Spread the icing on top of each of the slightly warm cookies in a circular motion, sparing the edges. Let rest for 3 to 5 minutes. Dip each cookie, icing-side down, into shredded coconut, or simply place a mound of shredded coconut on top of the cookies. Drip a bit of icing on the center of the cookies to serve as glue for the mini eggs, and decorate with 3 mini eggs. Enjoy!

Enjoy these birds nest cookies…Birds nest cookies are easy to make and very delicious. Birds Nest Cookies is a great Easter cooking project for children! I love this birds nest cookies recipe. 


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  4. Abbe@This is How I Cook

    April 7, 2014 at 10:09 am

    Easter has such pretty treats. I know my family is always happy if I make mistakes because it means more for them!

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    • Denise Browning

      April 7, 2014 at 1:58 pm

      I know, Karen! The worst part of making a roll cake is having to roll it and see disaster strikes. I did the best that I could to not waste my time and batter…Here are the results! 🙂

      Reply

  11. Chris @ The Café Sucré Farine

    April 7, 2014 at 9:30 pm

    It seems that I have disasters just about every other day. Some are salvageable and some are not. When I was growing up if someone made something beautiful out of a mess there was a saying that they had “made a silk purse out of a sow’s ear” I believe that’s what you did Denise! 🙂

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    • Denise Browning

      April 8, 2014 at 12:09 am

      Thanks for stopping by, Karen! I worried about what to do with the remaining cake batter but I am pleased with the final result…I mean, I cannot complain having to eat both the broken cake and these cookies. 🙂

      Reply

  17. Deb

    April 8, 2014 at 10:45 am

    My family is very fond of Easter candy and would devour a plateful of these outstanding cookies! What a scrumptious way to “save” a recipe!

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  19. Deepti

    April 8, 2014 at 4:02 pm

    What a fabulous post Denise! a perfect way to celebrate easter.. well errors do happen but I am sure your family had fantastic time having it… lovely

    Reply

  20. Liz

    April 8, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Such beautiful Easter cookies! I love coconut, but, unfortunately, my family doesn’t!!! I really want to make (and EAT) these!

    Reply

  23. Amira

    April 8, 2014 at 9:53 pm

    What a lovely disaster this is 🙂 Anything chocolate can never be a disaster Denise. Clever thinking and very beautiful Easter cookies.

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  24. Sugar et al

    April 9, 2014 at 9:21 am


    Some of the best treats are born out of disaster. I can vouch for that! These look so fun and pretty…almost too cute to eat. Glad you decided to make them. Though I bet your cake was amazing too.

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  26. Maureen | Orgasmic Chef

    April 10, 2014 at 5:19 am


    Reminds me of when we had an American kid visiting who was a complete brat. It was her birthday and I made a cake (grumbling the whole time) and just before she went to cut into it, it fell into two pieces. My insides laughed.

    Your cookies are really sweet and perfect for Easter.

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  27. Roxana | Roxana's Home Baking

    April 10, 2014 at 7:31 am

    These cookies are so much fun! I’ve been meaning to make something similar since last year and yet, I doubt I will this Easter either.
    So sorry to hear about the roll cake, but glad you saved the day and made a disaster into this seasonal cookies
    Thanks for joining the party again this month

    Reply

  28. Gintare @Gourmantine

    April 10, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    I know the feeling of wanting to throw something towards the wall 🙂 Seriously, these little cookies are so cute and festive and would make kids so happy on Easter 🙂

    Reply

  29. Kumar's Kitchen

    April 10, 2014 at 8:38 pm


    Hi Denise,these cookies look fabulous….perfect for celebrating spring…well talking about disasters while cooking…we have had uncountable small and big in the kitchen.especially when we cook something for the first time…it sometimes fails…for example years back when we made our first butter cream for cake…we foolishly applied it to a warm cake and were stuck with a sticky,gooey mess…guess experience teaches us much more than books ever can…by now we get calm and happy when a mistake occurs,learn from it and get the thing right onto track…wasn’t easy first tough 🙂

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    • Denise Browning

      April 10, 2014 at 10:41 pm

      So great to hear that something good comes out from mistakes. Yes, the learning experience is the best part. Thanks so much for sharing your experience, Kumar! Wishing you an awesome Friday!

      Reply

  30. Purabi Naha @ Cosmopolitan Currymania

    April 11, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    Holy yum! It looks so good and perfect for Easter! I loved the colourful eggs in the birds nest. You are so creative, Denise.

    Reply

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