Easter Chicks Recipe

I had a few requests for the recipe so here it is:

The original recipe called for a chocolate rice crispy type  nest but we prefer the no bake cookies instead.

No Bake Cookies (the nest)

1 cube (1/2 cup) butter

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup cocoa

Heat in sauce pan. Once it boils, cook for 1 and 1/2 minutes

Then stir in:

3 cups oatmeal

1/2 cup peanut butter

1 tsp vanilla

Drop spoonfuls onto wax paper and try to make them nest shaped.

Then take twinkies and cut them in half.

Poke sprinkles in for the eyes.  Cut the orange slice candies in half and attach them with a tooth pick.  Then pipe on a little beak with orange frosting.  (I cheat and use the little tube of frosting you buy premade at the store!)  Then stick your chick in the nest and you are done.

One tip is to have the chicks all ready to go before you start making the nests.  Then you can put the chicks in the nest before they set up and they will probably stay perched better!

One recipe makes 12-14 good sized nests and one box of twinkies makes 20 chicks.