Easter egg nests recipe



Recipe for easter egg nests in our easy vegetarian recipes collection.

Recipe ingredients

  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 3 teaspoons yellow food color
  • 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
  • 2 cups flaked coconut
  • 36 jelly beans

How to make easter egg nests

  • Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  • In a medium sized bowl, with an electric beater on medium speed, beat the sugar, egg vanilla, and food color until well blended.
  • Beat in the flour until smooth, then fold in the coconut.
  • Drop by heaping teaspoonfuls 2 inches apart onto cookie sheets that have been coated with nonstick baking spray.
  • With a floured thumb, press an indention into the center of each cookie mixture to create a nest.
  • Bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until the edges are golden.
  • Remove from the oven and gently push 2 candies into each nest, use jelly beans, m&m’s, smarties, little chocolate easter eggs, whatever you can think of.
  • Let the easter egg nests cool slightly on the cookie sheets, then remove to wire racks to chill completely.
  • Store in cookies in airtight containers.

Pagination                                

Vegetarian recipes  •  easy-vegetarian-recipes.org © 2009

Sitemap  •   Privacy policy  •   Contact

The best free vegetarian recipes collection online!

Vegetarian recipes

Search this site

Many thanks for visiting easy-vegetarian-recipes.org! Be sure to bookmark us and come back soon. We are always adding new, easy and free vegetarian recipes to our collection! Please tell your friends about easy-vegetarian-recipes.org!

Other great recipes sites