Easter Baking Special
Joanna Lambert
With Pancake Day (or Shrove Tuesday, as it also known) a distant memory, many people have given up sweet and chocolaty food for Lent. For those of you who haven’t, here’s a fun, quick and easy recipe to make delicious Easter egg nests.
Preparation time: less than 30 minutes
Cooking time: no cooking time required
Serves: 12
Ingredients
Top tip: Shredded wheat or puffed rice cereals can be used instead of the cornflakes.
Competition: Send us a picture of your nest with your name and form group to win a tasty treat
Preparation time: less than 30 minutes
Cooking time: no cooking time required
Serves: 12
Ingredients
- 225g/8oz plain chocolate, broken into pieces
- 2 tbsp golden syrup
- 50g/2oz butter
- 75g/3oz cornflakes
- 36 mini chocolate eggs
- Line a 12-hole fairy cake tin with paper cases.
- Melt the chocolate, golden syrup and butter in a bowl set over a pan of gently simmering water, (do not let the base of the bowl touch the water). Stir the mixture until smooth.
- Remove the bowl from the heat and gently stir in the cornflakes until all of the cereal is coated in the chocolate.
- Divide the mixture between the paper cases and press 3 chocolate eggs into the centre of each nest. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour, or until completely set.
Top tip: Shredded wheat or puffed rice cereals can be used instead of the cornflakes.
Competition: Send us a picture of your nest with your name and form group to win a tasty treat