Center Parcs April Challenge - Edible Easter Egg Nests with Tots 100

Center Parcs April Challenge - Edible Easter Egg Nests with Tots 100

I managed to do Februarys Tots 100 and Center Parcs challenge this year so far where we made a fun Homemade Hoopla.

I unfortunately missed my chance in March but was rather excited when I found I still have time to enter Aprils - not a lot of time but luckily we had done the preparation earlier this month without even realising. So a quick blog post later and we will hopefully be in the running for a fabulous break with the amazing Center Parcs - what a dream.

The competition details can be found over at Tots 100! 

This month the challenge is Easter nests, ours just had to involve chocolate...... well it is Easter after all.

We used this helpful tip from Center parcs Chief Creative Chef, Lynn Dixon

'Mix some cereal, such as bran or broken up wheat, together with some melted chocolate and form the mixture into nest-like shapes, leaving to cool for a finished nest.'

Rice krispies were our choice of cereal as that's all we had in the cupboard at the time of making and thought they would be easier for a two year old to mix together rather than the wheat or bran cereal, we were pretty happy with end result.

Click here to read Lynn's other fab tips.

We put our nests into green bun cases to give the effect the nests were in trees and decorated with some cute chicks and of course, the bearer of all delicious treats, the Easter bunny.

Eyeing up the ingredients..... the Master chef.

Melt the chocolate and add the cereal.

Mix well repeating the magic word "mmmm" at all times.

Keep mixing until all cereal covered in chocolate, rubbing your belly at the same time as mixing is our chefs party trick, not as easy as it looks!

Add a couple of chocolate eggs to the top of each nest once they are spooned into bun cases, decorate with cute chicks and chill.

I hope you will agree they look delicious and pretty 'nest like' considering a 2 year old took the lead!

We had great fun making these and would encourage you to give them a go at any time of year, we will definitely be making these again soon because of the quickness and ease of putting these together.

This is my entry to the Center Parcs and Tots 100 april challenge, if I'm chosen I would like to visit Longleat village

Easter Bakes Competition Entry

Easter Bakes Competition Entry 

The Pink Whisk & Two Little Fleas

Fantastic baking blog The Pink Whisk has teamed up with Bingo Review portal Two Little Fleas to run an Easter Bake & Make Competition where they are offering a whopping £500 vouchers for their favourite Easter creation, some very generous runners up prizes too so thought I'd take a slice of that cake **Ahem** I mean action.

I am not the worlds best baker and I noticed they are asking for makes as well as bakes so decided to head down that route. As long as they were edible, Easter looking and I had fun making them it would be a good start and I'd be happy with that.

I wanted to involve my little boy as I don't play in the kitchen with him a lot and he loves trying to do things himself now. Also if I involved my two year old and they turned out disastrous I could tell my hubby 'Archie made some Easter buns' to save my embarrassment.... as it turned out Archie did make them and they are not too shabby hehe.

I needed to go for something simple but effective as I was employing the two year old so decided on Krispie Easter Nests. I remember making these with my Mum when I was young and thought it would be great creating similar fun memories with my little man.

He has plenty of time to learn the true meanings behind Easter when he's older so these makes are what its all about when you are a child.... Chocolate and Eggs with a few chicks and a bunny thrown in for good measure. Just incase you didn't get the Easter theme from our makes alone!

Ingredients

Chocolate (We used Dairy Milk)

Cereal (We used Rice Krispies)

Chocolate Eggs (We used Mini Eggs)

The start of something fun

So after you have trawled your way through the mass of ingredients needed, I will give you the mega complicated directions to put our makes together. 

Directions

1. Melt chocolate in a pan on the hob or a bowl in the microwave. We microwaved for speed and safety (I don't trust Archie by a hob)
2. Add cups of cereal and mix, add a bit at a time until you're happy with the chocolate/cereal ratio.
3. Spoon into bun cases or mould into round nest shapes on a tray/plate.
4. Push two/three chocolate eggs into the top of each nest.
5. Chill in the fridge until chocolate is firm and the nests hold together.
6. EAT!

Yum, can I have my cereal like this every day?!

One for the nest, one for me!

Our finished creations

We hope you like our makes, we had a lovely time making these and an even lovelier time eating them.
Thanks to The Pink Whisk and Two Little Fleas for giving us the inspiration and getting us into the Easter spirit.
If you're a blogger and fancy entering yourself here are the competition details.

Happy Easter Everybody!