Cute shredded wheat cereal chocolate nests. A nice Easter recipe to make with children and a great excuse for more chocolate mini eggs!
This is another quick, no bake recipe which is incredibly child friendly. It’s also a perfect spring or Easter “bake” and another excuse to use mini eggs! 🙂
Ingredients (makes 7 – 10 chocolate nests depending on the size of your cake cases and how generous you are!)
- 150 g / 5 oz chocolate of your choice. I used dark chocolate because that’s what I had in the cupboard.
- 3 tablespoons golden syrup
- 50 g / 1.5 oz butter/ margarine
- 100 g / 3.5 oz shredded wheat cereal
- Cadbury’s mini eggs or any other chocolate eggs of your choice!
Method
Get your cupcake or bun cases out and ready. I put them into a baking tray to help them keep their shape, but you don’t have to do this.
Put your shredded wheat cereal into a bowl. I don’t know if the cereal known as “Shredded Wheat” here in the UK is widely available worldwide… It should be because it’s made by Nestlé but, just in case you need to find a substitute, it looks like this:
Crumble the shredded wheat cereal into small strands until it looks like this:
Snap the chocolate into small pieces and put in the microwave for a minute in two 30-second bursts, stirring between bursts. Add the butter/ margarine and put back in the microwave for another 30 seconds. Give the mixture another stir to encourage the ingredients to combine. Add the golden syrup and put the mixture back in the microwave for a further 20 seconds. Give the mixture a good final stir, making sure all the chocolate has melted and the ingredients have combined to form a smooth, shiny mixture like the one you can see in this picture:
You could also put the chocolate, butter and golden syrup in a Pyrex or glass bowl and heat it over a pan of hot water.
Pour the chocolate mixture onto the shredded wheat cereal and stir until all the cereal is covered in the chocolate mix. I put a dessertspoonful of the mixture into each cupcake cake and used a teaspoon to make a small well in the middle of each shredded wheat nest. Now put two or three mini eggs into this well. Put the chocolate shredded wheat nests into the fridge to set.
The next photo also features a lovely Lindt bunny…just because!
Shredded wheat chocolate nests with golden syrup and mini eggs – an easy no-bake recipe!
And if you’re looking for other Easter / spring bakes, please check out:
My double chocolate Easter cake with mini eggs.
My chocolate orange butterfly cakes (ft. Jaffa Cakes!).
Yum!
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Thank you! I’m not a fan of the cereal but, strangely enough, really like with when covered in chocolate and syrup 🙂
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Everything’s better with chocolate!
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A perfect Easter treat…for everyone 🙂
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Thank you! They remind me of school when I was little. I think we made them at least once 🙂
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They look so delicious Claire sometimes going through your blog posts can be quite torturous in a good way! 😀
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Haha! Thank you! They were very nice 🙂
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These are adorable and are going to get made ASAP!!! 😀
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Thank you! And so easy to make too. All you need is a microwave. My kind of cooking! 🙂
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I think I might try them for Easter dinner next week! They’ll look cute on the table! Thanks!!!
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They’re so easy to make and everyone loves them 🙂 I hope they go over well.
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Looks delicious
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Thank you! They’re lovely 🙂
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A very clever idea and they look so pretty! This is the kind of way I like to get my fibre. 😉 Oh and in Canada it’s called Shredded Wheat too!
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Thank you!
I hoped they’d be Shredded Wheat everywhere. Nestle is one of those enormous companies. I imagine you can buy them on islands in the middle of the Pacific 🙂
Adding the chocolate and syrup does indeed improve the taste 😉
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Your recipes always look so yummy 🙂 can’t wait until my niece is old enough to bake with me – we will definitely be coming to your vast collection of cake and sweetie recipies x x
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Thank you! This was a good recipe for my 3 year old and me. Just mixing and scooping required. A bit tricky to stop him eating the mini eggs though! 🙂
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Yeah I think that would be my problem…not with my neice but with me. Chocolate is my vice x x
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Ooo I feel all motivated to try this with my son. Very pretty pictures and, yes, I’m with you on the mini egg love front!
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I love them. I’m quite glad they restrict their sale to a few months a year 🙂
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Perfect for children and very tasty too – I do love how enticing your recipes are!
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Thank you! This was a good one for my toddler. Really simple, lots of fun pouring, mixing and spooning. Only a bit tricky to stop him eating the mini eggs! 🙂
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They look so cute! ❤
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They are cute. And a dead cert way to make breakfast cereal more exciting!
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Mmm yum!!
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They were very nice. The chocolate definitely makes the cereal taste better in this c!
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I’ll bet!!
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Sorry… as I was saying before my phone sabotaged me… “in this case” 🙂
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how pretty!
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Thank you! 🙂
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I love this recipe Claire, so fun and pretty!
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And a lovely one to make with children because it’s safe… possibly quite messy, but at least there’s no worry about the oven, stove or knives.
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yes so true!
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You always make the cutest things and it makes me want to make them as well. Sadly, I have no baking or decorating skills whatsoever and I can’t even make macaroni and cheese without burning it (which makes for a very sad life…)
Maybe one day I can make something from your blog! 🙂
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Thank you!
You can’t go wrong with this (she says, confidently!). Just use 20-second blasts of the microwave to melt the chocolate, then butter and that’s basically it! 🙂
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Sounds easy enough (until I completely ruin everything. :P) I’ll give it a shot and see how it turns out! 🙂
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