You’re right, these Chocolate Cream Nests are way too indulgent but my goodness they were greatly appreciate by the family. This recipe is an old one, originally it had photos of Lewis making the nests step-by-step. At 14yrs old Lewis does not want his photos on my website, at the very least not with the hair cut he had at the time (giggles) so I decided to reshoot the photos.
But as time has passed and free from Easter treats are so much better now I decided to ‘pimp’ my chocolate cream nests to the max and load them them with mouth-watering chocolate Easter treats.
Enter the amazing KitKat Bunnies and these beautiful Galaxy Rose coloured eggs!
Can I make these cream nests dairy free?
Believe it or not, you can make these chocolate cream nests dairy free. But, it takes a lot of swapping out of ingredients to do so. Use your favourite dairy free chocolate alternative for the melted chocolate nest.
For the chocolate cream filling you can whip some high fat coconut milk with some dairy free chocolate spread (you could use a sweet freedom sauce for this).
To decorate these nests you have more of a challenge to make them look anything similar but there are dairy free mini Easter eggs out there or you can use white dairy free chocolate drops or how about a non edible chick to decorate instead. That said, I have seen white and pink chocolate bunnies in Sainsburys recently that are gluten and dairy free.
What can I use instead of Nutribrex?
I appreciate that not everyone will have access to Nutribrex to make these Chocolate Cream Nests this Easter. The reason I used them was as a great way to use up old forgotten biscuits before they go past their best. That said, I actually really like the sorghum flavour of the cereal biscuits as they have a slight savoury flavour to them making treats less sweet.
If you cannot source this cereal then use gluten free cornflakes or even better gluten free wholegrain flakes and lightly crush them. These are not cornflake cakes, the final treat is denser which is better to hold your cream filling (and in my opinion, less likely to stab you in the gum like I often find with chocolate cornflake cakes, those things bite back!)
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Mini Chocolate Easter Nests (GF) Simnel Cake Slices (GF, DF, Ve) Rocky Road (GF)
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Quick Gluten Free Chocolate Cream Easter Nests Recipe
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Quick Gluten Free Chocolate Cream Easter Nests
Ingredients
- 200 g milk chocolate
- 4 biscuits Nutribx
- 100 ml double cream
- 50 g chocolate spread
- 6 KitKat Bunnies or other treats e.g. Sainsbury's mini eggs
Instructions
- Start by melting the chocolate in a microwave
- Add the Nutrabix by crumbling into the melted chocolate, don't crumble too much, you want flakes too.
- Grease a 6 hole deep muffin tin.
- Add 6 dollops of mixture to the tin, press well into the sides and create a well in the middle of the mixture to allow for the cream.
- Pop in the fridge for at least 30 minutes to set.
- In a bowl whisk the cream and chocolate spread together. If using coconut cream for a dairy free alternative, pour away the coconut water and only use the solid coconut fat from one 450g tin
- Remove the chocolate nests from the fridge and gently prise the nest from the side of the tin using a rounded knife.
- Add dollops of the cream mixture to each nest and decorate with KitKat Bunnies, mini eggs, whatever takes you fancy – go wild!
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OMG I love how the bunnies are bathing in a chocolate hot tub! These are so super cute.
Haha, I love this ‘hot tub’ description Janice
Oh man these look incredible I must try them immediately!!… however it is 10pm so I will have to wait lol.
Haha, I’ll let you off!!!
Forget Easter – I fancy making some of these now!
Should re-title them ‘any time of year’ :-D
Love these, I’m trying to be good at the moment (no chocolate until Easter) but I may have to make an exception! We will definitely be adding these to our must makes for Easter.
Hehe, they do look rather scrummy don’t they Nova…I say ‘look’, all I could do was smell them! Note to self; make dairy free version!!!
Yum yum yum!! These look ridiculously good!! x #freefromeaster
Aw thank you Nath, they really are!!! :-)
OMG – Yes please!!! These would be so easy to make Peachick Friendly! (who am I kidding – I want to make them safe for me to eat!!)
Haha, at least your honest! ;-)
Nom! These look so good! Fab Easter treats!
Major chocolate overload and not dairy free so couldn’t wat…just smell lol, they went down a treat with the family though xxx
Your little nests look yummy! I love cereal chocolate treats, they’re always so addictive! Your little (big) man looks like a pro in the kitchen. Love the first photo of him posing for the camera!
He was in such a lovely mood that day, I love how his personality shines through in these photos…many have not seen this side of him outside these walls xxx
Oooh Rebecca – these look very very naughty, but also very very nice! I reckon my kids would love them! It’s fab when kids get to the age when they can make a whole recipe by themselves. I’m just about getting there with my daughter who is 8 and my son, who is 6, is not far behind! Eb x
I know, real naughty right! Love the kids baking, it’s such a key skill, can’t wait to hear of your twos creations when the time comes x
Oooohhh decadent! Lovely to see Lewis enjoying the kitchen…… I think I’ll try sitting on the worktop….. Looks fun.
There is something about Easter which just NEEDS mini eggs. xx
Hehe, I’d like to see that, you sitting on the worktop! Next photo shoot maybe? XXXX
What a handsome boy! And great that he can prepare these all by himself. I bet he’ll have even more fun eating them!
Thank you Emma, he is gorgeous isn’t he. Funnily enough, Lewis had a couple of the mini eggs and wasn’t much bothered about the rest, he needs to be in the right mood for chocolate! Doesn’t stop his enjoyment making them though x
These look fab but I can assure you I could eat all of them at once no bother at all!!!!
Hahaha! that’s hilarious, I kept walking past and sniffing them, soooo tempted but I was a good girl, no dairy bloated bump for me, so-sir-ee!