You've probably seen the cake pops that seem to be everywhere lately... bake a cake, crumble it up with frosting, roll it into small balls or other shapes, stick a sucker stick in them, refrigerate, dip in candy coating & decorate. Well, I wanted to try these but decided to just make eggs to put into some sort of edible nests for the kids to take around to their friends. The kids and I had a good time and made both chocolate and vanilla flavored eggs, decorated in all sorts of fun ways. The candy coating dried faster than expected sometimes... we had a few eggs fall apart (too much frosting in the chocolate ones)... we realized we should have stuck the sticks in (for dipping) before refrigerating (the demo I first saw had them doing that afterward). But all in all, I'd say this was a success. We'll probably do something with cake pops again.
We made the nests out of all-bran cereal & marshmallows- basically rice crispy treats with all-bran... Not sure if they tasted that great, but they did the job :)
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