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Delicious Easter Egg Baskets - recipe:-

Ingredients:- small box of the large shredded wheat (not mini shreddies). 3 X 230gram Cadburys Dairy Milk Chocolate, Large packet of cadbury mini eggs.

Equipment:- A glass mixing bowl that will fit in a pan of boiling water so that the bottom of this bowl can touch the water in the pan. Bun cases and table spoon.

To make:-

Crush all the shredded wheats into tiny fine bits ( throw away or eat any that don`t crush)
Boil water and put in pan.
Put glass bowl into pan on top of water so water is touching the bottom of the bowl.
Keep on very low heat and add broken pieces of all the chocolate bars into the bowl.
Steam heat will melt the chocolate. Keep stirring until chocolate has melted.
Keep on low heat and gradually add all the shredded wheat into the glass bowl whilst stirring.
When all shredded wheat covered in hot melted chocolate, use table spoon to remove shredded wheat into bun cases - makes 12 approximately.
Shape with fingers into nests.
Leave to cool and add mini eggs.

Enjoy.

This item was edited on Friday, 2nd April 2010, 01:16

Missus is working today, so I may give that a go, and if she`s lucky save one or 2 for her. I know my mum normally makes them. Actually, maybe I`ll just go buy a packet :)

I`m also tempted to make some hot cross buns

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/hotcrossbuns_397.shtml

but again, I`m lacking some of the ingredients, so I`ll probably just end up buying some pre made, avoiding the inevitable disappointment  if I do a "King Alfred" ;) The missus got some in M&S teh other week which were very good, that`s too far to go, but Tesco Express will have their Finest ones

The perfect plan, I can buy some of your shredded wheat nests, some hot cross buns, take them out their packets. print off the instructions for making both and leave them in the kitchen, sprinkle some flour on them, and it will look like I`ve been really busy all day, and haven`t just been sat on my arse at the PC :)