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Chocolate Chip Easter Baskets

Nestle sent us some of their seasonal Easter candies and asked us to share a favorite recipe wtih you.  We’d been looking  for a cute and unique Easter treat- and found the most adorable/easy recipe on the Nestle site for Chocolate Chip Easter Baskets.  I guarantee that you will have fun making these with your little ones.  These would make great classroom treats as well!  With just 5 ingredients, these bite sized treats can be assembled in just minutes. Love Easter themed goodies? Check out our Lamb Cinnamon Rolls recipe and our Carrot Crescent appetizers too!

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Chocolate Chip Easter Baskets

Ingredients:

1 Package Nestle Refrigerated Chocolate Chip Cookie Bar Dough

1/2 Cup Flake Coconut

4 drops of green food coloring

Jelly Beans (the WONKA® SweeTARTS® or SPREE® Jelly Beans work well)

Thin String Licorice

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Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Using a mini muffin pan, press one square of cookie dough into each well (pressing against the edges to form a basket shape).  Bake 8-10 minutes.  While cookies are still warm, use a toothpick to poke holes onto each side of the cookie, where the licorice “handles” can be inserted.  Make sure that the holes are the same size as the licorice.

While cookies are cooling, add 4 drops of green food coloring to the coconut.  Use a fork to mix the food coloring to make “easter grass”.

Allow cookies to cool in pan for 10 minutes.  Remove, and allow to cool to room temperature.  Insert licorice handles into cookie.  Add green coconut grass to the center of the basket and top with Jelly Beans.

 

You can also do these and put some of the Nestle Crunch or Butterfinger foil-wrapped eggs into the baskets- there are many, many options – have some fun with these!

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Thanks to Nestle for sending some product samples.  Opinions are, as always, our own.

About Brett

I'm a 40 something lifestyle blogger living in Connecticut with my husband and our 3 kids, plus our two rescue pups. We love to hike, travel, play games, watch movies, and just be outside together! Having 3 active kids makes for a hectic schedule and I try to share content, recipes and other things that can help to make today's busy family life simpler, easier, or just plain more fun!

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Comments

  3. Maria Iemma says

    These are adorable and easy to do – my little granddaughter would love them and so will my older kids. Chocolate chip cookies are a favorite at our house

  4. Sandra Zumbrun says

    The Chocolate Chip Easter Baskets are adorable. I’m going to have to make some for my family.

  7. Paula V says

    I’ve been seeing a variation of these online. One girl had them with pipe cleaners and I wanted to say hey wait you can use twizzler and it all be edible. So cute. Thanks for sharing.

  8. Sylvia Zajis says

    This is a very cute idea and actually something that most everyone can complete without lots of cake decorating knowledge. Thanks for sharing.

  10. Sherry Butcher says

    The Chocolate Chip Easter Baskets look great, how many times did it take to get them to stay together okay?
    Are the handles held in place with melted Chocolate Chips? This look so good I think I’ll get the stuff this week to try to make them. Be back

  11. Sylvia Ortiz says

    These cupcakes are adorable and look so delicious (but they’re too cute to eat!) I would love to try this recipe alongside with my daughter; she just turned 22 yesterday but she’s still my “little girl”! 🙂

  20. jody jamieson says

    these are very sweet to look at great for the kids ill try them this week for kinda thank you

  23. Nicole Becker says

    These are soooooo cute!!! And my favorite is chocolate chip cookies anyway so thanks for this great Easter cookie recipe!!

  24. Jane Ritz says

    Those are darling. I tbhink I’ll make some for the grandchildren. Thanks so much for sharing.

  25. Caitlan Meador says

    Oh my goodness, these are so cute and they look delicious! I love that this is the first time I have seen anything like this, way to go and thanks so much for sharing…you are awesome!

  29. Mer says

    These are almost (note I said almost) too cute to eat! Plus they don’t seem too difficult.

  31. tami s says

    I’m going to make these and have y grandson help fill them for his preschool class. How cute they are!

  32. Eva Mitton says

    Aren’t these unique – perfect for Easter and definitely conversation starters. Love these they are adorable.

  37. John Heim says

    Jelly beans and coconut? What a combo – even someone like me could make something as simple as this and (hopefully) not mess up!

  39. shanon hyatt says

    This is such a super cute idea-kids are sure to like these little baskets. I think these would be a classroom hit. Thanks for sharing:)

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