Crafty Cat: Chocolate nests

Celebrate Easter with some delicious and realistic chocolate nests

By Cat Morley
Published: April 9th, 2009 | 10:25am

You will need:
5 large bars of Shredded Wheat
400g (about 14 ounces) milk or dark chocolate
4 tbsp honey
4 tbsp sesame seeds
24 mini chocolate eggs
12 baking cups

1. Break the Shredded Wheat up in to a bowl.

2. Break the chocolate up into a heat-safe container (pyrex works well) and melt down above a pan of boiling water. Stir in the honey.

3. Mix the melted chocolate with the Shredded Wheat and sprinkle in sesame seeds.

4. Place a spoonful of mixture into a baking cup and press to form a well in the center.

5. Add a few mini eggs and leave to set.

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Cat Morley is a 23 year old Scottish crafter, now living in London and running her Web site, Cut Out + Keep. Having started the site five years ago as a personal blog, it became a social network (and her full time job) after finishing university in 2007. The site has become home to over 6,000 step-by-step craft tutorials, submitted from members across the globe. She is also the editor of the site's accompanying online magazine, Snippets.