The Monthly Cookie!

Happy Easter!...just kidding. April Fools! But here's a cookie you can make especially for Easter.

Easter Nest Cookies

These tasteful cookies will leave you with a wonderful chocolatey memory. They can be made all different ways. Our favorite way was with the peanut butter but feel free to add chocolate chips, caramel or anything else that fits your tastebuds!

Here's the recipe to these tasty creations:

Ingredients:

*1 stick of butter

*1/2 cup of sugar

* 1/2 cup of brown sugar

*2 eggs

*1 tsp. of vanilla extract

*1 oz. of bittersweet chocolate (melted)

*1 1/3 of flour

*2 tbsp. of cocoa powder

*1/4 tsp. baking soda

*Pinch of salt

*3/4 cup of oats

*1 cup of flaked coconut (optional)

*Cadbury Mini Eggs (optional)

*Peeps (optional)

*Peanut Butter (optional)

*Chocolate Chips (optional)

***Cadbury Mini Eggs and PEeps go on top (you can choose what ever you want like maybe easter m&ms or something like that) and you can choose to mix in chocolate chips, peanut butter or both.

Preheat the oven to 350* Fahrenheit. Grease two baking sheets. Beat the butter and sugars. Add the eggs, vanilla extract and melted chocolate and beat until smooth.

Sift the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt together and stir into the butter mixture. Stir the coconut (optional, chocolate chips (optional) and oats into the batter and mix to combine. Drop spoonfuls onto the baking sheets and shape into small rounds. Use a spoon to scoop out a tiny bit of peanut butter (optional) to drop onto the top of the cookie. Using a floured thumb, make an impression in the center of each cookie. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes.

Take the cookies out of the oven and transfer to wire racks for cooling. When completely cool, fill the "nest" with the Cadbury Mini Eggs (optional) and/or the Peeps (optional).

Makes 2 dozen.

These cookies are rated with a:

@ Easy

Be sure to send us a picture of YOUR version of this tasty creation at...

thegourmetscrappers@gmail.com.

Baked with love,

~The Gourmet Scrappers

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Thanks for visiting Bowl of Scraps. In our blog, we hope you enjoy the variety of things we do. From cookies to cards and cakes to crafts, we have a unique blog for the crafty kind. Check back for ideas, tips, crafts and more! We have tons of great goods and crafts to share with you and hopefully you will want to join in on the fun, too! We will not only share our crafty scraps with you, but we will also give you a how to on each of our creations. We make it simple, easy, fun and sometimes it's hard work, but when it is, the most amazing things come of it. And don't worry, we'll let you know how easy or difficult the craft is with our grading scale:

@-        Easy
@@-       Medium
@@@-     Difficult

So if you're wanting to make something simple that doesn't take much time, we have a craft for you! And if you have something more elaborate in mind, not to worry! Everything you need is on the Bowl of Scraps.

~Baked with love,
The Gourmet Scrappers