Healthy Easter Nest Cookies
Posted Mar 21, 2018, Updated May 29, 2024
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These healthy Easter nest cookies are made with 8 nutritious ingredients in 15 minutes! They’re a delicious treat to celebrate Easter!
I turned one of my favorite treats into a vehicle for one of my favorite candies! (also try these Mini egg cookies and mini egg brownies)! I created this Healthy No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Easter Nest Cookies recipe as a fun treat I could make with my kids for Easter.
They’re made with only eight nutritious ingredients and are ready in 15 minutes. We make them every year and my kids love helping!
Healthy Easter Nest Cookies: Ingredients & Substitutions
- Peanut Butter. Any nut or seed butter works great in this recipe.
- Coconut oil. Butter or ghee work great instead of coconut oil.
- Honey. maple syrup is a great substitute.
- Coconut. You can replace coconut with additional quick cooking oats.
How to Make Healthy Easter Nest Cookies
Let’s walk through this recipe together step-by-step, and don’t forget to watch the video.
Begin by combining the peanut butter, honey salt and coconut oil in a saucepan and heat until smooth.
Then, add the quick-cooking oats, sea salt cocoa powder, coconut and vanilla and stir to combine.
Use a 1 Tablespoon measuring spoon to drop portions of the cookie mixture onto the prepared baking sheet. Use the back to press a well into the cookie and make it into the shape of nests. Continue until all the cookie mixture is used.
Chill in the refrigerator or freezer until hardened. Top with your favorite candy eggs.
Serve
Coconut oil has a low melting point, so if the cookies get too warm they will become soft, as such I recommend serving them slightly chilled.
Store/Freeze
Store the cookies in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week or in the freezer for up to 2 months.
Healthy Nest Cookies Recipe FAQs
Yes, you can easily double this recipe – click on the 2X button in the recipe card.
Substitute a different nut or seed butter like sunflower butter or cashew butter.
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No Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookie Nests
Ingredients
- ½ cup creamy peanut butter
- ¼ cup honey
- ¼ cup coconut oil
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 cup quick cooking oats
- ¼ cup shredded coconut
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Instructions
- Line a baking sheet with wax paper. Set aside.
- Heat peanut butter, honey and coconut oil in a small saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring often, until combined.
- Add vanilla, cocoa powder, oats, coconut and sea salt and stir. Then, remove the mixture from the heat.
- Use a 1 Tablespoon measuring spoon to drop portions of the cookie mixture onto the prepared baking sheet. Use the back to press a well into the cookie and make it into the shape of nests. Continue until all the cookie mixture is used.
- Chill in the refrigerator or freezer until hardened. Top with your favorite candy eggs.
- Serve cool or at room temperature. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
Video
Notes
- Peanut Butter. Any nut or seed butter works great in this recipe.
- Coconut oil. Butter or ghee work great instead of coconut oil.
- Honey. maple syrup is a great substitute.
- Coconut. You can replace coconut with additional quick cooking oats.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
These look delicious and I love that they are a healthier alternative this Easter! With all of the sickly treats this is exactly what I need! Thanks for linking to #YumTum this week!
These look so good!! I love how simple they are to make.
My boyfriend bought me some mini eggs for the first time in AGES and they were the best treat 🙂
Thank you Beverly! Those mini eggs are dangerous!!! LOL! I keep mine in the freezer so I’ll only eat a few at a time… 😉
These are adorable and so simple to make!! I think I’m going to try to make them on Saturday if I have extra time 🙂
Yay!! If you do let me know how you like them!!! 🙂 <3 They literally take 10 minutes...so so easy!
Those are so cute! HAPPY RESURRECTION SUNDAY!
Thank you Emily!! I hope you have a blessed Good Friday and easter! 🙂
Thjese are seriously too cute! They look delicious- perfect for an Easter gathering, especially one with kids!
Thank you Jessy! I love feeding the kiddos treats that don’t taste healthy when they really are! 🙂 Plus…I can pass up the peeps or jelly beans…but not a healthy chocolatey treat like these! 😉 Something the whole family loves!
These are so cute! I love no-bake cookies, but I’m with you on needing and wanting to make them WAY healthier 🙂 It’s been too long since I’ve had some – must try this version soon!
No-bake cookies ROCK! Especially when making treats for your family, the easier and less messy the better! 😉 I hope you try them and love them! 🙂 <3
I saw this and was hoping I had these ingredients on hand anddd I DO!! Can’t wait to try!
Yay!!!! I hope you love them!!! <3 🙂
I just made these and they are so great! Super fast and easy and not messy. Plus is there anything better than getting to witness chocolate and peanut butter become one?
This is the perfect thing to bring to share with family for Easter. I majorly lack in all craftiness departments, so my nests turned out looking like (cute) little blobs. I ended up just arranging them in a circle on a place and putting all the cadbury eggs in the center of the plate. Looks like a big nest! Still Eastery! Will definitely make again. Thank you Laura!
Yours looked super cute. 🙂 Proud of you for following a recipe! LOL! Glad you like them… <3
Wow, I love how easy this recipe is! Perfect for an Easter treat.
Thank you Jenna! It definitely is easy! From start to in your mouth in 15 minutes or less! 🙂 Have a great day!
I love this idea. I’m trying to have a tea party for all 5 of these kids next month and I wanted a cute cookie to serve. This is perfect! Thanks for sharing. XX
Aww!! I NEED to have a tea party for my daughter! That sounds like SO much fun!!! I hope they all enjoy these treats! 🙂