Healthy Easter Nest Cookies
Posted Mar 21, 2018, Updated Feb 10, 2025
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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 are delicious. .can you freeze them?
Hey Denise! Yes the cookies can be frozen! I recommend waiting to put the candy eggs in them until you are ready to serve though!
Hello,
Have you ever tried using powdered PB in this recipe? How would you recommend adapting it? Thanks!
made these with earth balance coconut peanut butter and they were amazing!!! 10/10 would recommend 🙂
Do you know how many cookies this will make and how long it will last in the refrigerator? It sounds so lovely!
Just wanted you to know that this delicious recipe was featured here:http://www.dreamingofbutterflies.co/easter-menu-5-delicious-recipes-newbies/
I would love to make these cookies! I was just wondering if you knew how many calories these had? I have been trying to eat better these past couples of months!
You have done it again, Laura! You create fool-proof recipes, I’m telling you! SOOOO excited to make these this afternoon! My mom is going to be so happy!
Are the candies dairy free also? I saw that these were dairy free but I’m having a hard time finding vegan eggs for the top, and they don’t look too easterly without eggs 😞 So hard to find vegan treats.
Hey Rebekah! The eggs that I used for these photos were not vegan. However you could use vegan jelly beans! There are also some great vegan chocolate egg options I found some great options at the Natural Candy Store. I also love this article from one of my favorite spots on the web…Go Dairy Free Easter Candy Roundup! I hope this helps!
How cute! I’m all about no-bake deserts and these little nests would be the perfect thing for my son to make. He has recently gotten into baking and I think he may be ready to venture out from cakes and cookies. Thanks for sharing at Inspiration Thursday!
Yum! These look delicious & will make a fun project to make with my kids today. Thank you for joining the Link-Up!!