Cadbury filled Cookie Nests

I love these fun little egg nests  and the surprise inside just makes them that much better.  Because you bake them in mini muffin tins they look like little cupcakes, but are truly cookies.  Such a fun Easter decoration and treat.

Ingredients:

2 1/2 cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

1 cup shortening

3/4 cup white sugar

3/4 cup brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 large eggs

46 Cadbury mini Eggs

Optional:

Green frosting (I use this marshmallowcream frosting.)

Jelly beans

Directions:

    

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cream shortening, white and brown sugars, and vanilla in the bowl of your mixer. Add eggs one at a time.  Mix well until fluffy.

In a separate bowl combine flour, baking soda, and salt. Gradually add flour mixture to wet ingredients, about half cup at a time. Mix until the dough starts to pull away from the bowl of the mixer.

Using a tablespoon of dough, wrap a Cadbury mini egg so it is completely covered. Place the cookie inside a well greased mini muffin tin. Only use a tablespoon of dough or your cookie will spread over the top of the pan and will break when you try to take it out.

 Bake at 350 degrees for about 9 minutes or until golden.   Let the cookies cool in the pan for about 6 or 7 minutes so you can lift them carefully out of the pan.  Do not try to take them out immediately or they will crumble. If  they don’t come out easily let them cool a minute more. But don’t cool the cookies completely in the pan or they’ll stick to the pans and you won’t be able to take them out.  After removing cookies from the pan set them on a rack and let them cool completely.

 Squiggle frosting over the top and add jelly beans. I use M&M eggs, Cadbury Mini eggs, and Starburst Jelly beans on mine.  

Adapted from In Katrina’s Kitchen