last night amanda and i created our spring-time speciality! bird nest cookies. i'm not certain which is her favorite --- helping to form the cookies, dipping them in coconut, adding the 'eggs' or eating the jelly beans!!! i do believe eating the jelly beans wins! she does love them. we made a double batch which filled a tin tray for our friends at prairieland herbs and gave us a plate full for ourselves! they did not last long...melanie came around once they were baked and ready to be tested!!! :)
1/2 cup butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 egg yolk (reserve the white!)
1 cup flour
1 cup coconut
tad bitty bit of corn syrup
baby jelly beans...amanda's favorite is the starburst ones!!
cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add egg yolk. Mix in flour. simple so far!
shape into balls...dip in egg white then roll in coconut. place on cookie sheet. press a deep indention in center with finger. bake at 350* for about 10 minutes...just until cookie begins to brown. once cool dip jelly beans in syrup and place in the center of the nest.
ENJOY and share with a friend! what a wonderful promise of spring....
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