If you love scotcheroos you’ll love these scotcheroo bird’s nest treats! Bite-sized, topped with chocolate eggs, and perfect for Easter! Make a batch and bring them to a spring gathering, they’ll go fast!
You might also like our butterscotch bird’s nest (haystack) treats, our carrot cake cookies, or our peeps sugar cookies (these are so fun and CUTE!).
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Scotcheroo Nests
Scotcheroos have been a favorite treat of mine for over 30 years. My grandma Eva knew how much my siblings and I loved them and would make them when we’d come to her house. Grandmas are the best. She taught me how to make them and I taught my kids how to make them. So easy and so SO good. It was time to make a cute spring version—-bird’s nests! I wasn’t sure how they’d turn out, but the scotcheroo mixture was actually super easy to shape, making them the perfect bite-sized treat.
This recipe makes 30 nests if you use a mini muffin pan or 15 nests if you use a regular-sized muffin pan. I like the mini version, and my pan only has 24 cavities, so I usually make 24 mini nests and 3 regular-sized nests (to use up the mixture). I topped mine with Cadbury eggs, but we also like Reese’s Pieces eggs (they look just like these only brighter colors). Whoppers robin’s eggs could be cute too.
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Scotcheroo Bird’s Nest Treats Ingredients
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 cup peanut butter (creamy or chunky)
- 6 cups rice krispies cereal
- 2/3 cup butterscotch chips
- 2/3 cup chocolate chips (milk chocolate chips or semisweet chocolate chips)
- chocolate egg candies
How To Make Scotcheroo Bird’s Nest Treats
- Spray a mini muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Heat syrup, peanut butter, and sugar over medium heat until smooth and sugar has been dissolved. Remove from heat.
- Pour peanut butter and syrup mixture over 6 c. of rice cereal. Stir until completely coated.
- Scoop the mixture into the muffin tin using a medium cookie scoop (2 Tbsp. scoop). Press down with a spoon to flatten (a tiny measuring cup or shot glass works great for this).
- Allow scotcheroos to cool for 15 minutes.
- Remove scotcheroos from the muffin pan and place them on a platter.
- Melt chocolate chips and butterscotch chips in a double boiler or microwave. I usually use my microwave and heat the chocolate chips and butterscotch chips for 30 seconds, then I stir and heat for an additional 15-20 seconds. Every microwave is different, my advice is to go low and slow. Short intervals, stirring until smooth and creamy. DO NOT OVERHEAT CHOCOLATE.
- Spoon chocolate mixture over each scotcheroo nest. Add a few chocolate eggs.
The chocolate will harden after it cools (refrigerating the nests speeds up the process). Store in an airtight container up to 7 days.
Scotcheroo Bird’s Nest Treats Recipe
Scotcheroo Bird's Nest Treats
Equipment
- saucepan
- wooden spoon
- mixing bowl
- microwave safe bowl
- mini muffin pan
Ingredients
- 1 cup corn syrup
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 6 cup Rice Krispies cereal
- 2/3 cup milk chocolate chips
- 2/3 cup butterscotch chips
- chocolate egg candies
Instructions
- Spray a mini muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Heat syrup, peanut butter and sugar over medium heat until smooth and sugar has been dissolved. Remove from heat.
- Pour peanut butter and syrup mixture over 6 c. of rice cereal. Stir until completely coated.
- Scoop mixture into the muffin tin using a medium cookie scoop (2 Tbsp. scoop). Press down with spoon to flatten.Allow scotcheroos to cool 15 minutes.Remove scotcheroos from muffin pan and place on serving dish.
- Melt chocolate chips and butterscotch chips in a double boiler or microwave.
- Spoon chocolate over each scotcheroo. Add a few chocolate eggs.
Notes
Nutrition
I’m thinking to make these and ship them in a care package to my girl in college. How long/well do they hold up—crispness of the nests, etc.? Would they last 3-5 days? 🙂 Thanks much!
They should be just fine! I sent scotcheroos to my son (3days) and they did great!
Is there a substitute for corn syrup?
Hi, I’m not sure what the substitute would be. Maybe you could look and see if honey would work?
Double checking if these are gluten free?
As long as the Rice Krispies cereal that you use is gluten free you should be good to go! I know that some brands contain barley.
Yum! Can’t wait to try them. Also, where’s your bunny treat stand from?
Hi! It’s from oriental trading, but they stopped selling them a couple of years ago. 🙁
Doh, yes, butterscotch. I made them just with a mix of milk & dark choc, yummo, just a bit sweet for our tastebuds. Do I have to use the sugar or could omit that this time?
You can probably leave it out. It may affect the texture and how they hold together, but they’ll still be delicious!
We love crunch – are these crunchy or soft? Don’t have caramel chips where I live, could I substitute a hard crushed up caramel or best with a soft caramel? Thanks
Hi! The Scotcheroos don’t have caramel chips in them. Are you referring to the butterscotch chips? If so, you can leave them out and use all chocolate chips if you don’t have butterscotch chips in your area!