How to Make Any-night-of-the-week Baby Chicks in Nest

Baby Chicks in Nest.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook baby chicks in nest using 12 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Baby Chicks in Nest:

1. {Make ready of *Ingredients for making the nest**.
2. {Make ready 1 cup of dry shredded coconut.
3. {Make ready 1/4 cup of caster sugar.
4. {Take 1 of egg.
5. {Get of *Ingredients for filling**.
6. {Make ready 1/4 of OR 1/6 cup thickened cream.
7. {Get 1 strip of lemon rind.
8. {Prepare 150 gm of white chocolate.
9. {Get 2-3 drops of yellow food colour (optional).
10. {Get of *Ingredients for decorating**.
11. {Take 8 of orange coloured M & M's (to make beaks of the chicks).
12. {Get 16 of mini chocolate buttons (to make eyes).

Instructions to make Baby Chicks in Nest:

1. Separate the egg first and lightly whisk the egg white. **We are going to use egg whites only in this recipe.**.
2. In a bowl combine dried coconut, sugar and beaten egg white together..
3. Place a spoonful of mixture in the patty pan case or cup cake mould. With wet fingers press them gently and try to give a nest shape. Put those cases in a small muffin or cup cake tin..
4. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celcius and bake them for 10-12 minutes or until lightly golden brown on top..
5. Let them cool in the cup cake pan for 5 minutes. Then transfer to a wire rack with cases to cool completely..
6. Now get prepare the filling. Place a small saucepan over medium-high heat. Pour the thickened cream into the saucepan and add a lemon rind..
7. Bring to boil, then remove from heat and keep aside for about 5 minutes..
8. Chopped the white chocolate and put in a heatproof bowl..
9. Let the cream mixture return to boil once again and then pour over the chopped chocolates..
10. Take out the lemon rind and stir continously until the chocolate melts and get a smooth creamy texture..
11. Use a few drops of food colour in this stage if you want to..
12. Keep aside to cool down and thickened slightly..
13. Now gently take out the coconut tarts from the patty pan cases. **Coconut tarts are very fragile in this stage, so very careful about that. We need whole coconut tarts, not broken one for our chicks nest.**.
14. Fill in the tarts with melted chocolate. This is going to be our nest..
15. Now it's time to decorate our baby chicks. For that use chocolate buttons to make eyes. Place a orange coloured M & M's vertically to make the beak of a baby chicks..
16. Put in the fridge for about half an hour to set the chocolate properly. Enjoy this eye catching dessert with family and share love and happiness..

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