These Easter cookies are absolutely adorable and SO easy to make! It's a great project to do with the kids.
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❤️ Why you'll love it
- A cute, creative, and delicious idea for Easter baskets
- So much fun to make together as a whole family
- Super easy Easter treat—much simpler than dyeing messy eggs!
These Nutter Butter Easter chick cookies make the most adorable addition to any spring celebration. Plus, they're a great idea for budget-conscious moms because you can get the ingredients for pretty cheap!
🧾 Ingredients
This is an overview of the ingredients. You'll find the full measurements and instructions in the green recipe card (printable) at the bottom of the page.
🔪 Instructions
This is an overview of the instructions. Full instructions are in the green recipe card at the bottom of the page.
Step one
- Separate out the orange Reese's Pieces. Pro-Tip: snack on the others while you work! Cut the orange candy pieces in half—this makes a small beak for each of the little chicks.
Step two
- Place the yellow candy chips/melts in a medium bowl—make sure it's safe for use in the microwave! (You can also use a double boiler.)
Step three
- Melt the candy according to the package directions. Then, add the coconut oil and whisk 'til smooth.
Step four
- Dip each Nutter Butter cookie into the yellow chocolate mixture. Let the excess chocolate drip back off into the bowl.
Step five
- While the melted chocolate is still wet, add candy eyes, a beak, and other decorations to your little Nutter Butter chicks.
Step six
- Sprinkle each baby chick with yellow sugar to give it a fluffier look.
Step seven
- Place the Nutter Butter chick cookies on a wax paper-covered cookie sheet until the melted candy sets.
Have leftover Nutter Butters? Use them to make this amazing Nutter Butter Banana Pudding!
🥫 Storage
Once the Nutter Butter Easter chicks have fully set, store them in an airtight container at room temperature. They'll last about two weeks before turning into adult chickens. (Just kidding, but do enjoy within that time frame.)
You can freeze dipped Nutter Butters if you have a lot left over. They'll keep for up to six months—make them for Easter and Mother's Day, too!
If your kitchen tends to run warm, you might want to slip a piece of parchment paper in between the layers of cookies so they don't stick to each other.
📖 Variations
- Use white candy melts if you can't find yellow. Add single, small drops of yellow food coloring until it's a perfect, springy yellow. Gel or oil food coloring works best for this.
- Instead of buying a full-size package of Nutter Butter cookies, you can buy a snack-sized bag and make mini chick bites.
- Feel free to use orange M&Ms (or mini M&Ms) instead of Reese's.
- If you can't find edible eyes, use mini white chocolate chips. Add a tiny dab of black frosting or piping gel for the pupils.
- Add orange Reese's feet! Place two half-pieces of candy side-by-side at the bottom of "the body" of the chick.
- If you're out of coconut oil, vegetable oil will work, too.
- Yellow sugar crystals are sometimes sold as yellow "sanding sugar." You could also use golden caster sugar.
- Once the dipped Nutter Butters have set, pipe a zig-zagged line of melted white chocolate chips across the center of some of the chicks. Then, fill in the bottom up to the line. This makes it look as if your baby chicks are hatching out of a cracked egg.
💭 Things to know
Expert Tip: Use a fork to make dipping the cookies into the melted candy a little neater.
- Heat the candy melts slowly. Once they're burned, you can't fix 'em.
- Use a smooth knife (like a chef's or paring knife) to cut the candies. A serrated-edge blade tends to crumble the little pieces.
- If your local grocery store doesn't have any spring-themed decorations, try shopping online for mini candy flowers.
- These little Nutter Butter easter chicks will set quickly—sometimes in just 2-3 minutes. So keep a good pace, or work in an "assembly line" if you're making these with the kids.
- If the candy melt mixture starts drying up and getting too thick before you're done, you can slowly reheat it again. However, slow is key. It likely won't need as much time as it did to melt originally.
- Slide popsicle sticks through the filling of each cookie. Then, you can make the chicks "stand" in a dish of candy as a fun display for your Easter party. (Hint: use green candy or shredded crinkle-cut green paper to resemble grass!)
👩🍳 FAQs
I think they're cute gifts throughout the springtime and for spring-themed parties. They'd make an adorable baby shower treat, too!
No worries. Fill a piping bag or use a spoon to apply a drop of melted yellow candy coating to the back of the eyes (or beak, etc.) Then, use it as "glue" to attach it to the cookie.
Easy question! You can swap the Nutter Butter cookies for any oval, oblong-shaped, or even circular cookie. Then, use allergy-friendly chocolate chips or M&Ms instead of Reese's Pieces.
📚 Related recipes
- Perfect for holiday brunch, Easter Bunny Sweet Rolls are cute enough for kids to enjoy, but taste like they came from a fancy pastry shop!
- Not a fan of raisins? Well, even if you are, these White Chocolate Hot Cross Buns taste deliciously traditional but with a few modern twists.
- These Quick Easter Rolls are sweet, springy, and colorful, but don't take all morning to make thanks to an easy, time-saving trick.
- Bird's Nest Cookies (Haystack Cookies) are crunchy and full of peanut butter flavor. Best of all, they're an easy, no-bake Easter dessert.
- If you liked this recipe, you'll be bewitched by these Nutter Butter Ghost Cookies. (Save the recipe now so you don't forget it by Halloween!)
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You'll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.
- yellow candy melts
- oil based food color, optional
- candy eyes
- Reese's Pieces
- microwave safe bowl
- yellow sugar crystals
📞 The last word
Y'all, the Nutter Butter ghosts that I made for Halloween were such a hit I decided to make these cute little chicks for Easter.
I'm imagining cute, decorated cookies for each season...
I think they are just adorable - I hope you do, too!
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Nutter Butter Easter Chicks
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Ingredients
- 16 ounces Nutter Butter Cookies, 32 cookies
- 12 ounces yellow candy melts
- 16 orange Reese's Pieces, cut in half
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 64 candy eyes
- 32 candy flowers or other decoration
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Instructions
- Cut the Reese's Pieces in half. Set aside.
- Heat candy melts in a microwave safe bowl in the microwave according to instructions on the package. Different brands have different instructions.
- Whisk until smooth.
- Add coconut oil and whisk in.
- Dip the Nutter Butter Cookies in the melted candy melt mixture one at a time.
- Place on a parchment covered baking sheet and add the candy flower, 2 candy eyes, and add half an orange Reese's Pieces vertically for the beak.
- Sprinkle with yellow sugar crystals if desired.
- Chill for 30 minutes.
Notes
- Use a fork to make dipping the cookies into the melted candy a little neater.
- Heat the candy melts slowly. Once they're burned, you can't fix 'em.
- Use a smooth knife (like a chef's or paring knife) to cut the candies. A serrated-edge blade tends to crumble the little pieces.
- If your local grocery store doesn't have any spring-themed decorations, try shopping online for mini candy flowers.
- These little Nutter Butter easter chicks will set quickly—sometimes in just 2-3 minutes. So keep a good pace, or work in an "assembly line" if you're making these with the kids.
- If the candy melt mixture starts drying up and getting too thick before you're done, you can slowly reheat it again. However, slow is key. It likely won't need as much time as it did to melt originally.
- Slide popsicle sticks through the filling of each cookie. Then, you can make the chicks "stand" in a dish of candy as a fun display for your Easter party. (Hint: use green candy or shredded crinkle-cut green paper to resemble grass!)
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