Children are very much fond of jelly beans and cookies. Imagine their excitement if jelly beans are embedded in a cookie. Jelly Bean Nest cookie is such a delight that children can not resist themselves from eating them all. Jelly Bean Nest Cookie is made on the pattern of a bird’s nest. These cookies look like birds’ nest. These cookies look tempting and beautiful too. Jelly Bean Nest Cookies can show your creative skills too apart from cooking skills. Then preparing these cookies is one of the easiest cooking. Here we have given a very easy to understand recipe. Just pull up your sleeves and start making this tasty recipe for your naughty tots!
Ingredients:
- All-purpose flour – 3 ½ cup
- Baking powder – 1 tsp
- Butter or margarine- 1cup
- Cream cheese- 200 gm
- Granulated Sugar – 2 cups
- Egg – 1
- Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
- Coconut extract – ¼ tsp
- Almond extract – ¼ tsp
- Jelly Beans
- Flaked coconut
- Green Food Coloring
How to Prepare Jelly Bean Nest Cookies:
Take a bowl and pour in it margarine and cream cheese. Beat them very well to make the mixture fluffy and light.
Add to it sugar, egg and vanilla extract, coconut extract and almond extract. Beat them too very well so that it becomes smooth and fluffy mixture.
Take another bowl and sift in it flour and baking powder. Add these ingredients to creamed ingredients. Make sure you do it gradually. Beat the mixture well after every addition.
Bake it in the preheated oven at 350 degree F for about 12 minutes.
Do not let the cookies go brown; its top should remain creamy white in color.
Just take these cookies out of the oven and instantly scoop out top of each cookie.
Dye the coconut flakes with green food coloring and fill these flakes into the top of each cookie.
In the end put three jelly beans in each cookie.
