My grandmother used to make things called Chocolate Spiders, which were from a recipe on the back of the packets of Chang's Crispy Noodles. I remember them from when I was about ten, and the same recipe is still on the packets (there is also one for a salad with Chinese cabbage and noodles and a sweet and sour dressing, which is awesome). These are Chocolate Spiders with the addition of little eggs, which transforms them into Easter Nests. I love them because they are incredibly easy to make, and taste all nostalgic and retro. Plus, as far as I am concerned, anything that involves both chocolate and peanut butter can't go wrong.
I'm trying to find paper doilies (When did supermarkets stop selling paper doilies? What is the world coming to?) so I can bag them up in cellophane with doilies and fluffy chickens and give them to people we see between now and Easter.
To make them you need:
- I packet of Chang's Crispy Fried Noodles (you get these from the supermarket in Australia... I never saw them in the UK or Japan, but I'm sure there are other brands of fried noodles around)
- 200g chocolate, dark or milk
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter
- Sugar coated eggs. Cadbury's Mini Eggs look all pretty and pastel, but I couldn't find them so used M&M eggs.
Instructions:
- Melt chocolate over water, or in the microwave
- Stir in peanut butter and noodles
- Put teaspoonfuls on trays lined with baking paper
- Top with eggs
- Refrigerate
- Decorate liberally with chenille chickens. And doilies, if you can find them.
