Birds Nest Brownie Bites (Using a Box Mix)

These beautiful Birds Nest Brownie Bites make a stunning display on your Easter dessert table! Your guests will never know how easy it is to make these Easter brownies with a cake mix!

Put a brownie on a small plate at each place setting for Easter table decorations that can be eaten afterwards.

Five cupcakes topped with tan frosting, small chocolate eggs, and pretzel sticks are arranged on a teal plate, resembling delightful bird's nest brownies. Yellow and green paper shreds are scattered around the plate for a playful touch.

This recipe uses mini Cadbury eggs. You can use the leftover eggs to make our easy Mini Cadbury Egg cookies, too!

Cookie Butter Birds Nest Brownies Recipe

Prep time: 30 minutes
Rest time: 22 minutes
Yields: 9-10 Brownies

Ingredients

1 Box Brownie Mix (We used Betty Crocker Favorites Milk Chocolate)
2 Tablespoons Water (or whatever the box mix calls for)
1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil (or whatever the box mix calls for)
2 Eggs (or whatever the box mix calls for)
1/4 Cup Chocolate Chips
6 Tablespoons Salted Butter (Room Temperature)
1/3 Cup Cookie Butter Spread
1 Cup Powder Sugar
1 Tablespoon Heavy Whipping Cream
Cadbury Mini Chocolate Eggs
Piping Bag and Piping Tip 4B

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.

Prepare brownie mix according to package instructions.

Fold in the chocolate chips.

A glass measuring cup filled with chocolate batter, topped with chocolate chips.

Line the 9×13 inch baking pan with parchment paper. Make sure the parchment paper hangs over the sides. If you would like, you can grease the sides that are not covered by parchment paper with some butter.

Pour the brownie batter into the baking pan, making sure it is evenly distributed, then bake according to the instructions on the box.

Once done, allow to cool.

After cooled, use a round cookie cutter to cut small circles of out the brownies.

A tray of brownies with a round cutter partially used to cut out a circle on the left side.

Eight chocolate cookies with a cracked surface arranged in two vertical columns on a white textured background.

In a mixing bowl, add the butter and cookie butter and mix with a hand mixer or stand mixer until they are combined and fluffy, about 2-3 minutes.

Next, add the powder sugar and heavy whipping cream. Mix until the smooth, about 1 minute.

A mixing bowl containing peanut butter, powdered sugar, and cream cheese, viewed from above.

Place a piping tip in a piping bag. Add the cookie butter buttercream into a piping bag.

A clear piping bag, a star-shaped piping tip, and a glass bowl containing light brown frosting are on a white surface.

Break some of the pretzel sticks in half.

Piping bag filled with beige frosting, a chocolate brownie, pastel-colored candy eggs, and broken pretzel sticks arranged on a white surface.

Pipe a circle of cookie butter cream on top of the brownie to be the nest.

A piping bag with a star tip is used to apply frosting onto a round brownie with a cracked top, set on a plain white surface.

A chocolate cupcake with a swirl of brown frosting on top, viewed from above, placed on a white surface.

Add some of the pretzels at the bottom of the buttercream nest by slightly pushing in the whole pretzels into the cream.

Place a few mini Cadbury chocolate eggs in the middle of the buttercream nest. Then add more of the half pretzels to the top of the nest, in between the chocolate eggs.