Baby Shower Favors - Baby Bird Theme

My sister is having her first child due early this fall and it's a girl! I am a pround Auntie and  this will be my seventh niece - that is alot of pink! The nursery decor is pink and green and the crib bedding is from Pottery Barn Kids that has baby birds on it. So when my other sister and best friend decided to throw Baby Girl a shower, I knew I wanted to tie in the "Baby Bird" theme into the favors that I was going to make and came up with this delicious and adorable favor idea. Oh, and even better - it was SUPER easy!! CAUTION - prepare yourself for cuteness overload.
I made cake balls covered in chocolate into the shapes of eggs, and made chocolate/shredded wheat nests for the cake balls to rest in.

 I used strawberry cake mix and vanilla icing for the cake ball "eggs" and then used pink and white speckled chocolate melting chips from Michael's. I followed the directions on the back of the Duncan Hines cake mix box to bake the cake. Once baked, I let the cake cool for several hours uncovered. Once completely cool, I crumbled the cake into a mixing bowl as seen in the picture above, and added a half a container of white icing a mixed together. Once mixed all together, I formed egg shapes and dipped the cake "eggs" into the melted pink and white speckled chocolate. A tip I found helpful in the chocolate dipping process, was to freeze the cake "eggs" for about 15-20 minutes before dipping in the melted chocolate. This helped a lot to coat the cake "eggs" well with the melted chocolate, especially since it was 100 degrees the day I was making these.

To make the chocolate  nests, I melted a bag of chocolate chips in the microwave and mixed in a half of a box of shredded wheat that I crushed in a ziploc bag. I then filled greased muffin tins with the melted chocolate and shredded wheat mixture and used the back of a spoon to create the shape of the nest i was going for. I then refrigerated the nests over night to set up.

ta-da! chocolate  nests and cake ball eggs

I found white boxes with a lid on them at Michael's that were perfect for the nest and eggs to fit in. I printed labels on my computer with everyone's name on them, attached a thank you note and wrapped with a pink ribbon and used the favor box as a place card for the tables at the baby shower.