These easy meringue nests are an emergency Easter dessert you can make in minutes. Just two ingredients plus ready made meringue nests plus some egg shaped chocolates. An optional extra ingredient is the crumbled speculoos biscuits although you could use any kind of crushed biscuits or cake sprinkles instead.
Updated 2026 · Originally commissioned by Waitrose
I always keep an emergency box of meringues in my store cupboard as they are perfect for last minute desserts, especially in the spring and summer. You can fill them with chocolate, whipped cream or fruit or break them up for Eton mess-type desserts – such as my raspberry quark Eton mess.
Today I have filled the meringue nests with an instant chocolate mousse made from quark. It’s an easy two ingredient chocolate mousse that I have featured before and highly adaptable to use in all kinds of desserts.
Speculoos crumbs are also something I keep in the store cupboard although you could grind up any other ginger biscuits for a similar flavour.
Easy Meringue Nests With Chocolate Mousse Filling
Ingredients
- 8 meringues ready-made nests
- 200 g dark chocolate broken into squares
- 300 ml quark
- 24 chocolate mini eggs I used Waitrose ginger egg truffles
- sprinkle biscuit crumbs I used speculoos Biscoff or Lotus biscuits
Instructions
- Using a double boiler or heatproof bowl suspended above a simmering saucepan of water, melt the chocolate squares.
- When the squares are melted, turn off the heat and leave to cool slightly.
- Before the chocolate has cooled enough to re-solidify, stir in the quark thoroughly until completely smooth and evenly coloured.
- Spoon dollops of the quark mousse onto the meringue nests and press three mini egg truffles onto each nest.
- Sprinkle over some speculoos biscuit crumbs and serve.
These are super cute and simple. Kids will love them.
these look delicious and dangerously easy to make! Definitely no need to restrict this one to Easter!
So creative and delicious! Love it!