Hay stacks = bird nests, I don’t know where my brain is today!
No problem I actually knew that haystacks and bird’s nests were both more or less the same thing. I originally used my haystack recipe to make these treats for some neighborhood children I always babysat for back in the 1960’s after seeing some similar ones in an expensive candy store. I have been making them ever since.
I have had a hard time finding the tiny humminbird egg candies at Easter the last few years, so I had to start substituting small jellybeans instead sometime.
My haystack recipe also calls for nuts, but so many children are allergic to the nuts or don’t like nuts, that I have gotten so that I usually leave them out unless I know that everyone in the crowd is going to like nuts.