Featured Guest Post- {DARLING Halloween Rice Krispies}
Hey there Maniacs!
I’m Nike—that’s Neekah—from Choose To Thrive where I’m making the best of a lousy economy with knock-offs, refashions and home decor using only what I have on hand. No money. No shopping. No problem.
This week while my kids were off track, we drug out the food coloring, cookie cutters and went totally crazy with dessert staple.
I mean holy-cow-that’s-a-lot-of-food-coloring crazy.
Behold the Extreme Home Makeover edition of the basic Kellogg’s Rice Krispy treat.
*EEK*
The end result was crazy-bright, marshmallowy mash-ups that are so stinkin’ cute and not much harder to make than the original.
The sky’s the limit here for the colors, patterns and shapes you could use. Here’s what we came up with:
Ghosts & Stripes
Bats
Pumpkins & Stripes
Plain Stripes & Even Quilt Block Shapes (ha!)
Mini Bites
Once you get started it’s sorta hard to stop.
Everyone knows how to make these so I’ll skip the full tutorial thing. However, there were a few tweaks I made to pull these off that I’ll pass along:
1. To get the color super saturated, you’ll need copious amounts of food coloring – like a full teaspoon of the Wilton jells for most colors. For the black, it’s more like a full jar … um, seriously. (Try not to think about it … it’s only once a year. 🙂
First batch with 1/4 tsp. food coloring jell: too pastel-y
Second batch with a generous 1 tsp. jell: much better
2. The other trick to getting a solid color is to use half the amount of cereal the original recipe calls for. Here’s what I wound up doing:
3. To make the stripes, cut long strips from solid blocks of color (like on the tray above) and mush them together.
This worked much better than taking small clumps of each color and trying to form it by hand.
4. Use a generous amount of non-stick coooking spray on the cookie cutters or bad, bad things will happen. You’re welcome for that little tip.
5. Let the cereal cool for 10-15 minutes at room temperature before cutting. That way the cereal mix will be somewhat set, but easier to work with. Once your shapes are made, go ahead and refrigerate to set.
Have Fun!
Thanks so much Jen for letting me come make a Halloween mess at your place—you rock!
Happy Halloween everyone! Come stop by and say hi.
YOU ARE MOST WELCOME NIKE- love these, and what kid wouldn’t love making them and munching them gone. To fun.
JEN
LOVE..THAT! I don’t know why I haven’t come up with something like that myself. I use cookie cutters to make rice crispy treat cut outs all the time. Food coloring will definitely be involved from now on! Thanks!