Crispy Cereal Treats Food

CRISPY CEREAL TREAT SPORT BALLS

Steps:

• Measure 8 cups of crispy cereal into large mixing bowl and set aside.
• In large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
• Pour mixture over the crispy cereal; stir until well coated.
• Using buttered spatula or wax paper evenly press mixture bottom of 9" x 13" pan coated with cooking spray. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• Remove from refrigerator and slide the entire crispy treat out of the pan.
• Cut out 21 round and 7 oval shapes with cookie cutters. Press remaining crispy cereal scraps together and cut more shapes if needed.
• Dipping the Baseballs and Soccer Balls
• Melt half of the white chocolate chips in microwave-safe bowl, at half power. Stir every 30 second until smooth.
• Dip the tops of 14 round balls (7 baseball and 7 soccer balls) into the melted white chocolate. Spread with spatula if needed to make sure the entire top is covered.
• Set aside on a piece of wax paper to harden.
• Dipping the Basketballs
• Add half of the remaining white chocolate chips to the same bowl and melt as instructed above.
• Add a few drops of orange and a tiny bit of brown candy color for the basketball treats. Make sure you use candy coloring, not food coloring as food coloring will seize the chocolate.
• Dip the tops of the remaining 7 round balls (for the basketballs) into the melted chocolate
• Set aside on a piece of wax paper to harden.
• Dipping the Footballs
• Add the rest of the white chocolate chips to the orange-colored chocolate. Melt as instructed above.
• Add brown candy color for the football treats.
• Dip the oval shaped crispy treats into the melted chocolate.
• Set aside on a piece of wax paper to harden.
• Decorating
• To decorate the tops of the sport balls, you'll need white, black and red frosting. Fill three plastic zip-top bags one each with red, white and black frosting. Using kitchen shears, snip off a tiny piece of one bottom corner of the bag.
• For the baseball, gently squeeze white frosting to pipe the two white curves on each side of the ball. Next, pipe small red V shapes over the white frosting curves for the stitching.
• For the football, pipe one long horizontal white stripe on the middle of the ball. Pipe eight tiny stripes vertically over the top of the center stripe.
• For the basketball, pipe one horizontal black stripe across middle of the ball and one vertical stripe across creating a cross. Pipe black curves to each side of the vertical stripe.
• For the soccer ball, pipe a small pentagon shape with black frosting in the middle of the ball and fill it in. Pipe a spoke of equal length from each corner of the pentagon. Next, drawing the tip of a triangle at the end of each of those spokes. Fill the "sneak" pentagons along the edge with black frosting.

CLASSIC CRISPY RICE TREATS

Steps:

• Line a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with aluminum foil, leaving a 2-inch overhang on each of the longer sides. Spray the foil lightly with cooking spray.
• Melt the butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the marshmallows and cook, stirring occasionally, until melted and smooth, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the vanilla and salt.
• Working quickly, add the rice cereal to the pot and stir with a rubber spatula until evenly coated. Transfer to the prepared baking dish and press into an even, compact layer. (Spray your hands with a little cooking spray to keep them from sticking when pressing the cereal mixture into the pan). Decorate with toppings if using (see Cook's Note).
• Let sit at room temperature until firm, about 30 minutes. Cut into 24 squares. Store the cereal treats at room temperature in an airtight container for up to 3 days.

NON-CEREAL CRISPY TREATS

Steps:

• Spray an 8-by-8-inch baking dish with cooking spray and line with parchment paper, leaving a 2-inch hangover on at least two sides.
• Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add the marshmallows and stir continuously until melted, about 5 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in the mix-ins of your choice until coated.
• Press the mixture into the prepared baking dish and let cool completely at room temperature, about 1 hour.
• Use the parchment overhang to lift the treats from the dish. Cut into sixteen 2-inch square bars.

BROWN RICE CRISPY TREATS

Steps:

• Spray a 13 by 9-inch baking pan with nonstick cooking spray.
• Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Quickly stir in the marshmallows and cook until completely melted. Remove from heat.
• Stir in cereal, and dried fruit and seeds if using, until well coated and combined. Spray a rubber spatula or wooden spoon with nonstick cooking spray and press mixture evenly into pan. Cool and cut into 2 by 2-inch squares or use cookie cutters to cut into playful shapes. Pack in an airtight container.

GOURMET RICE KRISPIES CEREAL TREATS

Steps:

• Lightly toast coconut in pat of butter. set aside to cool.
• butter 8 x 8 x 1 1/2 inch cake pan pan.
• sprinkle the cooled toasted coconut in the bottom of pan and place in the fridge while prepping the Krispies treats.
• Put the 6 cups of cereal in a large glass or non plastic mixing bowl.
• Over low heat melt the 1 1/4 cup of butter.
• Add the 40 large marshmallows to melted butter.
• Cook 10 minutes to start melting while stirring frequently.
• Add the vanilla and continue to cook over low heat until all melted and increase stirring frequency to a near creamy consistency.
• Combine into the cereal and coat evenly.
• Pour into the chilled prepared pan compress lightly.
• Cool and or refrigerate for about an hour.
• Turn out onto cutting board and cut into 32 pieces that measure 1/2 x 1 x 2.
• Melt the Wilton candy melts in microwave in 30 sec increments stirring between sessions.
• Lay the cut Krispies flat on a cooling rack over paper towels.
• Drizzle melted candy melts in a zig-zag pattern.

PERFECT CRISPY RICE CEREAL TREATS (FRUIT FLAVORED)

Steps:

• Take a pan or baking dish approximately 13x 9 x2 inch size.
• Lay aluminum foil (or parchment paper or waxed paper) across your pan leaving the ends folded over the edges to to work as handles for when removing your crispy rice cereal treats when finished.
• Spray inside pan (including lining) with non-fat cooking spray.
• Use a large heavy saucepan to melt the butter over LOW HEAT for 2 minutes.
• Add half of the marshmallows and stir constantly over LOW HEAT to melt them. Be careful not to let them stick or burn to the bottom of the pan. It is essential that you do not rush this step!
• Remove the pan from the heat. Add to the pan half of the crispy rice cereal, then the other half of the marshmallows, and finally the other half of the crispy rice cereal.
• Stir gently but quickly with buttered or silicone spatula.
• Pour crispy rice mixture into prepared pan.
• Using waxed paper or buttered spatula or disposal gloves sprayed with cooking spray, firmly press the hot cookie mixture into the pan (the gloves truly work the best).
• Let crispy rice cereal mixutre cool until firm (approximately 45 minutes).
• Turn treats out of pan, peel off foil/paper and cut into squares.
• Store in an airtight container.
• TIp: Although I substitute low-fat and low-calorie products for almost everything that I make, this dish definitely turns out best using real butter, and premium quality marshmallows.
• Tip: If fruit flavored is not your thing, but chocolate and/or peanut butter is, you can substitute the fruit flavored marshmallows with plain mini-marshmallows and then add 3/4 cup of smooth peanut butter and/or 3/4 cups of chocolate chips when adding the second half of the marshmallows.
• Tip To speed up cooling place in freezer 15 minutes.
• Tip: Will last 2 days at room temperature or 6 weeks in the freezer.