A few weeks ago I bought a huge box of Honey Smacks because it came with a light-up Star Wars lightsaber spoon and had a cool picture of Samuel L. Jackson (Mace Windu) on the box. My roommate and I now call them “Bitch Smacks.” However, neither of us are cereal eaters, so they’re just sitting there on top of the fridge and I hate to waste food. Can I do something more creative with these Honey Smacks, rather than getting them all soggy in milk? I love Rice Krispies Treats, so can I make something like those? And how do you make them, anyway?
Yes, you certainly can. I’ve used Cheerios instead of Rice Krispies (and shaped the resulting mass into Christmas trees - we added green food coloring to the melted marshmallows) and it worked out well. Be warned, though, that if you use a pre-sweetened cereal like Honey Smacks, the result is probably going to be awfully sweet.
Maybe you’d rather eat the cereal dry as a TV snack, popcorn-style? I seem to remember doing that back in my college days…
Melt together 1/4 cup (half a stick) of butter and 1 bag (10 ounces) of marshmallows until they’re a homogeneous mixture. They can be melted in the microwave (stir often during melting) or on the stovetop. Stir in roughly 6 cups of cereal. Smoosh it into a greased 9X13 pan. If you butter your hands, you can smoosh it in with your fingers and they won’t stick. Let cool, cut and enjoy!
I’ve made them with Count Chocula, and I just used the regular recipe. I usually add a little extra cereal, because I like them to be firm and not too gooey. I lay a piece of wax paper on top when I flatten them out, so my hands don’t get all sticky and I can squish them down until they’re nice and solid.
One time I made rice krispie treats for a Halloween party, so I put some candy corn on it, and people kind of freaked out. I think I violated the sanctity of the rice krispie treat. So you have to be a little careful there. But when they actually got up the nerve to try one of those sacrilicious rice krispie treats, they loved them and ate them all. I was a little . But I’d do it again.
Some other cereals are even better than Rice Krispies alone. Special K adds some nice texture, for instance. Wife makes the bars from a mix of whatever orphan cereal she finds in the pantry and they are a hit with the teen set.
I hate cereal because when I was little, my mom made us eat it with plain yogurt instead of milk, so it would always get soggy and slimy and gross. To this day, I don’t even like cereal in milk. But the lightsaber spoon was too cool to pass up. (I got a red one, by the way.)
MagicEyes, Rice Krispies Treats are not to be tampered with. They must be served as Og and nature intended: plain. Just the Krispies, marshmallows and butter. Any deviation is, well…deviant.
Kelloggs actually puts out a line of pseudo-RKTs with layers of chocolate on top, or candies or chocolate chips or peanut butter or other odds and ends mixed in. And they are **just. Wrong. ** :eek: :mad: :smack: :dubious:
I’m pretty sure Dante said there’s a circle in hell for people who violate Rice Krispies Treats. Don’t worry, I’ll pray for you.
I like a sprinkling of mini chocolate chips just on top of my RKTs.
I used to make them like this: melt peanut butter and chocolate together in a pan. Put half the batch of RKs in the pan, spread with PB mixture, then put the other half of the RKs down. You get a layer of peanutbutterychocolatey goodness inbetween. Yum.
mmm, Special K Bars. A favorite easy-to-make snack.
1 cup sugar, 1 cup corn syrup. Melt together on the stove in a good-sized saucepan, and stir frequently. When it’s nice and melty-mixed, take the pan off the heat and add 1 cup peanut butter. Stir while it melts. When melted, add 6 cups Special K. Stir to coat the cereal, then smoosh onto a cookie sheet into an even layer. Let it cool, then “frost” the top with a melted mix of chocolate and butterscotch chips (about 10 ounces of each). Cool, cut into bars, and try not to eat them all in one sitting!
Warning: don’t try it with Frosted Flakes. I tried it once (I had no Special K handy), and the PB mixture didn’t stick to the flakes very well. Plus the taste wasn’t quite the same.
I was always a big fan of Frankenberry, which was impossible to find for many many years here. A few weeks before I took a trip to Australia, my friends and I stopped into a little mini-mart and lo and behold! Frankenberry! We bought a box to munch on in the car.
When they dropped me off at the airport, a present! Frankenberry-bars. Yum!
Customs wouldn’t let me take them into the country, so my flight mates got to share in the berry goodness.
The other day my friends made some RK Treats. I was so excited since I had not had them in forever. Things proceeded as normal. Then they added a whole bag of butterscotch chips, a whole bag of peanut butter chips, and a whole bag of white chocolate chips. This in addition to the required marshmallow. WTF? My teeth hurt looking at it. I almost ended the relationship then and there because of this travesty. This was after the sweet potato and creamed corn incident. At least I now know not to eat their house.
And CPS didn’t come to take you away immediately? Urgggh.
My girlfriend adds about half a cup of peanut butter to a batch of rice krispie treats. At first it caught me completely off guard - but I"ve grown pretty fond of it by now. PB may be good for the sugar smacks streats, n’fact, 'cause it’ll cut the sweetness some.
. But I’d do it again.
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