The Rice Krispie treat was a buck.
I’ll see you all in hell.
If you have it, stir a splash or two of real vanilla into the marshmallows as they melt.
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Melting chocolate chips into the marshmallows is also good.
GOOD? It’s fabulous and I was about to recommend it. I’d imagine then sprinkling coconut over the cooling chocolate would make it even better too. (I don’t make Rice Krispie treats because then I’d eat them all. And I have Oreos which don’t take cooking.)
Even better are rice krispie treats made with coco krispies. Stir vanilla and a little cayenne pepper in with the marshmallows as they melt, and you have yourself dessert perfection.
I’d characterize them as like S’mores, but with Rice Krispies in place of the graham cracker crumbs.
This is all very enlightening, thanks folks. I’m actually working at the moment on the very ultimate confection of this type, and was wondering what best to call it. The project is under wraps at the moment for fear someone might steal my thunder, but I’ll post more details when it’s complete (it’s going to be an open-source recipe, not a commercial product, BTW)
Mix in peanut butter, then top with melted chocolate chips. Let harden.
Rice Krispy Treats are in the crack family of desserts. I can no longer ‘bake’ them, as I will immediately eat the whole tray. Damn you, marshmallow fluff goodness!!
Crack.
In your part of the Midwest, sure. I never heard of that.
I didn’t mean to sound like I was speaking for every person who ever lived in the Midwest. But just because it’s a generalization and you personally have never heard of it doesn’t mean it’s not broadly true. Cite; cite; cite.
And brownies.
Now you’re moving into Special K bar territory. As much as I like Rice Krispie bars (crack), Special K bars are crack + heroin + oxycontin.
1 c sugar
1 c white corn syrup
Heat over low/medium low and stir til sugar is dissolved. Add:
1 1/2 c peanut butter
Stir until mixed. Pour over:
6 c Special K cereal
Melt together:
1 c chocolate chips
1 c butterscotch chips
Spread over top. Cool on counter. Get frustrated it’s not cooling fast enough and place in fridge. Decide it’s “cool enough” and burn mouth on hot peanut butter.
Um. I have to go shopping now…
NOW we’re talkin’!
I didn’t mean to sound snotty if that was how it came across, but honestly, in my area of Michigan (and I’d guess I could safely expand that to the Lower Peninsula in general), upper Mid West (Minnesota, Wisconsin I suppose) is considered extremely different in a lot of ways. I just meant that all the things I hear about the upper Mid West aren’t familiar really to me (or people around me) at all. Instead of Scandinavian influences, it’s more Polish, German and Italian by me (along with African American).
This is weird to me, since I was raised vegetarian (fourth generation vegetarian, in fact) and no one in my family ever objected to gelatin. I remember raising the issue with my parents when I found out what it was made from, but they said they had thought about it and didn’t think it was worth worrying about. Of course they also wore leather; I didn’t. I’m no longer vegetarian. I’m not good at half measures; if I hadn’t given it up, I think I’d be a breatharian by now.
Yeah, I was going for humor moreso than really trying to be an ideologue. Personally, I don’t wear leather, and my basic rule is not to buy anything that requires the donor animal to die. So, I do consume milk and eggs and such but try to avoid gelatin and rennet. I do realize I’m drawing some arbitrary lines. But, by golly, gelatin is over one of them. And, I ask again, who puts gelatin in something you drink?! Curses!
Insulation. Similar to honeyed packing peanuts.
If they are refrigerated, wouldn’t they be called “refrigerator bars”, a term I have read.
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In college, a kid in my dorm had a relative who worked for Kellogg’s Cereal, and he was able to get factory-made Rice Krispies Treats, individually wrapped in the blue foil pouches, except they were 13" x 9" x 1.5" (or something similar to that), officially produced and packaged in those dimensions – giant rectangles of krispy goodness.
Did the rest of the vegetarians on this board not realize that you can make Rice Krispies Treats with Marshmallow Fluff (the stuff in the jar) which contains no gelatin? :eek: They come out just as good. (It does have egg white in it so if you’re vegan it’s still out.)
I feel so bad that so many people have been missing out needlessly all this time.
Edited to add: you follow the same recipe except use 1 jar of fluff instead of the bag of marshmallows (or “40 marshmallows” or whatever it is they say to use.)