How To Make Rice Krispies Treats Maracas
Fun rice krispies treas maracas that make a rattling sound
Yield: 8
Calories: 412cal
Cost: $10
Equipment
- Mini muffin tin - non-stick
- Mini Tart Shaper or something similar - a spoon would probably work
- 2 Medium saucepans
- Squeeze tube for melted chocolate or a baggie
Materials
- 6 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
- 10 oz. mini Marshmallows
- 3 tbsp. butter
- red food coloring amount will vary
- green food coloring amount will vary
- 6 oz. white chocolate melts melted
- Pretzel Rods - broken in half
- Butter flavored cooking spray
- ½ cup Mini M&Ms
Instructions
- *Here's one tip before you get started. Have everything ready to go. The marshmallow mixture hardens quickly. You'll want to work fast while it's still warm so you can mold it.
- For 2 colors...I used the original Rice Krispies Treat Recipe - I divided it up between 2 saucepans
- *you won't need to divide the recipe if you are doing only 1 color
- In each saucepan, melt 1&1/2 Tbsp of butter and turn the heat off
- Add 1/2 of the bag of 10 oz. marshmallows to the melted butter, and stirred until the marshmallows melted
- Add food coloring to each saucepan - green in one, red in the other (it takes a lot of red)
- Finally, stir in 3 cups of Rice Krispies Treats into each saucepan, and mix
- With the Rice Krispies colored, start spooning - about 1 Tbsp., of each color into the Mini Muffin Tin
- You'll have one dozen of each color in the tin
- Then, I sprayed my Mini Tart Tool with cooking spray and pushed the centers to form bowls
- I filled the green half with M&M Minis, and then placed the red half over the green and gently sealed them by pressing the ends together
- I used a butter knife to loosen the green half out of the mold and pressed around the middle a little more until they were sealed together
- I set those down on a plate and got to work on the pretzel rods
- I grabbed some more Rice Krispies Treats out of the saucepan and wrapped some around the end of the pretzel rod
- I attached the pretzel rod to the maraca, and gently molded it together with the maraca
- I strongly suggest using melted chocolate to glue the parts together (the 2 halves of the rice Krispies maraca and the pretzel handles to the maraca)
- Then I decorated them with Melted White Chocolate Melts - this also doubles as glue
- I used a handy squeeze tube, but you can also snip the end of a baggie that is filled with melted chocolate
- *This is an important step: I added a little strength to the pretzel handle seal by putting some chocolate there, also
- The chocolate works like glue. It's great stuff. Use it to your advantage
Notes
Nutrition facts are only an estimate
Nutrition
Calories: 412cal | Carbohydrates: 68g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 3g | Trans Fat: 0.2g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 203mg | Potassium: 90mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 43g | Vitamin A: 1571IU | Vitamin C: 13mg | Calcium: 61mg | Iron: 7mg