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Kettle Krispie Treats – A Rice Krispies Easter Recipe Challenge

4/12/2011 The Giveaway is now closed. Congrats to Kelly T from Texas Type A Mom!

Oh, friends… do I have a treat for you! I can’t wait to share what I have joined together with 3 of my Kansas City blogging friends to create.

I’ll give you a hint. You know Kettle Corn? That delicious, addicting sweet and salty county fair treat? And of course you are familiar with classic Rice Krispie® Treats. Well, we decided to take the flavors of our favorite county fair treat and combine it with a classic Rice Krispie® Treat, creating – The Kettle Krispie Treat. A sweet and salty, oh so addicting, Rice Krispie® treat. One bite is sweet… the next bite is salty… and you just can’t stop eating them because they are just so darn good.

(These adorable cups are courtesy of the Hey Yo Yo Etsy shop)

Kelly from Kansas City Mamas, Jenn from Super Jenn, Julie from My Kansas City Mommy and I were asked by The Motherhood and Rice Krispies® to participate in a year long challenge creating unique and family friendly Rice Krispie® Treat recipes. They’ve turned our recipe creating into a fun little competition participating against three other teams across the United States. They are also generously throwing in some giveaways for our readers as well. (At the end of this post you’ll learn how you can win a $100 gift card… and you can enter to win a separate gift card on the other participating blog sites too!)

Before we get into the giveaway details…what do you think of our cute little Kettle Krispie eggs? Aren’t they fun? We thought these would be a great treat for a sweet treats Easter party for kids. You can shape your Rice Krispie® treats easily using well buttered plastic Easter eggs. Roll your egg shaped treats in colored sugar for another fun variation. Also you can create colorful Rice Krispies® by stirring the Rice Krispies® together with a few drops of food coloring. Sprinkle the colorful Rice Krispies® around on your table like confetti and you have yourself a fun and festive environment! We took things one step further and even filled a few votive candle holders with our colorful Rice Krispies® just for that extra touch of fun.

We hope you like what we created – and if you did, you’ll have the chances to give our Easter creations a thumbs up on the Rice Krispies® Facebook page between April 12th – April 15th (don’t worry… I’m sure we’ll give you a reminder when the day gets closer)

Now for the giveaway details… to enter for the chance to win a $100 gift card courtesy of The Motherhood and Rice Krispies®:

  1. Leave a comment on this blog post telling me what your favorite Easter candy was when you were a kid… what did you look forward to finding the most in your Easter basket?
  2. Additional entry: head over to the Rice Krispies® Facebook page and “like” them… that way when it is time to give your favorite creations a thumbs up, you’ll be one step ahead by getting the news through Facebook! (Make sure to leave a separate comment here letting me know you “liked” them).
  3. Additional entry: Tweet the following…. “Love these Kettle Krispie Eggs! See the #RiceKrispies recipe and enter the $100 Giveaway @dineanddish  http://su.pr/2GthgM”
  4. Giveaway will end at midnight CST on April 11th and a winner will be chosen through Random.org. Winner will be notified shortly after the giveaway close.
  5. Make sure to check out the blogs of my teammates so you can enter to win their prizes as well! Kelly from Kansas City Mamas, Jenn from Super Jenn, Julie from My Kansas City Mommy

And now, the recipe for these delicious little Kettle Krispie Treat Eggs:

Recipe: Kettle Krispies Treat Eggs

  • 6 tablespoons butter
  • 6 cups of Rice Krispies
  • 3 teaspoons Kosher salt
  • 2/3 cup sugar For Treats
  • 1/4 cup and 2 teaspoons butter
  • 5 cups mini marshmallows
  • Extra butter for greasing egg molds
  1. Melt butter in an iron skillet or dutch oven over medium heat.
  2. Increase temp to medium high and add Rice Krispies, Kosher salt, and sugar.
  3. Stir continuously over medium high heat until Rice Krispies are caramelized and slightly brown. Around 7 minutes.
  4. Remove from stove and continue stirring for another three minutes until cool. Set aside.
  5. While Kettle Krispies are cooling, butter the inside of 12 large plastic eggs. Set aside.
  6. In a large saucepan, melt butter and marshmallows over medium-low heat.
  7. After mix is well blended, continue to stir and cook for two minutes longer.
  8. Add Kettle Krispies and stir till well coated. Remove from heat.
  9. Fill buttered egg molds with mixture and let them set for 10 minutes. Remove from molds and decorate if desired.

This is a sponsored post in conjunction with The Motherhood and Rice Krispies®. All opinions expressed within this post are my own.

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Comments

  12. Jamie says

    Growing up in New Orleans, Easter Candy meant getting Elders easter eggs. These eggs made the perfect basket. I would have to say that my favorite were their Pecan eggs (divinity like nugget covered with caramel and pecans) and the Gold Brick eggs (chocolate melt away with pecans mixed in and covered in chocolate). Easter baskets haven’t been the same since we moved out of Louisiana.

  17. Katie says

    My favorite thing to find in my easter basket were Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, mm they still are a treat to find!

  19. bridget {bake at 350} says

    Whoa….this is so cool!

    Hmm….my favorite Easter candy? Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs, hands down. Although, I always did love the bunny ears!

    In college, my roommate always bought the first Cadbury Cream Egg she saw at the store. Never another, she just bought ONE as soon as she saw them. I always thought they were scary…until I ate one. I think of her EVERY time I see a CCE now. 🙂

  22. Steve @ HPD says

    Traditions are great … but all traditions started somewhere, and lots of them a lot more recently than most folks realize. I think every family should have to do at least one new thing each holiday. If it sticks, great. If it’s a bust, then don’t do it next year. But it’s the exploring that matters. Kettle Krispies look like a great new idea to try this year. Cheers!

  24. Gigi says

    Love Reese’s Peanut Butter eggs. My mom now makes homemade peanut butter eggs!

  25. Pat Wogan says

    My favorite Easter candy is Peeps marshmallow candy. I like them best when they get a little bit tough and old. I still remember my first chocolate bunny and my disappointment in finding it was hollow.

  30. Shaina says

    My favorite then and now are the Reese’s Pieces in the carrot cone. Boring, I know. I also like the mini Caramel Cadbury Eggs. Must be the mini ones, though. Someone needs to make a Twix egg…

  31. susan says

    We didn’t celebrate easter, but I always got a candy basket from Sees Candy. I now, give my kids a Sees treat each year and I love carrying on that tradition

  32. Barbara says

    Your krispie eggs are adorable! Such a clever idea.
    My favorite candy was always chocolate-covered marshmallows, and it had to be dark chocolate. (I was a fussy kid!)

  33. Jennifer says

    I always looked forward to the chocolate bunny…although I liked to dip it in peanut butter & eat it. Cute idea, I’ll have to try these for sure!

  51. Regina Dushane says

    We like cardabury eggs with caramel
    And we always looked forward to $ eggs

  55. TidyMom says

    first……….OMG those look and sound AMAZING!!!

    second….my favorite Easter candy as a kid, and still….Chocolate covered marshmallows!

  61. SMITH BITES says

    as a kid? loved anything that was snickers or reese’s pnut butter cups . . . don’t eat any of that now but back then, i couldn’t get enough! love these Kristen – just way too cute!

  62. Jayme C says

    Oh man – these look amazing! My fave Easter candy has ALWAYS been the Reese’s peanut butter eggs – the full size one, no minis around here. 🙂

  64. kim says

    When I was a kid we didn’t get baskets or candy for Easter because it was considered celebrating the real reason for Easter in a bad way. Today I could eat robins egg malted milk balls until I explode! LOVE ‘EM!

  65. Amber Hinckley says

    I loved the chocolate Cadbury Eggs with the sugary yolk inside! And peeps of course….

  69. Tammy Lawrence says

    As a child,,,,, and now even as an adult, my absolute favorite Easter candy is jelly beans. I LOVE THEM!!!!!! I don’t care for the licorice flavor – but will eat most anything else. I love to take the different flavors of Jelly Belly and mix them together!!!! Thanks, Tammy gordonfan@embarqmail.com

  82. Cathy W says

    My favorite Easter candy was jellybeans. Now days it’s any good chocolate candy!

  93. Jen @ My Kitchen Addiction says

    These look so tasty! I will absolutely be making them!

    I’ve always been a fan of Reese’s peanut butter cups. I used to LOVE getting an Easter basket from my grandmother because she’d always buy us those individually packaged Reese’s eggs.

  96. Cindy says

    Liked Rice Krispies on facebook and posted a picture of a treat I made for my daughter’s class. They loved them and they were so easy to make!

  98. Laura says

    The big chocolate bunny. My mom tried to give me a white chocolate bunny one year, and I flipped out on her. I wasn’t always a very nice kid. 😉

  106. Tracy says

    It doesn’t feel like Easter unless I have a Chocolate Bunny. Chocolate is great, but a Chocolate Bunny on Easter is the Best!

  107. lisa hager says

    Favorite part of Easter when I was a kid was just looking for the eggs. Us kids loved it when we found money inside the eggs.

  110. Wenderly says

    The big chocolate egg that was cream filled with my name written beautifully in icing script. The local candy shop would make them. They were so lovely and insanely delicious!

  116. Sharon says

    My favorite Easter candy was (and still is!) those malted milk ball eggs with the speckled candy shell. So good, and hard to find except during the Easter season.

  135. cindy w says

    My favorite was the chocolate bunny that always came in my basket…sometimes it was huge!

  136. Kfloveinme says

    As a kid I looked forward to seeing chocolate bunnies, eggs & a dollar bill! All of my cousins & i always found dollar bills given from our aunts & uncles. 🙂

  143. amanda s says

    my favorite easter candy is cadbury mini eggs(still is lol) and i also like peeps!

    pokergrl8 at gmail.com

    thanks for the great giveaway!

  151. Just Coupons says

    Jelly beans have always been my favorite Easter candy. I always looked forward to a chocolate easter bunny too.

  161. Stacie Frost says

    I always looked forward to the chocolate Easter Bunny! YUM….chocolate! Thanks for entering me!
    Stacie
    savingmama at live dot com

  162. Stacie Frost says

    I like Rice Krispies on facebook (Stacie Dennis Frost). Thanks for entering me!
    Stacie
    savingmama at live dot com

  163. Stacie Frost says

    I like you on facebook (Stacie Dennis Frost). Thanks so much for entering me!
    Stacie
    savingmama at live dot com

  180. evelyn goettner says

    My favorite Easter candy has always been cadbury eggs. Loved getting those in my Easter basket!

    egoettner(at)yahoo(dot)com

  181. evelyn goettner says

    I like Rice Krispies on facebook as Evelyn Wakefield Goettner.

    egoettner(at)yahoo(dot)com

  184. Terri P. says

    My favorite Easter basket candy was a large coconut cream egg the Easter Bunny got from the local Gertrude Hawk Candy store. I haven’t thought about that in years but I might have to make a trip to the store this year and get one. Thanks!

  187. Julie L says

    my favorite Easter Candy as a child was the solid chocolate bunny my grandparents gave me thanks

  194. Shawn says

    My favorite easter candy was Fanny Farmer chocolate eggs when I was a child.

    shawn113(at)hotmail(dot)com

  196. Steva Spottswood says

    I would always get one chocolate bunny in my basket. I loved to nibble the ears off!

  198. susitravl says

    A Hollow Chocolate Bunny! I knew my grandma always had one for me when I got to her house for Easter dinner.
    susitravl(at)gmail(dot)com

  211. Dana West says

    I love Reese’s Peanut Butter Eggs! Yum! Thanks for the great giveaway and good luck!

  216. angie says

    I used to love those Cadbury Creme Eggs! I could eat them one after the other when they first came out in the 80’s. Now I can’t stand them…LOL SO SWEET!

  219. sarah says

    I loved eating peanut butter eggs as a kid. Thanks for the giveaway!
    musicalhobbit at aol dot com

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