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2012? What??
It’s hard to believe that 2012 is just a few short weeks away, isn’t it? The start of a new year means the end of an incredibly fun year of Rice Krispies® Treats creations with Team Kansas City and The Motherhood. Earlier in the year we gave you our Kettle Krispies Treats. Then we had a fun picnic spread with our Tangy Watermelon Rice Krispies® Treats. In the fall we had some spooktacular fun with Cinnamonster Rice Krispies® Treat Snack Mix. Finally, for our fourth and final treat of the year, we bring you Snap! Crackle! Poppers Rice Krispies® Treats.
Snap! Crackle! Poppers Rice Krispies® Treats are our fun take on the traditional New Years Eve “Crackers”… fun poppers that kids crack open to find a special prize or candy. What better way to ring in the New Year than this with this fun activity you can make together then at midnight, crack open together!
$100 Gift Card Giveaway!
Before the recipe, like all of our Rice Krispies Memory Making Challenge posts, my friends at The Motherhood and Rice Krispies want to give you the opportunity to win a $100 gift card! To enter, simply leave a comment on this post telling me how you plan to spend New Years Eve! For an additional entry, tweet the following:
” Celebrate with Snap! Crackle! New Years Eve Poppers on @dineanddish & enter to #win a $100 gift card! http://su.pr/2kQtRP ”
Leave a separate comment on this post letting me know you tweeted the giveaway.
All entries must be received by midnight CST on Sunday, December 11th. Winner will be chosen via Random.org and notified via email. All three of my teammates, Kelly from Kansas City Mamas, Jenn from Super Jenn and Julie from My Kansas City Mommy are each giving away their own $100 Visa Gift Card, too. Visit them for even more chances to win!
Now for the recipe!
Snap! Crackle! Poppers Rice Krispies® Treats
- 3 Tbsp. Unsalted Butter + extra butter for “greasing”
- 4oz. marshmallows (1/2 bag) – make sure bag is left open overnight
- 2 c. Traditional Rice Krispies®
- Candy of choice to fill
- Decorating Supplies (frosting, glitter, stickers – pretty much anything you want to use to make it unique.)
- Melt 3Tbsp. Butter in a heavy saucepan over med-high heat.
- Add marshmallows, stirring constantly until melted and mixture is smooth.
- Add RiceKrispies® to hot mixture in saucepan (this keeps them warm, and thus easier to manipulate, longer). Mix thoroughly.
- Butter plastic cutting board.
- Place half of marshmallow mixture on cutting board and make into a small loaf. (Around 5″ by 3″.) Try to compact the mixture as much as possible.
- Once you have a compact loaf, take a small fondant rolling pin (or other small rolling pin) and roll out the mixture to a 1/4 inch thickness – trying to keep the shape of a rectangle. (You will need to work quickly. The cooler the mixture gets, the more difficult it is to shape.)
- Take rolling pin and “roll” mixture into a cylinder with a 1 1/2″ circumference.
- Remove rolling pin and pinch one end to desired look. If going for a tapered end, start about 1 inch in, pinch and crimp the end. Tilt and fill with candy of choice. Pinch other end.
- Set aside and let harden for 24 hours.
- Repeat with other half of RiceKrispies® mixture.
- Decorate once hard with fondant, icing, stickers, glitter, etc. It’s all about being fun!
Note: You can make these ahead of time and freeze. Another idea is to put a small fortune, saying, or inspirational quote inside the crackers.
Disclosure: The Motherhood and Rice Krispies have compensated our team for our time and ingredients as part of the Making Memories Challenge. All opinions expressed are my own.
In Hawaii!!!
I’m jealous 🙂
Have fun!
We’ll be spending New Year’s on Martha’s Vineyard, our new home 😀 Yeeei! Gorgeous treats dear!
I tweeted!
I am sad to say I will be working this New Years Eve. I am an ER nurse.
I don’t know! This is my first new year’s in a new city after moving this summer, so I’ll have to figure out what’s fun to do here. As long as it involves champagne and a kiss at midnight, I guess I can’t go wrong!
I’m NOT entering the contest, Kristen — but HAD to say that this is SOOOOO dang cute AND we can make them here in India!!
I will HAPPILY be in Omaha, Nebraska for New Years Eve with my amazing family!
I plan to spend NYE..by going to bed. Before midnite 🙂
I’m not sure!! We usually spend the night at the Rose Parade, but since the 1st is on a Sunday we’ll be going then instead of the 31st. Probably will have friends over for dinner & movies 🙂
No sure yet! I haven’t had a chance to look that far ahead!
Spending New Years Eve with hubby Chef Dan making a Champagne Dinner for guests a the Elkhorn Inn & Theatre in Landgraff, WV (which is our home as well as an historic inn)!
Those are so cute and absolutely creative! New Year’s is goig to a Big Band celebration and dancing the night away!
Tweeted. 🙂
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I hate to sound like a bah humbug, but I despise New Years, so I will be staying at home watching movies by the fire.
I will be spending it in Colorado skiing with family
I plan to spend New Year’s Eve (which is also my birthday) at my daughter’s home in Kansas City. I am really looking forward to it.
I plan on spending New Year’s Eve with friends and maybe family.
We’ll be spending time with family
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We will be watching fireworks in San Diego
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What a wonderful giveaway! I plan to spend New Years Eve at my In-Law’s place with the kids. We make lots of treats and have the bubbly ready for the count down. We’ve been doing that for the past few years. Nothing better than spending time with the family.
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Crazy as it is, I’ll be in NY city for a wedding. Good times?
I’m spending my New Years Eve with my best friend (my mom!), some treats, and a bottle of wine (we’re not champagne people).
at my neice’s wedding in New Orleans!
We will either spend it with friends or maybe a nice quiet evening at home with just my husband and I.
love these!
we’ll be hosting friends in our home on New Years! 🙂
Sleeping! With two little ones, we rest when we can! 🙂
Your popper idea is one of the most creative I’ve seen. I love it. I will probably spend new years eve at home with the kiddos. We aren’t big on going out and I can barely make it up till midnight! We usually try to have an appetizer dinner to make it party-ish.
i will either be at a party or home just hanging out!
i am working new years eve.
Those poppers are TOO cute! I’ll be overimbibing with friends at their home, sleeping over, then cooking brunch and dinner the next day. Very excited!
Dancing the night away with friends. Thanks!
We’ll be spending New Year’s Eve at home- for the first time since we’ve been married- with a brand-new baby boy!
I’ll be fattening up my family and friends, like usual. haha.
I will hopefully be spending New Year’s Eve with my roommates from undergrad–we haven’t all been together in quite a long time!
We go to my brother-in-law’s house and watch movies and eat a TON of food on New Years Eve. It’s the best 🙂
We will spend New Year’s Eve at home watching TV with the kids.
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Family night for the New Year! PJ’s, games and movies with the entire tribe! Can’t wait!
We’ll probably stay home. My parents who normally watch our son when we go out, seem to have a more social life than us….lol.
like every year……….we spend it at home, watching movies.
I have loved all of these fun rice krispies treats!
tweeted too!
My husband is a chef so we usually eat extravagantly for New Years and we drink a little too much!
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We will be staying up watching movies and playing games with the kids.
I will hopefully be in New York with my boyfriend! I am very excited since ive never been there!
And I tweeted the giveaway! 🙂
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We plan on going out to dinner and to the movies
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I’m celebrating the holidays with my family in Des Moines New Years Eve. Hoping to get a hotel room and enjoy downtown Des Moines for the New Year festivities!
Tweet tweet 🙂
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One of my best friends lives in Salt Lake City. He will be home, so we’re going to go out and celebrate the new year!
We send the kid to Grandma’s house and spend New Years with our neighbors.
Planning on spending it with my husband and friends! Not sure how, but there will definitely be celebration as we head into 2012!!
I plan to ring in the new year snuggled in bed with my family.
we are going to our fav restaurant and hear a band playing
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just staying home & playing games!
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Partying it up in Baltimore!! 🙂
Poached mozzarella and board games with the family — unless it’s nice enough for moonlight XC-skiing.
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well new years is my birthday so we will probably have a big 30th party!
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I don’t have any plans yet, but with a new baby, I imagine we’ll have a low-key New Years.
the kids try their hardest to stay up until midnight. I think they have only made it once so far.
Hopefully I will be snuggled up with my boyfriend in Austin!
I tweeted!
With my family. My dad is sick and I want to spend as much time as possible with him especially during the holidays
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Depending on babysitting we’ll go out for dinner and some live music.
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We will probably just hang out at home and play games with the kids.
I will be on the way to my honeymoon after getting married on December 30th! Thanks for the chance to win.
Well, we haven’t solidified the New Years plans yet, but I’m really hoping we end up with a cozy evening at home with just our family. With delicious food, a movie or two, and maybe a board game or two. I love just spending New Years at home, it’s like the calm at the end of the busy holiday season.
What a fun idea!
We’ll probably spend it at my parents house. Drinking sparkling cider and eating Macho Nachos. Oh and playing boardgames.
I’ll be with the bf!
Not sure yet – but it will involve jumping off chairs in order to “jump” into the new year!
& I tweeted!
probably at home with my husband with some bubbly and finger food.
I will be spending New Years Eve in St. George, Utah with my husband, our 2 beautiful kids and our best friends at a beautiful condo!
Night skiing with my family!
I tweeted – ” Celebrate with Snap! Crackle! New Years Eve Poppers on @dineanddish & enter to #win a $100 gift card! http://su.pr/2kQtRP ”
I will probably stay in this NYE. Last NYE’s, I was on my way to the Bahamas so I won’t even try to beat last year!
I will be spending New Year’s Eve in the warmth of my home and watch the ball drop in New York on TV.
I plan to spend New Year’s eve with my husband and chihuahua snuggled up by the fire.
I think we’re going to do something low-key like celebrate at home with some bubbly, but no plans yet. One thing is for sure–I’m going to be giving my boyfriend some sugar! 😉
I tweeted “Celebrate with Snap! Crackle! New Years Eve Poppers on @dineanddish & enter to #win a $100 gift card! http://su.pr/2kQtRP“
This New Year’s Eve my husband and I are going out to an early dinner then coming home to watch the ball drop with our dog.
I think we’re going to go to the Upper Crust’s New Year’s Eve show – they do it every year and we never go, well this year we’re going! (The Upper Crust are a band who are essentially AC/DC in powdered wigs – a “rich 18th-century guy” theme, not even kidding – and one of them is a Harvard prof and another was a speechwriter for Clinton).
staying in
sadly…nothing!
Stay at home with my family!
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What a cute idea! We’ll be spending the evening at home and I’ll make DH and myself a nice spread of appetizers to munch on.
spending it with the family at home, watching a movie or play games
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I tweeted your giveaway
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Unfortunately my boyfriend is working early morning on New Year’s Day, so we will be at home probably in bed by midnight.
I Tweeted the giveaway.
We have no plans
We are taking the family bowling, then headed to a friend’s hosue for a small get together.
Is it wrong to say that we spend NYE trying to avoid people???
FYI – I am in total AWE of these, I can’t even ever get regular rice krispie treats to be blocks – what magic are you using to sculpt things out of yours???
Staying home with the husband and kids to watch the ball drop. I’ll be the only one awake until midnight, then I’ll have to wake everyone just before the ball comes down so they can watch it. Then we all go to bed. Exciting I know.
We’ll be spending New Years here at home for our LO’s first new year!
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Unfortunately, I my husband and I will probably be sleeping when New Year’s hits…he has to work New Year’s Day.
I tweeted about the giveaway.
We are spending New Years Eve with our two young children, so we will probably make a big family dinner, watch a movie and then put them to bed. Nothing exciting, but definitely will be making memories 🙂
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I tweeted Thank you
How fun is this idea?! My kids would love it… and hubby too since his favorite treat is rice krispie treats. Lets see, for New Years Eve I will probably be watching a show, hanging out at home and putting my kids to bed. BORING, yeah, I know!
well be drinking beer and playing board games!
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Probably at home with a glass of wine and some grilled shrimp!
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Just joined you via RSS. Looking forward to going back to see it ALL.
Plan on having a safe and good time at friends home.
Having a night in with my friends, watching movies and drinking hot cocoa.
This is such an awesome idea! Rice Krispie treats are my weakness. I’m going to be in Cabo San Lucas for New Years with my betrothed 🙂
What a cute idea you made!! 🙂 Our plans for New Year’s is to hopefully just take it easy at home! Maybe with some takeout and a movie. 🙂 creedamy [at] yahoo[dot] com
oh my gosh i haven’t even thought about what we’ll do on new years eve!! 🙁 we’ll probably spend it at home with a few friends playing games and having some drinks 🙂
We’ll be spending New Years at a five star hotel in South Beach.
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I honestly haven’t given New Years Eve much thought but we will probably go over to a friend’s house…she usually has a party on New Years Eve! these would be the perfect treat to bring when we go!!
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I tweeted! thanks!!
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I never really go out for New Year’s but this year Im going to a charity event ball in Boston!
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We usually stay at home and watch the Big Ball drop!
We’re going to play board games with our kiddos, eat too much popcorn, then get everyone to sleep (probably before midnight)! I may stay up to watch the ball drop in NYC…
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We never go out and not anything on New Years Eve. We’ll probably stay home with the kids and have our own little “party” with them staying up late.
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We celebrate with having a family lunch then in the evening we just stay put.
I always stay at home where it is safe!
I dont have any NYE plans yet. I hope to soon!
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I will be spending it at home, with my family.
I’ve tweeted your giveaway
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We are heading to The Inn on Newfound Lake for a NYE party!
I will spending New Years Eve at home with family. I have gone out in the past, but I almost always have the most fun at home though!
Staying home with my hubby and little one. Most likely will stay up to watch the New Year’s eve ball drop.
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We have a newborn at home so we will likely just go to church and then head to bed early (I need sleep whenever I can get it 😉 )
I plan on spending it with my kids at home watching all of the new years eve shows
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I plan to spend New Year’s at home with my girls since my hubby has to work.
I posted about your giveaway!
I will be spending New Years Eve at home with my husband and daughter home from college.
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i will probably have a new years eve party and invite friends over
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