How to Make Rice Crispy Treats

Rice crispy treats are a favorite eatable with people of almost all generations. They are easy to prepare and they can easily be made by children too. There are a lot of mothers, who will give support to this argument, that their children are able to make them or they are able to lend a helping hand to make these treats. You can cut the treats in squared or round shapes and combine different ingredients to make it taste different every time you make them. Let's see how to make them.

Recipe for Rice Crispy Treats
With this recipe, you will learn how to make delicious rice treats. Then you will not have to run behind your children and force them to have their breakfast.

Ingredients

• Butter ¼ cup
• Mini Marshmallows 4 cups
• Crisp Rice Cereal 5 cups

Method

• Grease a pan with cooking spray, so that you can pour the mixture in it and cut rice crispy treat, into different shapes.
• In a large saucepan melt the butter over low heat.
• Slowly add marshmallows to the butter and let them melt. Read more on marshmallow fruit dip recipe.
• Once the marshmallows have melted, add rice cereal and stir until the rice cereals are evenly coated.
• Pour the marshmallows mixture into the pan you greased, and let it settle for some time. Press the mixture into the pan using a greased spatula, so that it does not stick to the spatula and come out of the pan.
• In 5 to 10 minutes, it will be ready to be cut in desired shapes.

Rice Crispy Treats with Peanut Butter Recipe
This rice crispy treats recipe is a big favorite, with a number of people. It can also be served as dessert after a sumptuous dinner.

Ingredients

• Butter ¼ cup
• Regular Marshmallows 10 oz
• Peanut Butter ½ cup
• Rice Crispy Cereal 6 cups

Method

• Heat the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat.
• Once the butter melts, slowly add the marshmallows and heat till the marshmallows have melted.
• Take the pan off the heat and now add peanut butter to it.
• Mix all the ingredients well and then add rice crispy cereal to it.
• Stir well till the cereal is well coated with the Marshmallows mixture and then press into a pan. Use a greased spatula to press it into the pan, so that it does not become messy and it does not come out of the pan.
• Cut it into pieces after some time has elapsed.

Now you are armed with rice crispy treat recipe. It is recommended, that they are eaten within one day of making them. If you like to use the microwave, while cooking, you can choose to melt the butter and marshmallows in the microwave as well. Melt them on high for about 2 to 3 minutes, but make sure you do stir occasionally, or else the mixture will be scorched. A recommendation for cutting the bars, is to use pizza wheel cutter, which is greased with butter or cooking spray. You can also add fruits to the recipes to make them all the more healthy.