Chocolate & Pretzel Cereal Treats
These are cereal treats on steroids. You can mix any kind of cereal you like, but here I've chosen to combine chocolate and plain rice cereals. The addition of salty pretzels and gooey chocolate chips make these treats indulgent and delicious. As a bonus, they're super easy to make!
They're also my private way of rebelling against my 3rd grade teacher, for reasons I explain in the post linked below. Man, was she a grouch.
Chocolate & Pretzel Cereal Treats
Recipe by: Willow Bird Baking, adapted from Kellogg's
Yield: about 12 bars
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
4 cups miniature marshmallows or 1 package (10 ounces) large marshmallows
2 cups chocolate rice cereal
2 cups plain rice cereal
2 cups pretzel wheels (broken into pieces, but not pulverized), plus whole pretzels for topping
3/4 cup semisweet or milk chocolate chips
Directions:
Spray a 13 x 9-inch pan with cooking spray and set it aside. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Stir in the marshmallows (I use a spatula coated with cooking spray) until they're completely melted and remove the pan from the heat.
Add the cereal, pretzel pieces, and chocolate chips and stir until they're thoroughly coated. Pour the mixture out into your prepared pan. Use a sheet of wax paper to press the mixture into an even layer in your pan. Quickly press whole pretzels in rows all along the surface of the bars.
Let the treats cool completely (and maybe even drizzle some melted chocolate over them!) and then cut into squares to serve. The treats can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for two days, or can be frozen (separated by wax paper) for up to 6 weeks.
P.S. Don't forget that I'm hosting a Cooking Hard Stuff challenge on Willow Bird Baking! Make a recipe during the month of March that's hard for you -- maybe it has more ingredients than you're used to, or takes more time, or seems new and scary. Tackle it and send me a photo (julie 'at' willowbirdbaking 'dot' com) and brief summary of how it went, and I'll showcase all your work on Willow Bird Baking at the end of the month!
To read my vindictive letter to my 3rd grade teacher, find out why cereal treats are superior to crackers (okay, obvious), and see more photos, please head over to Willow Bird Baking!
x-posted to food_porn, cooking, picturing_food, and cookingupastorm
They're also my private way of rebelling against my 3rd grade teacher, for reasons I explain in the post linked below. Man, was she a grouch.
Chocolate & Pretzel Cereal Treats
Recipe by: Willow Bird Baking, adapted from Kellogg's
Yield: about 12 bars
Ingredients:
1/4 cup butter
4 cups miniature marshmallows or 1 package (10 ounces) large marshmallows
2 cups chocolate rice cereal
2 cups plain rice cereal
2 cups pretzel wheels (broken into pieces, but not pulverized), plus whole pretzels for topping
3/4 cup semisweet or milk chocolate chips
Directions:
Spray a 13 x 9-inch pan with cooking spray and set it aside. Melt the butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Stir in the marshmallows (I use a spatula coated with cooking spray) until they're completely melted and remove the pan from the heat.
Add the cereal, pretzel pieces, and chocolate chips and stir until they're thoroughly coated. Pour the mixture out into your prepared pan. Use a sheet of wax paper to press the mixture into an even layer in your pan. Quickly press whole pretzels in rows all along the surface of the bars.
Let the treats cool completely (and maybe even drizzle some melted chocolate over them!) and then cut into squares to serve. The treats can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for two days, or can be frozen (separated by wax paper) for up to 6 weeks.
P.S. Don't forget that I'm hosting a Cooking Hard Stuff challenge on Willow Bird Baking! Make a recipe during the month of March that's hard for you -- maybe it has more ingredients than you're used to, or takes more time, or seems new and scary. Tackle it and send me a photo (julie 'at' willowbirdbaking 'dot' com) and brief summary of how it went, and I'll showcase all your work on Willow Bird Baking at the end of the month!
To read my vindictive letter to my 3rd grade teacher, find out why cereal treats are superior to crackers (okay, obvious), and see more photos, please head over to Willow Bird Baking!
x-posted to food_porn, cooking, picturing_food, and cookingupastorm