Apple Shaped Rice Krispie Treats

A smooth start to September is all one can hope for with all the excitement and nerves our little ones can throw at us over the beginning of a new school year. But once the dust settles after those first few days (and before I embark on the mountain of forms and paperwork sent my way), I thought a small treat to welcome everyone back and to their new class might be appreciated. So in step these little apple Rice Krispie treats!

They start fairly basically with the regular Rice Krispie Treats recipe on the box, which I adjusted the proportions of slightly to work with what I had on hand as follows:

-makes 25 small apples-

Apple Rice Krispie Ingredients

4 Cups Rice Krispies Cereal
Scant 1/4 cup of butter
3/4 a 400g bag of marshmallows
1 tsp Vanilla
1/4 tsp Red food colouring (I used Wilton’s concentrated gel)
1/4 Cup Green melting wafers (I used Wilton Candy Melts)
3 Pocky – Chocolate Coated Biscuit Sticks
Non stick cooking spray

Apple Rice Krispie Directions

Step 1:
Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Step 2:
Melt the butter and marshmallows together in a large pot, stirring the whole time.

Step 3:
Remove from heat and add the vanilla, carefully as it will bubble up at first.

Step 4:
Stir in a generous amount of red food colouring until you reach the desired hue. Try to make it darker and stronger than you desire the finished product to be, because the cereal will lighten the colour when added (and make it bit more orange I found).

Step 5:
Stir in the rice cereal until everything is evenly coated.

Shaping The Apples

Step 6:
Let the mixture cool off the element for five minutes, or risk burning your fingers off with molten marshmallow (don’t ask me how I found this out). And you HAVE TO spray your hands (palms AND fingers) with cooking spray or you will have no success at all! Subsequently respray your hands and fingers every couple apples otherwise everything just sticks to your hands and you get no where.

Step 7:
Grab a small amount, about 2 Tbsp, and roll it firmly between greased hands as if you are making and compacting a snowball. Place on the parchment lined sheet and repeat.

Step 8:
Slice up a Pocky chocolate covered biscuit into 1/4 inch segments and push into top of the apples for the stem. Doing so also gives a more realistic apple shape. This is best accomplished 3 – 4 minutes after forming the apples, as they have had time to set up and so keep their shape and don’t fall apart when you add the stem, but have not firmed so much that you can no longer add a stem. I would form about 8 apples at a time, go back and add the stems before they hardened and then again continue forming more apples, that way they would have time to set slightly, but not get too firm.

Step 9:
Melt a 1/4 cup green candy melts in the microwave. Stir after 30 seconds, then continue in 10 second increments until completely melted.

Step 10:
Fit a pastry bag with a leaf tip, such as Wilton 352 tip, and add your melted candy. Use to pipe on leaves on top of the apples, next to the stems.

Step 11:
Allow everything to set for a couple hours at room temperature and then store covered.

Then in our case, send them to school the next morning with your beaming daughter!!

And since we were on a roll we made sure to send a few goodies just for the teacher as well!

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Apple Rice Krispies

Cute apple shaped rice krispie treats

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Keyword rice krispie treats

Prep Time 1 hour

Servings 25

Ingredients

• 4 Cups Rice Krispies Cereal
• Scant 1/4 cup of butter
• 3/4 a 400g bag of marshmallows
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1/4 tsp Red food colouring I used Wilton’s concentrated gel
• 1/4 Cup Green melting wafers I used Wilton Candy Melts
• 3 Pocky – Chocolate Coated Biscuit Sticks
• Non stick cooking spray

Instructions

1. Line a large cookie sheet with parchment paper.
2. Melt the butter and marshmallows together in a large pot, stirring the whole time.
3. Remove from heat and add the vanilla, carefully as it will bubble up at first.
4. Stir in a generous amount of red food colouring until you reach the desired hue. Try to make it darker and stronger than you desire the finished product to be, because the cereal will lighten the colour when added (and make it bit more orange I found).
5. Stir in the rice cereal until everything is evenly coated.
6. Let the mixture cool off the element for five minutes, or risk burning your fingers off with molten marshmallow (don’t ask me how I found this out). And you HAVE TO spray your hands (palms AND fingers) with cooking spray or you will have no success at all! Subsequently respray your hands and fingers every couple apples otherwise everything just sticks to your hands and you get no where.
7. Grab a small amount, about 2 Tbsp, and roll it firmly between greased hands as if you are making and compacting a snowball. Place on the parchment lined sheet and repeat.
8. Slice up a Pocky chocolate covered biscuit into 1/4 inch segments and push into top of the apples for the stem. Doing so also gives a more realistic apple shape. This is best accomplished 3 – 4 minutes after forming the apples, as they have had time to set up and so keep their shape and don’t fall apart when you add the stem, but have not firmed so much that you can no longer add a stem. I would form about 8 apples at a time, go back and add the stems before they hardened and then again continue forming more apples, that way they would have time to set slightly, but not get too firm.
9. Melt a 1/4 cup green candy melts in the microwave. Stir after 30 seconds, then continue in 10 second increments until completely melted.
10. Fit a pastry bag with a leaf tip, such as Wilton 352 tip, and add your melted candy. Use to pipe on leaves on top of the apples, next to the stems.
11. Allow everything to set for a couple hours at room temperature and then store covered.

More simple and themed treats in order?! How about autumn hued and leaf shaped Autumn Sugar Cookies or the delightfully easy Lucky Charm Treats or maybe even Mini Popsicle Cupcakes.

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