Giveaway: Rice Krispies Spooky Fall Challenge & $100 Bank Gift Card Giveaway
Our third Rice Krispies challenge is upon us. This time we were challenged to create a spooky fall treat that would double as a fun craft for moms and kids to work on together. We created our original recipe first, a Brown Butter Pumpkin Spice Rice Krispies treat. Then we created our craft, a haunted pumpkin patch. We had tons of fun putting it together.
We started by making a large flat tray of our Brown Butter Pumpkin Spice Treats which we covered in chocolate frosting and chocolate cookie crumbs (our dirt) to serve as the base for our haunted pumpkin patch. We then made our “fence” by connecting parallel running pretzel sticks to marshmallow “posts” and adhered them around the edge of our base. We made spooky “trees” with black licorice and adhered them into the frosting. A path was created through the patch using Reeces Pieces as “cobblestones.” We then whipped up another batch of Brown Butter Pumpkin Spice Rice Krispies Treats (this time dyeing them orange) and made them into round pumpkin shapes. A third of a pretzel stick was stuck into each pumpkin top before a green icing leaf was piped on to the “stem.” Finally we decorated the patch with fun spooky items found at the craft store, like miniature wooden tomb stones, ghosts made out of Peeps candy, miniature mummies and skeletons, small plastic spiders etc.
We had a blast creating, chatting and decorating! Be sure to check out some of the amazing treats the other teams created on The Motherhood.
Brown Butter Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats – Haunted Pumpkin Patch
Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 stick (8 TBS) butter or margarine
- 1 ¼ tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice
- 1 package(about 40) + 10 regular marshmallows
- 2 TBS Pumpkin Puree
- 7 cups Rice Krispies
Directions:
- In large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Stirring frequently. Butter will foam and then the foam will subside. Brown bits will begin to form at the bottom. Keep stirring. You will smell a nutty aroma and the butter will be lightly brown. Off the heat.
- Stir in pumpkin pie spice until incorporated. Add marshmallows and stir. Put the heat back on low and stir until marshmallows are completely melted. Remove from heat.
- Stir in pumpkin puree and two drops of red food coloring and 3-4 drops of yellow food coloring (to make desired orange color).
- Mix in Rice Krispies until they are fully coated with marshmallow mixture. Turn out onto a wax paper lined baking sheet.
To Make Pumpkins:
Ingredients:
- One batch Brown Butter Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats.
- Small Pretzel Sticks
- Green Icing tube with Leaf tip.
Directions:
- Allow Rice Krispies Treats to cool for a bit.
- Shape into round balls. Insert a 1/3 of a pretzel stick into the tops to act as a pumpkin stem.
- Use green icing and an leaf tip to create a small green leaf on the side of the “stem.”
To Assemble Haunted Pumpkin Patch:
Ingredients:
- 2 batches of Brown Butter Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treats
- 1 batch Brown Butter Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treats made into Pumpkins
- 1 can Chocolate Frosting
- 2-3 cups Chocolate Cookie Crumbs (crumble plain chocolate cookies in a food processor or blender)
- 1 bag Marshmallows
- 1 bag Pretzel Sticks
- 2 -3 sticks of Black Twizzlers
- 1/3 cup Reeces Pieces
- Peeps Marshmallow Ghosts, assorted miniature Halloween signs, tomb stones, zombies, bats, spiders , ghosts from a craft store for decorating
Directions:
- Spread a baking sheet with wax paper and spray with cooking spray. Make 2 batches of Brown Butter Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats and spread out onto baking sheet evenly. Once cooled completely turn over onto a platter or tray.
- Frost Treats with chocolate frosting and cover with cookie crumbs (for dirt).
- Create a “fence” around Treats by taking 2 Marshmallows and connecting them with 2 parallel pretzel sticks. Continue to join pretzels sticks and Marshmallows until the fence goes around the tray of Rice Krispies Treats. Adhere the marshmallows to the chocolate frosting.
- Make a “path across the middle of the Treats (vertically) with Reeces Pieces.
- Cut the tops of the Twizzlers down in thin strips to make tree branches and cut them slightly at the bottom (to make roots) and adhere into the frosting for spooky trees.
- Scatter the Brown Butter Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treat Pumpkins around the “pumpkin patch.”
- Decorate with marshmallow ghosts and store bought spooky creatures and signs.
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October 9th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I would take black licorice and turn the rice krispies treats into little spiders with candy corn eyes.
October 9th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
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October 9th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
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October 9th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
i would cover it in chocolate and put whiskers and make a spooky cat!
October 9th, 2011 at 6:30 pm
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October 9th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
i would roll the rice krispie treats into balls with orange frosting and make scary pumpkins faces
October 9th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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October 9th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
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October 9th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I would love to add some white chocolate and then add some black for the eyes and nose and mouth and turn it into a ghost.
October 9th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
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October 10th, 2011 at 11:24 am
I would turn it into a cemetery
October 10th, 2011 at 11:25 am
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October 10th, 2011 at 11:27 am
I would use chocolate sauce and drizzle it over the rice krispies to make a bat
October 10th, 2011 at 11:30 am
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October 10th, 2011 at 11:32 am
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October 10th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
I would have to use lots of choc. syrup and choc. chips
October 10th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
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October 11th, 2011 at 3:47 am
I would turn it into a haunted house!
October 12th, 2011 at 8:43 am
I’d make the Pumpkin shaped Halloween desserts with candy inside
October 12th, 2011 at 8:44 am
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October 13th, 2011 at 2:27 am
I would make it into a cat.
October 13th, 2011 at 2:28 am
I would turn it into something sports related.
October 13th, 2011 at 2:28 am
Spiders would be cool
October 13th, 2011 at 2:29 am
Anything spookey would be cool.
October 13th, 2011 at 8:24 pm
I would cut them with cookie cutters in the shape of a ghost and stick on some black eyes – I think I could do that – not very crafty or creative.
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October 15th, 2011 at 10:22 pm
i would drip in a chocolate and get white chocolate and make a spider web on them
October 15th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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October 15th, 2011 at 10:23 pm
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October 17th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
you ladies are so creative!!! I’d make flat pumpkin faces and add M&Ms as part of the face. and use marshmallows to attempt to make ‘cob webs’ I love love love rice krispy treats thanks for getting my creativity going!
xo
October 17th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
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October 17th, 2011 at 12:17 pm
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October 20th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Your project came out amazing!! With a tray of flat krispies, I’d make a “pumpkin patch” theme with pumpkins, scarecrow, some crows, maybe a haymaze or hayfilled wagon.
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October 21st, 2011 at 8:21 am
I’d use food coloring, and cut shapes of goblins, ghosts, and monsters that we could decorate with sprinkles, gumdrops and icing.
October 21st, 2011 at 8:27 am
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October 21st, 2011 at 8:28 am
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October 22nd, 2011 at 8:46 pm
I could use black & white frosting to make spider web rice krispies!
October 22nd, 2011 at 8:47 pm
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October 22nd, 2011 at 8:47 pm
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October 23rd, 2011 at 1:54 pm
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October 24th, 2011 at 11:59 am
I love rice krispies treats!!!! I like to make them via the original directions and then add a heaping serving spoon of creamy peanut butter to them. DELICIOUS! You could do this for Halloween too and maybe dip one end in milk chocolate and one end in green colored white chocolate and then add a monster face to it!
October 24th, 2011 at 11:59 am
I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/#!/FotoMacro/status/128545637062017024
October 24th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
Just melt multi-colored candy corn all over the Rice Krispies treats. It looks like a mess, but it surely tastes great!
October 24th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
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