Snap! Crackle! Pop! Cheep! Cheep!
For the past couple of weeks some friends and I have had the pleasure of playing with Rice Krispies Treats, creating little critters and such. Rice Krispies® began a friendly, year-long challenge with four teams across the nation for the Rice Krispies® Making Memories Challenge. Along with Julie from Mommie Cooks, Sommer over at A Spicy Perspective, and Robyn at Add a Pinch, I was invited to join the team representing the south. Fun huh?
Let me explain. (There’s a lot of information here, so let me know if something doesn’t make sense.)
The goal? To make an original Rice Krispies® Treat focused on a given theme. Over the course of the year there will be a total of four challenges between the four different teams, each with a different theme. For each of the four challenges a winner will be chosen. It should be a fun and tasty year ahead! You can even vote for your favorite entry over at Rice Krispies facebook page. “Like” Rice Krispies, then “like” the entry photos that tickle your fancy.
Maybe for you too! There’s a giveaway for you…
Rice Krispies® will pick one winner from each of the participating team members site to receive a $100 gift card. That means you can enter here, and go visit all other participating team member sites for a chance to win. What a sweet treat! ***Be sure to read entry details below.***
But first here’s the low down on our entry for the initial challenge.
The first challenge was to create an original Rice Krispies® Treat with an Easter theme. After pastel tinted ideas swirled through our heads, this little chick hatched right there before our eyes.
Isn’t he cute? Or she?
The chick is made of delightful lemon, white chocolate Rice Krispies® Treats, coated with coconut. It tastes just like lemonade! It sits atop a dark chocolate Rice Krispies® butter cookie nest. Let me tell ya, it’s yummy! Lemon and dark chocolate is a combo everyone should try this spring.
The chicks and nests are easy enough for the kids to join in on the fun creating them. What a fun spring time project for those busy hands that need something to do. We also made a centerpiece to accompany the itty bitty chicks.
The centerpiece is a basket filled with a Rice Krispies® landscape for more chicks and their bunny friends, and a spring time garden. It was fun to put together and mostly made, again, with Rice Krispies®. For a full explanation of how we made the centerpiece, check out Robyn’s, from Add a Pinch, post. She explains it down to the “T.”
You’ll find the recipes and details on how to make the little chicks and nests below, as well as an overall time line of all the fun. There’s a bunch of info to keep track of here!
$100 Gift Card Giveaway information:
To enter the giveaway for the $100 gift card, courtesy of Rice Krispie, just leave a comment. Entries will be accepted now until April 11, 2011, Midnight PST. One winner will be randomly chosen and announced here on April 12, 2011.
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*****A winner has been selected!*****
Congratulations to…
#39 Colleen who said…
“These are amazingly cute. Here is to some good luck on the 12th which happens to be my sons birthday!”
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Have fun and if you make any chicks please send a chick pict my way. I’d love to see what you create!
Here’s a run down for the time line…
* April 12th – Giveaway for $100 gift card winner announced here.
* April 13th – 20th – You are able to vote on your favorite Rice Krispies® Making Memories Challenge treat for Easter on the Rice Krispies® Facebook page. Make sure to “like” Rice Krispies first, the “like” each photo you like.
* April 15th – Our team is participating as hosts of a fun chat at The Motherhood. I’d love it if you’d come join in the fun! I’ll post the link for the chat when the winner for the gift card is announced.
* April 21st – Rice Krispies® will announce the winner of the challenge on The Motherhood Circle.
And finally, the recipes…
Lemonade Rice Krispie® Treats Recipe
Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 4 cups miniature marshmallows
- 6 cups Rice Krispies®
- ½ cup white chocolate chips
- 1 ½ teaspoons lemon zest, not compressed (about 2 large lemons)
Melt butter over low heat in a large saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
Stir white chocolate chips and lemon zest into marshmallow mixture. Add in Rice Krispies® cereal and stir until all ingredients are well combined.
Spray a 13×9-inch pan or cookie sheet and a spatula with non-stick cooking spray. Pour Lemonade Rice Krispies® mixture into pan and spread with spatula. Cool completely.
Rice Krispies® Chicks Assembly*
(makes about 4 dozen chicks)
Ingredients:
- 1 recipe Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treats
- 8 ounces yellow candy melts, melted
- 1 14-ounce bag sweetened flake coconut
- 1 cup chocolate chips , melted
- 4 ounces orange candy melts, melted
Form 1 tablespoon Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treat into the shape of an egg. Dip treat into yellow candy melts and then roll in coconut. Place onto a large piece of parchment paper to dry.
Pipe eyes onto each chick with melted chocolate. Alternately, you can use a toothpick dipped into the melted chocolate and dotted onto the chick. Pipe a nose onto each chick with melted orange candy melts. Place onto parchment paper to allow to dry.
Here’s a photo showing the easy steps.
Chocolate Cocoa Krispies® Butter Cookie Nests Recipe
(makes about 2 dozen nests)
Ingredients:
- 4 sticks unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1/3 cups sugar
- 1 ¾ tsp. vanilla
- ¾ tsp. salt
- 1 tsp. baking powder
- 3 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¾ cup cocoa powder
- 1 ½ cups shredded coconut
- 1 ½ cups Rice Krispies® Cereal
- 1 ½ cups Cocoa Krispies® Cereal
- Sea salt
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together with an electric mixer.
Mix the salt, baking powder, flour and cocoa powder together in a separate bowl.
Turn the mixer on low and slowly add the dry mixture to the butter mixture. Once combined, add the coconut and mix.
Line your baking sheets with parchment paper. Mix the Rice Krispies® and the Cocoa Krispies® together in a pie pan. Roll the dough into 3 Tb. sized balls.
Roll the dough in the Rice Krispies, pressing in on all sides. *The Rice Krispies® should completely cover each ball.
Lay them on the baking sheets 2 inched apart. Press a deep indention in the center of each dough ball with your thumb, leaving the sides high.
Bake for 17-19 minutes. When the cookies come out of the oven, sprinkle them with a scant amount of sea salt and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for several minutes before moving.
Place a Lemonade Rice Krispies® Chick in each nest to serve.
*You’ll have extra chicks to use as decorations…or EAT!
THE MOTHERHOOD MAKING MEMORIES KELLOGG’STM RICE KRISPIESTM BLOGGER GIVEAWAY
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The little chick is so cute!
OMG Amy! these are SOOOO adorable!! Love it!!
What a precious chick! Love that it’s different.
Wow, that basket is awesome! I think you guys have nailed this challenge.
adorable guys, just adorable!!! i do not have the patience to do this kind of work so must admire from the sidelines!!
So cute!!! You are making me crave Easter!!
this is soo cute. i love the little krispie chickies!
we make rice krispie treat cakes and stuff all the time, there is simply nothing better than cream cheese frosting all over a rice krispie concoction. I think I just may have to make this variety for our Easter celebration. Very cool!
The center piece turned out really adorable! Good job ladies!
these are so cute! what a cute centerpiece too!
These are just adorable! Nice work ladies!
ADORABLE!! Love this!!
These are so stinking cute! I never thought to add zest of any kind to rice krispie treats – now you’ve got my wheels a turnin’! I hope you guys win, this is just too cute for words.
The chick is so cute!! I bet my kids would love that.
Too cute. If I had young kids, I would be making these! For some reason 17 and 15 year old boys don’t like the cute crafty stuff!
This looks like the ultimate Easter centerpiece and even better because you can eat it too.
Really creative and it looks like it would be really good to eat, too.
These are so cute and creative! I hope y’all win!!
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OMG! These chicks in a nest our adorable!
That is absolutely wonderful. But where did the carrots come from?
Oh Girl – lookie -> http://www.savoringthethyme.com/2011/04/not-cake-pops-but-crispy-treats-easter-pops/
The chick is cute, but I absolutely LOVE that basket! What a clever idea! It would be fun as a giveaway centerpiece for a Spring dinner party.
You guys did such an awesome job. So creative, and the garden centerpiece is just too cute!
That’s adorable! I’ve made Halloween and Thanksgiving rice krispies concotions, but never thought of Easter. Cute idea.
Visiting by way of Mommie Cooks — WOW! You gals really put together an incredible entry — From the detail and design of the critters and their habitat, to the fancy flavors of the treats themselves, I definitely think you have a winning package!
Jenn/Rook No. 17
Soo cute! I love your little garden hill covered with little hoppity critters!
Good luck with the contest.
Wow, looks like you had just a little bit of fun with this one! Way cute!
Amy, that centerpiece is absolutely adorable, as are the individual chicks on nests. Well done!
I’m pretty sure it can’t get any more adorable than this! Love!!
I love this little Krispie Treats. They are amazingly creative. I would not mind winning the $100 gift card. Definitely I will be trying these little lemonade chick.
Sooooo sweet and creative. Love this!
Love it! Can’t wait to make it for the grandchildren.
Um, that is ADORABLE!!!
They are adorable, can’t wait to try them out
I’m in love with those little chicks and bunnies. Adorable!
Wow!! Very cool.
Such a unique and adorable idea! Thanks so much!!
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Just love the idea of adding lemon zest and white chocolate to a Rice Krispies Treat. Your centerpiece is fantastic and your chicks and bunnies are so cute.
These are amazingly cute. Here is to some good luck on the 12th which happens to be my sons birthday!
These are so cute!! You guys are very creative
So fun! Love the chick!
That little chick is the cutest thing!!!
Oh my…lemonaid rice krispies sound like summer. Will have to try them.
HOLY TOLEDO! Those are not only adorable but brilliant. I’m off to check out the rest
Bring on Easter.
I love the centerpiece. The garden, the critters, all too cute!
I first saw these on Sommer’s blog and you all did such an incredible job! I can’t believe how creative you all are, this is just amazing.
Super Super Cute!
The little garden centerpiece is adorable and I love the chicks!!
Love these little chicks! So cute and yummy too!
I’ve got to try these! My neighbors would love them! You are some creative gals!
These are so cute… Fun treats for Easter!!
This is the most ambitious Rice Krispie treat I’ve ever seen! Thanks for the chance to win!!
So stinkin cute! I don’t think that I could bring myself to eat the little darlin’! He/she is too precious!
Wow. . . this creation is awesome!! So cute!
I absolutely love those chicks & bunnies! Can’t wait to vote for them come April 12!
Thanks for linking up to I’m Lovin’ It Amy!! I featured your post in my wrap up! http://tidymom.net/2011/easter-treats/
Happy Saturday!
Looks fantastic! Thanks for the chance!
The chicks are adorable….can’t wait for Easter!
Adorable peeps!
I love the chicks and bunnies. Very cute!
That is such a cute idea and perfect for an edible Easter table decoration
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This looks so cute, and sounds like it would taste good too.
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So Creative!! Love your Centerpiece.
Love the chicks, they are so cute.
This looks great!! Superb job! Thanks for the chance!!
Looks like you ladies had a ball. They chickies are adorable!
The lemonade rice krispie sounds so good. i hope i have time to make some for EAster
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I just have to say that the little forest farm bunny chick scene you created is adorable and like nothing I have ever seen anyone do with cereal! LOL I love it! Thanks for the chance to win!!!
those are too cute.
The Rice Krispies® Chicks Assembly recipe looks like a treat my son’s class would love!
So cute, Amy.