Posts Tagged ‘rice krispies’
Crack Brownies with Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Rice Krispies Cereal
Cookies & Bars • Tags: brownie, chocolate chips, dessert, peanut butter, peanuts, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, rice krispies
Not everything in life has to be complicated. As self-proclaimed foodies, we like to spend time in the kitchen trussing chickens, making sausage from scratch, whipping up dishes with truffle flavored foie gras, or serving picturesque baked delights (French macarons anyone?). On the other hand, we’re not ashamed to admit there are times when we succumb to semi-homemade cooking and eating. Perhaps our eggless ice cream from last week will come to mind. We don’t care if you judge us! The easiest treats can sometimes make you forget about all of those fancy dishes.
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Rocky Road Rice Krispie Treats
Cookies & Bars • Tags: almond extract, almonds, marshmallows, rice krispies
Our parents didn’t make Rice Krispie treats for us when we were kids. We learned how to make them ourselves. These were one of the easiest sweet snacks to prepare in one serving portions. You didn’t actually need to heat them on the stove, bystepping what could potentially be a treacherous situation for a young one. Just get a plastic bowl, plop in a tiny bit of butter, tumble in the marshmallows and microwave until a billow of fluffy sugar expanded like a mini nuclear bomb. Pull the bowl out of the microwave, pour in the cereal (a little or a lot based on your sugar rush desire), stir it up really good and eat it. Nope, you didn’t even need to let it cool or eat it as a perfectly cut bar. It was so good just like that. Now that was the little kid way of eating these ageless treats, but now we’re grown. Here’s what grown folks do.
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