One of my favourite activities every Christmas is making holiday treats with my boys. There are some goodies that I whip up myself, but there are others that my boys help me create. We all love spending quality time together and of course, Zackary and Benjamin get very excited about eating their creations afterwards!
This year we added a new item to our usual list of goodies, and it’s one that supports a very special cause! We headed into the kitchen to create special Rice Krispies edible toys for the Treats for Toys campaign. By taking a picture of a treat and uploading it to ricekrispies.ca, Rice Krispies will donate $20 to the Salvation Army to provide a toy to a child in need this Christmas!
Rice Krispies has created some fabulous instructions for creating different treats, so my boys and I decided to test them out ourselves. We started out with the basic Rice Krispies Squares original recipe:
Rice Krispies Squares Original Recipe
The original Rice Krispies Squares recipe; simple and delicious!
Ingredients
- 50 ml ¼ cup margarine or butter
- 250 g 1 pkg regular marshmallows
- 2 ml ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)
- 1.5 L 6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
Instructions
- Melt the margarine in a large saucepan over low heat.
- Add the marshmallows, stir until melted. Remove from heat.
- Add the remaining ingredients. Stir until well coated.
- Press the mix firmly into a buttered pan.
Nutrition Information:
Yield: 12 Serving Size: 1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 98Total Fat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gTrans Fat: 1gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 3mgSodium: 81mgCarbohydrates: 12gFiber: 0gSugar: 2gProtein: 1g
After making the pan of squares, it was time for some fun! Using the instructions we downloaded from ricekrispies.ca, the boys and I started making our creations. Letting the squares cool completely and using a sharp knife is essential for getting those perfect sharp cuts. Then we started assembling and decorating!
The instructions have some suggestions on how to decoration the Rice Krispies creations, but really the sky is the limit when it comes to a project like this. The owner of our small-town candy store was happy to get in on the fun and gave me all kinds of great suggestions about different candy decorations to use. And seeing the way the boys used the decorations to create completely different robots was fun for me too!
Personally, I wanted to get a little girly, so I created the Rice Krispies princess and named her Princess Yummytummy. Brightly-coloured fondant made the perfect dress and Smarties accessorized it beautifully. My favourite part of the princess, though, was her candy hair!
In December, I’ll be sharing some unique Rice Krispies creations that are a delicious and fabulous way to support the Treats for Toys campaign, but don’t wait for that to get involved yourself! With the basic Rice Krispies Squares recipe and a few fun edible accessories, creating tasty treats that make a difference is easy! Make a few this weekend, upload the pictures to ricekrispies.ca and give a child in need a Merry Christmas this year!
This campaign is a great idea as the kids have fun making their creations and once you upload a photo a donation is made to Salvation Army. It is a win win situation for sure.
What a great idea. My kids would love this…looks like fun!
That is so neat!!! My son would absolutely love this. Great idea, gonna share it with my SIL!
Great work, my treat never look that good. They always turn into some type of crazy mush or are rock hard :P Obviously I’m doing SOMETHING wrong.
super cool,, great stuff
Your boys look like that had such a great time making these. Btw, they are the cutest kids!
Awww…. that is so sweet (pardon the pun)!
they did a great job love your oldest he looks so serious what her created and the youngest looks like he wants to eat it lol
i really wanna do this with the grand-kids,looks like so much fun.thanks for this
So cute!! Love the robot! And I love that Rice Krispies is teaming up with The Salvation Army to do this…how wonderful for kids who are in need :)