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Rice Krispies #TreatsForToys Custom Creations to Support Kids in Need this Christmas

December 19, 2013 by Kathryn 103 Comments

Over the last month, I’ve been helping to spread the word about the Rice Krispies Treats for Toys program. Just create a Rice Krispies Treat toy, upload a picture of it to www.ricekrispies.ca and Kellogg’s Canada will donate $20 to the Salvation Army to help give a child in need a real toy this Christmas! My boys and I have already made some treats following the great instructions provided on the Rice Krispies website. But I couldn’t resist getting creative and whipping up some custom creations too!

I decided to create a treat to symbolize my boys’ favourite toys. Benjamin is a huge fan of stuffed animals and Zackary loves LEGO. So I put together two different recipes to create a Rice Krispies LEGO house and a Rice Krispies teddy bear!

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Rice Krispies #TreatsforToys are a Fun Way to Give a Merry Christmas to a Child in Need

November 26, 2013 by Kathryn 44 Comments

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: [Read more…]

Helping Others is Delicious with the New Kellogg’s Rice Krispies #TreatsforToys Program

November 4, 2013 by Kathryn 10 Comments

Christmas is a time to celebrate, a time to make memories with loved ones and a time to think of others. This year, Kellogg’s Rice Krispies is giving families a way to do all three things with its new Treats for Toys program and I cannot wait to be a part of it! The concept is simple. Use the classic Rice Krispies Squares recipe and fun decorations to make a festive and edible toy. Choose from five fun Rice Krispies recipes on the website or get inventive and create your own masterpiece! Then upload a picture to ricekrispies.ca and Kellogg’s Canada will donate $20 to the Salvation Army to help provide toys to children in need at Christmas!

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