Halloween treats

This week my neighbor/taste tester and I got our kids together to do some fun Halloween crafts.

One of the crafts was a food craft!

Right up my alley!

We decided we were going to make pumpkins out of rice krispie treats and let the kids decorate them.

As I was letting the rice krispie treats cool on the cookie sheet, I realized that it already looked like a giant pumpkin, so I just added a few accessories and got this:

But this is what we actually were going for:

we put a ball of rice krispies on the plate with some "accessories" & let the kids create their masterpieces~

 Here is the finished product

The kids loved making these and loved eating them just as much!  Definitely a fun thing to do with things we already had around the house. 

Ingredients:

1 package (10 oz., about 40)  regular marshmallows (or 4 cups miniature marshmallows)

6 cups rice cereal 
Assorted candies to decorate with
Red & Yellow food coloring  (red + yellow = orange in case you missed that in art class..lol)
3 tablespoons butter or margarine

Directions:

 In large saucepan melt butter over low heat.

Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted.

Add red and yellow dye to get the orange color you want (you can use orange dye if you have it)

Remove pan from heat.
Add rice cereal. Stir until well coated.

Scoop mix onto wax paper or a sprayed cookie sheet

Let it cool

Start making your pumpkins

Use any candy you have around to decorate with

Other things you might need:
Pretzel sticks or milk duds for the stems

Green candies or gum drops for leaves

Mini chocolate chips or frosting for eyes/nose/mouth

Candy sticks for noses or eyebrows.

Any other candy accessory that would be fun

Tips:

To make the milk duds more pliable, I microwaved them for about 5 seconds then rolled them out and cut them.

To keep the warm rice krispie mix from sticking to your hands, wet your hands before handling it....it wont stick.

To flatten out any candies or gum drops use a rolling pin

Use a sharp knife to cut the shapes you need from the candy

Let the kids have fun... their pumpkins will be crazy and totally imperfect.. but that's just the way they like them!

Hope you have a Happy and Safe Halloween! 

Got any fun holiday recipes?  Please share them with us.

You can e mail them to me at: thedinnerdrama@hotmail.com

I would love to use reader recipes each week!