So easy to make, kids of all ages will enjoy these Rice Krispies stars: puffed rice cereal with melted marshmallow, white chocolate and your choice of sprinkles!
This basic Rice Krispies tray bake recipe gives you lots of options. If you’re short on time, just cut the large rectangular slab into squares. Or use a biscuit cutter to cut out stars or any other shape you like. If you have skewers, lolly or cake pop sticks, you can insert these into your pieces to make treats for children’s parties.
I got the original recipe here at GoodtoKnow.
Ingredients (makes 14 to 20 Rice Krispies stars depending on how thick you spread the mixture and how big a star cutter you use)
- 20 g / 0.7 oz butter
- 150 g / 5.3 oz marshmallows – use large, mini, regular, white, pink… whatever you have in the cupboard or prefer!
- 175 g / 6 oz Rice Krispies – you don’t have to use the Kellogg’s version. Most supermarkets make their own, much cheaper version, and using one of these will be fine.
- 100 g / 3.5 oz white chocolate
- Sprinkles of your choosing!
Method
Grease and line a rectangular baking tin with baking paper. This is where I’d do things differently next time… The original recipe uses a 12 x 30 cm tin (approx. 5 x 12 inches). My tin measures 24 x 20 x 4 cm (approx. 9.5 x 8 x 2 inches) and this meant my Rice Krispies stars ended up far too thick. Next time I’m going to use my Swiss roll tin!
Put the butter and marshmallows in a non-stick large saucepan. As you’ll see from the following photo, I used up a mixture of all the marshmallows I had in the cupboard.
Melt over a medium heat, stirring until the marshmallows and butter have melted into a smooth mixture.
Take the saucepan off the heat, pour the Rice Krispies into the pan and stir until the marshmallow mixture has coated all the cereal. Spoon the cereal mixture into your prepared tin, spread out and press down until you have a tightly-packed, even layer.
Break the white chocolate into pieces and melt. You can do this is a pan over a low heat or use the microwave (it will only take 1 minute in the microwave). Drizzle the white chocolate over the cereal and marshmallow slab. Before the chocolate sets, add your choice of sprinkles. Leave to cool fully and set before taking it out of the tin and moving to a cutting board.
Use star-shaped biscuit cutters to stamp out as many shapes as you can.
You will end up with a pile of random offcuts, which are particularly handy if you’re trying to put small people off eating the stars for a while! I stored the offcuts which didn’t get scoffed right away in a tub.
If you want to make cake pops out of the Rice Krispies stars, just push a skewer, lolly or cake pop stick into each one.
Store the Rice Krispies stars in an airtight container until you serve.
Looking for other tray bake recipes? Try these!
Chocolate peanut butter squares.
You can find even more tray bake recipes on my Recipe Index page.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
These look great for a kids party!
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My son loved them and they’re so easy to make. They’re definitely on the list for future parties 🙂
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I can imagine!
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Such cute treats
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Thank you! A nice one for children to make and then enjoy 🙂
(and adults too!)
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Yes!
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As soon as you said use a cutter I immediately thought “yesss!! offcuts”. I don’t have any tubs so I’d need to eat immediately 😉
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I have to admit that more offcuts were eaten immediately than was probably healthy! 😉
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Yummy!
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They were very nice. And because they’re mostly cereal I like to tell myself they’re virtually healthy! 😉
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😁
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Bet Sam loved these! 🙂
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I had to tell him to go away because he was standing next to me as I was trying to cut them out so he was could steal the off cuts! The rate he was going there’d have been none for anyone else!
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Oh yummy! And cutoffs are the best part – if you can swat away your ‘helpers’ long enough to get some for yourself. 😉
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Exactly! That was the trouble 🙂 I had to hide the tub I was keeping them in as well!
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