Rice Krispie Treats for Halloween!

Gosh! This old time favorite can be used in a variety of ways for Halloween celebrations. Today I found a picture of upright ghosts in the Costco Magazine. (I have seen this done with Easter Eggs and Valentine Hearts too!) If you choose to do a treat that is 3-D like these, you will need to whip up a batch of the homemade kind of Krispie Treats found on the cereal box. But if you plan to use cookie cutters or dip the treats in chocolate and sprinkles for your celebration, you could use the pre-made treats that come individually wrapped. (Sometimes the grocery store bakery even has these pre-made!)

3-D shaped ghosts (or pumpkins, witch's hats, black cat heads, skulls...**) can be "molded" with your hands. Although, I like to use plastic food handling gloves or spray my hands with PAM to decrease the messy feeling and urge to wash my hands and get the job done. Anyhoo... Take a hand-full of Krispie from you homemade batch and form a flat bottom to stand the ghost upright and a rounded head. Once the Krispies harden up a bit choose to dip the ghost figures into white melted candy making chocolate or drip the chocolate over the figures. Your choice should depend on how messy YOU like to be. When the white chocolate hardens use pre-made chocolate frosting tubes (Betty Crocker brand) or mini chocolate chips for ghost eyes. I serve them on a platter with gauze weaved in and out to give it a spooky feel.

For a take home treat, I put pre-made Krispies on Popsicle sticks and dipped them in white chocolate, then sprinkled orange, yellow and white sprinkles to resemble candy corn, and wrapped them in cellophane bags tied up with Halloween themed satin ribbon. They were fun and SO easy to make. This year a plan to use them on Styrofoam monster head place markers as the antennae.

**With the different 3-D shapes I mentioned above, you will need different colors of candy melting chocolate. The additions you would add to these shapes will be different too. For example, you may want to mount yellow or green M&M's for a black cat's eyes with white frosting.