Making Rice Krispie treats for the first time

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colleenmomof2

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Planning to up the butter, add vanilla, salt and use colored mini marshmallows stirred in at the end.

I made a chart

3-10oz bags of marshmallows=850grms=30 cups

orig in first column w/variations

3 6 4 5 6 10 8 4 6 4 4 5 TBS butter

4/40/10oz 20oz 6+2 6 30oz 20oz4 6 8 8 8+2 cups marshmallows

1/2 1/2 1/2 1.5 1 tsp vanilla

1 TBS milk

6 6 6 6 6 12 10 5 6 6 6 6 cups Rice Krispies

1/4 1/4 1/8 1 1/4 1/2 tsp salt

9x13 or 9x9” or 8”x11” lined w/aluminum sprayed. Large pot, melt butter under low heat, add marsh and stir until just?/completely? melted. Add salt + addtl marshmallows. Stir in/pour over cereal. Transfer to pan and press?/press hard?/press lightly? (use a greased spatula to spread out the treats and press down just a bit - you don't want them to so compacted that they become rock hard). Cool then cut. Best if served same day.

Smitten's notes

Toast cereal in big pot 5-7 min stirring occasionally

Brown butter slowly then stir in salt and vanilla

 
I can't quite understand your scaling amounts at all but yes, you melt the marshmallows completely.

I see no need to brown butter. Yes, you press it fairly hard into the prepared pan--I use my hands. I have also not added more salt.
How much are you making--3X?

It is a volume thing and I'd make it in single or at most double batches--It is a LOT of Rice Krispies, and you have to work fairly fast to get the marshmallow mixed with the cereal. I think you may have trouble mixing in the additional marshmallows after adding the cereal--add them right away. I might suggest rather than colored marshmallows, you can add chocolate chips--probably right along with the cereal so it gets mixed.

 
Appreciated your advice! Thank-you for the help smileys/wink.gif

Very, very tasty and Valentine-y! I only made the 1-batch-size and was pleased with the number of slightly thinner treats made. As you suggested - great call - I stirred the multi-colored mini marshmallows in before adding the Rice Krispies and that worked well! I pressed mixture with my buttered fingers into the broiler pan bottom lined with buttered foil, and then pulled the sides of the foil in towards the middle to make a more compact, thicker brick. My mistake was to press a Sweatheart candy heart into each warm soon-to-be "square" without tasting the candy first. That brand of conversation heart is fruity and very hard.

I copied that crazy chart here because I found it interesting that there are so many variations on a very simple recipe. I ended up using 4oz butter, 10 oz regular marshmallows, 1/4 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp vanilla, 2 cups colored fruity mini marshmallows, 6 cups of Rice Krispies and 1 box of Sweetheart Conversation Hearts. I'd leave the candy hearts off when I make the recipe again smileys/wink.gif Colleen

 
The best recipe is the one on the RK box. And more butter is not a good

thing for these, as I recall I did one time also. If you just spray a pan with PAM, it is fine. It releases very well--no problem. No need for the foil thing IME

 
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