Easter Rice Krispy Pops
Ingredients:
- 6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
- 3 tablespoons Butter
- 4 cups Miniature Marshmallows
- Lolly or popsicle sticks (amount depends on size of pops)
- Sprinkles and Frosting (Follow frosting recipe in step 2)
Directions: Step 1
- In a large saucepan on low heat melt butter. Add marshmallows stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
- Add rice krispies cereal, stir until well coated.
- Lay work space with wax paper. Spray hands with non stick spray, Pour out mixture onto wax paper. Work quickly to make shapes so mixture does not harden.
- Coat hands with cooking spray whenever rice krispies starts to stick to hands.
- Take a baseball size amount of mixture and hand design each into desired shape; carrot, cross, bunny etc. put pop stick into the ends .
- Place each pop on wax paper to harden. Prepare frosting
Ingredients: Frosting
- 6 cups powder sugar, may need more
- water
- variety food color
- several metal bowls for mixing
- piping bags
- variety of sprinkles
- plastic bags with ties
Directions: Step 2
- In a large metal bowl pour in 6 cups of powder sugar add a few drops of water a little at a time mixing constantly, do not add to much water to make sugar to runny. Consistency should be thick well mixed and easy to spread on pops and also to push through piping bags. Place some frosting in individual bowls then add drops of food color.
- Using small spatula or butter knife spread desired colored frosting and add your sprinkles. If piping. Pipe on pop to create eyes or out lines etc and then add sprinkles. Let harden between each application if your doing multiple applications. Let sit to dry before packaging.
Great gift idea: Fill small terra-cotta pots with treats and add your Easter Pops.