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Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats

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Are you looking for an easy Halloween treat to make with your kids? Look no further! The recipe for these Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats is the one for you. They’re super simple, quick, and delicious; and best of all, your kids will love making them with you.

Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats

The Perfect Halloween Treat!

In all honesty, Halloween is my least favourite baking holiday. My most favourite is spring into summer baking; the season with all the pretty flowers (edible or real!), fresh berries, and light pastel colour palates.

As you can probably tell from my baking and food photography, decorating cakes with spiders crawling all over them or ghost or zombies isn’t really my thing. But pumpkins, yes pumpkins I can do!! This time of year, pumpkins are everywhere you look, in our drinks, on our porches, and especially in our Thanksgiving pies! So I thought it’d be the perfect time to make a pumpkin-shaped baked good. If you can’t beat ’em, sweetums, join ’em. (Parks & Rec anybody?!)

Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats

These pumpkins are so easy and delicious! And are rice krispie treats not the tastiest thing ever?! I remember eating them alot as a kid, but as an adult they’re rare to come by. But when I do eat them, I fall in love all over again. In my opinion they’re just as good now as they were when I was a kid. Trust me, I ate like 3/4s of these rice krispie pumpkin treats.

Rice Krispie Treat Video Tutorial

Make These With Kids!

This is the perfect recipe to make with your kids! They’ll love stirring the mixture in the pot, and adding cup after cup of rice krispies! They can absolutely help with shaping them into pumpkins, and sprinkling on the delicious chocolate toppings.

Another great recipe to make with your kids would be my Hello Dolly Bars. Layer after layer of buttery graham crust, chocolate, coconut, nuts, and sweetened condensed milk. SO good.

Don’t Miss This Crucial Step:

If you’ve ever made Rice Krispie Treats before, you know that they are super sticky. So I’m sure you’re wondering how on earth can you possibly shape them without wanting to rip your hair out? The key is water!

After you’ve made the mixture on the stove, fill a bowl of lukewarm water. Wet your hands before digging into the mixture and then shape it into a ball/pumpkin. Just make sure you wet your hands before shaping each pumpkin! Trust me, it works like MAGIC!

  • Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats
  • Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats

Toppings

Using chopped up Reese’s Pieces is an excellent choice for these rice krispie treats because not only are they Halloween coloured, but they taste amazing too! They add a whole ‘nother level of flavour to these treats–I love it!

The options are really endless. You could do mini chocolate chips, chopped up chocolate, white chocolate, nuts, Halloween-coloured sprinkles, and so much more!

And I love how easy it is to do the twirly pumpkin vines! Just put some chocolate in a microwave safe dish, melt it, pour into piping bag, and pipe it on the pumpkins! So cute.

If you wanted to do green vines, you could melt white chocolate and color it with green food colouring. OR use Wilton Cakes green candy melts.

Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats

Let Me Know What You Think!

Thanks so much for checking out this recipe. I’d love to connect, let me know what you think either in the comments below or find me on my Instagram!

Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treats
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Halloween Rice Krispie Pumpkin Treat

These adorable and delicious pumpkins are the perfect Halloween treat to make with kids! Sprinkle with your favorite chocolatey topping and enjoy!

Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 5 minutes
Servings 20 Pumpkins
Author Jennifer Preston

Ingredients

  • 6 Tbsp Salted Butter
  • 1 (400g/16 oz) Pkg Marshmallows regular or mini size
  • 1 tsp Pure Vanilla Extract
  • 3-4 drops Orange Food Coloring or several drops of red + yellow food coloring
  • 6 cups Rice Krispie Cereal
  • 1/4 cup Chocolate chopped
  • 1 handful pretzels
  • 1/4 cup Reese's Pieces chopped

Instructions

  1. Chop up chocolate and Reese's Pieces, set aside. Break or chop pretzels into sticks (for the pumpkin stems), set aside.

  2. In a large pot over low-medium heat, melt butter and marshmallows together.

  3. Stir in vanilla extract and desired amount of food coloring.

  4. Stir in the Rice Krispie cereal until evenly combined and remove from heat.

  5. Fill a bowl with lukewarm water and wet hand. Shape Rice Krispie mixture into pumpkin/ball shapes. Stick pretzel rod into the top and then sprinkle with the chocolate/Reese's Pieces topping.

  6. Melt chocolate in microwave, put in piping bag and pipe twirly vines onto the pumpkins.

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  • Marshmallows
  • Reeses Pieces
  • Rice Krispie Treats

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Hi! I’m Jennifer and I LOVE to bake, style, and photograph beautiful desserts–I also have an eternal weakness for pastels, berries, and silky buttercreams.

What brings me even more joy is sharing my love of baking with others. Whether that is through recipe development, decorating how-tos, or food photography tips, I want to share everything I have learned with YOU!

I believe in creating food with high quality ingredients and making it look GORGEOUS. I also believe that every dessert deserves a photoshoot, and that food is meant to be shared.

And butter; I believe in lots of butter.

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Who else is SO excited for heart shaped desserts?! Who else is SO excited for heart shaped desserts?! Valentines Day desserts are seriously my favourite. 🥰

There’s a full (photo + video) tutorial on my site so you can make these strawberry pies too! 🍓✨
I don’t know about you, but I am all for meal id I don’t know about you, but I am all for meal ideas that are quick, super simple to make, delicious, AND healthy. 🙌🏻

Yes, I said healthy. And that doesn’t have to mean chomping on celery sticks for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 😝Healthy is a balanced meal that gives you energy and nutrients; a meal that you actually ENJOY eating.

Like this delicious Greek Chicken Naan! 😍 You guys HAVE to check out my stories to see just how easy it is to make! It’s an amazing meal that I’m so excited to share with you guys! I’ve never bought Tzatziki Sauce in my life, but after this, I’m hooked. I wanna put it on everything.

Go to the @SaveOnFoods website and check out the “Ready, Set, Refresh” guide—providing you with 31 quick and easy dinner solutions (This Greek Chicken Naan being one of them!) 👏🏻 And you can add the exact items you need into your cart. It’s so easy!

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Greek Chicken Naan Recipe

Ingredients:
Bake Shop Greek Style Pita Shells - 5.5 inch
Red Peppers
Tomatoes
Red Onion
WF Frozen Chicken Breast 3kg box
WF Tzatziki Sauce

Instructions:
Lay chicken breast on sheet pan and bake. Once cooked, then slice.
Dice red peppers and tomatoes. And thinly slice red onion.
Optional: Heat non stick sautée pan and lay pita on and flip until nicely warmed and colored.
Fill pita with desired amount of above ingredients and add dollops of Tzatziki sauce to it. Enjoy!

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Today, I turn 30! THIRTY. 😱 I’ve officially e Today, I turn 30! THIRTY. 😱 I’ve officially entered into a whole new decade. As eventful and exciting as my 20s were, I’m actually OK with saying goodbye to them. But before I say adios, I just wanted to do a fun recap what happened in my 20s:

I turned 20 while at Bible school in Germany. It was where I met my husband and was probably the best year of my life.

We then started our long distance relationship.

I got my associates degree in Social Sciences (yeahhh, not using that at all today haha!)

Got engaged! 💍 

Went to culinary school (that was so fun) near Niagara Falls.

Got married, had a big outdoor wedding and my bridesmaids wore pastels.

Moved to the USA and honeymooned at DisneyWorld.

Worked 3 different chef jobs, (never getting that bakery job I always wanted).

Got a digital camera for Christmas and started taking photos of my baking just for fun.

Started selling my baking/even made wedding cakes! 

Launched my food blog and got paid by brands to content create for them.

Ate out at the most incredible restaurants and had soo much brunch and southern cuisine. 🤤

Explored and fell in love with some amazing places in the US like Charleston, NYC, and Alys Beach.

Moved back to my hometown in Canada.

Bought a 1970s house.

Gave birth to a baby boy. 🥰

Celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary!

And oh yes, backed our van into our garage door. 💁🏼‍♀️

Hello 30!! 💕
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And your kiddos will love participating in making the Puppy Chow! (And let’s be honest, any situation that involves powdered sugar and kids is always a recipe for a mess, but it’ll be a beautiful mess!)

With just 6 everyday ingredients and one pot, this might be the easiest recipe EVER. 🙌🏻 I documented the whole thing in my stories for you to watch just how simple it is!

I’m so happy for this partnership with @SaveOnFoods and for the great reminder to celebrate all the little wins and beautiful messes despite the exhausting year we’ve had! 💕

Are you gonna make this? 🥰

RECIPE:

3/4 cup Butter
1 1/2 cups Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips
3/4 cup Peanut Butter
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 box Crispix Cereal (or Chex)
2 1/2 cups Powdered Sugar

In a large pot melt the first 4 ingredients together until smooth.
Remove from heat, pour in cereal and gently stir until evenly coated.
Dump in powdered sugar and with the lid securely on the pot, shake shake shake!
Once cooled, store in containers or baggies at room temp, fridge, or freezer. (They taste really good chilled!) Enjoy!!

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Even though they’re definitely not perfect looking, they taste amazing!! And also, I feel super proud of myself for taking on this challenge and learning something new!

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