Description
For a fun spring dessert recipe, you have to make these adorable flower pot rice krispies treats! These would be perfect for spring party treats!
Ingredients
Scale
- 6 cups Rice Krispie cereal
- 10 1⁄2 ounces mini marshmallows
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 cups unsweetened coconut
- Oreo cookies for dirt (approximately 10)
- Wilson’s green pastel gel food color
- 1 cup green melting chocolate
- 1 cup brown melting chocolate
- 1⁄2 cup each melting chocolates of choice (pink, yellow, green, orange, etc)
- sugar candy daisies
- sprinkles (I used nonpareils)
- 1/8 tsp coconut oil for each melting chocolate’s dish
- Small 2 1/2” flower pot cookie cutters or use knife to cut shapes
- Small 2 1/2” flower cookie cutter
- 2 bread pans
- 1 pint canning jar
- rubber spatula
- wire rack for drying
- 2 Tbsp butter for greasing pans
- long lollipop sticks
- clear plastic treat bags (12” or longer)
- ribbon
- double boiler setup- 1 deep saucepan + 4 small ramekins
Instructions
- Grease two bread pans with butter. Set aside.
- In a large pot over medium heat, melt butter.
- Add mini marshmallows to pot and stir to melt and incorporate with butter.
- Remove pot from heat.
- Add Rice Krispie cereal and mix well.
- Divide the mixture evenly between the two pans.
- Using a rubber spatula, press the cereal firmly into bread pans. Set aside.
- Prepare the colored coconut by adding 2 cups coconut to a canning jar and 1⁄4 tsp green gel food color.
- Place lid on jar and shake vigorously.
- Check the color against the green melting chocolate for similarity. Add more gel color to achieve the desired color vibrancy. Note: There should be pops of bright green and pale green as well.
- Empty coconut into a shallow bowl.
- Prepare the double boiler by adding water to a large pan that will hold several small dishes of melting chocolates, along with 1/8 tsp coconut oil in each dish. I used ramekins to hold my chocolates. Stir occasionally. Heat on low temp.
- Blend Oreo cookies into crumbs with a food processor, or crush them by hand. Pour into small dish.
- Carefully remove rice treats squares from pans and place on flat surface.
- To create the flower pots, start by cutting the shapes.
- Dip top rim end of pot shape into brown melting chocolate and immediately into Oreo crumb to coat. Set aside on wire rack as you complete all 6 pots.
- To create a grass bottom for your pots, dip each flower pot into green melting chocolates, using a knife to help smooth and cover completely. Immediately cover green chocolate with green coconut.
- To create a decorative pot bottom instead of a grassy one, embellish with melted chocolates and candy sprinkles.
- To create the flowers, start by cutting them out.
- To decorate the flowers, with a knife dipped in the melting chocolate color of your choice, create a large center circle on the flower. Embellish with sugar flowers or sprinkles.
- To assemble the pots, do the following (this can be done before decorating to prevent crushing any delicate sugar work): Insert one end of long lollipop stick into brown melting chocolate and insert into center of pot, pushing at least half way through. Set aside while completing all 6 pots.
- Dip end of sucker stick into any color melting chocolate and carefully insert into center edge of flower, at least half way. Repeat for remaining flowers.
- Finish off your flower pot rice krispies treats with long clear plastic treat bags and ribbon.