Make Your Own Monsters Treats
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Our Rice Krispies challenge team, Amy of She Wears Many Hats, Robyn of Add a Pinch and Julie of Mommie Cooks and I, planned a “Make Your Own Monster” party that is sure to be the highlight of your Halloween season.
We knew when The Motherhood and Rice Krispies announced Halloween as the theme for this challenge, we wanted to plan a party where children could easily get in on the action of making treats they’d be happy to show off, as well as devour.
Our “Make Your Own Monster” party certainly met and exceeded that expectation!
And the party just couldn’t be simpler!
Make a recipe of Rice Krispies treats with the addition of apple pie spice to create a classic Fall favorite treat. Then allow your children to let their creativity shine as they make monsters using favorite cookie cutters, colorful frosting, and candies.
For our party monsters we used gingerbread man cookie cutter for the full-size monster, a skull cookie cutter for Frankenstein’s Bride, and then simply cut squares for Frankenstein himself as well as a few of his closest monster-y friends!
We think the “Make Your Own Monster” party will be an instant hit at your house this Halloween!!!
Be sure to check out all the great entries over at the Rice Krispies Treats Facebook page. Their facebook page is full of great ideas for creating fun Rice Krispies Treats year round.
Make Your Own Monsters Rice Krispies Treats
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 cups mini marshmallows
- 6 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
- 1/2 teaspoon apple pie spice
- Decorator frosting various colors
- Assorted candies
Instructions
- Spray a 9x13-inch baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. In a saucepan, melt the butter and marshmallows over medium heat. Once melted add apple pie spice and stir until dissolved.
- Remove from heat and add the Rice Krispies. Stir until coated.
- Spoon the Rice Krispies mixture into the prepared pan. Press firmly with wax paper. Once cooled, use cookie cutters to cut the Rice Krispies Treats into desired shapes.
- Decorate Rice Krispies treats with decorator frosting and assorted candies to make your own monster.
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Disclosure: This is a sponsored post from Rice Krispies and The Motherhood. Each team member was compensated for their time, but as always, all opinions are our own.
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Love this idea! It’s perfect for our Halloween party & the kids (and adults) will be excited to decorate these. They’re pretty cute too! Thanks for the idea!
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This would be a good activity for a house full of costumed kids!
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Wow, your treats look great, we especially like the Orange guy. :-) Gotta try this as an after school baking session with my kids, they love messing around in the kitchen! creedamy [at] yahoo [dot] com
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I absolutely LOVE the way you decorated these adorable goodies! I especially loved the green monster and the lady Frankenstein!
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I can’t make these – I’d eat them all myself!
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That’s so creative. I would like to try these with my kids
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Oh My, how cute these are!!!!!!!!! I am so thankful I just found your blog!!!!!!! This looks like so much fun, and a perfect treat to make with my daughter’s!!!! Thanks for sharing!
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Love the spooky treats! Halloween is my favorite time of the year – decorations, costumes, candy and other goodies.
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These treats are cute rather than scary– my favorite kind. This gives me an idea of transforming my usual hello kitty rice krispies into halloween kitty. =D
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I can’t wait to share this with my daughter–she is having her Second Annual Boo Party! These would be a great addition to her boo-treats!! Thanks for sharing this!
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I love any party that lets guests be creative and take a little work off of me! This party is super cute!
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Love love love and I know two 4 year olds who will also. And, my husband who is crazy about rice krispy treats. He has to be the one who makes them. I have to pin these.
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We love making chocolate covered peanut butter balls then rolling them in colored rice krispies, yummy treat, thanks
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Looks like a GREAT party idea!
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I love your creativity! Perfect for a halloween get-together with kids! (and grownups too!)
This is a really cute idea. I love anything that gets children in the kitchen. It would be a fun way to celebrate Halloween.
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This is one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen! SO CUTE! I absolutely 100% love this. Great post and so festive!
These look so fun, we will be doing these at our party!
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Those monster treats are so cute! What a fun thing to make :)
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These are adorable! What a great idea – I also love the addition of the apple pie spice.
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Those are really cute! I want to make those for my monsters!
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This is the cutest idea!! These would be great for our Halloween party, thanks for sharing sommer!
This is the cutest idea!! I know my girls would love to make a huge batch of these treats for our Halloween party!! Thanks sommer!!
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Oh my gosh, these are such cute ideas! Looks like a blast to make and super yummy too. Great for October school lunches or halloween parties!
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had to re-read Frankenstein a couple of years ago with an 11th grade class. what a horrible book! I mean, it was a great idea … a novel idea, really … but such poor execution. Shelley spends pages and pages describing a walk in the woods, then creates the entire monster in about five sentences. Horrible pacing!
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these treats look amazing. Mine def wouldnt look like that!
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Those are just adorable for adults and children alike!
Awww…I just love these! The boys will have a blast making these. Perfect for sleepover nights :)
Those are so cute!! My favorite is the bride of fankenstein!
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These spooky treats are adorable and look so yummy!
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Oh my gosh, that’s so creative. I’m loving Frankenstein and the one shape I know I won’t get wrong is the square. They’re all so adorable. This is the perfect idea for treats to make for Dudette’s kindergarten group.
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This is such a great idea for Halloween. Instead of eating way too many candies, rice krispies rocks as an alternative..
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O.M. to the G! I want to make these now and brag to my friends about “my” creativity! :)
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Totally cute and fun. We like rice krispies more than sugar cookies, so what a good idea!
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These are adorable. I would love to make these with my kids.
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