Rice Krispies® Making Memories {Easter Challenge} and Giveaway {closed}

I am thrilled to share with you all about a fun project I’ll be working on this year. It’s the Rice Krispies® Making Memories Challenge with The Motherhood. I was invited to participate this year as part of a team of four bloggers from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Four times this year, we’ll get together to create a special treat based on a theme announced by Rice Krispies® and The Motherhood.

There are three other teams also working on the same challenge from other areas of the country. We are all working hard to create the best possible and unique treat! I was so excited when I learned that our first challenge was to create a unique treat for Easter!

Our team worked together to come up with the absolute cutest and best tasting Rice Krispies® Easter treat I have seen or tasted! I think you’ll love it, too!

Don’t you think our treat is adorable? It’s just as delicious! Here’s how we made it.

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Lemon Rice Krispies® Treats

Ingredients

• 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
• 4 cups miniature marshmallows
• 6 cups Rice Krispies®
• ½ cup white chocolate chips
• 1 ½ teaspoons lemon zest, not compressed (about 2 large lemons)

Instructions

1. Melt butter over low heat in a large saucepan.
2. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted.
3. Remove from heat.
4. Stir white chocolate chips and lemon zest into marshmallow mixture.
5. Add in Rice Krispies® cereal and stir until all ingredients are well combined.
6. Spray a 13x9-inch pan (or cookie sheet) and a spatula with non-stick cooking spray.
7. Pour Lemonade Rice Krispies® mixture into pan and spread with spatula.
8. Cool completely.

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Rice Krispies® Chicks

Yield: 4 dozen chicks

Ingredients

• 1 recipe Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treats
• 8 ounces yellow candy melts, melted
• 1 14-ounce bag sweetened flake coconut
• 1 cup chocolate chips , melted
• 4 ounces orange candy melts, melted

Instructions

1. Form 1 tablespoon Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treat into the shape of an egg.
2. Melt the candy melts in the microwave and dip treat into yellow candy melts.
3. Then roll in coconut and place on a large piece of parchment paper to dry.
4. Repeat with the rest of the mixture.
5. Pipe eyes onto each chick with melted chocolate. (Alternately, you can use a toothpick dipped into the melted chocolate and dotted onto the chick.)
6. Pipe a beak onto each chick with melted orange candy melts.
7. Place on parchment paper and allow to dry.

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Chocolate Rice Krispies® Nests

Yield: 2 dozen

Ingredients

• 4 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1 ¾ tsp. vanilla
• ¾ tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking powder
• 3 ¾ cup all-purpose flour
• ¾ cup cocoa powder
• 1 ½ cups shredded coconut
• 1 ½ cups Rice Krispies® Cereal
• 1 ½ cups Cocoa Krispies® Cereal
• Sea salt

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350º F.
2. Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together with an electric mixer.
3. Mix the salt, baking powder, flour and cocoa powder together in a separate bowl.
4. Turn the mixer on low and slowly add the dry mixture to the butter mixture.
5. Once combined, add the coconut and mix. Line your baking sheets with parchment paper.
6. Mix the Rice Krispies® and the Cocoa Krispies® together in a pie pan.
7. Roll the dough into 3 Tb. sized balls.
8. Roll the dough in the Rice Krispies®, pressing in on all sides. (The Rice Krispies® should completely cover each ball.)
9. Lay them on the baking sheets 2 inched apart.
10. Press a deep indention in the center of each dough ball with your thumb, leaving the sides high. Bake for 17-19 minutes.
11. When the cookies come out of the oven, sprinkle them with a scant amount of sea salt and allow them to cool on the baking sheet for several minutes before moving.
12. Place a Lemon Rice Krispies® Chicks in each nest to serve.

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Note: You will have extra chicks to use for decorations or to eat!

To make the cute basket, you’ll need:

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Rice Krispies® Bunny Trail Garden

Ingredients

• 1 shallow basket, lined with parchment paper
• 1 recipe Cocoa Krispies® treats, cooled
• 4 ounces green candy melts, melted
• 1/2 recipe Lemon Rice Krispies® treats, cooled
• 4 ounces white candy melts, melted
• 1/2 14-ounce bag sweetened coconut, dyed green with gel food coloring for grass
• 1/2 14-ounce bag sweetened coconut, for bunnies
• 4 ounces pink candy melts, melted
• 4 ounces green candy melts, melted
• toothpicks
• 5-7 brussel sprouts for cabbage
• 5-7 small baby carrots
• 5-7 pearl onions
• 3 wooden gardening markers
• 1 white gardening marker for Bunny Trail sign

Instructions

Basket Base:
1. Fill basket with parchment paper to approximately 3/4 of the basket.
2. On one side of the basket, add another filler to support the grassy mound for the bunnies.
3. Mold Cocoa Krispies® treats on the top of the filler to form a garden area as well as a mound for the bunnies.
4. Spread melted green candy melts over the bunny mound and down to the edge of the basket.
5. Sprinkle green coconut over the green candy melts.
Bunnies:
6. Form 1 tablespoon Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treat into the shape of an egg.
7. Melt the candy melts in the microwave and dip treat into white candy melts.
8. Then roll in coconut and place on a large piece of parchment paper to dry.
9. Repeat with the rest of the mixture.
10. Pipe eyes onto each bunny with melted chocolate. (Alternately, you can use a toothpick dipped into the melted chocolate and dotted onto the bunny.)
11. Pipe a nose onto each bunny with melted pink candy melts.
12. Place on parchment paper and allow to dry.
13. To form the ears, pipe a white oval about 1/2 inch long on parchment paper.
14. Allow to dry.
15. Then, pipe a pink oval in the center of the white oval to complete the ear.
16. Allow to dry.
17. To insert into the bunny, use a butter knife to create a long, thin cut into the top of the bunnies head.
18. Pipe a dot of white candy melts into the cut and press the end of the dried ear into the cut.
19. Allow to dry.
Garden and Final Assembly:
20. Place toothpicks in the bottom of brussel sprouts, pearl onions and carrots and stick them into the garden area of the basket.
21. Place toothpicks in the bottom of bunnies and stick them onto the bunny mound and some into the garden area.
22. Write vegetable names of cabbage, carrots, and onions on three wooden garden stakes or popsicle sticks.
23. Press into garden area as appropriate.
24. Write Bunny Trail on white garden stake and press into the side of the bunny mound.

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Add your own ideas to the basket to create the perfect centerpiece for your children’s Easter table!

Our Rice Krispies® Team

One of the best things about participating in this challenge is being able to work with three amazing bloggers throughout this year. Our team includes my friend Amy from She Wears Many Hats, Sommer from A Spicy Perspective, and Julie from Mommie Cooks. Let me just tell you, these are some talented women!

Giveaway

The Motherhood and Rice Krispies® are giving away a $100 gift card to one lucky Add a Pinch reader. Simply leave a comment on this post to enter for the giveaway. Entries close on April 11th at 11:59 pm Eastern. I will randomly select the winner and announce it sometime on April 12th.

You may also want to visit my team members’ sites and enter their $100 gift card giveaway as well. It’s a great way to increase your chances of winning!!!

Winner Announced

Congratulations to Jenn Erickson on winning the $100 giveaway!

Timeline for All the Fun!

• April 12th – Giveaway winner announced.
• April 12th – 15th – You are able to vote on your favorite Rice Krispies® Making Memories Challenge treat for Easter on the Rice Krispies® Facebook page.
• April 15th – Our team is participating as hosts of a fun chat at The Motherhood. I’d love it if you’d come join in the fun! This is a link to the chat.
• April 21st – Rice Krispies® will announce the winner of the challenge on The Motherhood circle.

Disclosure: I am working with Rice Krispies® and The Motherhood on the Rice Krispies® Making Memories Challenge. I have received compensation for  participating in the project. THE MOTHERHOOD MAKING MEMORIES KELLOGG’STM RICE KRISPIESTM BLOGGER GIVEAWAY Abbreviated Rules. No Purchase Necessary. Begins no earlier than 12:00:00 AM (ET) on 03/28/11 and ends no later than 11:59:59 PM (ET) on 04/12/11. For complete Official Rules, go to http://web.mediacdt.com/docs/EasterGiveawayRules.pdf. Open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and District of Columbia who are 18 years of age or older at time of entry. Subject to complete Official Rules. Void where prohibited. Sponsor: The Motherhood; www.TheMotherhood.com. ®, TM, ©2011 Kellogg NA Co.