Heart Krispie Treats { DIY Favours }

By The Celebration Team 07 Aug, 2015

These heart-shaped-chocolate-dipped-munch-and-crunch rice krispie taste like love and happy times! What’s more, they’re easy to make and ideal as guest favour or dessert table filler.

You will need:

¼ cup of butter or margarine
250g pack of marshmallows or 5 cups of mini marshmallows
½ tsp vanilla essence
6 cups of Rice Krispies (puffed rice) cereal
200g white chocolate
Pink food colouring
100g additional white chocolate
Sprinkles (optional)

To get started:

Melt the butter in the microwave or in a large saucepan over low heat.
Add the marshmallows and place back on the stove or in the microwave, stirring constantly until they’re completely melted.
Add the vanilla essence and stir well.
Next pour in the Rice Krispies and mix it up with a rubber spatula until all the cereal is coated in sticky marshmallow.
From here you have two options:
- Spoon the mixture directly into a heart shaped cookie cutter, transfer onto a cookie sheet and release the heart shape from the cutter. Leave to set.
- Spoon the mixture into a well-greased baking tray and spread it out to about 2 cm thick. Use the cookie cutter to cut heart shapes out of the mixture and release on a cookie sheet. Leave to set.
After about an hour, it’s time to decorate. Melt the 200g of white chocolate in a double boiler. Stir in a couple of drops of pink food colouring.
Dip one half of the heart into the pink chocolate and allow extra chocolate to drip off before placing on a baking tray lined with wax paper.
Repeat step 7 until all hearts have been dipped. Allow them to dry for about an hour.
Next, melt the 100g white chocolate in a clean double boiler.
Drizzle the white over the pink chocolate as desired and leave to set. Voila!