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With JAN D’ATRI

GetOut Contributor

This Krispies treat crackles with color

Igrew up with them. Watched them jump into and frolic in a bowl of milk and Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. Snap, Crackle and Pop were my cereal buddies. They each had their own solos in the commercials, and I like Crackle’s part the best:

“I say it’s crackle the crispy sound. You gotta have crackle or the clock’s not wound.

Geese cackle, feathers tickle,

Belts buckle, beets pickle,” But Crackle... makes the world go round.

When my mom made Rice Krispies treats for the very fi rst time, I remember thinking that there couldn’t possibly be a better snack on the planet earth. Through the years, Kellogg’s has put out hundreds of recipes using Rice Krispies, but it’s hard to beat the iconic sweet cereal and marshmallow square.

Well, let me share with you and “the boys” a very fun twist on the treat just in time for summer! It’s a giant Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Treat in the shape and color of a watermelon. It’s simple. It’s fun. In fact you can make it in a snap!

“Snap, what a happy sound Snap is the happiest sound I’ve found You may clap, rap, tap, slap but Snap ... makes the world go round.

Snap Crackle Pop Rice Krispies”

Ingredients:

For the Green Rind:

5 oz mini marshmallows (half a bag) 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal Green food coloring

For the White Rind

5 oz mini marshmallows (half a bag) 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal

For the Red Fruit:

10 oz. mini marshmallows (1 bag) 4 tablespoons butter 4 cups Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Cereal ½ cup semi sweet chocolate chips for seeds

Directions

Spray a 9 inch spring form or baking pan with baking spray or grease with butter.

Make green rind. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt mini marshmallows and butter until pu y and melted, about 1 minute. Immediately add cereal and a few drops of food coloring to simulate rind. Mix with a buttered spatula or spoon. With your fi ngers, line the pan with green cereal so that it is about ½ inch wide and ¾ of the way up the pan.

Make white rind. In a microwave safe bowl, melt marshallows and butter until pu y and melted. Add cereal and mix with buttered spatula. Pressing up next to green cereal,

Create another ring, a little wider than the green rind. Fill ¾ of the way up the pan.

Make Red Fruit. In a larger bowl, melt 10 oz. of marshmallows and 4 tablespoons of butter. Add 4 cups of cereal and red food coloring to desired color. Press cereal into center of pan and with your hands and press down to pack all three colors together.

Place chocolate chips, fl at side up, randomly in the red fruit part of the watermelon.

Let harden. Cut into wedges. For wedges on a stick, insert stick into wedge while cereal mixture is still soft. ■