First, I gathered the ingredients for these grown-up Rice Krispies treats:
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 1 (10 ounce) bag marshmallows
- 1/2 cup white chocolate chips
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 5 cups Rice Krispies cereal
- 1 cup dried cherries, chopped
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips melted
- Line a baking pan with aluminum foil and allow the excess foil to hang over the pan edges.
- Grease the aluminum foil.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Add the marshmallows, white chocolate chips, and salt and cook until smooth.
- Once smooth, stir in the vanilla extract.
- Remove the marshmallow mixture from the heat and mix in the cereal and dried cherries.
- Scrape the entire mixture into the aluminum foil-lined baking pan. Spread the mixture evenly and press into the bottoms and corners with a greased spatula.
- Let the treat mixture cool for about an hour before drizzling the melt chocolate.
- After the chocolate has cooled, use the foil overhang to lift the treats onto a cutting board and cut into squares.
I made these Crispy Chocolate-Cherry Treats first thing on Saturday and we definitely had a square with some champagne at midnight!
My friends also enjoyed some of these treats on New Year's Day, along with the leftover chicken and sausage gumbo, salsa and chips, and lots of cheese and crackers! These treats were a big hit and I'm definitely going to experiment in the future with different ingredients like peanut butter chips, dried cranberries or melted Nutella!
What sweet treats did you enjoy on New Year's Eve?
14 comments:
you went all out and made dessert, too?! love it! (i went ahead and bought pastries from bova's.)
Your girlfriends must have been in heaven the next day.
We just had Champagne for dessert! These look great, what a feast!
Ooh, looks delicious! I love chocolate and cherries. Now that you've rediscovered Rice Krispie treats, you HAVE to try making them with browned butter! Smitten Kitchen turned me onto this and I haven't stopped. It adds this amazing depth of flavor that makes them perfectly acceptable grown-up party desserts:
http://smittenkitchen.com/2009/11/salted-brown-butter-crispy-treats/
There's more butter in this recipe because you lose all the water volume when browning-I promise they don't feel too heavy.
Ooohh.. love the adult additions to this timeless treat! I think the girls at WANM posted about these this week too, it's all the rage!
Mmm, I love krispie treats with fun stuff in them. Cherries are awesome since they're nice and chewy.
Definitely fun to make... and fun to eat! Posting my NYE desserts next week. :)
What a fabulous way to reinvent rice krispy treats!!
We Are Not Martha did these recently too :) They look delicious and are a good way to make rice crispy treats a bit more "adult" hehe
mmm, dried cherries and chocolate are a fabulous addition to the classic. what a treat!
YUM I love the cherry/chocolate combo!!! This looks like a fun one to share!
Normally, I'm a total purist when it comes to rice krispie treats but they sound so good! I love anything with dried cherries in them!
These look great! And the only sweet treat I had on NYE was ginger vodka with cranberry ginger ale - absolutely delicious!
oh wow! what a a fabulous dessert!
Wow, you've taken rice krispy treats to a whole new level - they look quite tasty and addicting!
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