Lemonade Rice Krispies® Chicks in Cocoa Krispies® Nests
Recently I was given the opportunity to participate in a challenge hosted by The Motherhood and Kellogg’s Rice Krispies. As Rice Krispies are my hubby’s favorite cereal, I jumped at the chance to be a part. I knew he and the littles, would be the perfect crew of taste-testers!
Our team of four bloggers will compete against three other teams this year. Once each season we will come together and create a fun and festive Krispie-licious treat that fits into a certain theme. For each challenge, we will also design a centerpiece to accompany the treat. I’m a very lucky girl to get to share this experience with wonder-bloggers Amy from She Wears Many Hats, Julie from Mommie Cooks, and Robyn from Add a Pinch.
This first challenge was all about Easter. We slaved over the Rice Krispies, tasting and tasting our practice recipes, until we came up with something easy-to-make, delicious, and cute as heck! It was hard work, but someone had to do it. *wink*
With our treat and centerpiece, we tried to capture the playful side of Easter, as well as the colors and concepts that remind us of rebirth and fresh beginnings. Our Cocoa Krispies garden full of carrots, onion, and cabbage was unfortunately planted right next to a burrow of bouncing bunnies. Bad luck for the veggies!
Although my kids didn’t get to participate to the treat making this particular day, this would be the perfect Easter project to take on with little ones. Our basket was easy enough for them to build; filled with yummy Cocoa Krispies Treats and decorated with shredded coconut, small veggies, and Lemonade Rice Krispies bunnies and chicks.
These adorably delicious lemony chickies are perched on crunchy chocolate nests rolled in a mixture of Rice Krispies and Cocoa Krispies. Don’t let the length of the recipe fool you–these are simple to make! Lemonade Rice Krispies Chicks in Cocoa Krispies Nests are a fun family cooking project and delightful addition to any Spring or Easter gathering.
Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treats
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)
Melt butter over low heat in a large saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
Stir white chocolate chips and lemon zest into marshmallow mixture. Add in Rice Krispies® cereal and stir until all ingredients are well combined.
Spray a 13×9-inch pan (or cookie sheet) and a spatula with non-stick cooking spray. Pour Lemonade Rice Krispies® mixture into pan and spread with spatula. Cool completely.
Rice Krispies® Chicks
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
Form 1 tablespoon Lemonade Rice Krispies® Treat into the shape of an egg. Melt the candy melts in the microwave and dip treat into yellow candy melts. Then roll in coconut and place on a large piece of parchment paper to dry. Repeat with the rest of the mixture.
Pipe eyes onto each chick with melted chocolate. (Alternately, you can use a toothpick dipped into the melted chocolate and dotted onto the chick.) Pipe a beak onto each chick with melted orange candy melts. Place on parchment paper and allow to dry.
Make approximately 4 dozen chicks
Chocolate Rice Krispies® Nests
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
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Cream the butter, sugar and vanilla together with an electric mixer. Mix the salt, baking powder, flour and cocoa powder together in a separate bowl.
Turn the mixer on low and slowly add the dry mixture to the butter mixture. Once combined, add the coconut and mix.
Line your baking sheets with parchment paper. Mix the Rice Krispies® and the Cocoa Krispies® together in a pie pan. Roll the dough into 3 Tb. sized balls.
Roll the dough in the Rice Krispies®, pressing in on all sides. (The Rice Krispies® should completely cover each ball.) Lay them on the baking sheets 2 inched apart. Press a deep indention in the center of each dough ball with your thumb, leaving the sides high.
Bake for 17-19 minutes. 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.
Place a Lemon Rice Krispies® Chicks in each nest to serve.
Make approximately 2 dozen nests.
*You’ll have extra chicks to use as decorations…or EAT!
To see all the entries, watch the Rice Krispies Making Memories Circle this week on TheMotherhood.com.
We will need your help to WIN this competition. Next week Rice Krispies will post all four entries on their Facebook Fan Page. Your votes make a difference in the final tally. Don’t worry, I’ll give you plenty of reminders to go vote!
April 15th – Our team is participating as hosts of a fun chat at The Motherhood. I’d love for you to stop by!
April 21st – Rice Krispies® will announce the winner of the challenge on The Motherhood circle.
I am working on this project in conjunction with The Motherhood and Rice Krispies®. I have been compensated for materials and stand to win a PRIZE should our team win out over the competition.
Finally Friends, The Motherhoood and Rice Krispies™ have graciously offered 4 $100 Visa gift cards to our team as Giveaways. Each of our blogs is hosting a giveaway, so enter here, then pop over Amy’s, Julie’s, and Robyn’s site to enter there as well!
THE MOTHERHOOD MAKING MEMORIES KELLOGG’S RICE KRISPIES 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.
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Good Luck!
Update: 4-12-11
A winner was selected by Random.org. #193 “Strawberry Cake” is the $100 Winner! Congratulations!
How adorable is this!! The little chickies are just too cute!!
What a great Easter project! It came out great!
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How adorable! I would love to have this centerpiece on my Easter table.
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You guys must have had so much fun making this! I love that little bunny diving into the bunny hole.
Those have to be the CUTEST rice krispies I’ve ever seen!
adorable! I love spring!!
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THIS IS THE CUTEST project!!!!!! It’d even be fun to make during a cold winter day to bring some sunshine into the house!
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Those chicks are just adorable! But I have to ask — Lemonade flavored cereal? How does that taste?
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Great job ladies! What a fun project to start off the spring season.
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Creative, festive, amazing! I need to get in on the fun … this is fantastic. Grrrrreat job!!!
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How ADORABLE!! I love these!
I hope those cute little bunniest don’t come near my carrots or I’ll have to eat them!
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Great idea! My mom always made a lamb centerpiece out of rice krispies every Easter. As I recall, it had jelly bean eyes and nose and a licorice ribbon around its neck.
I hope y’all WIN!! This is so cute!!
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So clever! What a festive dessert!
So cute…totally apt for spring…Thanks for this giveaway…
How cute! You are an artist!
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How adorable, creative, and yummy. Such fun – congratulations on such a great success.
These are absolutely adorable! You are extreemely talented!!!
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You all are so creative. All of them turned out so good.
What a successful project! Love the vibrant, springy theme and colors. So cute~
OK. CUTEST THING EVER! And lemonade? I LOVE IT.
You guys made such a perfect treat! And what fun to get to hang out and be creative with other food bloggers. =)
To cute! Spring had finally made it our way. Today my 3 year old said to me: “Mama, the sun is shining. It’s singing!”
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Holy cow- Those are the cutest darn things I have ever seen!
What a great centerpiece and giveaway- fingers crossed!
What a FUN challenge! I LOOOOOVE the fun easter Centerpiece. Inspiration for my upcoming Easter blog post! Good lukc!!
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Looks like your whole table had spring popping up all over it. So cute & I love Rice Krispie treats and the grands think it’s like Playdough.
The cabbage patch is so cute! What a great family project!
Wow! Incredible work in every detail! I love the “habitat”, the gourmet flavors and adorable look of the chicks and bunnies, and the whole package!
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Those photos put the cute, bright, and sPRinGY back into our day. Good luck!
Lovely and exciting chicks Dear… ! The entire post is simply awesome, loved them sitting in the basket and will try it out for my little one…cheers !
So cute! I love this as an Easter centerpiece. I did the Rice Krispies Easter challenge last year and had such a fun time working with them. The warm rice krispies are surprisingly easy to mold. My faves of yours are the bunnies!
Oh, I love, love, love your creation and I know it taste yummy. How many times am I able to vote?
These are super sweet and fun!!
Sommer, SO SO cute! Love the idea of how you made the little chicks
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Wow! How creative you are! Happy Springtime!
Oooh Sommer, This is CUTE- CUTE- CUTE ! Beautiful work and I bet they taste delicious too
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Well, that is sure to put a ‘spring’ in your step and get you ‘hopping’ around!
You ladies did an awesome job…love that centerpiece!
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What a clever springtime centerpiece!
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Wow,I had to do a double take to see all the different things in your centerpiece, way fun;-)
Sommer, I love these! I have been sort of obsessing over celebrating Easter this year. I have even started my first little herb and flower garden for Spring…woohoo! I will have to try making those little chick treats for my family…I know they will love it!
I LOVE spring! Easter is my favorite holiday. Your chicks and bunnies captured the delightfulness of the season so well. Can’t wait to try the recipe.
This is the most adorable treats!
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So adorable, I love collaborative efforts, the centerpiece looks like so much fun to eat and make.
Waw!! You are certainly so creative, Sommer! what a lovely Easter creation to place in the middle of the table!! Must taste so good too!,…mmmmmmmm!!!!
krispies look yum sommers !giveaway sounds fun though not eligible
How cute. Can’t wait to make it!
Adorable and then some….. My daughter loves food in cute shapes…. I like dessert and a centerpiece all in one! You are very clever!
OMG. These are so cute. I don’t have kids but I totally want to make these! Very creative.
Wow!! How cool is that.
What a cool project, the chicks are adorable!
you girls did such a great job. Looks amazing.
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Wow these are adorable
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Those are sooooo cute! I love the idea! Thanks so much for the great idea and giveaway!
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I absolutely love the idea of adding lemon zest and some white chocolate to a plain rice krispies treat. Your centerpiece is fantastic and the chicks and bunnies are just so cute. Good luck in the contest.
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Adorable. Rice Crispies are so loved by kids that this makes the perfect fun treat for Easter!
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I love your little rice crispy chick. He’s to cute to eat. Happy almost Easter!
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They look SOOOO cute SO creative .. awsm. I doubt if i can ever make these look THAT cute .. but i am still saving it in my wish list .. for someday
I’ve got to try those! My neighbors would love them!
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This centerpiece is too precious! What a great display of spring… bright, cheery, and yummy!!
How cute! I love the lemonade idea.
Truly adorable! I must try them with the kids at school!
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Your springy Easter chicks are absolutely precious!!! You are so creative!!
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I am so ready for spring. No nylons or tights today!
TOO cute!! thanks for sharing your fun with Rice Krispies and for this chance to win, Spicy!
These are adorable! This centerpiece certainly brightened my day!
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How adorable! That is possibly the cutest easter treat I’ve seen yet this year, my son is bouncing up and down trying to convince me to make this. lol!
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Happy spring! What a fun opportunity! I love those little chicks!! My nephew would have a ball with all these fun and edible Easter decorations
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How adorable! I would love to participate in a challenge like that. Happy Spring!!!
What adorable spring chickadees! I tried something today that was a little more crafty then my normal (lil chickadees myself!) hope they look turn out cute like these!
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Made of win! These treats just tickled the heck out of me.
I absolutely love those chicks & bunnies! Can’t wait to vote for them come April 12!
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Wow-I love this!! Super creative!!
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These are so adorable….can’t wait for easter
My favorite part of your display are the chicks and bunnies.
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What an adorable scene, dresses up the Easter table well
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The snow is all gone where I live and we are having rain showers, which should help to make everything start turning green. Spring is here!
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These are very cute, great job
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Oh, they are so cute. Much too cute to eat… smell good too… ummmm…delicious…Hey where did they go?
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I just have to say that the little forest farm bunny chick scene you created is adorable and like nothing I have ever seen anyone do with cereal! LOL I love it! Thanks for the chance to win!!!
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This is just TOO stinkin cute! I don’t think I could love this any more than I already do!
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The chicks are too cute & make me think of springtime.
I love watching the spring tulips bloom every year!
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How fun…they are so adorable and festive for the coming holiday
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This looks like the perfect Easter treat for all the little folks that are going to be at Easter lunch on Sunday. Thanks for sharing! Good Luck!
Oh my can we pretend it’s Easter again just so I can make these adorable chicks?! Love your step-by-step photos as well. Will definitely be putting this in my to do list for next year. Thanks for sharing such a great post and wonderful idea.