Party Pops!!!! Yay!

Valentine's Day was last week, and for Gracie's class party I made these awesome rice krispy pops. They're easy to make and taste wonderful! Plus the kiddos love them.

For this recipe, you will need crisp rice cereal, marshmallow, margarine (or butter), vanilla, candy melts or almond bark, popsicle sticks, and sprinkles. (You've gotta have sprinkles!!!!)

You'll also need one to two bowls, foil, a 13x 9 pan, decorating bags (or ziploc bags) and a silicone or rubber spatula.

Line you pan with foil and spray with pan spray.

Next measure out 12 cups of rice cereal into a bowl.

Place your marshmallow and margarine in your other bowl and microwave until nice and melted. About 1 minutes)

  

Add a 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla, and stir until blended and the marshmallows are thoroughly melted.

Pour the marshmallow mixture into your rice cereal, and stir until everything is thouroughly mixed. Then pour into pan.

Press mixture into pan, pressing down and packing the treats tightly.

Then place in the fridge to chill for an hour or even overnight.

Once the rice treats are nice and stiff, lift them out of the pan by the foil and cut into squares. Shove a popsicle stick in each square.

Place the treats on a rack and melt the almond bark and candy melts in the microwave.

Pour the candy melts and almond bark into your decorating or ziploc bags, and cut off the corner or tip.

Now for the fun part, DECORATING!!!! Drizzle the candy melts and almond bark over the treat and douse them with sprinkles. You could also dip the treats in the candy melts and almond bark. Once dry, cover with a sandwich bag and tie with a piece of yarn or string.

These pops are incrediby versitile. You can change up the color by adding food coloring to the marshmallow mixture or by using a different color of candy melt. You can also change the sprinkles or flavoring. Add chocolate or butterscotch chips, or even use cocoa pebbles, cocoa krispes, or fruity pebbles. 

Sadly, I don't have any pictures of the kiddos eating these, because they got to them before I could take pictures! But I'll make up for it next week! Enjoy!

Ingredients

8 tablespoons butter or margarine (1 stick)

2 packages (10 oz., about 40) JET-PUFFED Marshmallows or

8 cups JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows (2 bags)

12 cups Crisp  Rice  cereal

Almond Bark

Candy Melts

Sprinkles

OR

Chocolate Chips

OR

Flaked coconut

Multi-colored sprinkles

Food coloring

Directions

11.    In microwave-safe bowl heat butter and marshmallows on HIGH for 3 minutes, stirring after 2 minutes. Stir until smooth.

22.       Add to crisp rice cereal, and stir until well coated.

33.   Press mixture into pan and let cool 1 hour to overnight. Cut into squares, insert popsicle sticks, and decorate to your heart’s content.