My favorite… Rice Crispy Treats

However it didn’t go so well…

My bestie and I couldn’t get together for a week, so I went rogue and tried to make something I used to love… Rice Crispy Treats. What is funny about this is I hate marshmallows, which is one of the main ingredients of rice crispy treats. However, when they are mixed with the snap, crackle, and pop I love them.

Now I can’t have normal rice crispy treats for 2 reasons. The normal rice crispy treat cereal has a vitamin I’m allergic to (or my body can’t process, however you want to put it) and marshmallows are all sugar (something I have been told to avoid as much as possible). Even the Gluten-Free ones they sell in the store have way to much sugar for me to handle. So, alas, I haven’t had my favorite treat in 2 1/2 years. I decided that had to change.

First step, find sugar free marshmallow recipe. Second step, find gluten-free rice crispy cereal and ensure the vitamin has not been added. I was able to do both, now to get started.

Now I did the marshmallow recipe pretty close to how it was written. Which I got from Wholesome Yum: Sugar-Free Marshmallow Recipe without Corn Syrup. I’ve made homemade marshmallows before to use in rice crispy treats. I was fairly confident in my marshmallow making abilities. Which they didn’t fail me.

I used my electric mixer. Because as much as I love holding a hand mixer for 15 minutes over a bowl while it becomes light and fluffy, I had other things I could be doing. Now it is no joke that the volume will double, as the recipe says. There were a few times I worried my bowl wasn’t going to be large enough and it would spill over. Luckily, it didn’t and it tasted like marshmallows.

Now I’ve done this before… made homemade marshmallow fluff and putting it into the rice cereal almost immediately after. I’ve never had to let the marshmallows set and then melt again. So I let it harden in the fridge just enough to have the consistency I wanted and mixed it with my box of organic brown rice cereal. Then I let it set overnight (mainly because it was 10pm at night and I fell asleep).

What did work… well they looked like rice crispy treats. The marshmallow fluff tasted fine before I mixed it with the rice cereal.
What didn’t work… the taste after I mixed it all together. I am sure it was the cereal and will try this again with a different brand. I had a coworker try it and she agreed, that cereal was the issue. I know different areas have different options. I will most likely go to Whole Foods and see what they have. I just went to my local grocery store who sells health foods, probably wasn’t the best idea.

But if you want a good marshmallow fluff recipe and have a favorite rice cereal you like to eat. I say give this a try.

Next week… Strawberry Wine cupcakes.

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Rice Cripsy Treats

Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp Gelatin (2 pouches)
• 1 cup water (warm, divided)
• 1 1/2 cup powdered erythritol
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla liquid Stevia
• 1/4 tsp sea salt
• 2 tsp Vanilla extract
• 1 box gluten free rice cereal

Instructions

• Pour 1/2 cup warm water into the bowl of your electric mixer (or a large bowl if using a hand mixer). Sprinkle gelatin over the water and whisk immediately. Set aside.
• Meanwhile, add remaining 1/2 cup water, powdered erythritol, stevia, and sea salt to a large saucepan. Heat over low to medium heat for a few minutes, stirring frequently, until the mixture is hot, but not boiling, and sweetener dissolves. You will know when this happens because the color will go from a white to translucent. If the sides start to bubble, take it off the heat immediately.
• Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla extract. Pour the hot liquid into the bowl with gelatin, while whisking constantly.
• Using your electric mixer (or hand mixer) on high power, beat the mixture for 12 – 15 minutes, until the volume doubles and the mixture looks very fluffy, like stiff egg white peaks.
• 2 options:
  • Put the marshmallow mixture into the fridge and let set until it is marshmallow fluff consistency. About 45 minutes.
  • Or immediately move onto making the treats, while the mixture is still a little warm.
• Take parchment paper and line 8×8 pan or a 9×13 jelly roll pan
• Pour the rice cereal into a large bowl.
• Take the entire marshmallow mixture and mix into the rice cereal.
• Flatten out the rice mixture into the pan chosen until they resemble treats
• Let set for at least 3 – 4 hours or over night.