Basic Crispy Cakes

Ooey, gooey crisp rice treats may have a reputation for being square, but don't stop there! You can cut, roll, and mold the mixture into all sorts of clever confections.

Martha Stewart Kids, Spring 2005

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Ingredients

Directions

  • Melt butter over low heat in a large saucepan. Add mini marshmallows; stir until melted, about 10 minutes.

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  • Stir in crisp rice cereal.

  • Cars and bugs are shaped by hand. Work quickly while mixture is soft and sticky: Spoon into greased bowl; cover with plastic wrap so it doesn't harden.

  • Butter hands, and make shapes one at a time. Boats, flowers, and hills are cut out after the mixture has hardened.

  • Spoon the warm mixture into a greased 9-by-13-inch pan; pat smooth. Let set, uncovered, 30 minutes to an hour, and then cut out.

Cook's Notes

Kids can pick a posy and licorice-twist leaves (bundled with kitchen twine) from a tasty flowerpot. To mold pot, butter fingers, and press cereal mixture against sides of a greased bowl. Use a cookie cutter for flowers; press candies into centers. Insert skewer stems (cut points off).

Variations

One batch makes one flowerpot and a dozen 2- to 2 1/2-inch flowers; a dozen 5 1/2-inch boats; two dozen 2 1/2-inch cars; or two hills. Use half the recipe to make 70 bugs (from 1-inch balls).

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