• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Hungry Happenings

  • ABOUT
    • About/Contact
    • Work With Me
    • Featured On
  • EXPLORE
    • Hungry Happenings Blog Posts
    • Travel
    • Readers’ Gallery
    • Hungry Halloween
      • Crafts and Decor
      • Halloween Party Games
      • Templates – Printable Templates for Halloween Crafts and Recipes
    • Roundups
  • MY BOOK
  • CHOCOLATE MAKING COURSES
  • HOME
  • RECIPES
    • ALL 1000+ Recipes (loads slowly)
    • Dessert Recipes
    • Decorated Cookies
    • Decorated Cakes
    • Cheesecake Recipes
    • Everyday Desserts
    • Homemade Candy
    • Everyday Meals
  • HOW TO
    • Chocolate Making Tips
    • Make Modeling Chocolate
      • Modeling Chocolate Recipe and Tutorial
      • How to Color Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Store and Work with Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Fix Greasy Modeling Chocolate
      • How to Fix Dry Modeling Chocolate
      • Use Colored Candy Melts to Make Candy Clay
    • Candy Clay Creations
    • How To Color White Chocolate and Candy Melts and Paint Candy Molds
    • How to Use Food Coloring Markers
  • HOLIDAYS
    • ALL HOLIDAY RECIPES
    • Valentine’s Day
    • St. Patrick’s Day
    • Easter
    • 4th of July
    • Halloween
    • Thanksgiving
    • Christmas
    • New Year’s Eve
    • MORE HOLIDAYS
      • Mother’s Day
      • Father’s Day
      • April Fools
      • Chinese New Year
      • Cinco de Mayo
      • Day of the Dead
      • Earth Day
      • Hanukkah
      • Mardi Gras
  • PARTY FOOD
    • Super Bowl
    • Graduation
    • Birthday Party
    • March Madness
    • Summer Fun
    • Baby Shower
    • Wedding Shower
    • School/Teacher
    • Movie and T.V. Characters
    • Kid’s Treats
    • Fun Party Recipes
  • Navigation Menu: Social Icons

    • Facebook
    • Instagram
    • Pinterest
    • Twitter

Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap

April 29, 2014 This post may contain affiliate links.

Why serve cake at your graduation party when you can have this impressive Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap instead? It’s simple to make by adding melted chocolate to a traditional cereal treat recipe and forming it into a mortar board.

Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap | HungryHappenings.com

Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap –

This weekend my family gathered to celebrate with my niece who graduated from Kettering College of Medical Arts in Radiologic Sciences. We are so proud of her accomplishments.

On the day of her graduation, family and friends met for dinner at a restaurant then headed over to my sister’s house to relax for a while before the ceremony and to enjoy dessert. I brought this Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap, well, actually, I brought the one that is pictured below.

Why serve cake at your graduation party when you can have this impressive Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap instead? It's simple to make by adding melted chocolate to a traditional cereal treat recipe and forming it into a mortar board. 

I ended up making this twice because although my first dessert looked great for pictures, by the time it was in an out of my car on a warm day the top of the mortarboard was bending. I originally just mixed lots of melted chocolate into the Cocoa Krispies treat to make the square piece, but found that without tempering the chocolate, it didn’t harden as it needed to and didn’t hold up to the slightest bit of heat.

Chocolate Rice Krispies Treat Graduation Cap

It was really easy to cut into and was bursting with chocolate flavor. Those in my family who enjoy chocolate, really liked this graduation dessert, but I was determined to make it more sturdy, so I reworked it and am sharing that technique, in the tutorial below. My friends are coming over today to do some baking, we’re going to be making macarons, and I’ll share my new cereal treat grad cap with them.

Graduation food recipe

Cocoa Krispies Treat Graduation Cap (mortarboard)

Ingredients:

1/4 cup (1/2 stick) butter
10.5 ounces Jet Puffed mini marshmallows
6 ounces Hershey’s Special Dark Chocolate Chips (1 cup)
6 cups Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies cereal
6 ounces (1 cup) lGhirardelli Dark Melting Wafers (or Candy Melts)
1 Twizzlers Pull and Peel
1 Tootsie Roll Midgee

Supplies Needed:

large mixing bowl
3 cup round bowl
8×8 inch baking pan
non-stick tin foil

Instructions:

Head on over to my new website, HowToMakeRiceKrispies.com to see some new Rice Krispie Treat recipes that could work for this grad cap! You can also check out how we taste tested 20 versions of the Rice Krispie Treat recipe to come up with the absolute BEST Rice Krispie Treat Recipe. This recipe would be a perfect substitution, just make sure to use the Cocoa Krispies instead of the original.

 

Cocoa Krispies Treat Recipes

Heat butter, marshmallows, and chocolate chips in a large microwave safe bowl on high heat for 30 seconds. Stir then heat for 20 seconds. If the marshmallows are not melted, heat for 15 second increments, stirring after each until melted. Stir in Cocoa Krispies.

Line pans with non-stick tin foil

Line bowl and baking pan with non-stick tin foil.

Chocolate Rice Krispies Treat Recipe

Fill tin foil lined bowl with cocoa krispies. Press to compress the cereal in the bowl. Let sit at room temperature.

Chocolate Rice Krispies Treats

Press the remaining cocoa krispies treat mixture into an even layer in the square pan.

Heat the Ghirardelli Melting Wafers in the microwave on high power for 25 seconds, then stir, heat again for 20 seconds, and stir. If not completely melted, heat for 10 second increments stirring after each.Pour the melted candy coating over the cereal treat bar, reserving a tablespoon for the next step. Place in the freezer for 10-15 minutes until the candy coating sets.

Removed from freezer and remove from pan and peel off foil.

 

Graduation Cap Rice Krispies Treats

Un-mold the cocoa krispies treats from the bowl, peel off the foil, set on a serving dish.

Spread some melted candy coating on top and attach the square cereal treat with the candy coated side down.

Graduation Rice Krispies Treats

Peel apart one Twizzlers Pull ‘n Peel and attach the pieces to the center of the square treat using a dab of melted candy coating. Squish a Tootsie Roll into a round and press it in the center of the square treat covering the ends of the Twizzlers.

Cover loosely with plastic wrap and store at room temperature for up to 3 days. If you have to make this for an outdoor graduation party, I would just use a thin cake board under the square piece to keep it in place, otherwise it will bend.

Products used to create this project that are available on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales)

More Graduation Party Food

from Hungry Happenings

 

3D Candy Filled Graduation Cap Cookies

Flourless Chocolate Cake Graduation Caps

 

Chocolate Graduation Cap Boxes

Graduation Pretzel Pops

Honey Scented Modeling Chocolate and Fruit Leather Books

 

 Inside Out Chocolate Caramel Apples

Filed Under: Graduation Party Food Tagged With: Chocolate, dessert, Rice-Crispy-Treats, Rice-Krispies-Treats

The Sugar Academy Chocolate Making Courses
Previous Post: « Sombrero Piñata Cookies
Next Post: Sugar Cookie Garden Stone for Mother’s Day »

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Jill @ KitchenFunWithMy3Sons.com

    April 29, 2014 at 5:30 pm

    Super cute idea Beth…love this!

    Reply
  2. Brenda @ SweetSimpleStuff

    April 29, 2014 at 5:47 pm

    Krispie Treats are a favorite for everyone I know … chocolate makes everything better! You have very lucky friends 😉

    Reply
    • beth

      April 30, 2014 at 10:16 pm

      I couldn't agree more, chocolate does make everything better:)

      Reply
  3. Lisa@hooplapalooza

    April 30, 2014 at 1:15 pm

    thank you so much for making it again-that's extra work that i so appreciate! you're just awesome Beth! i see this in the near future for some friend's upcoming graduations 🙂

    Reply
    • beth

      April 30, 2014 at 10:17 pm

      These were so quick and easy to make that I didn't mind doing it over again, plus no one complained that I had lots of the chocolaty cocoa kripises treat to eat.

      Reply
  4. Erlene A

    April 30, 2014 at 10:11 pm

    This is so fun. My son graduates next year and this would make a fun party snack. Pinned.

    Reply
    • beth

      April 30, 2014 at 10:17 pm

      Thanks so much for the pin Erlene. I hope you do enjoy making this for your son next year:)

      Reply
  5. Jennifer Johnson

    April 30, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    Coolest rice Krispie treat cake ever!! How clever.

    Reply
    • beth

      May 1, 2014 at 2:18 pm

      Wow, that's nice to hear. Thanks, Jennifer:)

      Reply
  6. The Partiologist

    May 1, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    The grad cap came out perfect and you know how I love RKT! I've never made them using cocoa Krispies, so with my love of chocolate, this is just what I need!

    Reply
    • beth

      May 1, 2014 at 2:18 pm

      Being a chocoholic myself, I prefer these over plain rice krispies treats.

      Reply
  7. Melinda

    May 2, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    so cute. love that it's chocolate rice krispies, haven't had them in forever

    Reply
    • beth

      May 2, 2014 at 1:25 pm

      Thanks, Melinda. It was hard not to snack on the Cocoa Krispies cereal as I was making these. They really have a great chocolate flavor.

      Reply
  8. Shari Lynne @ www.faithfilledfoodformoms.com

    May 5, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Love this!! Thanks for sharing..I have a son graduating soon 🙂

    Reply
  9. Sarah Vanderkooy

    May 8, 2014 at 6:13 pm

    What a cute idea, love this! I will keep this in mind for the next graduate in my family.

    Reply
  10. Anonymous

    June 5, 2014 at 8:35 pm

    I first saw the photo of these before I read the recipe. I thought they were individual treats made in muffin cups rather than one large treat. I am going to make them in muffin tins for each student in my daughter's grade 8 class. I think I'll use a square graham cracker dipped in chocolate for the flat piece. Thanks for the great idea.

    Reply
    • beth

      June 5, 2014 at 9:41 pm

      That sounds like a great idea. I'm sure they will turn out great. Have fun and be sure to snap some pictures and send them to me so I can share in my reader's gallery. Thanks!

      Reply
  11. emelon93

    April 24, 2015 at 10:56 am

    Hi Beth,

    This looks amazing and I would love to make it for my best friend who graduates this summer. As I live in the UK we don't measure things by cup sizes unfortunately, so could you please send me over the measurement of the bowl you used for the round shaped chocolate crispie in centimetres so I am able to buy the right size over here 🙂 thank you!

    Reply
    • beth

      April 27, 2015 at 1:26 pm

      I am out of town right now and can't measure the bowl, but here is a link to the bowl I used on Amazon.com. http://amzn.to/1QA2ZJE
      From what I remember the bowl is about 7 inches (17.78 cm) across the top.
      I hope this helps.

      Reply
  12. emelon93

    April 24, 2015 at 10:58 am

    Hi Beth,

    I would love to make this for my best friend who graduates this summer. Could you please send over a centimetre measurement of the small bowl used to make the round shaped choco crispie as we don't have cup measurements over here in the UK and I want to make sure I buy the right size 🙂 Thank you!

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Recipe Rating




This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

WELCOME!

See all recipe categories

The Sugar Academy Chocolate Making Courses

Footer

Popular Kid Friendly Recipes

Halloween Mickey Mouse Oreo Cookies decorated using candy clay are fun to make for your Halloween parties.
Turn Reese's Cups into sweet little otters then use them to create some adorable Sea Otter Cupcakes. These treat will be perfect for you Finding Dory Party.
Mickey Mouse Galaxy Cookies - chocolate cookies topped with chocolate ganache and galaxy sprinkles.
Decorate this cute Olaf Mickey Cake for your Disney Frozen party. It's easy to create using a simple cake decorating technique.
This Winter Wonderland White Chocolate Popcorn speckled with candy snowflakes and blue sprinkles would make a great treat for a Frozen party, a nice gift for Christmas, or a wintertime snack.
Movie Night Snacks featuring Disney and Pixar Toy Story 4 Mozzarella Shapes from Farm Rich

Hungry Happenings is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and occasionally writes sponsored posts which will be disclosed within the post. We value your privacy. Please read our Privacy Policy, Disclosure, and Terms of Service.

Search Hungry Happenings by Category

Copyright © 2021 Hungry Happenings