Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bears

You absolutely have to make these delicious Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bears! These bears are dressed up in a yummy pumpkin costume, they may be too cute to eat!

About a month ago, Callye from The Sweet Adventures of Sugarbelle proposed a challenge for a group of bloggers and I was so honored to be included. She asked each of us to use a simple pumpkin shaped cookie cutter to create an edible craft project. Now, being in such amazing company really motivated me to come up with something special. I spent three weeks looking for inspiration and finally found it while digging through bins of Halloween decorations.

As soon as I picked up this cute little Halloween bear, I knew what I should create. The funny thing is that a day after I made this decision, I was showing my exchange student some old pictures, and found this one of me, at age 8, ready to go out Trick or Treating with my sister.

Now I was sure it was the perfect pumpkin project, so I got to work in the kitchen making bears out of Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies Treats decorated with modeling chocolate costumes.

I’ll admit my bear treats did take a bit of time to create, but if you could have seen the look on the faces of the children I gave these too, you’d know all the work was worth it.

Not to digress too much here, but I even got a big smile out of my  nephew when I presented him with a bear dressed up in his high school football uniform. Next I’ll have to tackle a bear in a school mascot costume, as he has taken on that challenge himself, dressing as a Viking and entertaining the crowds at games.

Creating these Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bears was like playing with paper dolls. These bears could wear just about any costume you can create.

Oddly enough, as a kid, I even dressed up as a football player one year.

I have a few Cocoa Krispies Bears left who are in need of costumes. I may just have to spend some more time designing for them. I’ll be sure to share them if I do. Of course, they may just end up as afternoon snacks.

Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bears in Pumpkin Costumes
(makes 7)

Before you begin, you’ll need to make a batch of white modeling chocolate. You can find the recipe and complete detailed instructions on using and coloring modeling chocolate here. This chocolate making tips page also has troubleshooting information if you end up with greasy or dry modeling chocolate.

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons butter, plus more to butter your cutter and tin foil
10 ounces marshmallows (4 cups mini marshmallows)
10 ounces milk chocolate, finely chopped or chips
8 cups Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies Cereal
1 batch of modeling chocolate (find recipe here)
orange, black, purple, and green candy coloring
powdered sugar, to dust work surface
black food coloring marker
frosting or Nutella

Special Supplied Needed:

tin foil

5 inch teddy bear cookie cutter
3 inch pumpkin cookie cutteroptional cutters (you can just use kitchen shears or a knife, if you prefer)
1- 1/4″, 7/8″, and 1/2″ round cutters
#18 and #7 round pastry tips
1- 1/4″ oval cutter
small leaf shaped cutter
small pointed oval cutter

Instructions:

Make your Cocoa Krispies Bears: In a large pot, heat the butter, marshmallows and milk chocolate over low heat, stirring often until melted. Or, put those ingredients in a large microwave safe bowl and heat for 20-30 second increments until melted. Do not over heat or you’ll burn the chocolate.

Stir the Kellogg’s Cocoa Krispies into the melted marshmallow mixture, coating it well.

Butter the inside of your bear shaped cookie cutter then set it on a piece of well buttered tin foil. Fill the cutter completely with the Cocoa Krispies treat mixture. Press down on the cereal to compact it in the cutter. Remove the cutter and you’ll have your first bear. Repeat until you’ve used all the cereal.

Color some modeling chocolate orange, black, green, purple, and light brown, being sure to leave a small amount white. See detailed directions here.Dust work surface lightly with powdered sugar. Use a rolling pin to roll out pieces of each color modeling chocolate to about 1/16th of an inch or so.

Use cutters to cut out the following shapes for each bears:

1 orange pumpkin, large enough to be used as a bear’s costume
(I had to roll my pumpkin a bit more to make it large enough to fit my bear)
cut off the stem end of the pumpkin to create the neck opening of the costume
2 black jack-o-lantern eyes
1 black jack-o-lantern nose
1 black jack-o-lantern mouth
1 green leaf
1 brown stem (cut an oval, then cut off part of the oval, leaving a stem shaped piece)
1 orange pumpkin hat (cut an oval then cut off a smaller oval from the first leaving a crescent moon shape)
1 purple rectangle for the bag
1 black handle (cut a circle then cut a smaller circle from the center, cut that to make the handle)
1 light brown snout (cut a circle then shape it into an oval snout)
1 black nose (cut a small circle)
2 white eyes (use the end of a #18 pastry tip to cut out small circles)
2 black pupils (use the small end of a #7 pastry tip to cut out small circles)
Attach pieces of modeling chocolate together with a small amount of water.

 Example: brush the backside of the jack-o-lantern features with water and press them onto the pumpkin.Use a black food coloring marker to write “Trick or Treat” on the purple rectangle.

Cute in between the bears legs with a knife. Use frosting or Nutella to attach the modeling chocolate pieces to the bears.

Wrap in clear cellophane bags and tie with a ribbon if using as gifts, otherwise just keep stored in an airtight container for up to a week, maybe more.

For Sweet Sugar Belle’s challenge I did make a traditional looking jack-o-lantern as the costume for my Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bear, but as you’ll see below many of the food artists used their cutters to create anything but ordinary looking pumpkins. I am in awe of the talent in this group, aren’t you?

Wouldn’t you just love to see how each of these creative sweets were made? I know I can’t wait to visit each an every site for tutorials and tips on each of these 20+ ways to use a pumpkin cutter.

1.
Panda
Calaveras, Miss Cuit

2.
Owl S’mores on a Stick,
Kitchen Fun with my Three Sons

3.
Pumpkin Cheesecake
Pasties, Bakingdom

4.
Halloween
Pumpkin Wall, Arty McGoo

5.
Cocoa
Krispies Trick or Treat Bears, Hungry Happenings

6.
Creative Cherry
Cookies, Lila Loa

7.
The
Ultimate Halloween Candy Bar, Dollhouse Bake Shoppe

8.
Halloween Pumpkin Carriage Cookie, Trilogy
Edibles

9.
Easy Cheveron Pumpkin Cookies, Lizy B
Bakes

10.
Pumpkin Fudge on a Stick, The DecoratedCookie

11.
Funny
Face Pumpkin Cookies, Munchkin Munchies

12.
Woodland Owl
Cookies, The Bearfoot Baker

13.
Pumpkin
Cheesecake Hand Pies, Created by Diane

14.
Wide
Eyed Owl Cookies, Simply Sweets by Honeybee

15.
Zombie
Girl and Brains Cookies, Not Your Momma’s Cookies

16.
Cookie
Cutter Pumpkin Fudge, The Partiologist

17.
3-D
Pumpkin Cookie, Cookie Crazie

18.
Faberge-Style
Pumpkin Coach, Oh, Sugar Events

19.
Peek-a-Boo
Pumpkin Cupcake Topper, Sweetology 101

20.
Slimy
Green Ghost Cookies, Pink Little Cake

21.
Silly
Pumpkin Face Cookies, Klickitat Street

22.
Pretty Painted
Pumpkin Cookies, Glorious Treats

23.
Lalaloopsie
Cookies with a Twist, SweetSugarBelle

Be sure to check out all the Halloween recipes here on Hungry Happenings.

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