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Cocoa Krispies Trick or Treat Bears

October 1, 2020 This post may contain affiliate links.

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!

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. (This post was originally posted in September 2012.)

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 Cocoa Krispies Treats decorated with modeling chocolate costumes.

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!

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 for 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.

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!

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 (6 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 cutter
  • optional 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:

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!

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 overheat 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.

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!

  • 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.

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!

  • Cut in between the bear’s legs with a knife.
  • Use frosting or Nutella to attach the modeling chocolate pieces to the 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!

  • 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.

Head on over to my new website, HowToMakeRiceKrispies.com to find some great Rice Krispie Treat ideas.

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.

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Halloween Cocoa Krispies Bears
Prep Time
1 hr
Cook Time
10 mins
 

Dress up these cute Cocoa Krispies Bears in bright orange, modeling chocolate, pumpkin costumes for Halloween.

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cocoa kirspie treats, halloween recipe, modeling chocolate, rice krispie treats
Servings: 7
Author: Beth
Ingredients
  • 3 tablespoons butter plus more to butter your cutter and tin foil
  • 10 ounces marshmallows
  • 10 ounces milk chocolate, finely chopped or chips
  • 8 cups Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies Cereal
  • 1 batch of modeling chocolate
  • orange, black, purple, and green candy coloring
  • powdered sugar, to dust work surface
  • black food coloring marker
  • frosting or Nutella
Instructions
  1. In a large pot, heat the butter, marshmallows and milk chocolate over low heat, stirring often until melted.
  2. Or, put those ingredients in a large microwave-safe bowl and heat for 20-30 second increments until melted.
  3. Do not overheat or you'll burn the chocolate.
  4. Stir the Kellogg's Cocoa Krispies into the melted marshmallow mixture, coating it well.
  5. Butter the inside of your bear shaped cookie cutter then set it on a piece of well-buttered tin foil.
  6. Fill the cutter completely with the Cocoa Krispies treat mixture.
  7. Press down on the cereal to compact it in the cutter.
  8. Remove the cutter and you'll have your first bear.
  9. Repeat until you've used all the cereal.
  10. Color some modeling chocolate orange, black, green, purple, and light brown, being sure to leave a small amount white. See detailed directions here.
  11. Dust work surface lightly with powdered sugar.
  12. Use a rolling pin to roll out pieces of each color modeling chocolate to about 1/16th of an inch or so.
  13. Use cutters to cut out the following shapes for each bears:
  14. 1 orange pumpkin, large enough to be used as a bear's costume
  15. (I had to roll my pumpkin a bit more to make it large enough to fit my bear)
  16. cut off the stem end of the pumpkin to create the neck opening of the costume
  17. 2 black jack-o-lantern eyes
  18. 1 black jack-o-lantern nose
  19. 1 black jack-o-lantern mouth
  20. 1 green leaf
  21. 1 brown stem (cut an oval, then cut off part of the oval, leaving a stem shaped piece)
  22. 1 orange pumpkin hat (cut an oval then cut off a smaller oval from the first leaving a crescent moon shape)
  23. 1 purple rectangle for the bag
  24. 1 black handle (cut a circle then cut a smaller circle from the center, cut that to make the handle)
  25. 1 light brown snout (cut a circle then shape it into an oval snout)
  26. 1 black nose (cut a small circle)
  27. 2 white eyes (use the end of a #18 pastry tip to cut out small circles)
  28. 2 black pupils (use the small end of a #7 pastry tip to cut out small circles)
  29. Attach pieces of modeling chocolate together with a small amount of water.
  30. 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.
  31. Cut in between the bear's legs with a knife.
  32. Use frosting or Nutella to attach the modeling chocolate pieces to the bears.
  33. 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.

Recipe originally posted September 24, 2012.

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 was made? I know I can’t wait to visit each and 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.

Find over 100 cute and creepy Halloween treats and snacks. Follow the Halloween recipes step-by-step & video tutorials to recreate the most amazing Halloween cupcakes, cookies, rice krispie treats, chocolates, candies, appetizers, and more. Kids of all ages will go nuts over these fun Halloween food ideas .

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Comments

  1. Trish - Mom On Timeout

    October 3, 2012 at 6:51 pm

    So dang cute! I want to eat him right up 🙂 Pinning and featuring tonight Beth! Thanks so much for sharing at Mom On Timeout!

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      October 3, 2012 at 8:05 pm

      Thanks, Trish!!!!

      Reply
  2. Glory/ Glorious Treats

    October 1, 2012 at 1:49 am

    Oh my goodness, I just LOVE these!! So cute and creative!! I would love one of these adorable treats as a party favor!

    Reply
  3. Dorothy @ Crazy for Crust

    September 30, 2012 at 7:25 pm

    He is so cute!!!!

    Reply
  4. cathy @ Noble Pig

    September 29, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    These are adorable, I am going to link back to them in my upcoming Halloween Recipes Post!

    Reply
  5. Eileen Shows

    September 28, 2012 at 12:26 pm

    That is awesome thanks for sharing!

    Reply
  6. CuteEverything.com

    September 27, 2012 at 12:22 am

    That turned out so adorable, I love the "fur" effect with the cocoa krispie treats, it really works. Nice photo of you trick or treating, too, I used to think it would never get dark on Halloween so I could go out and get the treats.

    Reply
  7. Anonymous

    September 25, 2012 at 3:56 pm

    Cutest bear treat ever!

    Reply
  8. Georganne (LilaLoa)

    September 25, 2012 at 5:15 am

    First — I LOVE that you shared your Halloween costume picture!! So cute! And these bears are so creative! SUCH a good way to use the pumpkin cutter!

    Reply
  9. lizy b

    September 25, 2012 at 4:24 am

    So adorable!!! I just love these little bears! No way could I possibly eat them, way too sweet! So happy to be working on this project with you!

    Reply
  10. SimplySweetsbyHoneybee{Melissa}

    September 25, 2012 at 12:16 am

    These are so adorable! So glad to have discovered you through this project. I will be keeping up with your blog now through emails. Great job!

    Reply
  11. Karen - Trilogy Edibles

    September 24, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    that is super cute! great idea for halloween!

    Reply
  12. Rita

    September 24, 2012 at 3:29 pm

    Wow! You are really creative! These are darling, thanks for sharing.

    Reply
  13. Janine (sugarkissed.net)

    September 24, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    This looks like sooooo much fun to make!

    Reply
  14. Sue

    September 24, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    I knew this cute bear was yours as soon as I saw him:) He has your creative signature on him! Love you trick or treat photo too!

    Reply
    • Beth Jackson Klosterboer

      September 24, 2012 at 2:57 pm

      Thanks, Sue. I found it so fun to see all of the projects, and like you did, spot those from specific bloggers. I'm glad you recognized mine!

      Reply
  15. Pam

    September 24, 2012 at 1:48 pm

    What an adorable little bear. My hat goes off to you…..it looks like a tedious job putting this whole thing together. But the end result is always worth it, isn't it? It was fun doing this project with you. 🙂 ♥

    Reply
  16. The BearFoot Baker

    September 24, 2012 at 1:40 pm

    I love this bear! I think he is super cute in his little pumpkin costume!! Thanks for showing us how to make him!! LOVE

    Reply
  17. The Partiologist

    September 24, 2012 at 12:30 pm

    This little bear of yours is completely adorable! I would love to have him trick or treat at my door!

    Reply

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