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Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels Recipe

Published: Apr 12, 2017 · Recipe by: Beth · This post may contain affiliate links.

It’s so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and to make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration.

It's so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and to make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration.

The first step is the most important, actually making the Rice Krispie Treats! Head on over to my new website, HowToMakeRiceKrispies.com, to see how we taste tested 20 versions of the Rice Krispie Treat recipe to come up with the absolute BEST Rice Krispie Treat Recipe.

As I was making my Rainbow Peeps Cereal Treats last week, I started to think about other ways to make a festive looking rainbow cereal treat.

It's so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and to make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration.

Over the past year I’ve made and shared a few recipes for rice krispie treat pinwheels and thought I’d use that technique to make a rainbow swirled treat. These other treats were quite large and only used 2 or 3 colors.

Being I wanted these treats to have 6 colors of the rainbow and be about the same size as a traditional marshmallow cereal treat, I had to find a different technique for rolling the pinwheels.

After many failed attempts I finally found that creating stripes of colors in a large 12×18 inch pan then rolling the thin sheet of rice krispie treats up into a long log before slicing it worked the best.

 

 

It's so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and to make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration. The are perfect for Easter, St. Patrick's Day, and birthdays!

This recipe from start to finish takes about 20 minutes. That may be twice as long as the traditional recipe, but look at the results. If you serve these at a birthday party or share them with family and friends on Easter or St. Patrick’s Day, I’m pretty sure everyone is going to be amazed.

The swirls of color add so much fun to the cereal treats and each batch will make 12-18 treats, depending on how thick you make the slices.

collage of images showing how to make rows of purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and magenta rice krispie treat then roll them into a log to cut pinwheels

How to make Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels

  • Grease a 12 inch by 18 inch sheet pan with butter
  • Line the pan with parchment or wax paper then butter it too.
  • Melt 1.67 ounces of mini marshmallows (one heaping cup) with 1/2 tablespoon of butter in the microwave on high power for about 45 seconds.
  • Stir until melted.
  • If needed, heat additional 15 second increments, stirring after each, until melted.
  • Color using food coloring (start with purple).
  • Stir in 1 cup of Rice Krispie cereal.
  • Press into a 2 inch row along one of the long edges of the pan.
  • Repeat creating blue, green, yellow, orange, and red/pink.
  • Remove the rice krispie treats from the pan and begin to roll the purple row.
  • Continue rolling until you have created a long log.
  • Cut into 1 inch thick slices revealing all the colors.

Watch the VIDEO TUTORIAL to see this process in action.

Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels Video

NOTES:

  • I wore food handling gloves which I buttered well and nothing stuck to them. If you aren’t wearing gloves, butter your hands well.
  • I find it easiest to use my hands to mix the cereal into the marshmallow.
    • If you do that then be sure your hands are clean before mixing each color. You don’t want to blend the colors together.
    • If you wear gloves that are buttered nothing will stick!!!
  • If you want to see larger swirls of color, make your stripes going across the short side of your pan.This will also make much larger cereal treats.
  • You can melt two bowls of marshmallows in the microwave at a time. Heat them a bit longer, if needed.

It's so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and to make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration.

You can find items needed to make these Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales).

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Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels Recipe

It's so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and to make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration.
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Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheel Recipe
Prep Time
45 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Total Time
50 mins
 
Bright swirls of rainbow colored cereal treats.
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: pinwheels, rainbow rice krispies treat, rice krispies
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
  • 10 ounces mini marshmallows
  • 3 tablespoons butter, plus more to grease pan
  • 6 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
  • purple blue, green, yellow, orange and pink food coloring
Instructions
  1. Run a line of butter around the inside edges of a 12 x 18 inch baking pan.
  2. Set a piece of parchment or wax paper down on the pan then rub more butter over it.
  3. Set aside.
  4. Equally divide the marshmallows (a heaping cup of each) into 6 microwave safe bowls.
  5. Cut the butter into 1/2 tablespoon pieces and set one piece in each bowl of marshmallows.
  6. Heat each bowl on high power for 45-75 seconds until melted.
  7. Remove and stir.
  8. Repeat, melting all the marshmallows.
  9. Add purple coloring to one bowl and stir until well combined.
  10. Add one of each of the remaining colors to the remaining bowls of marshmallow.
  11. Stir 1 cup of Rice Krispies Cereal into each bowl.
  12. Scoop the purple cereal treat mixture out of the bowl and stretch it out over the long edge of the prepared pan.
  13. Flatten it into a 2 inch wide strip.
  14. Add a blue strip next to the purple one then add a green, then yellow, orange, and pink strip.
  15. Press the seams together so the colored strips are well sealed.
  16. Run a knife or plastic scraper around the edge of the pan loosening the cereal treat.
  17. Carefully flip the pan over allowing the rainbow rice krispie treat to fall out onto your work surface.
  18. Peel the paper off the treat.
  19. Begin rolling the treat along the long edge (either the purple or pink strip).
  20. Roll it, pinching together any cracks, until you have an 18 inch long log.
  21. Using a sharp knife, cut the roll into 12-18 slices and they are ready to serve.

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Will you make these Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels for Easter, St. Patrick’s Day or a birthday party? Let me know in the comments below.

See all of my Easter recipes, here and all my St. Patrick’s Day recipes, here.

Beth Jackson Klosterboer blogger, recipe developer, and chocolatier.

I love making fun food for parties and special occasions and sharing my creative ideas with you. If you make this recipe and share it online be sure to link back to this post and use #hungryhappenings.

Thanks and have a sweet day! – Beth

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You might also like these other fun Rice Krispie Treat recipes and food crafts.

Have some fun with Rice Krispies Treats by making them into pinwheels, rainbow treats, chicks, dolphins, and more. See all these Rice Krispie Treat Recipes at HungryHappenings.com.

Red & Green Rice Krispies Treat Pinwheels • Red, White & Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels
Cocoa Crispy Treat Peanut Butter Fudge Pinwheels • Rainbow Peeps Cereal Treats
Rice Krispie Treat Chicks • Rice Krispie Treat Dolphins
Rice Krispie Treat Coffee Mugs • Cocoa Krispies Treat Easter Bunnies

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About the Author, Beth Jackson Klosterboer

Beth is a professional chocolatier, recipe developer, event planner, and cookbook author who loves to make fun food.

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Comments

  1. Cindy

    April 8, 2019 at 11:37 pm

    If you made it the day before, would you leave it whole and wrap it, or go ahead and slice?

    Reply
    • Beth

      April 9, 2019 at 8:25 am

      I think either way would be fine as long as your store the treats in an airtight container. If you just plan to wrap it in Press ‘n Seal or Tin foil then leaving it whole would be best. Enjoy!

      Reply
  2. joyce s

    June 22, 2018 at 1:12 pm

    Super cool…I’m making these for my nieces unicorn birthday party! Thanks for the idea and recipe

    Reply
    • Beth

      June 22, 2018 at 1:27 pm

      I’m so happy to hear you are making these! I hope your niece thinks her special treat is magical. 🙂

      Reply
  3. The Partiologist

    April 13, 2017 at 6:43 pm

    I love how you rolled that rainbow into one adorable treat!

    Reply
    • Beth

      April 15, 2017 at 2:11 pm

      Thanks!!! I’m glad you like them.

      Reply

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