Celebrate the holiday season with some festive Red and Green Rice Krispies®  Treat Christmas Pinwheels. Layers of colorful marshmallow cereal treats are rolled up and cut to reveal pretty swirls of holiday color.

Don’t you just love freshly made Kellogg’s® Rice Krispies® Treats? I can’t resist them.

They are so quick and easy to make and you can add so many flavors and colors to them that they are perfect for any holiday or special occasion.

For Christmas, I decided it would be fun to swirl layers of red and green marshmallow cereal treats together to create these festive pinwheels.

To get the layers vibrantly colored I added red and green candy melts and some food coloring to the traditional Rice Krispies® Treat recipe.

The candy melts add a wonderful vanilla flavor and they also add a bit of structure so that the treats hold their shape once rolled and cut into slices.

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Be sure to watch the video to see the step-by-step process of making these Christmas rice krispie treats.

• Before you begin making your cereal treats, you’ll need to prepare a pan.
• Line a 9 inch by 13-inch pan with parchment paper, then brush the parchment paper liberally with softened butter.
• Pour the cereal mixture out onto your pan and press it into a thin even layer.
• Make sure you fill the bottom of the pan completely.

• Next, make the green marshmallow mixture adding green food coloring.
• Stir in the cereal and pour it out on top of the red layer in the pan.
• Press down to compact the layers.
• Turn the pan upside down and allow the Rice Krispies® Treat to fall out onto either a silicone mat or another butter coated piece of parchment paper.
• Peel off the paper and carefully flip the treat upside down.
• Roll over the treat with a rolling pin, flattening it and spreading it out about an inch both ways.
• Begin rolling at the short end, pinching together any spots of cereal that pull apart until the entire treat it rolled up.

• Cut into 12 thick slices or 18 thinner slices and they are ready to serve.
• Store your cereal treat pinwheels in an airtight container for up to 10 days.

You can find lots more delicious cereal treat recipes at my new website, HowToMakeCerealTreats.com.

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Red and Green Rice Krispies® Treat Christmas Pinwheels

Prep Time

30 mins

Cook Time

3 mins

Total Time

33 mins

 

Rice Krispies® Treats colored red and green are swirled together to make pretty Christmas pinwheels.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: christmas rice krispie treats, pinwheels, rice krispie treat

Servings: 12 slices

Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer

Ingredients

Prep Pan & Hands

• 1 tablespoon softened butter

Red Rice Krispies® Treat Layer

• 5 ounces marshmallows
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup (3 ounces) red candy melts wafers
• red food coloring
• 3 cups Kellogg’s® Rice Krispies® cereal

Green Rice Krispies® Treat Layer

• 5 ounces marshmallows
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup (3 ounces) green candy melts wafers
• 3 cups Kellogg’s® Rice Krispies® cereal
• green food coloring

Instructions

Red Layer:

1. Brush a thin layer of the softened butter over a parchment-paper-lined 9-inch by 13-inch pan.

2. Pour marshmallows, butter, and red candy melts into a microwave-safe bowl.

3. Heat on high power for three 30 second bursts of power, stirring after each until melted.

4. Stir in some red food coloring so that the marshmallow mixture becomes vibrantly red.

5. Stir in the cereal.

6. Pour out onto the prepared pan.
7. Grease your hands with butter then press the cereal mixture into an even layer in the pan.

Green Layer:

1. Pour marshmallows, butter, and green candy melts into a microwave-safe bowl.

2. Heat on high power for three 30 second bursts of power, stirring after each until melted.

3. Stir in some green food coloring so that the marshmallows mixture becomes vibrantly green.

4. Stir in the cereal.

5. Use greased hands to press the green cereal into an even layer over top of the red cereal layer.

6. Turn the pan upside down and allow the cereal treat to fall out onto a silicone mat or a buttered piece of parchment paper.

7. Starting at one of the shorter ends, roll the cereal treat up into a log, pinching together any gaps in the cereal treat.

8. Freeze for 5-10 minutes just until the cereal treat has cooled.

9. Cut into 12-18 slices.

Recipe Notes

Store in an airtight container set at room temperature for up to 10 days. 

This recipe was originally published on December 13, 2016.

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