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Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars

June 27, 2014 This post may contain affiliate links.

Light up your 4th of July party with these tasty Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars! These treats are sure to make your party a blast.

This post is sponsored by Wilton.

Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars

As promised, today I will share with you my recipe to make these Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars. They looked really cool in my 4th of July Rice Krispie Treat Bowl, but really are a great dessert all on their own, as well.

Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars in a Rice Krispie Treat Bowl | HungryHappenings.com

When you first saw these treats, did you think I just colored the rice krispie treats with food coloring?I could have done that, but instead I chose to add Red, White and Blue Candy Melts to my recipe. By adding the candy coating, it gives the treats a creaminess and adds a wonderful flavor. The also hold together really well and are easy to mold into shapes.

Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars | HungryHappenings.com

To get such a nice star shape for my treats, I made them using a Wilton Silicone Star Mold.One recipe makes 12 stars, and aside from the few bites I just had to take while making them, there aren’t any scraps like there would be had I made a tray of treats and cut them using a cookie cutter, which is great when I’m trying to make a lot of treats for a party.

I don’t mind snacking on scraps, but I want to get as many treats out of a recipe as I can.

 

4th of July Desserts - Rice Krispie Treat Stars

Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars (makes 12)

Ingredients:

3 tablespoons butter, plus extra to grease molds
10 ounces miniature marshmallows
3 ounces Wilton Red Candy Melts
3 ounces Wilton Marshmallow or Bright White Candy Melts
3 ounces Wilton Blue Candy Melts
6 cups Rice Krispies cereal

White Chocolate Rice Krispie Treats Ingredients

Supplies Needed:

2 Wilton Silicone Star Molds
food handling gloves (highly recommended)

Instructions:

If you are looking to use homemade Rice Krispie Treats,  head on over to my new website, HowToMakeRiceKrispies.com. 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 works great with the Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars as all you have to do is use the recipe attached to the link and add the candy melts to it! Give it a try and let me know how it goes.

Grease the inside of each star using butter.

making red rice krispies treats

In one bowl heat 1 tablespoon butter, 1/3 of the marshmallows (a little less than 2 cups,) and 3 ounces Red Candy Melts (about 40 wafers) in the microwave on high power for 30 seconds. Stir. Continue to heat for 15 second bursts, stirring after each, until melted. Stir in 2 cups Rice Krispies cereal.

Red, white, and blue star rice krispies treat recipe

Either butter your fingers or put on a pair of food handling gloves and butter them. Equally divide the red cereal mixture among the 12 star cavities. Press the mixture into an even layer in the molds.

Repeat the entire process, using white candy melts for the next layer then blue candy melts for the final layer.

Once you have all the cereal treat in the molds, press firmly to compact the mixture. Then set a baking sheet over the mold, and holding both the pan and mold, flip it all upside down. Use your fingers to pinch and smooth out the stars. They will have bulged out of shape and you need to press them back into nice points.

How to make rice krispie treat stars in a silicone mold

Allow the rice krispie treat stars to harden at room temperature for an hour. Then turn the mold upside down and press on the back of the mold, allowing the stars to fall out of the mold.

4th of July Rice Krispies

Serve in a really cool edible rice krispie treat bowl. You’ll need several dozen stars to fill the entire bowl, but you can mix in some traditional rice krispies treat squares too. I thought that looked really nice in my bowl.

 

More 4th of July Star Shaped Treats

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White Chocolate Fudge Stars

 

4th of July Dessert Ideas

Red, White, and Blue Striped Creamy Coconut Stars

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Summer Desserts

Peanut Butter Fudge Starfish on a Rice Krispies Treat Beach

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If you’re looking for other 4th of July Recipes, click the link and explore all my other Independence Day inspired food.

Make fun 4th of July recipes for your party or picnic. These red, white and blue desserts and appetizers will make your guests

Filed Under: 4th of July Recipes Tagged With: dessert, Rice-Crispy-Treats, Rice-Krispies-Treats

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Comments

  1. Jennifer Johnson

    July 2, 2014 at 10:22 pm

    How fun! I never would have thought to use melts for the color!

    Reply
  2. Judy Whatilivefor

    July 2, 2014 at 3:02 pm

    They look so yummy! I never would have thought to use a silicone mold for rice crispy treats…but they turned out super cute!

    Reply
  3. Jen Nikolaus

    July 2, 2014 at 3:32 am

    These are just too cute!! My boys would love these – thanks for sharing! Pinned!

    Reply
  4. The Partiologist

    June 27, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    I love your sweet treat stars with the added candy melt color – and of course they look perfect in that edible bowl!

    Reply

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