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Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels

July 1, 2016 This post may contain affiliate links.

Celebrate the 4th of July with some festive Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels. Layers of colorful marshmallow cereal treats are rolled up and cut to reveal patriotic swirls of color.

Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels

4th of July Rice Krispie Treats

How do you celebrate the 4th of July?

For years we had big outdoor picnics with friends and family on the holiday, but as the summer temperatures have soared over the years, we’ve retreated indoors. No one in my family is all that happy about being outside when it’s super hot, especially me.

When I make desserts for our Fourth of July parties, I don’t even want to turn on the oven. When it’s 90+ degrees outside, I opt to make no-bake desserts for our parties like these Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels.

Celebrate the 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, or Labor Day with these festive Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels.

Aren’t they fun?

These cereal treat lollipops do require a little bit more work than making a pan of the cereal treat bars, but your party guests will be “oohing and ahhing” before the fireworks start once they see these on the dessert table.

You start by making a simple rice Krispie treat recipe, adding some candy melts to make each layer of this red, white, and blue dessert really vibrant.

Celebrate the 4th of July, Memorial Day, Veterans Day, or Labor Day with these festive Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels.

Not only will the red, white, and blue candy melts add color, but they will also add some structure to your cereal treats and will impart a nice sweet vanilla flavor as well.

If you make the marshmallow cereal treats into lollipops, the candy melts will also help keep the pinwheels in their nice round shape.

How to make red, white and blue rice crispy treats.

How to make Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treats

  • Before you begin making your rice krispie treats, you’ll need to prepare a pan.
    • You can use a traditional 9X13 inch baking pan, or use a ¼ sheet pan, which is close in size to a 9X13 pan.
    • Line the pan with parchment paper, then brush the parchment paper liberally with softened butter.
  • Once your pan is ready, you’ll want to make the red rice krispie treat layer. Head on over to my new website, HowToMakeRiceKrispies.com, there are a ton of great ideas to try. 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 recipe would be perfect for these yummy Pinwheels.
    • You can use the stovetop method or the microwave method to melt the butter, marshmallows, and candy melts.
    • I wanted my colors to be really vibrant, so I added a few drops of red food coloring. You can use candy coloring, icing coloring, or even the grocery store variety of liquid food coloring. I used Wilton’s Color Right Red coloring, so my treats are really bright red.
  • Once you get the marshmallow mixture the color you want, stir in the cereal.
  • 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.

How to make red, white and blue rice crispy treats.

  • Then make your white rice krispie treat mixture and spread it on top of the red layer, adding white icing coloring.
  • Press it down so that it completely covers the red layer.

How to make red, white and blue rice crispy treats.

  • Finally, add a layer of the blue cereal treat. Press down to compact the layers.
  • Flip the treat out onto a silicone mat or another butter coated piece of parchment paper.
  • 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 slices and they are ready to serve. Quick and easy!

Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheel Lollipops

Lollipops

  • Dip just the tip of a long lollipop stick into some melted white Candy Melts and insert it into the pinwheel.
    • You can also slide a paper straw over top of the lollipop stick to make them more festive. Just be sure you have some candy melts on the lollipop stick so that the straw sticks in place.
  • Let the candy harden before picking up the lollipops.

Red, White, and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels cut into slices with some on lollipop sticks.

Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Pinwheels

You can find the items needed to make these fourth of July rice krispie treats on Amazon.com (commission earned for sales)

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Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
5 mins
Total Time
20 mins
 

These layers of red, white and blue marshmallow cereal bars swirled into pinwheels are the perfect 4th of July treat. It's so simple to make and everyone will love a good Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheel!

Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: 4th of July, dessert, pinwheel, red white and blue, rice krispies
Servings: 12
Author: Beth Jackson Klosterboer
Ingredients
Red Rice Krispie Treat Layer
  • 5 ounces marshmallows
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 ounces Red Candy Melts
  • red food coloring
  • 3 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
White Rice Krispie Treat Layer
  • 5 ounces marshmallows
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 ounces White Candy Melts
  • 3 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
  • white food coloring
Blue Rice Krispie Treat Layer
  • 5 ounces marshmallows
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 ounces Blue Candy Melts
  • 3 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
  • blue food coloring
Instructions
  1. Line a 9x13 baking pan with a well-buttered piece of parchment or wax paper.

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

  3. Heat on high power for 30 second increments, stirring after each, until melted and smooth.

  4. Stir in red food coloring until the marshmallows are vibrant red.
  5. Pour in cereal and mix until well combined.
  6. Spread into an even layer in pan.
  7. Repeat the process above using white candy melts and white food coloring.
  8. Spread the white cereal layer over the red layer.
  9. Repeat using blue candy melts and blue coloring.
  10. Spread the blue layer over the white layer.
  11. Press down on the blue layer to compact all three layers.
  12. Remove from pan and set on a silicone mat or buttered parchment paper.
  13. Use a rolling pin to compress the cereal, spreading it out about an inch all around the rectangle.
  14. Roll up into a pinwheel from the short side.
  15. Cut into 12 slices.

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

Make festive Red, White and Blue Food for your 4th of July, Memorial Day, Labor Day, or Veteran's Day parties. See the recipes and tutorials at HungryHappenings.com.

American Flag Pretzels • Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Stars
Red, White and Blue Tie Die Cake • Uncle Sam Hat Fruit Pizza
Red, White and Blue Fudge Stars • Red, White and Blue Cheesecake
Red, White and Blue S’mores Magic Bars • Red, White and Blue Cupcakes in Wine Glasses

 

If you recreate these Red, White and Blue Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels
be sure to link to this tutorial and send a picture to beth@hungryhappenings.com,
so I can  share it in my Readers’ Gallery.

Filed Under: 4th of July Recipes, Kid's Treats Tagged With: rice krispie treat pinwheels, Rice-Crispy-Treats

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Comments

  1. Karen @ Sugartown Sweets

    July 12, 2016 at 2:06 pm

    Wow..your pinwheel treats look as amazing as your trip sounds! I have never been to Colorado but it is on my travel bucket list. With all those activities, I can see why you were exhausted at the end of the day. 🙂

    Reply
    • Beth

      July 13, 2016 at 10:46 am

      Thanks, Karen. I would definitely travel to Colorado if you get a change. It was a great trip.

      Reply
  2. GLORIA

    July 17, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    Definitely not easy. Missed having them for the 4th. Layers would not stick together. Maybe chill between rolling layers?. Taste is a little sweeter than original krispie treats.

    Reply
    • Beth

      July 19, 2017 at 4:22 pm

      Sorry to hear you had trouble. The candy melts definitely add a layer of flavor to the krispie treats and they make them a bit more firm but the layers should stick together if you used 2 ounces. I measured out the Candy Melts using a scale. If you by chance added more than 2 ounces the treat layers might have gotten too dry. I just weighed some out and found that there are 12 Candy Melts per ounce so you’d need 24 for this recipe. I just added that to the recipe above. I hope you give it a try again and that it works out better. 🙂

      Reply
      • Katie

        May 19, 2019 at 7:02 pm

        Glad I saw this comment. I was confused as to if I need 2 groups of 24 wafers or if 2 oz= 24 wafers.

        Also Would just using food coloring not work? Like omitting the candy melts? I feel like the candy melts make it too sweet and dryer as well.
        Thanks!

        Reply
        • Beth

          May 20, 2019 at 7:50 am

          Sorry about the confusion. When my recipes got transferred from one recipe card to another, some of the parenthesis got lost. And, actually this is really good timing on this question. Wilton recently changed their Candy Melts and they are now smaller than they used to be. There were approximately 42 wafers in 2 ounces now so it is best if you weigh them just to be sure. I went ahead and removed the notation about the 24 wafers from the recipe and just left it at 2 ounces just in case the size changes again.

          The candy melts add a nice vanilla flavor and help to hold the pinwheels together. They make the treats sturdier.

          Reply

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