Party Treat: Mini-Sized Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats

Rice krispie treats are just about the easiest treat you can make, and inspired by this post at 101 Cookbooks we decided to make a whole mess of them for a big event earlier this week, and to make them in individual portions.

We used the official peanut butter rice Krispies treat recipe from Kellogg's:

• Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treats

While the mixture was still warm we scooped out tablespoons and molded them quickly into little balls and dropped them into soufflé cups that were lightly sprayed with baking spray. (That probably wasn't necessary; there is plenty of grease in the treats themselves, and none of them stuck to the cups at all.) Then we drizzled with chocolate and presto! Cute little treats.

Of course, scooping them into individual sizes took quite a bit more time than patting them into pans. But we didn't have to spend the time cutting them up, and they looked awfully cute.

Plus they are just much easier to serve. Our guests grabbed these little cups easily off big platters; it made for much neater serving, with no paper plates necessary. They would also make nice small sweet treats for a lunchbox.

(Images: Faith Durand)

Ok, yes those little cups are cute here, but they do not seem to be really necessary: this type of treat seems to be able to hold together on its own and doesn't really need the paper cup other than for cute-factor. You can roll these little treats into balls and present them on a nice platter once the chocolate drizzle has solidified. All those little cups are just going to get thrown out - wasteful!

posted by kittystockings on September 17th 2009 at 12:14pm
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I agree that this is really wasteful. They also look too much like what a hospital or public school would use to dole out treats or pills. It might make more sense if the food inside actually required a cup to hold it.

posted by asinner on September 17th 2009 at 1:36pm
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I make my Rice Krispies Treats with Fluff instead of marshmallows. I prefer both the texture and flavor - it's smoother and less chewy, more gooey. Freaking love.

Now, let's see if I can add the peanut butter element into them...

posted by GStelz on September 17th 2009 at 2:47pm
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I understand what you guys are saying about waste, but when I made these I wasn't sure how well they were going to hold together, and thought they might indeed need to be in a cup.

Also, when you are serving a crowd of 100, there is always a tradeoff between disposables, practicality, and convenience. We dispensed with paper plates and pretty much with napkins, in favor of snacks in little cups. These worked well for such a big group, and I feel that it was more sanitary, too, for people to grab a cup off a tray. But to each his own!

posted by faith on September 17th 2009 at 3:01pm
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Ixnay on the cups altogether -- we don't need to add more waste to our landfills!! I really don't see the point in making such tiny rice treats anyway...people are just going to inhale them anyway, whether they are cute and bite-sized or cut into massive slabs (the way that I like them). If hostesses are insistent on making them so cute and dainty, then I got a cool green tip on Greenwala that I'll share. Make edible mini cupcake "tins" by melting and spreading a heavy layer of chocolate on the inside of flexible mini muffin pans. Let the cool and VOILA -- cute, green, yummmmmy complementary "tins" with no landfill future.

posted by lindalucille on September 17th 2009 at 4:28pm
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Admittedly, I wasn't thinking of waste when I saw that picture. All I thought was "OMG MINI SCOTCHAROOS!"

posted by Megan R. on September 17th 2009 at 5:19pm
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