Peanut Butter Rice Treats
A variant of Rice Krispie Treats — An ingredient branch from the authored reference, with its selected additions included in the quantities and method.
Contains dairy, peanut · sometimes contains gluten, soy — check the label
Restrictions
Containsdairy · peanutIt is in an ingredient you cannot leave out.
Sometimes contains — check the labelgluten (cereal crisped rice) · soy (chocolate dark)Some brands have it, some do not. The recipe cannot tell, so this is the one you check yourself.
Diets
No porkNo alcohol · check
Worked out from the ingredient list. It knows nothing about brands, shared equipment or cross contamination, and it is not a certification — if you have an allergy, you still have to read the label.
Ingredients
Servings:
| 2 cup | crisped rice cereal |
| 2 cup | mini marshmallows |
| 1 tbsp | butter (unsalted) |
| 1 pinch | salt |
| ¼ tsp | vanilla (extract) |
| 1 tbsp | peanut butter |
Optional
Not counted above. The dish works without them.
| ⅓ cup | mini marshmallows (reserved, folded in whole) |
| 1 oz | dark chocolate (melted, drizzled) |
Steps
- prep2 minbutter an 8x8 pan or a loaf pan and set it next to the stove — once the cereal goes in you have well under a minute of working time, so nothing can be fetched later
- cook2 minlow heatbutter, melted just until it stops foaming; keep the flame low from here to the end, because marshmallow is sugar held soft by trapped water and any real heat drives that water off and sets the whole batch hard as candy
- cook4 minlow heat, stirring constantly+ marshmallows + salt, stirring until the mass is glossy and pourable with maybe a few lumps left — pull it the instant it looks smooth, since past that it turns dull and grainy and the treats crack rather than tear
- fold1 minoff heatOff the heat, stir the listed peanut butter into the melted marshmallow until smooth. Add vanilla and crisped rice cereal, folding from the bottom until every grain is coated and no dry pockets remain.
- prep2 minscrape into the pan and press level with buttered parchment or damp hands, using only enough pressure to close the gaps — compacting it hard collapses the air between the grains and gives you a dense brick instead of something that snaps
- rest30 minroom temperature, uncovereduntil set enough to lift and cut into squares; do not chill, because the fridge both firms the sugar past chewy and pulls moisture into the cereal, so a cold treat is simultaneously hard and soggy