Holiday Wreath Rice Krispie Treats

Tis the season for snacking! Holiday wreaths are pretty but Holiday Wreath Rice Krispie Treats are delicious.

How to Make Holiday Wreath Rice Krispie Treats

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The holidays bring an opportunity for gatherings with friends and family. No doubt at these gatherings people are going to get hungry and want something to munch on.

When people start asking about the snacks, just point to all of your decorations. That’s right! Your Santa, Santa Hat, Christmas stocking, and Christmas Wreath Rice Krispie Treat decorations are all edible.

The best part is if everybody eats the decorations, there’s no cleanup!
This recipe is really easy to make and it’s really about being creative.  You will first need to know how to make our Green Rice Krispie Treats. 

You’ll also need a round cookie cutters. Or you’ll need to learn how to form shapes with your hands like we did with Flower Rice Krispie Treats.

Let’s get to the recipe!

Step One

Start by taking 3 tablespoons of butter and melting them in a large stock pot. We usually set our heat to medium. It should only take a couple of minutes for the butter to almost completely melt.

Once your butter is mostly melted, add in a full 16 ounce bag of Jet Puff Marshmallows. Stir with a spatula until the marshmallows and butter are completely melted together.

You can speed this initial section up by following our Microwave Rice Krispie Treats directions. Making them this way will save a little bit of time off the whole project.

Once everything is melted and mixed together, take out your green food coloring. Squirt the food coloring into the melted marshmallows and stir. You will want to continue to add food coloring until you have the color that you want.

When your marshmallows are the right color, reduce your heat to low or medium low. This keeps the marshmallows from overcooking and becoming too brittle to stir.

Step Two

Take out your Rice Krispies cereal. Dump 6 measured cups of Rice Krispies into the green melted marshmallow mix. Stir with your spatula until everything is mixed together.

Step Three

Spray the bottom and inside walls of a 9 x 13 baking pan with canola oil or any other flavorless baking spray.  Scoop the contents of your large stock pot into the bottom of the pan.

Use your spatula to smash the Rice Krispie Treats Mix into the bottom of the pan. Do this until it is completely flat and even. Now set aside and allow to cool.

Step Four

There are two ways you can do this next section. If you have two round cookie cutters, one larger and one smaller, you can use those to cut a wreath with a hole in it. Simply cut out one large circle and then using the smaller cookie cutter, cut out a smaller circle within the large circle.

If you do not have cookie cutters, you can use a knife and cut them into 2 inch thin strips. Once you have cut the entire pan into long thin strips, you simply hand form the strips into circles or wreath shapes.

Either method works. You choose whichever one works best for you. Now we move on to the best part; Decorating!

Step Five

We were able to pick up some green and red holiday sprinkles at the store. You can probably find some locally to you. We also saw some gold and silver holiday sprinkles.

In addition to sprinkles, we also used red decorating gel. Plain red decorative icing would work just as well.

With your wreaths laid out and ready to be decorated, sprinkle your sprinkles across them. Once you’re happy with the amount of sprinkles, get out your red icing or decorative gel. 

Using the plain open decorating tip, we created small balls across the bottom of the Christmas wreath.  This is to imitate the look of holly berries.
Alternate red and green and gold and silver sprinkles between wreaths until you’re finished.

Let us know how this project went for you in the comments below or take a picture and tag us on Instagram.

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