Kix Cereal Treats Recipe

Kix cereal treats are bursting with marshmallow sweetness and crunchy corn puffs. These dessert bars are perfect for afternoon snacking, desserts in a lunch, or even parties.

What are Kix cereal treats?

Kix cereal treats are a combination of marshmallows, butter and Kix cereal. These no bake dessert bars take only three ingredients and around 10 or 15 minutes to get them ready.

Kix cereal are sweetened whole grain corn pieces. They are shaped like little yellow puffs.

Like many other cereal treats such as Cocoa Puffs cereal treats, corn pops cereal treats and Cheerio cereal treats fees are made very similarly to the original Rice Krispie treat recipe.

Variations

Kix has a fantastic flavor on its own as the original flavor. However, if you're looking to mix things up a little here are a few ideas:

• Use honey Kix: Honey Kix are much like regular kix except they have an additional honey flavor added in.
• Use very berry Kix: these Kix are the same shape as regular Kix, but they have a very flavor instead of a corn flavor.
• Add a chocolate drizzle: everything's better with chocolate. Melt down some chocolate chips and add a drizzle on top of your Kix cereal bars.

How to Make these treats

These treats are super easy to make. You don't have to be great baker or cook to end up with the perfect cereal treats.

Supplies

• spatula
• large stock pot or Microwave Safe Bowl
• Measuring Cup
• 9 x 13 baking pan

Ingredients

• 7 Cups Kix Cereal
• 16 oz of Jet Puff Marshmallows
• 4 Tbs Salted Butter
• (optional) non-stick canola oil spray

Instructions

Step One

As you get started make sure you have your Kix cereal, butter, marshmallows, spatula, pan, microwave safe bowl or pot. You also need to make sure that you pre grease everything that will touch your marshmallow mixture.

To greas everything you can use butter or you can use non-stick cooking spray. The non-stick cooking spray is faster and tends to create a more consistent layer. But, the butter tends to taste a little better.

Step Two

Next, you'll need to melt your marshmallows and your butter together. To do this, you can use the microwave or the stove top.

Melting on the stove:

• Take your pot and add four tablespoons of butter to it.
• Place your pot on a burner at low heat.
• Start occasionally until your butter is almost fully melted.
• Take your marshmallows and add 16 oz to your melted butter.
• Leave the burner at low heat and stir frequently.
• Remove the pot from the heat once the marshmallows are almost completely melted and give another couple stirs.
• This process usually takes around 8 minutes or so.

Melting in the microwave:

• Take your microwave safe bowl and add four tablespoons of butter and 16 oz of marshmallows to it.
• Place your bowl with butter and marshmallows in the microwave.
• Heat for 30 to 60 seconds.
• Stir everything together well.
• Heat again for 30 seconds and stir again.
• Repeat heating and stirring until marshmallows are melted.
• This method takes just a few minutes.

Step Three

Measure out 7 cups of kix cereal. Slowly add ⅓ of your cereal to your butter and marshmallow mixture.

Fold your cereal and marshmallows together and then add more cereal. Continue this until you've added all of your cereal and thoroughly mixed everything together.

note: regular Rice Krispie treats use 6 cups of cereal. These treat bars call for an additional cup due to the fact that the serial pieces are much larger than rice krispies. Note that some brands of marshmallows are stickier than others and you may need to add a little less or a little more cereal to get the perfect consistency.

Step Four

Take your pre-greased pan in your pre-greased spatula and move your marshmallow and mixture from your bowl into your pan. Gently press the mixture down until it is an even thickness throughout the entire pan.

Step Five

Set your treatment aside until it is cold. This takes around 30 minutes. Or, you can place it in the fridge or freezer for a few minutes to help expedite the process.

Once your treats have cooled down, grease a knife, and cut them into 16 even bars.

Storage and tips

• Storing your treats: treats can last for upwards of five days give or take a few days. As long as they are stored properly and airtight containers at room temperature. If they won't be eaten by this time, place them in freezer bags and freeze them.
• Don't press too hard: when stirring your cereal and when putting it into your pan make sure you don't press too hard. Pressing too hard can crunch the cereal and cause your treats to be too compact and less chewy.
• Don't heat too much: if you overheat your marshmallows the sugar will crystallize creating stiff marshmallows which results in hard crunchy treats. Make sure you keep them only long enough to melt and use only enough heat to melt them not more.