Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats

Pumpkin rice crispy treats are perfect treat for Halloween, Thanksgiving, or really anytime around the fall or autumn.

How to Make Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats

Making Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats is really easy. All you need to do is know how to make Cookie Cutter Rice Krispie Treats and Colored Rice Krispie Treats.

But if you’ve ever made any of our Dinosaur, Unicorn, or Baby Shark Rice Krispie Treats or our Red, Blue, Green, and Yellow Rice Krispie Treats, you will do just fine.

For supplies, you’re going to need an 8 x 8 baking pan, orange food coloring, a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter, green icing, and an optional tube of black decorating gel, if you want to make Jack-o-lanterns. 

You can use a 9 x 13 baking pan if you want to make a full batch as opposed to the 8 x 8 half batch we’ll make today.

Step One

We start this recipe by adding some butter into a large stock pot. Turn your stovetop heat to medium and let the butter melt.

Once your butter has mostly melted, you can add in a full 16 ounce bag of Jet Puff Marshmallows. Use a spatula to stir the marshmallows into the butter until everything is completely melted.

If you want to do this part a little bit faster, you can follow the steps in our microwave Rice Krispies Treats recipe.

Take out your orange food coloring and add it to the melted marshmallow and butter mix. Again, using your spatula, stir everything until it is a bright orange color. Feel free to add as much food coloring as you need.

Step Two

Once your marshmallow mix is the color you want it to be, reduce your heat and pull out your Rice Krispies cereal.

Dump 3 measured cups of Rice Krispies into the Orange Marshmallow Mix. Stir this together with your spatula until everything is combined.

You may need to add more food coloring to the Rice Krispies cereal to get them to the color you desire.

Step Three

Take out your 8 x 8 Baking Pan and your canola oil cooking spray. Coat the bottom and inside walls of the pan completely with the spray. You don’t have to use canola oil, we just prefer that but any flavorless baking spray will do.

Empty the contents of your large stock pot into the bottom of the baking pan. Use the spatula and smash the mixture until it is completely flat inside the pan.

Now set your treats to the side for about 20 to 30 minutes and allow them to cool. You can put them in the refrigerator or freezer to speed up the cooling process if you like.

Step Four

Once everything has cooled, you can pull out your pan and your pumpkin shaped cookie cutter. 

Place your cookie cutter where you would like to make a pumpkin shape and firmly press down into the Rice Krispie Treats. You may need a knife to cut around the edges of the cookie cutter. Sometimes the Rice Krispie Treats are thicker than the cookie cutter.

Once you have cut out all your pumpkins, set them to the side.

Pro tip: Since the Rice Krispie Treats are so sticky, you can take some of the excess stuff that’s not part of the pumpkin shape, smush it together, and sometimes get another pumpkin shape out of them.

Step Five

Now it’s time to decorate!

Decorating your pumpkin shape is pretty easy. All you really need to do is take your green icing and play put it on the cut out stem. You can put a small strip at the bottom of the stem to make it connect to the pumpkin if you like. Do this for all of your pumpkin shapes until you’re done.

If you are making these for Halloween, you can now take out your black decorative writing gel and make Jack-o-lantern faces on each of your pumpkins. Remember, the most important thing is to get creative and have fun.

That’s all there is to this easy Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats recipe!

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