rice krispie pops

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Well we kind of fell off the globe for a while there, but I think we're back. At least mostly back. We have had a bit of a wild ride the last few weeks but I think we're going to make it. I very foolishly thought that I could get enough posts up and ready to go before My Angel's surgery to get me through Christmas, I LOVE the 'schedule' feature that blogger has added and thought I could make good use of it. That ended up not happening so much... I was worried that if I stopped I wouldn't get myself going again because I seem to have a problem with motivation sometimes (right now), and right now, this is the best thing in the world for me. :o)

We haven't had a lot of time (or energy) for fun, but we did have some fun family time with my sister this week. They came to stay for a couple of days and my cute nephew wanted to make cake ball 'eyeballs' on a stick like we did at Halloween. My energy level being what it is right now made me process it as 'make cake, bake cake, cool cake, make balls, freeze balls, coat balls, decorate balls, set balls = I get tired just thinking about it' so I said, "How about Rice Krispie Treats? :o)" He was cool with that, and we even put them on a stick.  As we started making them I had to laugh because this is the state we are in.  We didn't have enough Rice Krispies and no regular marshmallows.  So we used the chocolate marshmallows left over from the cocoa at the Christmas late night parties, and used half Rice Krispies and half Cocoa Pebbles.  I actually think this was a fabulous discovery.  They were pretty yum.  I followed the regular Kellog's Rice Krispie Treat recipe (here), put them in an 8 x 8 pan instead of the 9 x 13 to set so they would be thicker to put on the sucker sticks and then cut them into rectangles.  We melted some chocolate and dipped the end of the stick in it before inserting it into the end of the rectangle to help hold it in. Then we dipped the bottoms in the chocolate, and my nephew sprinkled the sprinkles all over it and we put it in the fridge for a bit to harden up the chocolate.

                                            Fun. Easy. Yum.

Enjoy!