I got picked to host Kellogg’s Rice Krispies Halloween House Party. I was thrilled! They sent me a party pack with boxes of Rice Krispies, a mixing bowl, a child's size chef hat, and thirteen "bowl scrapers". At first I was dubious, but by the end of multiple batches of treats, I was completely in love with my bowl scraper! I bought a special brownie bunt pan to make pumpkins similar to these.
I used the original treat recipe and added red and yellow food coloring. Than I used my handy bowl scraper to press them into the cups of the greased pan. No need to refrigerate or anything. You just pop them out and smoosh the halves together.
Once you have nice round pumpkin, add tootsie roll stems. My bundt pan left an indentation on the top for them. Next we cut green gumdrop leaves and added chocolate chip eyes. We used black icing to finish their cute little faces. I have to say they were the biggest hit of the party, for sure.
In addition to pumpkins, I did devil heads. I ran out of yellow so I just pressed red treats into my pan. Then I elongated them by hand. I cut tootsie rolls on a diagonal and then rolled them into horn shapes. I'm sure this technique would work great for reindeer antlers too. I used mini M&Ms for eyes. Then I drew a line of black icing for the mouth. In a stroke of genius, I broke the white tips off candy corn to make perfect fangs. I was very proud of them.
The simplest of our creations were the bats. We just pressed this batch into a square pan without any food coloring. Then we put the large square of treat on foil and used my bat cookie cutter to press the shape. Don't forget to grease your pan and cookie cutter. For decoration I only added red icing eyes. They were the first to disappear.
I added extra marshmallow to one batch as well as red and blue food coloring. Mike sculpted it into the telltale heart. Super creepy. We used flavored tootsie rolls for arteries. Thump, thump...thump, thump...
During the party some mad scientists cooked up this lovely masterpiece of a Frankenstein bust too. Hand sculpted, by my talented new brother-in-law. It's green food coloring for skin tone. Rolled out tootsie roll hair, flattened vanilla tootsie rolls with icing pupils for eyes, marshmallow neck bolts and a gumdrop mouth. It's Alive!! Good thing there was no lightening that night.
I also had a decorate your own monster face station for the kiddos. In hindsight perhaps it would have been more appealing with multiple color face options. The kids had fun with it though.
I'm so excited to make some pretty Christmas treats now!
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