"Egg" Decorating My Way

This year for Easter I knew we weren't going to boil and decorate eggs. Why? The kids and I are just not fans of hard boiled eggs. I still wanted to do something fun and creative for Easter though so I decided to make Rice Krispie treats and we would cut them out and decorate them.

I made 2 batches of bars one was the standard recipe the other was a chocolate recipe. Then I made a small batch of butter cream frosting.
 

I got the cookie cutters ready and we were set to go!






The boys were anxious to start decorating. It was harder than I thought it would be to use the cookie cutters to cut out the 2 shapes that we picked. I'm still trying to figure out a way to make it easier next time. Thankfully the boys were patient while I got the cutouts done. Once I got the shapes all cut out, we were ready to decorate. I grabbed the box of sprinkles (there's a crazy mish/mash of decorations in there, after holiday clearance deals, you get the idea,) the bag of Easter M&M's I bought and of course, the frosting.

Here is how they turned out:

We started off doing them all the same, then we went with free form whatever...

The chocolate ones, I love how the colors pop on these.

The rest. That ugly thing on the left is the scraps. R2 had the idea that we should make a Rice Krispie sandwich, it tasted pretty good!

Ratings:

Mom - A+
Rice Krispie Bars + frosting and M&M's, how can you go wrong?

R2 - A+
SOOOOOO good! And I helped.

Hank - A+
YUM! We did a good job!

Without further ado, here is the new recipe: 

(the others can be found here.)

Coca Krispies Treats (modified from the original Kellogg's recipe)
 

Ingredients

1/2 stick of butter
1 (10 oz., about 40) pkg. marshmallows or 4 cups miniature marshmallows (Use regular or chocolate flavored - or a mix of the two)
6 cups Coca Krispies (or whatever generic brand you like)

Directions

Grease 9 x 13 cake pan with butter.

In a large saucepan, melt butter over low heat. Add the marshmallows and continue to stir until the marshmallows have completely melted. Remove from heat. Add Vanilla.

Stir in the Coca Krispies cereal coating them well with the melted marshmallow mixture.

Using a buttered or silicone spatula, press the mixture evenly into the pan.

Let the bars cool.
 

Enjoy!