Category: Snacks
PB Marshmallow Squares
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Finally!… Strangely…
Is Strangely even a word? My instinct is to type it Strangle-y but that might be just because it’s summer and the kids are out!
CHEX! Yes. I have been hearing on the chatter that CHEX is and has been Gluten free for years and, like Duncan Hines, ONLY available in the states. You can IMAGINE my inner ( maybe outter) SQUEE when I walked into a store and, there it was! Gleaming like a Golden Saint from a Catholic Dias. I swear I heard the Heavenly Host!
I GRABBED up two boxes of each before I even looked at the prices… before I even thought to pull out my camera and slam it up on facebook! I did correct that though, on the fly!
What makes this a strange find? The Location! It wasn’t a health food store, a Safeway or Grocery ( by their true definition) . No, it was ( don’t think less of me) Walmart! in WILLIAM’S LAKE?!
Regardless, I bought it. Paid the approx $5 a piece for 4 boxes and brought home my stash of golden sugary GLUTEN FREE carb cubes. My children love me and I am suddenly eager for good old fashioned Nuts and Bolts. Ahhhhhh…. sodium licks!
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Sweet Harvest Treat for Kids!
PopCorn on the Cob
INGREDIENTS:
3/4 cup light corn syrup
1/4 cup margarine
2 teaspoons cold water
2 5/8 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 cup marshmallows
5 quarts plain popped popcorn
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a saucepan over medium heat, combine the corn syrup, margarine, cold water, confectioners’ sugar and marshmallows. Heat and stir until the mixture comes to a boil. Carefully combine the hot mixture with the popcorn, coating each kernel.
2. Grease hands with vegetable shortening ( I recommend heavy duty dish gloves to protect your hands- especially for kids!) and quickly shape the coated popcorn into long shapes that look like corn cobs before it cools. Wrap with cellophane or plastic wrap and store at room temperature.
Chocolate & Marshmallow – Best of Both Worlds!
Crispy S’more Square
S’moreable Graham Wafers
2 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
1 package (12 oz., 2 cups) semi-sweet chocolate chips
2/3 cup light corn syrup
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
3 cups Crispy Rice
1. Coat 13 x 9 x 2-inch microwave-safe dish with cooking spray. Arrange S’moreable Graham Wafers crackers in single layer in dish, breaking crackers as needed to fit. Sprinkle marshmallows evenly over crackers.
2. Bake at 375°F (approx 200°C) about 7 minutes or until marshmallows are puffy. Cool completely.
3.In medium saucepan combine chocolate morsels, corn syrup and butter. Cook stirring constantly, over medium-low heat until melted. Remove from heat. Stir in peanut butter. Add crispy rice cereal, mixing until combined.
4. Spread evenly over marshmallows. Cover and refrigerate about 1 hour or until firm. Cut and store in airtight container in refrigerator.
MICROWAVE DIRECTIONS:
Follow step 1 above using 13 x 9 x 2-inch baking dish coated with cooking spray. Microwave on HIGH 1 minute or until marshmallows are puffy. Remove from microwave. Cool completely. In 2-quart microwave-safe mixing bowl combine chocolate, corn syrup and butter. Microwave on HIGH about 1 1/2 minutes or until chocolate is melted, stirring every 30 seconds. Stir in peanut butter. Mix in Crispy Rice cereal. Complete as in step 4 above.
Rice Crispie Traditions
Rice Krispie Squares have been around since the dawn of time and have filled more lunch boxes, Christmas dainty trays and Tupperware containers than any other snack! Balls, squares and slabs of every shape and size are written out in family recipe books all across the continent. So, when our local Save on Foods put their Nature's Path Crispy Rice (750g bag for $6.99) on sale I grabbed two.
Standard rice crispies (not just Kelloggs) use malted barley as a flavor enhancer. Bummer. That also means those boxes of pre-made Rice Treat Squares also contain the hidden devil! So… from scratch it is.
In honor of that and for my own purposes ( I notoriously lose the rice treat squares recipe) the basic…
Crispie Rice Treats!
3 tablespoons butter or margarine
4 cups miniature marshmallows or 1 package (10 oz., about 40) regular marshmallows
6 cups Crispy Rice Cereal
(Have all Ingredients Pre Measured!)
1. In large saucepan melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Keep your eye on this! It happens quite quick! Remove from heat.
2. Add Crispy Rice cereal. Stir until well coated.
3. Using buttered spatula or wax paper evenly press mixture into 13 x 9 x 2-inch pan coated with cooking spray or pre-prepped with parchment paper. Cool. Cut into squares.
Store in sealed container.
MUST HAVE’S!
To the sound of fingers being licked clean, we eventually let the kids have some! 
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