Chocolate Marshmallow Crispy Squares

Chocolate Marshmallow Crispy Squares

This week's sweet treat is a minor adaptation of Nigella's Marshmallow Crispy Squares. I used these before when making the Unikitty Treats. They are great for kids and adults, but incredibly moreish, so beware! These treats would be ideal for cake stalls and fundraising, with Comic Relief coming up...

Ingredients

• 45g butter
• 300g mini marshmallows
• 180g Rice Krispies
• 300g cooking chocolate, maybe even more

Method

• Melt the butter in a large, heavy-based saucepan over a low heat.
• Add the marshmallows and cook gently until they are completely melted and blended, stirring constantly.
• Take the pan off the heat and immediately add the cereal, mixing lightly until well coated.
• Press the mixture into lined 32cm x 23cm tin. I cover it with baking paper and press into the corners as it is very sticky. I also use a rolling pin over the top of the baking paper to make sure it is flat.
• Then carefully peel off the top layer of baking paper and leave it to cool completely in the tin.
• Cut it into small squares.
• Melt the cooking chocolate.
• Cover the squares in chocolate, let the excess drip off. Then lay them on a piece of baking paper, silicon baking mat, or even in individual cupcake cases to make them a little more special.

I did not manage to cover all of my marshmallow crispy squares with the 300g of chocolate. But the treats are lovely without the chocolate, so I was happy to have a mixture. You might want to use more chocolate if you want them all covered.

The girls were able to help make these treats. Their jobs were to stir the mixture until melted. Then when they were set and cut up, the girls did all the chocolate work. It was a great mess!

If you tried the chocolate marshmallow crispy squares, let me know what you think. Leave a comment below.
Also, I'm always looking for new ideas for baking/cooking, if you have any suggestions, leave a comment!

Unikitty Treats

Rainy days in the summer holidays are perfect days for baking projects!

Inspired by Nerdy Nummies Snickers Pops we made our own Lego Movie Unikitty Treats.

Elizabeth loves to watch Rosanna Pansino's Nerdy Nummies channel on YouTube. As a result of that, and my own interest in baking, she is now very interested in baking and cooking and can often be found sat on the kitchen counter beside me.

This is the second of Nerdy Nummies projects that has inspired me to try my own version.

The Nerdy Nummies version uses a funsize snickers bar, I decided to base mine on Nigella Lawson's Marshmallow Crispy Squares instead. I also decided to take it a step further and make the whole Unikitty instead of just the head.

What you need:

• Nigella's Marshmallow Crispy Squares use mixed white and pink mini marshmallows to make them pink. Cut them into rectangle shapes. Eat the cut offs, these are yummy treats on their own!
• White chocolate, melted 
• for making the white feet and the bottom of the head white
• and to stick down all the fondant and chocolate pieces etc
• Coloured fondant icing 
• red for the ears, mouth, nose and cheeks
• blue and white for the horn and blue for the tail
• green for the neck
• white chocolate buttons for the eyes
• milk chocolate drops for the eyes
• melted plain chocolate for the eye lashes. Use a piping bag to draw the these.
• I also used the arm of a gingerbread man cutter to cut out the middle of the body.

This is how she looks in the Lego Movie, for those that haven't seen it:

I'm pretty pleased with the results. Elizabeth helped by dipping the crispy squares into the white chocolate, rolling out the fondant icing and she drew the eyelashes on some of our Unikitty Treats. Rebecca helped by eating the ingredients!