- I'm gonna show you how
to make the best homemade Rice Krispies Treats.
These are big, gooey, and irresistibly good.
One of our favorite holiday treats. Here's why.
(festive music)
Hey, everyone. It's Natasha of natashaskitchen.com.
Rice Krispies Treats are one of our favorite holiday treats,
and they're the best to make as a family
because even the kids can help.
And because of that, we have two very special guests.
Let me introduce them. (fingers snap)
(chuckling) Are you guys ready?
- Yeah! - Yup.
Who's craving Rice Krispies Treats?
- Me! - (laughs) All right.
Let's do this.
Drum roll, please. (hands thumping)
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- (laughs) All right. Let's get started.
All right.
Miss Diana is gonna pour the crispy rice cereal,
and before I forget, we are playing a game.
Let us know where you spot Sharky in the video.
We've got him hidden pretty well today.
Between the three of us, we got creative.
All right, Diana.
Let's get seven cups of crispy rice cereal in there.
We found that seven cups of Rice Krispies cereal
gives you just the right amount of gooeyness
in your Rice Krispies Treats.
- Yeah! (festive music continues)
- Now butter a 9x9 baking pan.
You can also use a 10x10 or even a 13x9,
but keep in mind, if you're using the larger size,
your Rice Krispies Treats won't be quite as tall.
Okay.
Now line your baking dish with parchment paper.
This will make it really easy
to lift the Rice Krispies Treats
out of the pan once they're done.
To do this, we're just cutting slits
on every corner to the width of the pan.
Then push the parchment paper into the pan.
Buttering the pan first ensures
that that parchment paper stays put
and isn't flapping around in there.
Now set a large pot or Dutch oven
over medium-low heat and melt in your butter.
We're using eight tablespoons of unsalted butter.
As soon as the butter is melted,
add six cups of mini marshmallows.
Now stir constantly
until the marshmallows are completely melted.
You want them to just be melted.
Make sure you're not overcooking or the mixture can harden.
- Oh, that looks so good.
- Don't be tempted to increase the heat.
Just be patient and let those marshmallows melt.
Now it's time to take the pot off the heat.
Right away, add half a teaspoon of fine sea salt.
Then we're gonna add one teaspoon of real vanilla extract,
and this is our homemade extract, and I will leave a link
to the easy recipe in the notes.
Working quickly, stir in the seven cups of cereal.
Gently stir that in until the cereal is coated
in the marshmallow mixture.
Now add your remaining two cups of mini marshmallows
and stir until the marshmallows are partially melted.
The heat from the pot will start
to make the marshmallows look gooey.
That's when you know it's ready.
(festive music continues)
Transfer that mixture into your prepared and lined pan
and lightly press it evenly into the pan.
Because it is a super sticky mixture,
I found the easiest way to do this is to set a sheet
of plastic wrap over the top,
then pat it down and mold it to the pan.
This keeps your hands clean,
and it won't stick to the plastic wrap.
Let that cool to room temperature for about an hour.
You're not trying!
Try so hard, like... (grunting) (laughing)
Okay, let's go. (chuckling) (festive music continues)
All right.
This is about at room temperature,
but we are not very patient. (laughing)
Totally craving some Rice Krispies Treats.
So let's serve these up,
and it is time for the taste test.
Now, the reason why I love lining with parchment paper
is look how easy it is to take it out of the pan
so that we can cut it up and serve it.
You wanna grab that pan? All right.
Oh, and look at these edges.
I mean, you already know it's gonna be good.
All right, look at that.
Gooey from the start. (laughing)
You look excited. (laughs) All right.
And then you can just use this parchment paper
to cut and serve.
To cut Rice Krispies Treats, it does help if you...
You can use some cooking spray
to grease the sides of your knife.
That way, it doesn't stick to the knife
and it cuts through a little bit easier.
There we go. Okay. (festive music continues)
And it's still just a teensy bit warm,
so it's a little bit extra gooey, which we don't mind.
(laughs) It's extra delicious.
We love extra gooey.
- That's a bigger piece. - Okay.
Can't have that whole row.
We gotta cut pieces, honey.
Yeah, if you do let them cool,
they're a little bit easier to cut.
(festive music continues)
But again, we want these.
Okay. - We want them.
- All right, now get in close,
because I want you to see just that gooey marshmallow pull.
All right, here we go.
Let's try this one.
Can I have that one? - Nope, not yet.
I wanna show them the pull.
Okay. Everybody pick the piece that you want.
- That was the piece I wanted.
- Tough bananas. (laughs) Too late.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at that.
It's almost like a cheese pull, huh?
So gooey and irresistible.
But first, I wanna show you what's inside of this.
Check this out.
I don't know if it gets any gooier than that. (laughs)
What? (laughing) Oh, it's irresistible.
Okay, let's do the taste test, kiddos,
and tell them what we think, okay?
You ready? (festive music continues)
- That's so good, Mom.
- Mmm. Mmm. - That's incredible.
- Wow. That's so good.
What do you think?
- Good. - Okay.
Maybe we should've waited for it to cool.
It does stay together in squares a little better
if you wait for those marshmallows to cool.
Oh, my goodness. (laughs)
That is an out-of-control Rice Krispies Treat experience.
Do you think it needs more marshmallows? (laughs)
Yep. I should've known better than to ask that one.
What do you think?
- I think it's great.
I love the salt.
It balances the flavor.
- You got a little 'stache.
My milk lover.
Yeah, that little bit of salt.
You can taste it in there.
It makes these not too sweet.
They are such a treat.
Perfect for the Christmas cookie platter.
And so easy.
I mean, it takes, like, five minutes to get these together,
and they really do taste so much better
than store-bought, right, kids?
- Yeah. - Amen.
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- That's right. (festive music continues)
(Natasha laughing)
All right.
We're gonna go enjoy these Rice Krispies Treats very much.
I hope you guys love this recipe, and we'll see you
in the next episode of "Natasha's Kitchen."
Bye!
Just eat our gooeys.
- Mom, I was like this after you said bye. I went...
- You're cute. - Rice Krispies Treat fight.
- We can do a royal wave.
How is it?
(Natasha chuckles) (festive music continues)
- Dad, get this.
Are we still doing it?