I could eat a whole box of Rice Krispies. If I make home made, they don't make it to shapes. I'll just eat blobs of it. sorry not sorry. But I don't make them often. I don't need to. Plus I hate working with sticky marshmallow >.< but I do love eating it. So if I want a RKT, I buy them. HA! Check it out. This basket is all krispy....
Ok so when you dip RKT in chocolate... HeAvEnnnn :O
Boy I need my emojis here on this blog.
Here we goo..
So you definitely need : Rice Krispies Treats, chocolate and some decorations. I have Cadbury mini eggs and Bakerella's cool new edible grass. Its perfect for all these cute Easter treats!
Unwrap your RKT and cut about in half. Eh, a hair or two more on one side is ok. But just a hair. Or two. The bigger side is better for making the handle. PS here are some more supplies for helping you along. Some toothpicks, a baggie, sticks.. some round cutters - these can help shape your handle but if you don't have them, just use a knife. I trust you. Then you may need a stand, but, uh, I only needed it for one of these. The other two didn't like to stand up. lol.
Use the larger cutter to cut the outer of the handle. Just to kind round off the top corners to make a nice rounded handle. Gotcha.
Then use the smaller cutter to shape the inner part of the handle. Pop it out and into your mouth. I mean really what are you gonna do with it?
Should look like this. YAY.
Now. If you try to just glue onto the base of the basket with your melted chocolate..the handle could collapse. Just saying. I just know these things. Because it happened to me. So. Let's reinforce it a little with some chocolate. On the inner wall of the handle, using a tooth pick coat with a thin smooth layer of chocolate. Let that dry. Continue to work on other baskets/handles while you wait for things to dry. You got this.
HAHA looks like a padlock. HA don't laugh at my Easter basket. lol jk! It does. So when the inner part of the handle is dry, put some chocolate on the bottoms and glue to the base so they come together like this. Thumbs up. Next dip a cake pop stick into the chocolate and insert in the bottom of the basket.
Next dip into the melted chocolate. Carefully tap off the excess. RKT is very sensitive. Don't upset it. If it feels like standing in a cake pop stand, let it. If not, when all the excess is tapped off, gently lay on a piece of wax paper.
I had these toothpicks here to reshape the handle if if started to shift.
Just needed a little poking and it was fine.
Once the basket is dry, fill your baggie with melted chocolate and drizzle like this. Make a nice basket weave. You are a basket weaver. Ok not really I just crisscrossed all over the place. Looks great enough, right.
Once that is completely dry, and it could take a little while, pick it up off the wax paper and using a toothpick just clean away any pokey sticky parts from the crisscrossing.
Next use a toothpick to lather on some chocolate inside the basket to put your eggs.
Then put your eggs in first.
And finally, while the chocolate is still wet, stuff in as much grass as you can. Looks good.
Let that all dry before the final touch.
Some cute ribbon. Now if you are a cake popper, baker, you may have some of those fancy bow molds like I have. You can make some completely edible bows for your basket if you want. But if not, just tie on some cute ribbon from your local craft store. Just be sure you tell the kids to take them off before eating or before one dares the other too eat that too. It happens. I'm a mom of boys.
Looks so pretty and yummy! You can even give this to friends and family and be like look what I made yalllll. Mmmmm. One bite and they will love you.
Happy Easter Spring Break Snacking!
