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    Rice Krispie Nests

    March 18, 2022 by Jen Cincyshopper 2 Comments

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    Rice Krispie Nests are a tasty Easter dessert idea! These easy Rice Krispie Easter Treats are so simple to make and are perfect for parties.

    Rice Krispie Treat desserts are definite crowd pleasers- who doesn’t love Rice Krispie Treats? For some other Easter Rice Krispie Treats, try our Krispie Treat Easter Carrots and Easter Bunny Krispie Treats.

    Rice Krispie Nests with Cadbury mini eggs

    Rice Krispie Nests

    With the Easter holiday coming up here soon, I’ve been thinking about what desserts I’m going to make to celebrate. When it comes to making Easter desserts, there’s so many different choices and directions you can take. In between all the thoughts of carrot cakes and chocolate eggs, I kept coming back to this fun dessert idea I’ve been wanting to try. I love Rice Krispie Treats, so I decided to make some of these Rice Krispie Nests!

    Easter Krispie Treat nests with icing

    These Easter Rice Krispie Nests work sort of like Rice Krispie Cupcakes, where the “cake” is replaced with gooey Rice Krispie Treats. Top those off with some simple but tasty buttercream frosting, and you’ve got an easy dessert that’s certain to be a crowd pleaser! To keep things extra festive, we even went and garnished these Rice Krispie Cups with a couple Cadbury Mini Eggs for a little chocolatey treat on top.

    Text on image Rice Krispie Nests

    These Easter Rice Krispies are perfect for any parties or get-togethers you might have planned for this holiday season. Everybody loves Rice Krispies and I’m certain these things will get eaten up no matter where you take them! Our recipe below will make plenty of these things, so feel free to pack them in lunches or keep them around for snacking. You’ll love them!

    Text on image Rice Krispie Nests

    Loved this recipe? Try these cute Easter dessert treats next!

    • For another super simple Easter treat, we’ve got to recommend our Nutter Butter Easter Chicks. Nutter Butter cookies make for delicious little snacks and they have the perfect shape for decorating into little Easter chicks! Grab some candy melting chips, some chocolate chips, and some Starburst candies and follow along with our recipe.
    • You can make Easter chicks with pretzels too, just look at our Easter Pretzel Chick Treats! These Easter treats are a bit on the lighter side but still have some similar ingredients: candy chips, chocolate chips, and more Starbursts for decoration. These are especially great for packed lunches: a little dessert!
    • Chocolates and fruits can taste amazing together if you pick the right combo and we definitely hit the jackpot with these Easter Chocolate Covered Strawberries! Using candy melting chips or some colored white chocolates, you can make a sweet coating for fresh strawberries that makes for a lovely little dessert. Take the time to get the color right and these things end up looking almost like carrots- how cute!

    Text on image Rice Krispie Nests

    Rice Krispie Nest Ingredients

    For the Rice Krispie Nests themselves, you’ll need the following:
    • Butter
    • Marshmallows – Mini marshmallows will work and melt the best.
    • Vanilla Extract
    • Rice Krispies Cereal
    We’ll also make a buttercream frosting for topping. For that, you’ll need:
    • Softened Butter
    • Confectioners Sugar
    • Milk
    • Food Coloring – Just a few drops of green to give our frosting that pale green color.
    For a sort of “garnish” on top of our Rice Krispie Easter Treats, we’re also going to use these Cadbury Mini Eggs. Consider jelly beans or other oval candies for eggs.

    Rice Krispie Nest Ingredients

    How to make Rice Krispie Nests

    These Rice Krispie Easter Treats might seem hard to make at first, but they’re actually pretty easy to make! Here’s all you have to do:
    1. Prep Rice Krispie Treat mix by melting marshmallows then adding vanilla extract and cereal. Press into molds and form into nests.
    2. While nests set, make a buttercream frosting by beating together creamed butter and sugar. Thin with milk then add food coloring.
    3. Top Rice Krispie Nests with buttercream frosting. Garnish with Cadbury Eggs and serve.

    Butter melting in a pan

    Melt some butter in the bottom of a non-stick pot before adding in most of your marshmallows. Melt the marshmallows over low to medium-low heat.

    Marshmallows added to melted butter

    With the marshmallows melted, we can start adding our other ingredients. Add in the vanilla extract and start adding the cereal one cup at a time as well as any remaining marshmallows, stirring constantly. It helps to have someone adding the cereal and marshmallows while you stir.

    Rice Krispie cereal added to melted marshmallows

    Eventually, you’ll have your Rice Krispie Treat Mix ready. Transfer this to your awaiting molds: you can use mini muffin tins or a cupcake pan of some kind- you’ll have plenty of this mix made! If you have any left over, shape into bars and snack on them later. After adding and pressing the mix into the tins, press a divet into the middle to make the nest shape. Now we can make our frosting while they set.

    Mini Rice Krispie Treat nests in muffin dish

    How to make buttercream frosting

    To make the buttercream frosting for our Rice Krispie Nests, we’ll start by first beating some softened butter. Do this in a mixing bowl until the butter is creamy and fluffy.

    Creamed butter for icing

    At this point, you’ll start gradually adding in the sugar, bit by bit. Keep adding sugar until you get a thick buttercream frosting.

    Powdered sugar added to creamed butter

    To thin the frosting out a bit and make it more workable, start adding in milk a tablespoon at a time. You want something you can put in a bag and pipe onto your nests later.

    Milk added to frosting mixture

    For color, you only need to add a couple drops of green to the frosting.

    Food coloring added to icing

    Once your color is mixed in, transfer the frosting to a piping bag. By now, your nests should be set, so feel free to get to topping each of the nests with a generous dollop of piped frosting.

    Iced Krispie Treats for Easter

    To garnish our Rice Krispie Nests, we’ll take a Cadbury Mini Egg or two and press them into the frosting.

    Eggs in Krispie nests

    Remove the Rice Krispie Easter Treats from their molds, serve, and enjoy!

    Easter rice crispy treats

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    Rice Krispie Nests

    Rice Krispie Nests are a tasty Easter dessert idea! These easy Rice Krispie Easter Treats are so simple to make and are perfect for parties.
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Keyword Rice Krispie Nests
    Prep Time 20 minutes minutes
    Cook Time 7 minutes minutes
    Total Time 22 minutes minutes
    Servings 36 nests
    Calories 163kcal
    Author Jen CIncyshopper

    Ingredients

    Nests

    • 3 tbsp Butter
    • 10 oz Marshmallows
    • 6 cup Rice Krispies

    Buttercream Frosting

    • 2-3 drops Green Food Coloring
    • 1/2 cup Butter
    • 4 cup Powdered Sugar
    • 1/4 cup Milk
    • 1 tsp Vanilla

    Eggs

    • 9 oz Cadbury Mini Eggs candy

    Instructions

    • Melt the butter in a non stick pan over medium heat.
    • Add marshmallows and stir until melted.
    • Add rice cereal and stir until combined.
    • Spray a mini muffin tin with cooking spray or use silicone pan.
    • Shape and press the nests into pan.
    • In a mixing bowl, cream butter for frosting until fluffy.
    • Add vanilla and mix to combine.
    • Add powdered sugar one cup at a time until rich and thick.
    • Add milk one tablespoon at a time to thin slightly for piping.
    • Add food coloring to get green color.
    • Transfer to piping bag and put a dollop of frostng on each nest.
    • Top each with a couple of the candy eggs.
    • Remove from pan.

    Nutrition

    Calories: 163kcal | Carbohydrates: 28g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 6g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 10mg | Sodium: 65mg | Potassium: 10mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 439IU | Vitamin C: 3mg | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 2mg
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    1. Pam

      March 30, 2022 at 3:28 pm

      These are so adorable! What a cute treat. I’ll be featuring this tomorrow at the Thursday Favorite Things party. :)

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    2. Lynne Zemaitis

      March 29, 2022 at 6:55 pm

      This is such an adorable Easter treat. I am so excited to feature your post at the Tuesday Turn About Link Party this week! Thank you so much for sharing!

      Reply

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