These adorable Chocolate Football Rice Krispie Treats are the perfect snack for your next tailgate party. Skip the stove and make them in your slow cooker!
How to Make Slow Cooker Chocolate Football Rice Krispie Treats
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These Slow Cooker Chocolate Football Rice Krispie Treats are the cutest things I have made in a long time! You can make them using your slow cooker, which means you don’t have to watch the stove like a hawk to make sure things don’t burn. And little hands can help, too!
John and I have been married for over 8 years, and he just told me that Rice Krispie treats are one of his favorite things! How on earth did I not know this before? He didn’t even mention it when I made these Peppermint Rice Krispie Treats! (Although that may have been because I ate almost all of them…)
These Chocolate Footballs are so easy to make! I used Cocoa Rice Krispies (of course!), the adorable football cookie cutter like this one, and Whipped Fluffy White frosting. I like the whipped frosting better for this, because I think it squeezes out of the bag easier for decorating. And the Fluffy White flavor, well, because it tastes like marshmallows!
If you preheat your slow cooker before you get started, the whole process will go a little faster. All you need to do is melt the butter and marshmallows in your slow cooker (use your favorite team’s Crock-Pot!) and mix in the Cocoa Krispies. Turn it out onto greased wax paper (cooking spray like this makes it easy) and pat it into a rectangle, at least 1/2 inch thick. After the sticky marshmallow goodness cools, spray the cookie cutter and cut your shapes out. The Rice Krispies should still be smushy enough that you can press the “leftovers” back into shape and cut a few more out.
The frosting is the hardest part… Ready?
How to Frost Slow Cooker Chocolate Football Rice Krispie Treats
Put a big spoonful of frosting in a sandwich bag. Any bag will do. Cut the corner off with a pair of scissors. A smaller hole means you can make thinner lines. Then just squeeze the frosting out and make the “laces” on your footballs. So simple, and so adorable!
If you really want to get into the spirit, you can make the colors of the laces match your favorite team – just use a different color frosting!
Slow Cooker Chocolate Football Rice Krispie Treats Video
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Enjoy!
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Slow Cooker Chocolate Football Rice Krispie Treats
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 5 cups mini marshmallows
- 6 cups Cocoa Rice Krispies cereal
- 1 Tablespoon Fluffy White flavor whipped frosting
- Cooking spray
Instructions
- Turn a 6-quart slow cooker on to high.
- Put butter in the slow cooker, cover, and let sit for 10-15 minutes until melted.
- Stir mini marshmallows into butter, cover, and let sit for 10-15 minutes until melted, stirring occasionally.
- Line a large baking sheet with wax paper. Lightly spray with cooking spray.
- Stir cereal into melted marshmallows. Turn off slow cooker.
- Pour cereal mixture onto greased wax paper.
- Lightly spray your hands with cooking spray, and mold cereal into a rectangle, about 1/2-3/4 inch thick.
- Let cool.
- When cereal is completely cool, lightly spray a football-shaped cookie cutter with cooking spray. Cut out football-shaped Rice Krispie Treats, and set aside.
- If necessary, mold remaining cereal into a flat rectangle again, and make more cutouts.
- Spoon frosting into a plastic bag. Squeeze all the frosting into one corner of the bag. Using a sharp pair of scissors, cut the corner off the bag. (A smaller cut will give you a finer frosting line.)
- Squeeze the frosting out on the footballs to make the laces.
- Serve immediately, or store in a single layer in an airtight container.
These are adorable!
Nice dessert for watching the games on Sunday!!
I have never heard of making rice krispie treats in the crockpot. What a neat idea! Thanks for sharing on the #Celebrate365 Blog Party!