Craft Beer Cereal Treats for Oktoberfests

This treat is for the grown-ups.  I made some craft beer cereal treats - meaning rice krispies treats made with BEER!

There's beer in both the treats and the glaze.  And if you like craft beer, there is Ballast Point's Grapefruit Sculpin in this recipe.  Even though there's grapefruit in it - it's not too fruity just a really good IPA (India Pale Ale) that we tend to keep around the house a lot! 

You make the treats pretty much the same way with butter, marshmallows, and rice krispies cereal.  The beer thinned the marshmallow mixture a bit so the treats were a little less sticky than regular treats.  I've adjusted the recipe below to try to account for that.

Mix some powdered sugar with a little of the beer to make a tasty little beer-y glaze.

And top with some draft flavored jelly beans! Who knew they made beer flavored jelly beans? Well they do - so I had to top the treats with some.  The beer flavor does come through, but its not overly beer-y (is that a word?).  

Drizzle the glaze on top, add some jelly beans and cut into squares.  

A unique little adult treat to bring to all the Oktoberfests coming up soon - or for your next football party!!  

Thanks so much for stopping by - I'm slowly accepting that summer is over and trying to get back into loving all that is Fall.

Beer Flavored Rice Krispies Treats recipe

Makes 20 treats (depending on how large your squares are cut) 

Ingredients:

• 1 bag of mini marshmallows (plus an extra 2-3 cups)
• 6 cups of rice krispies cereal
• 3 tablespoons of butter
• 1/4 cup of your favorite beer (use a flavorful beer, this recipe used Ballast Point Grapefruit Sculpin IPA)
• 2 cups of powdered sugar
• 2 tablespoons of same beer
• 1 cup of draft beer flavored jelly beans

Directions:

• Melt butter over medium heat in a large stove top pan.
• Add bag of mini marshmallows and beer and mix.  Add extra marshmallows (1 cup at a time) until marshmallow/butter/beer mix is just sticky.
• Mix in rice krispies.  Mix until all cereal is coated with mixture.
• Add mixture to a 9X12 baking pan that has been sprayed with non stick spray.  Press down until compacted together.  Turn out onto parchment paper or similar paper.  
• For glaze: mix powdered sugar and remaining beer.  If glaze is too thin, add more powdered sugar.
• Drizzle glaze onto treats.  Add jelly beans (optional)
• Cut into squares and serve!

You may like these other beer flavored treats!

Blue Moon Beer Blondies

Oktoberfest Beer Donuts

Green Beer Bread

Blue Moon Cupcakes

Beer Jello

Colorful Halloween Candy Monsters

Hi everyone, it's October! Woohoo! 

Which means it's Halloween.  Which also means it's Monster Season! 

I have some super easy ones for you too.  

And most are made with everyone's favorite candy - well at least my kids' favs - Kit Kats!

Make a bunch of candy Halloween monsters with the kiddos.  Super fun for everyone because the messier the better!

Check out all the details here over at sheknows

PS. You can also make them with sugar wafer cookies.  See these Sugar Wafer Monsters!

Happy October and THANKS for stopping by! 

Mini Fudge Retro Atari Joysticks

Did you know September 13 is National Video Game Day?? Actually it seems like everyday is video game day around our place - that's the activity of choice these days for my kiddos.  It's always a battle with screen time as my 11 year old could stay on all day if I let him.

I mean we had video games too, I grew up in the 80s, but nothing like what the gamers have today.  I even dug up our old Atari game system - wood paneling and all! Remember those old joysticks? They broke all the time and gave you hand cramps but they were all we had.  They also had 1 button.  I repeat ONE BUTTON.  There were not 10 different buttons that you could push in different combos to get the game to do different things - one button and the joystick was all we had.  Maybe life was simpler back then.  OK now I sound old!

Well I recreated those old joysticks in fudge form - to show my kiddos how good they have it now! They agreed eating them is way better than using them for games!

For the details on how to make 'em, head over to sheknows here!

Thanks for stopping by and have an AWESOME week!

Disney's Frozen movie themed slushies

I think I may have a problem.  This is the 5th Frozen themed treat I've done since the Disney movie came out.  Not 1 or 2 the 5th one!  I'm seriously enabling my kid as well as all the other Frozen fanatics out there.  

What can I say I so like to feed the monster, literally.  But in my defense, not only is the movie pretty darn great, but the colors are awesome too.  Light blue, white, purple-y maroon.  I love them together. 

And the colors look great layered in a frozen ice slushy too.  Perfect to cool off with on the last days of summer.  

Check out the How To over here at sheknows!

Here are all the other Frozen inspired treats in case you are also inclined to indulge! 

1. Frozen Cupcakes - rock trolls representin' too

2. Oatmeal Cream Pie Cookies  - swap some of the oatmeal with Frozen cereal - don't ask why just do it! 

3. Frozen Character Pretzel Snacks - you guys know my love of sweet and salty right? 

4. Frozen Gingerbread Character Cookies - all your fav Frozen characters in gingerbread form - eat Prince Hans first, it will make you feel much better!

Cereal Treat Mini Ice Cream Cones

NOOOO! Summer cannot be almost over.  I'm not letting it happen yet - and marketers - can we stop with all the pumpkin spiced things?  I actually love pumpkin flavored stuff - BUT NOT EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE PUMPKIN SPICE'D UP!

Sorry for yelling so let's make these little ice cream cones instead! 

And bonus they don't melt in the hot August heat! Which means no drippy sticky kid hands.  I did them in neapolitan flavors but you can make them in any of your fav ice cream flavors. 

And you can even stack them with a little melted chocolate.  Much easier than regular ice cream cones right? Or better yet have both!  See them here at she knows.

If you like these "fauxscream" cones you may also like these others I've made over the years:

Mini Cones with Marshmallows (store bought marshmallows so it's really simple)

Mini Cones with Homemade Marshmallow (homemade takes a little longer but so worth it!)

And my most shared post to date! 

Rainbow Ice Cream Cone Cake Bites

Happy last day of August! Thanks for stopping by!

Mini birdhouse treats with jelly bean birds

I almost can't stand how cute these little sugar wafer bird houses came out! I love those sugar wafers that you can find in almost any convenience store these days.  Strawberry is my fav but they even come in some other fun flavors too like lemon and cookies and cream! 

Who knew they would make such a neat building material - and all edible.

And the jelly bean birdies really do tie the room together ;)

See all the cuteness here at sheknows!

Rainbow swirled bundt cake - with no dyes

Who loves bundt cakes? ME ME ME! Maybe I'm just getting older but I love them.  So tasty and also portable to bring to a party.  

And this one's not a plain old boring bundt cake - there are rainbow swirls inside! You guys know how I love rainbows right? I try to put them in everything.  

And guess what? This rainbow is all natural with no artificial dyes.  

See all the details on how to make it here at sheknows!

Pea Pods made from Fruit

Summer is in full swing around here! The kids are in a few day camps, the days are 90+ degrees and humid, the cicadas are singing their hot summer songs - and I'm loving it all.  It's hard to believe it's nearly the end of July - only one full month of summer left so I'm going to enjoy every second of it.

And I have a really easy healthy treat for you this time.  Well relatively healthy when you compare it to the rest of the sugary sweets that you usually find here.  Cute little pea pods - made from fruit.  

I spotted these Joray brand fruit rolls in the food store the other day.  Joray makes all kinds of flavors of fruit rolls, but I had never seen an all apple green fruit roll.  (ps if you look for them, I found them in the Kosher section of my local Shop Rite food store).

I thought they'd make great pea pods with some green grapes as the "peas".

They are really super easy to make too.  Cut out a leaf shape from the fruit roll.  Add your grapes (2 or 3 "pea" clusters) and wrap the fruit roll around the grapes.  

Twist the ends a bit and that's pretty much it.

Very cute as is or you can up your cute factor by adding some smiley faces.   Faces added with an edible food writer.

Smiling pea pods - try not to smile yourself!

Make them for your veggie averse peeps.  I was thinking they'd also make a super cute addition to a twin or triplet baby shower or maybe a fun April Fool's Day prank.  So many options!

Thanks as always for stopping by.  Have a GREAT week!

Summertime Flowers made from Goldfish Crackers and Mini Oreos

Yay, it's Summer! I love summertime and all that goes with it.  The hot summer weather - yes! Even the humid weather? Yes too.  I know that's weird but it doesn't bother me.   Eating yummy summer cool treats? Of course! 

One of my other favorite things about this time of year is all the blooming flowers around.  There are so many colors and types of flowers (well when I can keep the deer we get away from these delicious delicacies).

I decided to make my own summer flowers.  These are really simple and made from Pepperidge Farms Goldfish crackers (they come in all sorts of flavors and colors now), mini Oreo cookies, and pretzel sticks.  

See more details here at she knows

Like flowers too? Then you may also like these Spring Flower Cupcakes

Or these Fall Flower Box Cupcakes

Or these easy Spring Flower Candy Pops

Or these Painted Flower Cookies 

Happy Summer and thanks for stopping by!