Nutcracker Rice Krispie Treats

There is something about the holidays that makes every one feel the need to bake all the time. Are you one of those people? I most definitely am! This year has been a bit wild and I’m sad I haven’t been in the kitchen baking as much as previous years. I usually bake late at night after everybody has gone to sleep but it seems that no one in my house has been sleeping normal hours. Instead of making excuses, I decided to go all in with some fun holiday baking.

Rice Krispie Treats are usually on the top of my list for a few reasons. One main reason is that they’re so easy to make. It’s a treat that is really hard to mess up and everybody loves them. To make things more festive this year, we decided to decorate our rice krispie treats for the holidays by turning them into Nutcrackers! I’m not an artistic person and can’t draw to save my life, but any body can decorate these treats and have them turn out cute.

This is a great recipe to make with your littles and let them explore and experiment in the kitchen. It’s hard to mess up.

Nutcracker Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients:

• 1 Box of Rice Krispy Treats, unwrapped and set aside 
• 1 tube of black cookie icing 
• 1 tube of red cookie icing 
• 1 tube of white cookie icing 
• 1 tube of yellow cookie icing 
• 1 container of gold peal dust (Found in Michaels cake decorating isle)
• 1 Package of Mustache sprinkles (Found in Hobby Lobby cake decorating isle)
• 4 disposable piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip 
• 1 disposable piping bag fitted with a small star tip 
• 1 small fine tip paint brush 

Directions

1. Squeeze the Black, Red, and Yellow cookie icing into one of the piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
2. Squeeze the white icing into the last number 2 tip piping bag and the small star tip piping bag
3. Using the black piping bag pipe a line along the top of the rice krispy to create the hat for the Nutcracker
4. Using the red piping bag, pipe the line shown in the in-process picture and fill in with the red icing 
5. Using the white icing, fill in the little square shown in the in-process images
6. Pipe a small dot onto the back of the mustache and place into the lower center of the rice krispy
7. Pipe 2 dots above the mustache for the eyes
8. Using the yellow icing, pipe a upside down triangle on the hat
9. Pipe two yellow dots on both sides of the triangle 
10. Allow to dry for 2 hours 
11. Using the paint brush, dip it into the pearl dust and brush it onto the yellow detail for an extra shimmer. 

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Nutcracker Rice Krispie Treats

Ingredients

• 1 Box of Rice Krispy Treats unwrapped and set aside
• 1 tube of black cookie icing
• 1 tube of red cookie icing
• 1 tube of white cookie icing
• 1 tube of yellow cookie icing
• 1 container of gold peal dust Found in Michaels cake decorating isle
• 1 Package of Mustache sprinkles Found in Hobby Lobby cake decorating isle
• 4 disposable piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
• 1 disposable piping bag fitted with a small star tip
• 1 small fine tip paint brush

Instructions

1. Squeeze the Black, Red, and Yellow cookie icing into one of the piping bags fitted with a number 2 tip
2. Squeeze the white icing into the last number 2 tip piping bag and the small star tip piping bag
3. Using the black piping bag pipe a line along the top of the rice krispy to create the hat for the Nutcracker
4. Using the red piping bag, pipe the line shown in the in-process picture and fill in with the red icing
5. Using the white icing, fill in the little square shown in the in-process images
6. Pipe a small dot onto the back of the mustache and place into the lower center of the rice krispy
7. Pipe 2 dots above the mustache for the eyes
8. Using the yellow icing, pipe a upside down triangle on the hat
9. Pipe two yellow dots on both sides of the triangle
10. Allow to dry for 2 hours
11. Using the paint brush, dip it into the pearl dust and brush it onto the yellow detail for an extra shimmer.