Hello everyone! My name is Steph, and I blog about crafting, cooking and thrifting (and a wee bit of gardening!) at The Silly Pearl. I’m also mama to five year old twin girls, Sophie and Sarah.
Thank you for having me on your blog today, Amanda, to share my recipe for BBQ Chip and Chocolate Rice Krispy Treats in a fun football shape. Like Amanda, I also reside in the Bay Area…GO NINERS!
I was snacking on BBQ Pop Chips and chocolate chips one day, at the same time. It was the perfect sweet, salty and spicy bite! So I came up with this recipe to combine them all together. It’s such a fun snack for football season as well.
I began by making the Rice Krispy treats using the usual recipe, but I used brown rice cereal. It’s what I happened to have on hand, but the brown color was perfect to get that football look. See my note* in the recipe below if you’re using regular (i.e. not brown) rice cereal.
Meanwhile, I opened a bag of BBQ rice chips and the girls helped me smash the bag with a rolling pin. You could also just scrunch it up with your hand.
It should look like this when you’re done…about the size of chocolate chips.
Pour the crushed chips in with the rice krispy mixture…
…and then the chocolate chips. I had a little bit of white chocolate left over, so I threw those in as well. You can use any type of chocolate you like. Sweet will stand up more to the salty/spicy.
Combine the ingredients until everything is evenly distributed, and then press it into an oval baking pan. If you have a football-shaped pan, even better! Then to make the football’s stitches, add a line of marshmallows down the middle. Do an odd number.
Then alongside every other marshmallow, add a pair of marshmallows on either side. You could also add two stripes on either side, if that makes sense.
All done!
Here’s the recipe:
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Football Rice Krispy Treats with Barbeque Chips and Chocolate
Ingredients
- 6 cups Brown rice cereal*
- 4 cups Mini marshmallows, plus additional for decoration
- 3 Tbs Butter
- 1 Bag (3 oz) Barbeque flavored rice chips
- 1/2 bag (6 oz) Chocolate chips, any flavor
Special equipment needed: Large oval baking pan (12.5 inch x 8.5 inch)
Directions
In a saucepan, melt butter and 4 cups marshmallows. Add rice cereal and stir until combined. Remove from pan into a bowl. Crush entire bag of BBQ chips until about the size of chocolate chips, and add to bowl. Add chocolate chips. Fold ingredients together until combined.
Press mixture into oval baking pan. When cooled, decorate with reserved mini marshmallows to mimic stitches of a football. Serve at room temperature.
*Note: If you’re using regular (i.e. not brown) rice cereal, add chocolate chips while the rice krispy mixture is still hot. The chocolate chips will melt and coat the rice krispies to make them brown. You may want to increase the amount of chocolate chips just a little bit to make sure the cereal is fully coated.
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Hope you’ll stop by my blog, The Silly Pearl, for more Fall and Holiday crafts, recipes and more. Thank you again, Amanda, for having me on your blog today!
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