Turtle Rice Krispies Treats Recipe

As so many other bloggers have done (and are doing throughout this week) I took a “moment” of silence over the weekend in respect for the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting and the Newtown community. And now it feels so strange, foreign even, to be sitting here, staring at my picture of rice krispies treats, and wondering what I can say…

Wondering how I could ever possibly segue from something to wretched to dessert. How am I supposed to pick right back up where I left off in the wake of an event so tragic?

It’s hard to imagine returning to my life of recipes, photography, and Pinterest when there are so many others who will never return to the lives they had before last Friday. For one reason or another, I felt like this tragedy touched me personally. In reality, it didn’t. I don’t know know anyone who attends the school, and I’ve never met any of the victims or their families. But I do believe there is some amount of grief accompanying this event that we are each entitled to feel. Whether you feel it as the mother of your own young child or simply as a member of the human race, it’s okay to feel sorrow for these people we may not know.

I guess I’m saying this, because it was a difficult realization for me to come to– that it was okay for me to really feel sorrow and grief for a tragedy not borne by me. But, in the end, I decided that having those feelings is what makes human beings so special. We can have compassion for people we’ve never met. We can have a desire to lighten their load, to carry their grief alongside of them. And that’s pretty wonderful, I think. And something that should be encouraged.

And, frankly, there is no proper way to segue into Rice Krispies Treats. But I will just say that these are tremendously good. I ate gobs and gobs of them, and Krispies Treats aren’t really even favorites of mine. I think the texture sold me on these– I loved biting through the chocolate and caramel up top. Seriously– a top notch dessert!

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Turtle Rice Krispies Treats

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Ingredients

• 3 tbsp of butter
• 1 - 10 oz. package of marshmallows
• 6-7 cups chocolate Krispies cereal (like Kellogs Cocoa Krispies)
• approx. 12 tbsp melted caramels
• approx. 12 tbsp melted chocolate
• appox. 12 tbsp chopped pecans

Instructions

1. In a large bowl, microwave the marshmallows and butter together for 1 minute.
2. Remove and stir until smooth (microwave for an additional 30 seconds if needed).
3. Mix in the cereal 3 cups at a time. Add up to an additional cup of cereal to reach desired marshmallow to cereal ratio.
4. Press firmly into a parchment lined and greased 9x13 baking dish. Let cool and cut into 2" squares.
5. Top each square with 1 tablespoon of chopped pecans, 1 tablespoon of melted caramel, and 1 tablespoon of melted chocolate (in that order, stacked on top of each other as pictured). Let the layers cool and harden before serving.

 Notes about this recipe:

• If you’re not so worried about presentation, you could simply drizzle the chocolate and caramel over the uncut bars, and sprinkle with the pecans. Let everything harden before cutting.