Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket Centerpiece
Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket Centerpiece made from Rice Krispie Treats – a unique and lovely centerpiece that you can make for your own Easter table!
Our Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket Centerpiece project started as an experiment. We loved our Easter Candy Centerpiece and wanted to see if we could come up with another Easter Centerpiece made from candy or food. Easter Candy was out this year and the Rice Krispie Treat mixture was in. We LOVE LOVE LOVE how this turned out! Our Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket Centerpiece was a big success!! This is a multi-day project but it wasn’t that difficult. I am sure this unique Easter Centerpiece is going to be a conversation starter at Easter dinner!
Ingredients You Will Need
- 1 large box of Rice Krispie Cereal
- 2 bags of Mini Marshmallows
- Medium Sized Bowl
- Toothpicks
- A long piece of cardboard
- Easter Ribbon
- Spring Flowers
- Rice Krispie Easter Eggs
How to Make the Rice Krispie Treat Mixture
Step 1: This particular Easter Craft starts with our The Best Ever Rice Krispie Treat Recipe. Make a large batch of Rice Krispie Treat mixture. We used 6 tablespoons of butter, 6 cups of mini marshmallows, and 6 cups of Rice Krispie Cereal. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan on medium heat. When the butter is melted, add the mini marshmallows. Stir until the marshmallows are completely melted. Now add the Rice Krispie Cereal and fold the cereal in with the melted marshmallows. Let the mixture sit for approximately 5 minutes. You need it to still be warm and pliable but not so hot that it will burn your fingers.
How to Create the Edible Easter Basket
Step 2: You will need a medium-sized bowl that is not too tall. We bought this one at Ikea a few months ago. It was a perfect size. This will be the mold for the Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket.
Step 3: Handful by handful, mold the Rice Krispie Treat mixture around the outside of the bowl until it is completely covered.
Step 4: I did not grease the bowl, there is plenty of butter in the Rice Krispie Treat mixture and it did not stick to the bowl when it was dried.
Step 5: Mold the mixture to the bowl as tightly as you can. Allow the Rice Krispie Treat mixture to dry uncovered for 24 hours. The next day I added a second layer of Rice Krispie Treat mixture. First I made another 6 cup batch and then repeated the same process – covering the bowl with a second layer of the mixture. Without this second layer, the bowl was too flimsy to hold its shape.
Steps 6-7: To make the handle, I molded Rice Krispie Treat mixture around a piece of cardboard box, and shaped it into a handle.
Step 8: I let the handle dry uncovered for two days.
Step 9: I attached the Easter Basket handle with two toothpicks on each side of the handle. Super easy!
Step 10: The longer it sits out the harder the Rice Krispie mixture will become.
Step 11: The Easter Basket part of the centerpiece will not be edible (but the yummy colored Rice Krispie Easter Eggs you are going to put in the basket definitely will!)
We filled our Easter Basket with yummy, Easter-colored Rice Krispie Easter Eggs. You can find all the directions you’ll need to make this yummy Easter dessert here.
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Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket Centerpiece
Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket Centerpiece made from Rice Krispie Treats - a unique and lovely centerpiece that you can make for your own Easter table!
Materials
- 1 large box of Rice Krispie Cereal
- 2 bags Mini Marshmallows
- Medium Sized Bowl
- Toothpicks
- A long piece of cardboard
- Easter Ribbon
- Spring Flowers
- 1 batch Rice Krispie Easter Eggs
Instructions
- Make a large batch of Rice Krispie Treat mixture. We used 6 tablespoons of butter, 6 cups of mini marshmallows, and 6 cups of Rice Krispie Cereal. Melt the butter in a medium saucepan on medium heat. When the butter is melted, add the mini marshmallows. Stir until the marshmallows are completely melted. Now add the Rice Krispie Cereal and fold the cereal in with the melted marshmallows. Let the mixture sit for approximately 5 minutes. You need it to still be warm and pliable but not so hot that it will burn your fingers.
- You will need a medium-sized bowl that is not too tall. We bought this one at Ikea a few months ago. It was a perfect size. This will be the mold for the Rice Krispie Treat Easter Basket.
- Handful by handful, mold the Rice Krispie Treat mixture around the outside of the bowl until it is completely covered. I did not grease the bowl, there is plenty of butter in the Rice Krispie Treat mixture and it did not stick to the bowl when it was dried.
- Mold the mixture to the bowl as tightly as you can. Allow the Rice Krispie Treat mixture to dry uncovered for 24 hours. The next day I added a second layer of Rice Krispie Treat mixture. First I made another 6 cup batch and then repeated the same process - covering the bowl with a second layer of the mixture. Without this second layer, the bowl was too flimsy to hold its shape.
- To make the handle, I molded the Rice Krispie Treat mixture around a piece of a cardboard box, and shaped it into a handle I let the handle dry uncovered for two days. I attached the Easter Basket handle with two toothpicks on each side of the handle. Super easy!
- We filled our Easter Basket with yummy, Easter-colored Rice Krispie Easter Eggs. You can find all the directions you'll need to make this yummy Easter dessert here.
Did you Make this Recipe? Leave a review below, then snap a picture and tag @twosisterscrafting on Instagram so we can see it!
