Chocolate Rice Crispie Cookies

Chocolate Rice Crispie Cookies can easily be turned into Cookie Monsters too 

Today was a lazy Saturday for me, since the week was spent preparing for a major workshop for 200 delegates relating to how best we can celebrate and support our arts and crafts sector in the eThekwini region. By the end of the week, I was pooped, but my daughter decided that we should bake. How useful it was to fall back on a standard favourite: rice crispies rolled in melted chocolate, then placed in cup-cake holders to set. 

As the Australians put it: "Too easy."

Chocolate Crispies Recipe

500 ml (2 cups) rice crispies

125 g (one slab) chocolate 

The method is fabulously simple. First, shave your chocolate, minding out for little hands that grab:

Shaving the chocolate with a large knife works well

Next, place chocolate either into microwave, in a container on low, or into a bain marie, or just place the chocolate in a container directly onto the stove on low heat. 

Add the rice crispies and coat them in melted chocolate. Now comes the fun part:

Shape the chocolate-coated rice crispies into balls by hand

Get your child to work with the slightly warm rice crispies. I find it easiest to mould them into cup-cake holders, as given below. Sometimes it is worth drizzling warm chocolate over them, to help mould the balls into shape.

The rice crispie cookies are taking shape

Once the chocolate has set - and you can speed up the process by placing them into the fridge, then you place sprinkles on top and eat.

When kids shape the chocolate rice crispie balls, they are not uniform in size, but still highly edible 

Share with bear if necessary.

Did you know that bears love to eat chocolate rice crispy cookie monsters? 

Also, as mentioned, the rice crispies do make superb bases for cookie monsters for a Halloween cake my daughter insisted on making and taking to her class at school. They are simple enough for a child to make and went down a treat.

Chocolate rice crispie cookie monsters are perfect decoration for an orange Halloween cake