Name: Easter Rice Krispie Treats - Baby Chicks
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 5 min
Ingredients: 4 tablespoons salted butter; 10 ounces marshmallows; yellow food coloring; 4 2/3 cups Rice Krispies Cereal; 18 (4mm) black sugar pearls or mini chocolate chips; 18 Mini Orange Starburst Fruit Chews; 5 Mini Yellow Starburst Fruit Chews

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Celebrate Easter by making and decorating these cute Rice Krispie Treat Chicks for your family.

Everyone will love these delicious egg-shaped marshmallow cereal treats decorated with fruit-flavored candy and sugar pearls.

These cute Easter Rice Krispie Treats are easy enough for kids to decorate.

If your family loves our very best Rice Krispie Treats and you are looking for a fun dessert to make together for Easter, you have found it!

The design of each egg-shaped baby chick is so simple.

All you have to do is cut some orange and yellow Starburst Fruit Chews minis to create orange beaks and feet and yellow head feathers.

Add two black sugar pearl eyes, and you will have a whole brood of baby chick cereal treats made in no time.

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Be sure to watch the video to see the step-by-step process for decorating these cute Easter Rice Krispie treats.

Let’s make some chicks.

You’ll need:

4 tablespoons salted butter (you’ll get the best flavor if you use European-style butter)
10 ounces marshmallows
yellow food coloring
4 2/3 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
3 3/8-inch by 3-inch egg-shaped cookie cutter
18 (4mm) black sugar pearls or mini chocolate chips
18 Mini Orange Starburst Fruit Chews (I used the minis because they are softer than the larger wrapped squares.)
5 Mini Yellow Starburst Fruit Chews

The quantities listed above make 9 cereal treat chicks using a 3 3/8-inch long by 3-inch wide egg-shaped cookie cutter.

You can use any size egg cutter that you have on hand. You just may need to adjust the size of the beaks and feet and you may need more candy to decorate your chicks.

Make yellow egg-shaped crispy treat chicks.

Spray a large mixing bowl with baking spray (or grease with butter).
Pour 4 2/3 cups of Rice Krispies Cereal into the bowl and set aside.
Heat 4 tablespoons of salted butter and 10 ounces of marshmallows over low heat in a medium saucepan until about 75% of the marshmallows have melted.
Remove from the heat and stir, smashing the marshmallows, until completely melted.
Alternatively, you can heat the marshmallows and butter in a large mixing bowl in the microwave on high heat for 1 minute. Then stir vigorously, smashing the marshmallows, until melted.
Stir in 3-4 drops of yellow food coloring.
Pour the yellow marshmallows over the Rice Krispies Cereal and stir until well blended.
Set aside to cool for 5 minutes.
Spray your hands and the inside of your egg-shaped cookie cutter with baking spray or grease with butter.
Set the cookie cutter onto a silicone baking mat or a non-stick baking pan. You could also spray a piece of tin foil with baking spray. You just want to work on a non-stick surface. The marshmallow treats will still be rather sticky.
Pick up a handful of the yellow Rice Krispie Treat mixture and gently press it into your egg-shaped cookie cutter.
Fill the cookie cutter and flatten the cereal mixture.
Lift the cookie cutter up off the egg-shaped crispy treat.
Repeat, creating 9 treats (or more if you use a smaller cookie cutter).

Decorate the treats.

Press two black sugar pearls or mini chocolate chips into the Rice Krispie Treat about an inch from the top.
Cut one corner off of a Mini Orange Starburst Fruit Chew and shape the larger part into a chick’s beak.
Press it onto the Rice Krispie Treat just under the eyes.
Cut another orange candy into 6 strips to create the chick’s feet. Press them onto the treat near the bottom edge.
Cut a Mini Yellow Starburst Fruit Chew into 8 strips. Press four of the strips at the very top of the treat to create the chick’s head feathers. Curl them slightly to make them look whispy!
Repeat, decorating all of your baby chick rice crispy treats.

NOTES:

You’ll want to decorate your treats while the marshmallows in the treats are still sticky so the candy will stick. If the candy won’t stick you can use melted chocolate, clear piping gel, frosting, or marshmallow fluff as “glue.”

Alternative decorating methods:

You can alternatively pipe orange candy melts onto the cereal treats to create the beaks and feet and chocolate candy melts for the eyes.
You could also use orange and yellow saltwater taffy instead of the Starburst.
Or you could decorate the chicks using modeling chocolate or fondant.

You can decorate lots of different Easter desserts to look like baby chicks. They are so simple to make just by adding big eyes, an orange beak, and two little chicken feet to a yellow dessert like lemon bars or cake balls.

Baby Chick Themed Easter Treats

TIPS for making Baby Chick Themed Treats for Easter:

You can create chicken feet and beaks using orange candy melts, orange slices or gumdrops, modeling chocolate, fondant, frosting, or even circus peanuts.
My favorite candies to use to make beaks on smaller baby chick treats are orange candy coated sunflower seeds.

Ingredients and Supplies

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Cute baby chick Rice Krispie Treats with candy feet, beaks, eyes, and feathers.

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Easter Rice Krispie Treats - Baby Chicks

Beth Klosterboer

Bright yellow egg-shaped Rice Krispie Treats decorated with candy to look like cute baby chicks for Easter are easy enough to make that kids can help.

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Prep Time 30 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 9

Calories 215 kcal

Equipment

3 3/8-inch by 3-inch egg-shaped cookie cutter

Ingredients

Rice Krispie Treats

4 tablespoons salted butter
10 ounces marshmallows
yellow food coloring
4 2/3 cups Rice Krispies Cereal

Decorations

18 (4mm) black sugar pearls or mini chocolate chips
18 Mini Orange Starburst Fruit Chews
5 Mini Yellow Starburst Fruit Chews

Instructions

Rice Krispie Treats

Grease a large mixing bowl with butter or baking spray and pour in 4 2/3 cups of Rice Krispies Cereal, then set aside.
Heat the salted butter and marshmallows over low heat in a medium saucepan until about 75% of the marshmallows have melted.
Remove from the heat and stir, smashing the marshmallows, until completely melted.
Stir in 3 drops of yellow food coloring.
Pour over the Rice Krispies Cereal and stir until well blended.
Set aside to cool for 5 minutes.
Grease your hands and the inside of an egg-shaped cookie cutter with butter or baking spray.
Set the cookie cutter onto a silicone baking mat or a non-stick baking pan.
Fill the cookie cutter with yellow cereal treat mixture.
Flatten the top.
Remove the cookie cutter, set it down next to the egg-shaped treat, and repeat creating a total of 9 egg-shaped treats.

Decorations:

Press two black sugar pearl "eyes" into the Rice Krispie Treat about an inch from the top.
Cut and shape one Mini Orange Starburst Fruit Chew into a chick's beak and press it onto the treat just below the eyes.
Cut another mini orange Starburst into 6 strips and use them to create two feet.
Press them onto the treat near the bottom edge.
Cut a Mini Yellow Starburst Fruit Chew into 8 strips.
Press four of the strips at the very top of the treat to create the chick's head feathers.
Repeat.

Notes

Microwave Melting Directions

Heat the marshmallows and butter in a large mixing bowl in the microwave on high heat for 1 minute. Then stir vigorously, smashing the marshmallows, until melted.

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