Watermelon Cereal Treats

6/14/2013

I am growing watermelon in my garden again this year. I can hardly wait to pick my first, ripe, juicy melon from the vine. If everything continues to progress on schedule, we should be enjoying our first home grown watermelon of the season in about another month. Until then, we can enjoy watermelon rice crispy treats. This recipe came from glorioustreats.com. It's a keeper.

Watermelon Crispy Treats
For the green (rind) outer ring-
4 cups Rice Krispies cereal
4 cups mini marshmallows
3 Tablespoons butter
green food coloring
For the red (watermelon) center-
5 cups Rice Krispies cereal
5 cups mini marshmallows
3 Tablespoons butter
red food coloring
mini chocolate chips

Add 4 cups cereal to a large bowl, set aside.

Melt 4 cups marshmallows and 3 tablespoons butter in a large bowl in the microwave about 2 minutes, or until very puffy.

Carefully remove from microwave, stir, and add in green coloring. Pour green marshmallow mixture over the bowl of cereal. Stir mixture together, quickly, using a buttered spatula.

Divide the mixture between the two greased cake pans, and press along the sides of the pans, creating a ring about 1.5 inches tall and 1-1.5 inches wide/thick.

Repeat as above, using the ingredients listed (left).
Press red mixture into the center of the two cake pans, press down and smoothing the top surface with a buttered spatula.