If you’re looking for the cutest Halloween treat to make this season, our Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats are it. They’re a little bit of effort to make all the faces, but it’s so worth it.
For more ways to make this the best holiday, check out all of our Halloween posts.
If you know me, you know that I’m always making a festive treat when there’s a holiday close. And of course, Halloween lends itself to the most adorable spooky treats. So, this time of year, I get into the Halloween spirit and spend my weekends baking and decorating treats for our friends and neighbors. It’s so much fun. That’s how these Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats came to be.
If you want to know the truth, though, these aren’t the only Halloween Rice Krispies treats I made from this batch. I only used a third of it to make Frankensteins. I used another third to make pumpkins and the final third to make mummies. Those recipes are coming soon and we’ll get them up on the block just as quickly as I can type them.
Sure, decorating Rice Krispies treats to look like Halloween characters requires a few extra steps, but I promise you, they’re absolutely worth it, especially if you’re making these as class treats for your kids or for an at home Halloween party. Everyone will be super impressed.
These Frankenstein treats are just one of our fun treats for spooky season. For more ideas, check out all of our Recipes For Halloween Treats.
Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats Recipe
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Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats Ingredients:
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 5 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- 6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
- 1/2 bag green candy melts
- 1/4 bag black candy melts
- 48 medium candy eyes
How To Make Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats:
Melt the butter in a Dutch oven (or a large pot) over medium heat.
Add in the mini marshmallows and stir with a bamboo spatula until they’re completely melted.
Remove the Dutch oven from the heat and add in the cereal.
Stir until everything is combined.
Pour the cereal mixture into a greased 13- x 9-inch baking pan. Gently push the treats down with bamboo spatula until they’re even.
Resist the temptation to push the treats down with your hand. If you add too much pressure, you’ll end up with really dense treats that taste stale. Using the least amount of force possible results in really soft Rice Krispies treats.
Let the pan cool for an hour.
Put a cutting board on top of the pan, then flip it over. The marshmallow cereal treats blob (for lack of a better word) will slide out with very little effort.
Cut the large treat into 24 rectangles.
Melt the green candy melts according to the package. In general, you’ll want to microwave them for one minute and then stir. Continue melting and stirring at 30 second intervals until they’re completely melted.
Side note: If you’ve never used candy melts before, our Tips For Using Candy Melts is a great place to start.
Spoon some of the green candy melts onto the flat side of one of the cereal treats.
Use the back of the spoon to spread it around into a flat, even layer.
Melt the black candy melts according to the package.
Spoon the black candy melts into a ziptop plastic bag. Cut off a small section of the corner to turn the ziptop pack into a piping bag.
Pipe black into the top of the cereal treat to make Frankenstein’s hair.
Using a toothpick to spread the candy melts around, as you would do with royal icing, really helps.
Put a small dot of melted candy melt on the back of one of the candy eyeballs. Stick it down. Do that again with the other eye.
Use the homemade piping bag with the black candy melts to pipe a mouth and stitches onto the face. Set it aside to cool while you make the others.
Try and vary the expressions of the Frankenstein, just to make them more interesting to look at.
Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats: Frequently Asked Questions
To make these treats, you need a prepared pan. We suggest using a little bit of butter to do that because it’s easiest and doesn’t change the flavor of the treats. Alternatively, you could use nonstick cooking spray but I personally think it changes the flavor of the marshmallow treats, so I don’t recommend it.
In theory you can lay down a piece of parchment paper or wax paper in the pan. If you don’t lay it perfectly flat, though, you’ll end up with crinkles on the flat side of your treats, which makes them harder to decorate.
Homemade Rice Krispies Treats are best on the day you make them or the next day.
If you need them to last longer than that, wrap them in plastic wrap and put them in a freezer-safe bag or airtight container. You can store them in the freezer for about two weeks. Remove them a few hours before your Halloween parties.
You absolutely don’t want to store them in the fridge. They’ll get really hard and stale.
You can use any brand of rice cereal. Personally, I didn’t use Rice Krispies cereal in this recipe because generic rice cereal is cheaper and I’m often on a budget, even when it comes to holiday treats.
You can absolutely use full sized marshmallows when you’re making Rice Krispies treats. You’d want to use an entire 10 oz. bag rather than 5.5 cups.
The only thing is mini marshmallows melt a lot easier, and if you’re looking for this to be an easy treat, go with the mini ones.
Let’s talk about those black candy melts for a minute. You might not be able to find them in the baking aisle at your local grocery store. Only one of my Walmarts actually carries black. The rest carry dark chocolate candy melts, which dry brown not black.
Personally, I think Frankenstein needs black hair and facial features in order to be Frankenstein. If not, you’re just making some little guys with green faces.
Coloring melted chocolate chips with food coloring isn’t as easy as you would think. You would need a gel-based food coloring. If you use traditional food coloring, it can cause your white chocolate to cease. This doesn’t always happen and it doesn’t always happen instantly, but it does happen and there’s no amount of coconut oil you can stir into it to liquify it again.
Since you really need a ton of green to color all of Frankenstein’s face, I suggest you stick with the candy melts.
Check your store’s app to see if they have black in stock. If not, you can order black candy melts online to have on hand when you need them.
Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats
If you’re looking for the cutest Halloween treat to make this season, our Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats are it. They’re a little bit of effort to make all the faces, but it’s so worth it.
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 5 1/2 cups mini marshmallows
- 6 cups Rice Krispies cereal
- 1/2 bag green candy melts
- 1/4 bag black candy melts
- 48 medium candy eyes
Instructions
- Melt the butter in a Dutch oven (or a large pot) over medium heat.
- Add in the mini marshmallows and stir with a bamboo spatula until they’re completely melted.
- Remove the Dutch oven from the heat and add in the cereal. Stir until everything is combined.
- Pour the cereal mixture into a greased 13- x 9-inch baking pan. Gently push the treats down with bamboo spatula until they’re even.
- Let the pan cool for an hour.
- Put a cutting board on top of the pan, then flip it over. Cut the large treat into 24 rectangles.
- Melt the green candy melts according to the package. Spoon some of the green candy melts onto the flat side of one of the cereal treats. Use the back of the spoon to spread it around into a flat, even layer.
- Melt the black candy melts according to the package.
- Spoon the black candy melts into a ziptop plastic bag. Cut off a small section of the corner to turn the ziptop pack into a piping bag.
- Pipe black into the top of the cereal treat to make Frankenstein’s hair.
- Using a toothpick to spread the candy melts around, as you would do with royal icing, really helps.
- Put a small dot of melted candy melt on the back of one of the candy eyeballs. Stick it down. Do that again with the other eye.
- Use the homemade piping bag with the black candy melts to pipe a mouth and stitches onto the face. Set it aside to cool while you make the others.
Notes
Try and vary the expressions of the Frankenstein, just to make them more interesting to look at.
Nutrition Information
Yield
24Serving Size
1Amount Per Serving Calories 124Total Fat 2gSaturated Fat 1gTrans Fat 0gUnsaturated Fat 1gCholesterol 4mgSodium 50mgCarbohydrates 27gFiber 0gSugar 15gProtein 1g
Have you made these Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats? Let us know how it went in the comments.
stephanie
Thursday 26th of October 2023
Thank you for sharing your Frankenstein Rice Krispies Treats recipe with us!
Jhuls
Thursday 26th of October 2023
One of the cutest Halloween treats I have seen!
Jennifer Wise
Monday 16th of October 2023
These are super cute!
Jennifer A Stewart
Friday 9th of October 2015
How fun for a kids party! My kid's school is always looking for a fun way to give treats and these are great because the kids can help!
Patti
Tuesday 6th of October 2015
Lisa,
This are super cute and a great way to give out candy to the little ones. Well, I agree with you, not too little. Hope you enjoyed our first week as co-host. I know I did.