I followed a recipe (that usually doesn't happen). I made these particularly thick and chewy. They were, hands down, the best rice krispy treats, I'd ever had. I credit the frosting I mixed into the melted marshmallows.
I think I ate, maybe, 6 rice krispy treats in my entire life up until the summer of 2008.
At that point, I had just graduated college and was living at home. In between job interviews, working at a bar, and pathetic attempts at trying to run, I started making rice krispy treats quite often. I'm not sure where this came from, other than the fact that my mom kept very well-stocked cupboards, and there were always marshmallows and rice krispies available. I made a pan at least a few nights a week and, if we're being honest, I ate most of it right out of the pot I stirred it up in. I do that with no-bake cookies too.
I forgot about my deep-seeded love for the rice krispy treat until last spring when I started creating some new combinations. S'mores, Funfetti, White Chocolate.
But these ones? They are the ultimate rice krispy treat.
Cake Batter Rice Krispy Treats
From the back of the cereal box
1/2 cup yellow cake mix (or white, or funfetti, or whatever)
1/2 cup cream cheese frosting
1 10-oz bag mini marshmallows
4 T. butter
1 t. vanilla
6 cup Rice Krispy cereal
In a large saucepan, melt the butter. Stir in the cake mix, cream cheese frosting, vanilla, and mini marshmallows. Mix well until the marshmallows have melted.
Fold in the cereal until it's all covered with the marshmallow mixture.
Spread into an 8x8 pan for thick bars or a 9x13 pan for thinner ones.
Happy Rice-Krispy-Treat-Eating!
