Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats Ice Cream Sandwiches!

For some reason, the wonderful ladies at TheMotherhood.com selected me to be one of their Rice Krispies challengers!  I guess they didn’t realize that I am, UMMMM a bit of a fail in the kitchen but I loooooves me some Rice Krispie Treat so I accepted the challenge anyway!   Plus, they provided the ingredients for free and gave me a little compensation for my time, which I SO appreciate!  My fellow challengers and I each received a clue in the mail (along with a box of Rice Krispies and some marshmallows) and then we had to find each other on Twitter to put all our clues together to find our theme.  Here was my clue:

After my challengers and I put our heads together, we discovered our theme for the contest: “Fourth of July’s “cooler” when kids help create Rice Krispies treats recipes.”

Sooo, the challenge would be to create Rice Krispies treats with a frozen ingredient (the “cooler” part) and to have my kids help me create the recipe!  Sophie’s not quite old enough to get that yet so I had Joshua help me.  I couldn’t think of anything frozen that I could possibly want in my Rice Krispie treats except for ice cream. So I decided on ice cream and I let Joshua help me pick the other ingredients.  He decided on peanut butter and M&M’s.  SO yesterday we set out to create Peanut Butter M&M Rice Krispie Treats Ice Cream Sandwiches!  Is that a long name or what??

Here’s the recipe:

3 tbs. butter

About 30 big marshmallows

1/2 cup peanut butter

4 cups Rice Krispies cereal

1/2 large bag of M&Ms

1 pint chocolate ice cream

Combine butter and marshmallows in microwave-safe bowl.  Microwave on high about 45 seconds or until melted.  Stir until smooth, then stir in peanut butter.

(Peanut butter, butter, and marshmallows all stirred together. It smelled so good!)

Stir in Rice Krispies cereal` and M&Ms until well mixed.  Using a buttered spatula or wax paper, press into 9 x 13 pan and let cool 10 minutes.  When cool, cut into 4 x3 inch rectangles.  Spread 1 scoop chocolate ice cream on one rectangle and top with another rectangle to make an ice cream sandwich.  ENJOY!

My little helper!!

Not too pretty, but VERY tasty!

Ready to dig in!

Now I must say that these were very, VERY tasty. Super-rich too, I definitely needed a glass of milk with mine. However, I don’t think I would use the M&Ms again. They cracked and melted when being stirred and the treats just didn’t turn out very pretty. But that was the ingredient my Joshua wanted, so that’s what we went with! And they were super-yummy.

Thanks to Rice Krispies and the Motherhood for making me a Rice Krispies Ambassador!  It was a fun challenge – and I loved having my son’s help.  It made me realize that I need to involve him in the kitchen more.

What’s YOUR favorite way to eat a Rice Krispies treat?