Just when I thought I had tried every rice crispy treat recipe under the sun….this recipe shows up on StumbleUpon.
I may or may not have immediately run to the store to by a cake mix to make it.
And…had a little too much fun playing with those gorgeous, colorful sprinkles.
And…enjoyed every single, glorious, hint-of-cake-batter-flavored bite.
And…shared the rest with friends so that I didn’t eat too many bites.
And…now I share it with all of you.
And…you should make some.
:)
Cake Batter Rice Crispy Treats
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 10 minutes
- Total Time: 40 minutes
- Yield: 12-16 servings 1x
Description
You will love this bright and colorful cake batter rice crispy treats recipe! Great for special occasions!
Ingredients
Scale
- 4 Tbsp. butter
- 1 (10 oz.) bag of mini-marshmallows
- 1/2 cup yellow cake mix (the dry cake mix, not prepared into a batter!)
- 5 cups crispy rice cereal
- 1 (1.75 oz.) container of sprinkles
Instructions
- Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat and add marshmallows. Stir until they begin to melt, then remove from heat. Whisk in the (dry) cake mix, then stir in cereal so it is completely coated with marshmallow mixture. Sprinkle in half of the sprinkles and briefly stir. (Don’t stir too much or the sprinkles will bleed out their color.) Press the mixture into a baking dish (any size will do) and top with remaining sprinkles. Let sit for about 30 minutes before cutting. I find spraying a knife with nonstick spray helps to cut them cleanly.
- *Disclaimer: You consume dry cake mix at your own risk.*
Notes
Recipe slightly adapted from How Sweet Eats
Just made these – LOVE ’em!! What a great idea! The hardest part about making them was letting them sit long enough for them to cool :o)
Hey everyone! Sorry so late responding. I modified the recipe above to note that this calls for DRY (not prepared into a batter) cake mix. And also offered a suggestion for using the remaining batter to make cake mix cookies. See the note above.
Thanks so much, and so glad that you’ve tried the recipe! It’s so fun!! :)
This may be a dumb question but did you make the actaully cake mix batter or just use the powder from the box?
Can you specify that you have to use DRY cake mix? I thought you had to use the mixed batter until I read the comments down below.
What do you do with the left over cake mix?
Be sure to keep your leftover cake mix in the freezer. Just take the bag out of the cake mix box, roll down and secure with a rubber band. You can put it in a freezer ziploc bag. It will keep indefinitely. You can use dry cake mix (light colored: vanilla, yellow, white…) on top of any pie filling in a greased baking dish. Just drizzle butter over the dry mix and bake @350 for 30 min. Easy cobbler, or “crumble.”
I cannot wait to try this recipe! I have seen a few differnt blogs that have this recipe posted and I am very excited to try it myself!
Do these need to be refrigerated? Also how well do they hold up in the heat of a summer day? Thanks they look great, and I want to send them to my husband which is why I ask!
I LOVE this recipe thank you for sharing it! I was wondering if you made the cake batter like it says to on the back of the box and then added 1/3 cup into the melted marshmallows?
Thanks!
Thanks so much for this recipe! Just made them and I found I even needed to add more than 1/3c of the dry mix to get a recognizable cake batter flavor…probably more like 2/3 for me. But I love them!
Perfect idea, though! I love them!