Making Rice Krispy Pumpkins

Total Time: 40 minutes

Yield: 10-12 pumpkins

Ingredients:

• 6 cups mini marshmallows
• 5 cups rice krispy cereal
• 1 tsp yellow food coloring
• 1/4 tsp red food coloring
• 1/4 cup butter
• 6 mini Tootsie Rolls
• green icing color
• white Wilton's decorator icing
• piping tip #67 (leaf tip)
• piping tip #3
• piping bag and coupler

Steps:

1. In a large pot, over low heat, melt the butter. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Then add food coloring; stirring well.

2. Add rice krispy cereal and mix until well coated.

3. Coat hands with cooking spray to prevent sticking. Scoop out about 1/2 c. of the mixture, roll it in your hands to create a pumpkin shape.

4. Set the pumpkins on a piece of wax paper to cool and firm up. In the meantime, cut the Tootsie Rolls in half.


5. Once the pumpkins have firmed up, carefully press a Tootsie Roll half into the top of each one to create a stem.

6. Color the decorator icing to the desired shade of green.

7. Using piping tip #67, pipe a leaf on either side of the stem.

8. Switch to tip #3 and pipe a tendril coming off of the stem.