Super Bowl Football Rice Krispies Treats

We basically followed the recipe for rice krispies treats, so nothing particularly special here, except that we used Cocoa Krispies, a leaf cookie cutter (since we don't have a football, we just smoothed the edges after cutting) and some vanilla icing and voila! They turned out nicely- a little crunchy at first, but delish once chewed a bit. Not sure what we could have done differently to make them softer- maybe a little more butter (we used 1/4 cup, although we saw another recipe that called for 1/3) or not cutting them into shapes (but where's the fun in that?!). Here's what we used:

5 cups rice krispies
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1 bag (about 40 large) marshmallows
optional: icing

Melt butter on stove, add marshmallows and turn into marshmallow fluff over low heat. Remove from heat, quickly add cereal. Once coated, pour into a 9x13-ish pan to cool. **Tip: if you use a buttered silicone spatula, this is SO much easier!
If you're going to be cookie cutting, do it fast before your treats cool. Buttering the cookie cutter may make the job easier, too.

For the icing, we used a disposable cake decorating bag, although you could use any plastic baggie, cut off the corner and squeeze it on out! We put laces on some treats and added an outline to some. They were very festive and fun :)

Of course, you can add all sorts of goodies into rice krispies treats, and even add peanut butter to the mixture for an extra special kick. Mmm, enjoy!