Halloween Rice Krispie Treats

These easy Halloween Rice Krispie treats are super cute and so much fun. They're always a huge hit with kids of all ages!

Table of Contents

• 🗝️ Key takeaways
• 🧾 Ingredients
• 💡Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Ideas
• 🔪 Instructions
• Serving idea
• 🎥 Video
• 🥫 Storage
• 💭 Things to know
• 👩‍🍳 FAQs
• 📚 Related recipes
• 🫶 Restless Chipotle recommends
• 📞 The last word
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

🗝️ Key takeaways

• Is there anyone that doesn't love a gooey Rice Krispie Treat? I don't think so!
• You can decorate this classic treat so many different ways for Halloween and other holidays, too. They're perfect for bake sales!
• Using European-style butter gives you so much more flavor.

Extra chewy and gooey, my favorite recipe for classic Rice Krispie treats has the perfect ratio of marshmallows, butter, and, of course, Rice Krispie cereal.

Decorate these fun, crispy cereal treats for Halloween parties, add them to your bowl of Halloween candy, or give them out as gifts to your spookiest friends!

🧾 Ingredients

💡Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Ideas

Here are some ideas of what you can make with the Rice Krispie treat recipe and a little imagination.

I'm sure you'll come up with hundreds more—no magic necessary!

• Rice Krispie Treat Monsters—Use different colors of candy melts (you could watch Monsters, Inc. to get inspired!) and lots of candy eyes.
• Spooky Spiders—Dip the Rice Krispie treats into chocolate and use pretzel sticks as legs. Or, thinly drizzle white candy melts in circles. Then, use a toothpick to drag from the center out for eerie spider webs!
• Mummy Rice Krispie Treats—White chocolate drizzled diagonally in wide bands would create mummy-tastic treats. Don't forget the eyes!
• Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats—Use orange candy melts (or add food coloring to the Rice Krispies cereal mix) and a circular cutter. Add a green M&M as the stem.
• Frankenstein Rice Krispies—Make the scientist's famous monster by using black candy melts or black frosting as hair!
• Don't Forget Dracula—Red piping gel makes scarily realistic blood.

🔪 Instructions

Note: This is an overview of the instructions. The full instructions are in the green recipe card below.

Spray a 13x9-inch pan with non-stick spray and cover it with parchment paper or wax paper, leaving some hanging over the sides. Spray again.

1. Melt butter.
2. Add the marshmallows and stir until melted.
3. Stir in the salt and vanilla extract, if using.
4. Add 7 cups of rice cereal and stir until the cereal is covered in the melted marshmallow mixture.

Gently press into the prepared pan. Let cool completely.

How to Make Halloween Rice Krispie Treats Characters

These simple steps are the same for any design you want to make, be it scary monsters, ghosts, or Frankenstein Rice Krispie treats.

It just depends on the different colors used and how you apply the various decorations.

There's no right or wrong way to do this, y'all. Just have fun and be creative! I've listed some more inspiration a little bit later in this post for how you can decorate these festive treats.

1. Cut the Rice Krispy treats into squares, rectangles, or other desired shapes. For simplicity's sake, we'll call the cut Krispy treats "bars."
2. Melt the candy melts according to the instructions on the package.
3. Dip a straw into the melted chocolate and push gently into one of the bars. Lay it flat.
4. Spoon a generous amount of the melted chocolate coating on the side facing up.
5. Using a silicon basting brush, spread and cover the top and sides of the bar with the chocolate.
6. Garnish with sprinkles or edible glitter if you're using it.
7. Dab a tiny bit of the melted candy coating on the back of one of the candy eyeballs and carefully set it in place.
8. Repeat with the other eye... or, eyes. (Ooh, scary!)
9. For Jack-o-Lanterns, use semi-sweet chocolate chips or mini chocolate chips to make the eyes and mouth.
10. Move on to the next bar. Repeat until all are decorated.
11. Chill for 30 minutes.
12. Cover with squares of plastic wrap tied together with curly ribbon in Halloween colors.

Next time try these gooey brownies and decorate them for Halloween, too!

Serving idea

Instead of just laying these easy Halloween treats flat, I decided to fill a jelly jar with candy. I used Reeses Pieces, but you can use candy corn, wrapped peanut butter cups, or whatever else you like.

Add a paper cupcake liner to the top of each jar and stick the straw down through the paper liner. The candy will hold the Rice Krispie treats in place.

🥫 Storage

These Halloween Rice Krispie Treats store fine at room temperature for up to three days as long as you cover them with plastic wrap.

Because they're covered in a chocolate coating, they stay fresh a little longer than plain/regular Rice Krispies.

If your house is really warm you'll want to keep them in a very cool area so the chocolate coating doesn't melt.

You can stack the easy treats for storage as long as you separate each layer with some parchment paper or wax paper.

Freeze

You can also put them in an airtight container and freeze them for several months. Great to batch in advance, and the perfect treat when you just want a little something sweet.

💭 Things to know

Expert Tip: If the Wilton candy melts are too thick after melting, add coconut oil or Crisco one tablespoon at a time until you get the right consistency.

• Rice Krispie cereal is not gluten-free but some different brands are. Check your ingredients to keep these fun Halloween treats gluten-free if necessary.
• Spray your hands with non-stick spray before working with the treats. This will keep them from sticking. You'll need to reapply often.
• Press the cereal mixture down into the pan gently but don't pack it hard. Doing so will make the treats too dense.
• Use European-style butter like Kerrygold for a better texture and flavor. DO NOT use margarine!
• Use salted butter. It cuts down on the sweetness ever so slightly.
• If you don't want to use candy melts, add green food coloring to the marshmallow/butter mixture for the Monster Rice Krispie Treats.
• You can also cut shapes out with a cookie cutter sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. This works well with a pumpkin or a ghost cookie cutter—or some other simple shape. Great for a Halloween party!

👩‍🍳 FAQs

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You'll need the following items to make this recipe successfully.

• Rice Krispies cereal
• European-style salted butter
• Marshmallows or mini marshmallows
• Wilton candy melts in different colors, as desired
• Candy eyes
• Nonstick cooking spray
• 13x9-inch pan
• parchment paper
• large pot or microwave-safe bowl
• basting brush

📞 The last word

When back to school rolls around it's time to start planning for the various classroom activities and class parties kids are going to be involved in, right?

These easy Halloween Rice Krispie Treats are SO easy peasy and so much fun to make that you'll be thinking of ways to decorate them all year long.

Grinch or snowman for Christmas, an army of spooky ghosties and Frankenstein Rice Krispie Treats monsters for Halloween, Easter bunny... use your imagination!

Better yet, use your kids' imaginations! They really are fun treats any time of the year.

If you click on the number of servings in the recipe card you can adjust the measurements up or down for the exact number of servings you need.

If you love this recipe please give it 5 stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

📖 Recipe

First published August 14, 2021. Last updated October 7, 2023, for editorial improvements.