nutella rice krispy treats

On Saturday Mitch and I were looking for something fun (but mostly, easy) to do because sometimes we're boring and sometimes we like to be lazy on the weekends (and by we, I mean "I").

While catching up on some blog reading, I came across this recipe for Nutella Rice Krispy treats over at I Love You This Much by Sarah. I was like, ummmm, awesome, we must make these. And so we did. And ohhhhhh mannnnnnn.

You can see Sarah's original post here, but here's the recipe:

I promise we (mostly) resisted the urge to eat this straight out of the jar.

Recipe:
5 cups rice krispies cereal
1 jar marshmallow fluff
4 tbsp butter
1/2 cup nutella
1/2 cup peanut butter
6 oz chocolate chips

Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium low heat. Add the marshmallow fluff and cook for about 5 minutes, stirring to combine. Pour the marshmallow mixture into a large bowl with the rice krispies, and mix well. Press the mixture into a greased 9*13 baking dish, and let cool at room temperature.
In a double broiler, or heatproof bowl placed over a pot of simmering water, mix peanut butter, nutella and chocolate chips together, until the chocolate melts and the mixture is smooth. Remove from heat and let cool for about one minute, stirring so that the mixture doesn't harden.

Spread on top of rice krispies, and chill in the refrigerator for about one hour.

Holy crap, this was the easiest thing I've ever made in my life and I totally felt like a badass using a double broiler. Me! DOUBLE BROILING SOMETHING! And, okay, sure, I probably shouldn't be too proud of myself for simply melting chocolate and peanut butter in a pan... But, whatever, I totally am.

Pre-sitting in the fridge for an hour. I was excited, it's fine.

Finished product. Yummmm.

Oh, and Mitch helped.

Success. Also, have you ever seen another boy look this good in a backwards cap? Bet you haven't.


Make these now and eat them all in one sitting, y'all. No shame.

lemons into lemonade (metaphorically-speaking)

I'm not much of a cook, I'll admit, but for some reason I seem to be a pretty decent baker.

Last summer I started searching for recipes online of some of my favorite cookies, etc. and baking just for fun. I guess it was probably a combination of boredom and my near-constant-need to create. Anyway, it's not like I've tried anything fancy...just your standarad chocolate chip/oatmeal raisin/snickerdoodle cookies kind of thing. But damn, they were good. I've been pretty proud of myself.

All that to say that yesterday I attempted peanut butter chocolate chip cookies to bring with me to Nac this weekend. I've made Mitch and his roommates cookies a couple times already this semester and they keep asking for more, so I was prepared to provide. I thought.

Presenting to you my very first (to date) baking disaster.

Wtf?
I honestly have no idea what happened. I followed the recipe exactly; no ingredients were left out, the right amounts were added in, the oven wasn't too hot...and yet...this was the result? I was pretty disappointed. And annoyed for wasting my own time. I don't even know why I bothered making more because, surprise surprise, they continued to look like the picture above. I'm dumb, obviously.

Just as I was getting ready to scrap the whole mess and put it out of my mind, my mom suggested I break it all up into small pieces and use as an ice cream topping. Genius! So that's what I did. :)


Ta-da!
Luckily boys'll eat anything that's half-way decent and free, so when I called Mitch and told him about the change, he was just as excited. Ha. On my way to their house tonight, I think I'll stop off and buy them some vanilla ice cream so we can all try it out. Fingers crossed it's wonderful! :)