These dipped Jack Skellington Treats from the movie, The Nightmare Before Christmas screams Halloween. Everyone will love these fun Rice Krispie Treats!
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Jack Skellington Treats
Halloween means that it is time to break out the Halloween treats and these Hallowe Rice Krispies Treats are one of my favorites. If you love Nightmare Before Christmas, you are going to LOVE these dipped treats. Designed to look like a Jack Skellington Mickey Mouse, everyone will ooh and ahh about these treats.
What is the Best Candy Melt or Chocolate for Dipping?
When choosing candy melts, I like to use Wilton or other candy melts that are designed to be melted. However, I have used regular chocolate chips and while it works, I have found that candy melts work much better.
Where Can I Find a Cookie Cutter for These?
When looking for cookie cutters like these you can check big box stores like Walmart or look in craft stores like AC Moore or Michaels. This cookie cutter is made by Wilton. I find it easier to the Mickey Mouse Cookies Cutter head online so I do not have to go from store to store looking.
More Halloween Snacks for Kids
There are so many fun Halloween snacks for kids. If you love making new ones, you have to try some of these other Halloween snacks for kids.
- Halloween Fudge – Looks Like Candy Corn
- Easy Halloween Pudding Cups
- Halloween Spider Cookies
- Simple Halloween Bat Twinkies
- Yummy Halloween Monster Bundt Cake
- Halloween Minion Mummies
- Halloween Mummy Twinkies
Ingredients for Dipped Rice Krispie Treats
- unsalted butter
- marshmallows
- Rice Krispies cereal
- eggs
- cream of tarter
- powder sugar
- pure almond extract
Equipment Needed
- Large saucepan
- Wax paper
- 13 x 9 in pan
- Baking spray
- Mickey Mouse Head cookie cutter
- disposable piping bags with number 2 tip
- squeeze bottle
- black gel food coloring
- Black edible spray
How to Make Jack Skellington Halloween Rice Krispie Treats
- Spray the pan with cooking spray. Melt butter in a large saucepan on low heat. Add the marshmallows and stir until they are completely melted. Remove from heat and add the rice Krispies cereal. Stir until all of the cereal is coated.
- Using wax paper, press the cereal into the pan and let it cool.
- Carefully remove the rice Krispies sheet from the pan.
- Use the cookie cutter to cut out Mickey’s head. Set aside.
- Next, make the royal icing. Using a stand mixing, beat together the egg whites, cream of tartar, powdered sugar, and almond extract until it is well combined and is forming stiff peaks. This takes about 7 minutes.
- Scoop 1/2 cup of icing into a bowl and mix in a few drops of black food gel and then scoop the icing into a piping bag.
- Scoop some white icing into the second piping bag
- Mix in 2 tbsp of water into the remaining white icing and pour into the squeeze bottle
- Next, it is time to decorate the rice Krispies. Line up the Rice Krispies
- Outline the mickey head with the white icing and then set it aside for a few minutes to allow to dry.
- Squeeze some of the icing on the center of the mickey head. Use a butter knife to spread the icing on the mickey head and then set it aside to let the icing firm up.
- Using the black icing, pipe out jacks face and allow to dry.
- Use the black spray paint, spray the edges of the Rice Krispy treat to create the desired effect. Let it dry before serving.
Rice Krispie Jack Skellington Treats
Ingredients
Rice Krispies Treat Ingredients:
- 3 TBSP unsalted butter
- 1 package marshmallows Or 4 cups miniature marshmallows
- 6 C Rice Krispies cereal
Royal Icing Ingredients:
- 3 large egg whites
- 1 tsp cream of tarter
- 3 C powder sugar
- 1 tsp pure almond extract
Instructions
Rice Krispies Directions:
- Prep pan with cooking spray.
- Melt butter in a large saucepan on low heat. Slowly add the marshmallows. Stir the marshmallows until completely melted. Set aside.
- Add rice krispies cereal. Stir until all of the cereal is coated.
- Using wax paper press the mixture into the pan. Cool.
- Carefully remove the rice Krispies sheet from the pan.
- Use the cookie cutter to cut out Mickey’s head. Set aside.
Royal Icing Directions:
- Using a standing mixer, beat the egg whites, cream of tarter, powder sugar, and almond extract until combined, smooth and stiff with peaks, about 7 minutes
- Scoop 1/2 C of the icing into a bowl and mix in a few drops of the black gel food coloring
- Scoop the black icing into 1 piping bag
- Scoop some white icing into the second piping bag
- Mix in 2 tbsp of water into the remaining white icing and pour into the squeeze bottle
Decorating Directions :
- Line up the rice krispie mickey heads on a waxed paper lined counter.
- Outline the mickey head with the white icing.
- Set aside for a few minutes to allow to dry.
- Squeeze some of the icing on the center of the mickey
- head. Use a butter knife to spread the icing on the mickey head.
- Set aside for the icing to firm up.
- Using the black icing, pipe out jacks face
- Allow to dry
- Use the black spray paint, spray the edges of the rice krispy treat for effect
- Allow to dry
Last Step:
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- Large saucepan
- Wax paper
- 13 x 9 in pan
- Baking spray
- Mickey Mouse Head cookie cutter
- 2 disposable piping bags with number 2 tip
- 1 squeeze bottle
- black gel food coloring
- Black edible spray pain
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