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These Rice Krispie Turkey Legs are such fun Thanksgiving treats that the kids will love. So easy using cereal, pretzel rods, marshmallows and chocolate!
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Made these for the Nursery school’s Thanksgiving “feast” the kids gobbled them up. Haha see what I did there? I crack myself up. 🙂
Rice Krispie Turkey Legs
We came up with this idea several years ago when we made our April Fools’ Day KFC Dessert. We added “flakes” to look like fried chicken. Then we decided to make them this way to look like turkey drumsticks for Thanksgiving and they have been such a huge hit!
This is also a fun treat to make for Thanksgiving class parties at school that the kids will absolutely love! You will love that these really only take just minutes to make…so easy!! For other fun Turkey themed projects, check out the Easy Turkey Cupcakes and Turkey Pretzel Treats.
Ingredients You Will Need:
- Rice Krispies Cereal
- Pretzel Rods
- White Candy Melts
- Mini Marshmallows
- Butter
How To Make Rice Krispie Treat Turkey Legs
- First, you break your pretzel rods in half.
- Then you dip the ends in melted white chocolate. Add on 2 mini marshmallows to the ends and let set.
- Next, dip the rest of the rod in the melted chocolate until fully coated.
- Now you grab a hand full of your Rice cereal treat mix and shape it into a ball. You can use gloves, butter, or spray your hands with cooking spray to prevent any sticking. Press the end of the pretzel into the ball and shape it to look like a turkey leg.
- Place them onto wax paper and let them set for about 15 minutes.
These will store nicely to make ahead of time and make sure a fun display on your Thanksgiving table!
Rice Krispies Turkey Legs are also a fun treat that the Kids can create all by themselves…they will have a blast!
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Ingredients
- 8 cups Rice Krispies Cereal
- 6 Pretzel Rods
- 1 bag white chocolate candy melts
- 10 oz. bag mini marshmallows, reserve 24
- 1/4 cup butter
Instructions
- Break your pretzel rods in half and melt your white chocolate according to the directions.
- Dip the ends of the pretzel rods into the melted chocolate just at the tip. Press on two mini marshmallows and let that set for 5 minutes until the chocolate is hardened back up.
- Melt the remaining marshmallows and butter in the microwave for 1 minute. Stir until combined and smooth. Now add in your Rice Krispies cereal and mix until combined.
- Grab a hand full of your Rice cereal treat mix and shape it into a ball. You can use gloves, butter, or spray your hands with cooking spray to prevent any sticking. Press the end of the pretzel into the ball and shape the rice krispie mixture to look like a turkey leg.
- Place them onto wax paper and let them set for about 15 minutes.
Nutrition
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I made these substituting gluten free ingredients. They came out ok!
Hi! If you try using the name brand crispies and Snider Brand or Glutino pretzels you would not know that they were gluten free!! Hope this helps if you make again! I’m gluten free too and I know the trials we have to go thru trying to find stuff that doesn’t taste gluten free!
Really cute – we only got 9 out of the rice krispie mix, but I think the 8 cups is too much like others have said. My mixture was pretty dry. And the instructions didn’t mention when to dip the entire pretzel rods so that threw off the flow. But we got it and the 9 we have will work great!
*meant to say that it didn’t mention dipping the entire pretzel rod in the instructions on the recipe card itself which is what I was reading. I went back and watched the video and then saw it was mentioned in the post halfway through us making it so we figured it out!
Luv the Turkey legs
the melted white chocolate was too thick, so I added a tablespoon of vegetable oil to thin it out, works great!
I just made these tonight and they turned out so cute, cant wait to see what the family thinks of them tomorrow. I ended up using the entire box of rice krispies and left the rest of the ingredients the same. I had to put the rice kirspies in the refrigerator for a little bit to cool them down and ended up getting 19 drum sticks out of the batch.
Couldn’t get the rice Krispy to stay on the pretzel rods. Not sure why.
What a cute idea! I love it
What kind of white chocolate?
These are wonderful! Do you have a link to Pinterest? Thanks!
How would you keep them from getting hard til Thanksgiving?
They will be fine if you store them in an air tight container!