Merry Christmas everyone from
Catherine's Plates. Today I'm going to
show you how to make a Christmas treat.
Rice Krispie snowballs. Oh, these are
delicious. They're like little Rice
Krispie treats packed with a little
snack inside coated and then they look
like little snowballs. It's going to be
fun to make. We're going to start kind
of like you would if you were going to
make Rice Krispie treats. So, I'm in a
large pot or my Dutch oven and I'm going
to put it on a medium heat
and let's right here and we'll get that
going and we're going to melt five
tablespoon of butter.
All right, we want to get that
thoroughly melted.
Now, while that's happening, I'm going
to measure out one cup of peanut butter,
creamy.
And I'm going to save the rest of the
peanut butter cuz I'm going to make
Thomas some peanut butter cookies.
All right. I'm looking for
half a cup.
And then
you're going to want one bag of mini
marshmallows.
I'm going to squish all this down. You
want 10 ounces of the mini marshmallows,
which is generally one bag.
I'm so excited for Christmas.
You want to make sure that that butter
is all melted.
All right. Now, what we're going to do
is add in the half a cup of peanut
butter.
Stir that in.
And while that's melting together, we're
going to add in our 10 oz of mini
marshmallows.
The whole thing.
And we're going to stir this until the
marshmallows have melted and combined
with the butter and the peanut butter.
Just take the back edge of your spatula
and just smash down all the
marshmallows.
That way they melt faster.
All right. Once we got all the
marshmallows melted inside that peanut
butter and butter and it's nice and
combined, we're going to turn off the
heat
and remove it.
There we go.
All right. Now, as fast as you can, you
need to measure out six cups of Rice
Krispy cereal. I've got a four cup and a
two cup.
All right, we're going to pour those in.
All
right. Now, we're going to mix the coat.
Dig deep for it. You guys,
try to keep some of it in your pot
there.
I got a beagle down there. She's faster
than me sometimes.
We definitely got a good mix. It smells
good. Love that peanut butter in there.
All right. What you want to do is let it
sit for about 10 minutes to cool down.
Now, we're going to use these little
Reese's minis unwrapped
for these little snowballs. I'm going in
with a 1 and 1/2 inch cookie scoop. Just
going to kind of pull some out. It
doesn't have to be perfectly flat on
there. And place it in the palm of your
hand. We're just going to smash it.
And then we're going to put one of the
Reesei peanut butter cups on the middle
of it.
They're very small. And you're going to
put it right in the center of it. And
then you're going to wrap the Rice
Krispie treat around it to form a ball
shape.
And then just roll it just like that.
And then we're going to put it on a
parchment lined sheet pan.
All right. I'll show the others.
You kind of have to work fast because
it'll start cooling down really good on
you. So, just flatten it out.
And then we're going to roll it around
the mini Reesei peanut butter cup. Just
like that. And then roll it like a ball.
All right, you guys. had made 35 of
these. We still had a little bit left in
the pan, but we could not even get it
out of there. Thomas came over here and
helped me roll these. So, now we got to
make them look like snowballs.
Now, I have got a block of almond bark.
It's 24 oz. This is the vanilla flavored
coating. You can use like white
chocolate chips if you want to do that.
Um, you need 24 ounces for this recipe.
I'm going to open this up. I'm going to
put this in a microwave safe bowl. And
then I am going to
get some scissors here. Manhandle it.
We're going to cook this per the
instructions on the back of the package
to melt this. And it says 90 seconds,
then stir. And then stir every 15
seconds out of the microwave.
All right, that's what it looks like
right here. So, I'm going to break it.
There we go.
90 seconds.
All right, that's 90 seconds. I'm just
going to mash it using the heat of the
bowl
to melt this because you don't want to
overdo it. You don't want to singe the
bark.
Think I'm going to need another 15
seconds.
Oh yeah, perfect.
Now I'm going to take a toothpick.
I'm going to place it in.
Then I'm going to dunk it in.
Tap it a little bit to get all that
excess off.
I think I need to dunk them more. There
we go. And then we're going to place it
back on the sheetpan.
Let them set up.
There we go. So, I'm taking some of the
white chocolate here, the almond bark.
I'm just going over the top a little bit
where the hole was from the toothpick
and just covering that up.
And then we got to decorate them.
I'm using the blue sanding sugar
sprinkles.
Make it look like it's glistening in the
snow.
And I'm going to cover these with it.
You want to do this before that white
almond bark sets on these. There we go.
That look good?
Yep.
There's my Rice Krispie treats.
Snowballs.
Now, we're going to let these set up.
You can do it on your countertop
throughout the day. You can do it in
your refrigerator. That'll lessen the
time. Or you can even put these in the
freezer and let them set up even faster.
I'm going to come back. We're going to
set these all up, make them nice and
pretty for the holidays. Give it a try
for you. All right. What do y'all think?
These set up really well just on the
countertop. It didn't take very long at
all. Look at that. Y'all like my
snowballs?
I got somebody here who's going to help
me give these a try for you.
Heck yeah.
Here he is, you guys.
Hey,
got Thomas in the kitchen.
Yep.
He's gonna try one of these snowballs.
They're actually the Rice Krispy peanut
butter Reesei peanut butter cup
snowball. Look at these things.
They look
Aren't those cool?
All right, which one you going to try?
Got this one right over here.
He helped make these.
I did.
Behind the scenes. He was rolling these
Rice Krispie treats around the little
Reesei peanut butter cups.
And I didn't eat any. That's why I get
to have this one.
I didn't I didn't I didn't
He didn't eat one of these, but he did
eat some out of the pot.
I'm telling on them.
These are good.
Show the out. Show out. Oh, look at
that. You guys,
these are really good. Y'all can knock
out that plate sitting in front of the
TV. All
right, I'm gonna come show y'all.
Yeah. See that inside that Reesei peanut
butter cup? Oh, yeah.
I've had enough snacks today.
Yeah. You want to talk about somebody
eating?
What?
She's over there. Oh, look at that. I
made a mess. Oh, look at it.
Yeah,
today was a big day for us.
There we go.
Didn't help I had to make M&M cookies,
too.
All right, you guys give us a thumbs up
on this one. Merry Christmas to
everybody. Thomas and I have a show at
the end of the year for you guys. It's
coming up in less than a week. We're
super excited about it. We want to
answer all your questions that we've
been getting in the comments. We've
tried to save them so that we can just
put a big show out. Let you know what
happened this year, what's going to
happen next year, what's going on with
him and his rational viewer that he
brought back from the
video graveyard. Ow.
He brought it back. So, we're going to
talk about that and see how much fun we
can have in the new year. All right, you
guys. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year.
And we'll see y'all on the next video.
Bye.