Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels - Easy & Fun Recipe (2024)

It's so easy to brighten up your cereal treat recipe and make them more fun. These Rainbow Rice Krispie Treat Pinwheels will be the hit at your next party or holiday celebration.

The first step is the most important, actually making the Rice Krispie Treats! Head on over to my new website, HowToMakeRiceKrispies.com, to see how we taste-tested 20 versions of the Rice Krispie Treat recipe to come up with the absolute BEST Rice Krispie Treat Recipe.

As I was making my Rainbow Peeps Cereal Treats last week, I started to think about other ways to make a festive-looking rainbow cereal treat.

Over the past year, I've made and shared a few recipes for rice krispie treat pinwheels and thought I'd use that technique to make a rainbow-swirled treat. These other treats were quite large and only used 2 or 3 colors.

Being I wanted these treats to have 6 colors of the rainbow and be about the same size as a traditional marshmallow cereal treat, I had to find a different technique for rolling the pinwheels.

After many failed attempts I finally found that creating stripes of colors in a large 12x18 inch pan and then rolling the thin sheet of rice krispie treats up into a long log before slicing it worked the best. I'll show you how in the step-by-step tutorial and video below.

Ingredients

butter - I recommend using European-style salted butter for the best flavor. I love using President or Kerry Gold butter to make my marshmallow crispy treats.

marshmallows - I highly recommend using Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallows or Campfire Staypuft marshmallows. They taste great and are not too sticky once melted. Store-brand marshmallows tend to be very sticky. If you use them, you may want to add an extra cup of cereal.

crisp rice cereal - After conducting taste tests on all of the Rice Krispie treat ingredients, we found Kellogg's Rice Krispie Treats have the best flavor and texture.

food coloring - You can use gel, paste, or liquid food coloring to color the marshmallow when making these treats.

Supplies

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Instructions

• Grease a 12-inch by 18-inch sheet pan with butter
• Line the pan with parchment or wax paper then butter it too.
• Melt 1.67 ounces of mini marshmallows (one heaping cup) with ½ tablespoon of butter in the microwave on high power for about 45 seconds.
• Stir until melted.
• If needed, heat for additional 15-second increments, stirring after each, until melted.
• Color using food coloring (start with purple).
• Stir in 1 cup of Rice Krispie cereal.
• Press into a 2-inch row along one of the long edges of the pan.
• Repeat creating blue, green, yellow, orange, and red/pink.
• Remove the rice krispie treats from the pan and begin to roll the purple row.
• Continue rolling until you have created a long log.
• Cut into 1-inch thick slices revealing all the colors.

Watch the VIDEO TUTORIAL to see this process in action.

Video

Pro Tips

• I wore food-handling gloves which I buttered well and nothing stuck to them. If you aren't wearing gloves, butter your hands well.
• I find it easiest to use my hands to mix the cereal into the marshmallow.
  • If you do that then be sure your hands are clean before mixing each color. You don't want to blend the colors together.
  • If you wear gloves that are buttered nothing will stick!!!
• If you want to see larger swirls of color, make your stripes going across the short side of your pan. This will also make much larger cereal treats.
• You can melt two bowls of marshmallows in the microwave at a time. Heat them a bit longer, if needed.

These rainbow-swirled treats are perfect for birthday parties and holidays. See all of my Easter recipes, hereand all my St. Patrick's Day recipes, here.

You might also like these other fun Rice Krispie Treat recipes and food crafts.

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Cocoa Crispy Treat Peanut Butter Fudge Pinwheels •Rainbow Peeps Cereal Treats
Rice Krispie Treat Chicks •Rice Krispie Treat Dolphins
Rice Krispie Treat Coffee Mugs •Cocoa Krispies Treat Easter Bunnies

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