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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Enjoy the Squishmallow craze in snack form! Colourful and sweet, these cereal treats are perfect for all of the Squishmallow fans in your home.
These are simple to make and fun to look at. If you’d like to add more rainbow treats to your snack tray, try Rainbow Cookie Cheesecake Bites or Golden Oreo Rainbow Bit Butterscotch Blondies.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is a very easy recipe.
- Total Time: These bars take only 10 minutes to assemble.
- Variations: Try adding some chocolate chips for adding sweetness and crunch. Add some colourful sprinkles to make these even more vibrant, or a scattering of shredded coconut for extra texture. Use a different type of melted marshmallows to hold the cereal together.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a 9×13 pan, a large pot, measuring cups, and a spoon.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Cereal: The Squishmallow cereal used in this recipe is readily available in the United States but may be more difficult to find in Canada. If you can’t find this specific cereal, you could use any similar cereal with marshmallows in it, such as lucky Charms.
Marshmallows: This recipe calls for white mini marshmallows, but feel free to use any marshmallows you like. Big, small, colourful, or flavoured, you’ll be melting them to hold the cereal together.
Butter: This is a recipe that will benefit from salted butter. If you only have unsalted butter or margarine or another plant-based alternative, just add a pinch of salt once it’s all melted.
How to Make Squishmallow Cereal Treats
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Lightly grease a 9×13 pan and set it aside.
- Collect a handful of marshmallows from the Squishmallow cereal and set it aside for sprinkling on top of the bars later.
- Melt butter in a large pot over medium heat. Add the mini marshmallows and stir until they’re fully melted. Stir in the vanilla and remove the pot from the heat.
- Pour the cereal into the pot and stir until it’s coated completely. Spoon the mixture into the greased pan and then add the reserved Squishmallow marshmallows on top. Press the bars into an even layer in the pan.
- Let them sit until they are firm. Do not refrigerate.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Squishmallow Cereal Treats
Flavour Ideas: Vanilla works well in these bars, but you can also try other flavours. Use a few drops of almond extract instead, if you enjoy that, or maybe some coconut flavouring. If you want to stick with vanilla but heighten the taste a little, you can use a higher quality vanilla or even vanilla bean paste. If you’d like to add some pops of chocolate to these, try white chocolate chips for even more sweetness, or dark chocolate to add some bitterness.
Serving Suggestions: If you want to have a little extra fun with these, try adding some coloured sprinkles, or pressing the cereal mixture into silicone molds while it’s still soft. Set up a whole adorable tea party, complete with more pastel and rainbow infused treats like this Fruity Marshmallow Lime Chiffon Cheesecake Dessert or Pistachio Pudding Cookies.
Storage Instructions
Store these bars in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 5 days. Do not refrigerate them or they will solidify and become impossible to eat.
Freezer: It’s best not to freeze these. But if you need to, wrap them individually in cling wrap, then place the bars into another freezer safe bag, and freeze for up to 3 months. Then simply remove, defrost at room temperature, and enjoy.
More Delicious Cereal Treat Recipes
Looking for more cereal treats to try?
Make some S’Mores Cinnamon Toast Crunch Cereal Bars or a batch of Strawberry Milkshake Cereal Bars the next time you need a quick treat for a class party.
If you enjoy chocolate in your cereal treats, try Minty Chocolate Oreo Cereal Bars or some classic Chewy Chocolate Puffed Wheat Squares.
There you go. The perfect treat for Squishmallow lovers. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Baking!
Karlynn
Squishmallow Cereal Bar Treats
Ingredients
- 328 grams Squishmallow Cereal
- 5 cups white mini marshmallows
- ⅓ cup salted butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Lightly grease a 9×13 baking pan with butter and set aside. Open the cereal and remove a large handful of the marshmallow Squishmallows and set them aside to garnish on top of the bars later.
- Place a large pot on your stove and add the salted butter. Melt on medium heat, then add the marshmallows. Stir constantly until the marshmallows are melted and combined with the butter. Stir in the vanilla extract then remove from the heat.
- Pour the cereal into the pot, mixing to coat the cereal completely with the melted marshmallow mixture.
- Spoon the cereal mixture into the greased pan. Sprinkle the removed marshmallows on top of the bars, then lightly press the bars to spread it out into an even layer in the pan.
- Let the bars set until firm – do NOT refrigerate! – the slice and serve.
Notes
- All nutritional info is approximate
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Bonnie says
That was fun! Gifting, so I hope they enjoy them.
Thank you for this recipe.
Brenda says
Thanks so much for sharing! We love this recipe!
Sandy Herrmann says
These were really good! The grandkids went bonkers!!!
Carol j says
Keep up the good work