4th of July Patriotic Treats that Kids can Make!
Don’t you just love the 4th of July, Flag Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day and Veteran’s Day? They all inspire such patriotism. I love going to the parades in my little town and all the great family get-togethers. It’s fun to take along a special treat, so when SweetWorks sent me a bunch of their patriotic decorative candies, I knew I had to go full red, white and blue!
This is a 4th of July food crafts for kids but they will probably need your help on a few steps. But there are a lot of fun things for them to do as well. I would say that the main thing you need to do is watch and stir the marshmallows, especially once the food coloring has been added. Also, stirring in the crispy rice and moving quickly to get it into the pan is a must.
- 6 Cups Crispy Rice cereal (like Rice Krispies)
- 3 Tbs. butter (plus extra for buttering your hands)
- Red and blue food coloring (I recommend Wilton's Gel for more intense color)
- 10.5 oz bag of marshmallows
- Sweetworks Candy or similar for decorating
- Decorative toothpicks
- Prepare a loaf pan, by greasing it with shortening or spraying well with cooking spray.
- You will now begin making the layers:
- Measure out 2 cups of Crispy Rice and put in a mixing bowl, set aside
- At low heat, in a medium sauce pan, melt 1 Tbs of butter
- Add ⅓ of marshmallows to the butter and continue to melt slowly, stirring occasionally
- Add Red Food Coloring to the marshmallow mixture, until it's the shade you want
- Remove from heat
- Stir in the 2 cups Crispy Rice that you set aside. Move quickly but stir enough to get the coloring spread over all the rice.
- Use a wood spoon to get mixture into loaf pan. Use buttered hands to press down very flat.
- Wash the sauce pan and spoon with HOT WATER thoroughly before proceeding to next layer
- REPEAT STEPS again for WHITE layer (but this time do not add any coloring, obviously)
- REPEAT STEPS again for BLUE layer (but this time add BLUE coloring to desired color)
- Now that you have all three layers, cool slightly
- Cut into 18 pieces with very sharp knife
- Remove from loaf pan. If the treats won't stand up, just smash them down a bit to make the bottom flat.
- Decorate by adhering SweetWorks candy with a bit of frosting. Insert decorative toothpicks
The Sweetworks candies are so beautiful and colorful, a little goes a long way. They are just the right highlight on just about any dessert you make. In big quantities they make an amazing display for any holiday. SweetWorks manufactures and distributes upscale gum, candy and chocolate. Whatever you may be looking for, SweetWorks has it!
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I’d like to use the Red, White & Blue Mix Sixlets® Peg Pouch. They would look very nice on a cake.
OH! They have sixlets and jaw breakers!! I haven’t seen those around here in so long I was starting to think they didn’t exist anymore.
I would love to have the Royal Blue Sixlets to “decorate” with! They would be cute for the 4th, but I don’t know that they would last long since Sixlets are a family favorite!
Would be fun to make with the kids!
Sixlets® Harvest Laydown Bag (9 oz) for halloween
I’d like Sixlets because they’re colorful.
The red, white and blue candy stars would be great on top of my trifle at our july 4th bbq !
This is so cute and fun! what a great idea for a giveaway! so different and targeted for the whole family to participate 🙂
I would like the Sixlets® because of the colors, you can us for any occasion.
i would use the Ovation® Milk Pumpkin Spice Break-A-Part because my daughter would love them.
I would use the red and white candy crumbles for my Christmas cookies.
I’d like the Lavender and White Candy Crumble. I like little candy pieces and it looks like a pretty addition to baked goods.
First thing: I Love that the comment poster is on top of the comments, because it`s a pain to go up and down the page.
And I was choose the Ovation Mint Chocolate Bites
niagra chocolates. everybody loves chocolate
I would use the neon star candy for Fourth of July because everyone love neon these days
I would get some red, white and blue gumballs for 4th of July. I love gumballs
I like the pretty lavender candies.
the nigara chocolate would love to make a chocolate dip sauce with this for strawberries. thankyou, ken
I would love to use the silver and gold stars. I always do cupcakes on the 4th of July and I ice them with red, whit and blue strips. I think placing a few stars on top of the chocolate ones would be a great way to help people tell what flavor they’re grabbing. Maybe the gold for the Strawberry cupcakes? Or vise versa. 🙂
I’d use the Royal Blue Sixlets® Stand-Up Bag, Red Sixlets® Stand-Up Bag and Shimmer™ White Sixlets® Stand-Up Bag to decorate a bunch of my cupcakes!