… make sure you have enough ingredients to try again! (Happily, I did.)
As part of the preparation for Kiddo’s party, today was baking day. One of the things I wanted to make was some Rice Krispie treats — but we wanted to make them purple. We had made green ones at Christmas but didn’t use quite enough food colouring so they turned out pale but we at least proved the concept was sound.
Today, I made the mistake of trying to make them in between batches of cupcakes baking in the oven so right off the bat, I screwed up. This is what they ended up looking like:
Not exactly appetizing, right?
So what went wrong?
- I let the pan get too hot right at the start; when I put in the butter, it burnt.
- I didn’t start over with a cooler pan and fresh butter.
- With the pan still too hot, I added the marshmallows — you know how marshmallows go black and puffy when you drop them in the campfire? I had to open the back door.
- Undeterred, I pressed on.
- Adding the colouring, it seemed too dark, so I added some pink. It looked OK until I added the Rice Krispies when all at once the colour looked very wrong.
- Stubbornly, I decided that all it needed was more blue food colouring. Too bad the food colouring didn’t blend with the Rice Krispies….
Sigh.
I figured at least they’d be edible, even if they didn’t look good. Nope. When I cut into them, they crumbled like dry toast but the real treat was the taste. Imagine a stale rice cracker but somehow even drier then add burnt sugar and burnt butter. I cannot recommend this. We threw it out.
However, there is a happy ending; I had plenty of ingredients left so I tried a second time. Here’s what it was supposed to look like the first time around!
They turned out just fine (and we tasted them to make sure!) but only afterward did I remember I normally add vanilla … oops. I’m hoping none of Kiddo’s guests will have refined enough taste buds to notice….
