Valentine Rice Krispie Treats: These Valentine’s Day rice krispie treats are made with your favorite heart-shaped cookie cutters or silicone molds and decorated with sprinkles and piped icing.
Although you can make heart shapes with rice krispies treats any time of year, it’s possibly our favorite, no-bake Valentine’s Day dessert idea and a fun idea for the holiday!
Why you’ll love this recipe
If you love decorating goodies and treats for the different holidays of the year, and if you’re like me, and you don’t consider yourself a whiz in the pastry chef department, you’ll love making this fun recipe. (You’ll also love these easy pink chocolate-covered strawberries then too!)
See below how I use easy tools to decorate these delicious fun treats! They’re easy treats so the kids can help too!
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Ingredients
These heart rice krispie treats only require 4 ingredients! (Unless you want to try our rice krispie treats made with milk.) However, if you prefer to decorate with sprinkles, icing, etc. you’ll need those items as well! To make the Valentine’s rice crispy treats that you see here, we only used sprinkles and store-bought piped icing!
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 cups mini marshmallows
- 6 cups rice krispie cereal
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- sprinkles, if desired
- icing, if desired
- non-stick cooking spray, optional
See the recipe card toward the end of this post for ingredients and instructions all in one place for these Valentine treats
Instructions
- First, melt butter in large saucepan on low heat.
- Next, pour in marshmallow and stir to combine, allowing the low-heat to gently melt the marshmallows. Stir often.
- Once marshmallows have melted, pour in vanilla extract and stir to combine.
- Next, pour in rice krispies cereal and stir to combine.
- Now it’s time to shape the marshmallow mixture in to hearts. (You can use a heart-shaped mold or cookie cutters like I used in our heart sugar cookies. See tips below.)
- If using a silicone mold, simply dish out amount of rice krispy mixture and gently press mixture in to mold. If using cookie cutters, you can spray them with cookie spray so the treats do not stick – then place cookie cutter on parchment paper or wax paper and fill cookie cutter with treats. Remove and repeat until mixture is gone.
- NOTE: if decorating treats with sprinkles, it’s best to pour sprinkles on to the sweet treats before they harden, so sprinkles will secure in to the marshamallow texture for the perfect treat.
Icing Tube
To keep things super simple, we used Cake Craft Icing Tube’s, in pink and red. We found that these were really easy to use and worked well on these fun treats, so you don’t even have to use a piping bag.
To use them, you simply attach a piping tip (I used a #3 piping tip)to the tube and can start decorating!
TIP: Feel free to wait until the rice krispie treat hearts have hardened before applying icing if you prefer.
Substitutions
Side Note: I bought this heart-shaped silicone mold to use for these rice krispy treats and found that it was my favorite way to make them! However, heart-shaped cookie cutters work just fine too!
You can use other items to decorate these treats if you prefer. Such as:
- melted chocolate drizzle (white chocolate chips, milk chocolate chips, etc.)
- dip hearts in melted chocolate
- red or pink candy melts
Variations
If you want to get super creative and have fun with the rice crispy treat hearts, you can mix in items like we did with our some of our favorite recipes caramel rice krispie treats and cookies & cream treats!
Storage
Store the Valentine’s rice krispie treats in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2-3 days for freshness. (You can enjoy them after 2-3 days but the longer they sit, the harder they can get.)
Top tip
It’s best to make them the day of, so they’re as soft as possible. However, you can make them a day in advance, just make sure to store them properly.
Spraying hands with cooking spray before shaping or pressing in to a pan can help prevent marshmallow treats from sticking to your hand. Or, place hand in small plastic baggie, then spray with cooking spray or spread small amount butter on to bag, then press. This way the treats won’t stick to the bag and your hand remains clean.
When pressing down on rice krispie treats to mold them, don’t press super hard, as this can make your treats hard. Gently press, to shape them for a gooier, treat.
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📖 Recipe
Valentine Rice Krispie Treats
Equipment
- heart-shaped silicone mold optional
- heart-shaped cookie cuttersr optional
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 4 cups miniature marshmallows
- 6 cups crispy rice cereal
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Begin by melting butter in stovepot on low heat.
- Next, pour in marshmallow and stir to combine, allowing the low-heat to gently melt the marshmallows. Stir often.
- Once marshmallows have melted, pour in vanilla extract and stir to combine.Next, pour in rice krispies cereal and stir to combine.
- Now it's time to shape the rice crispy treats in to hearts.
- If using a silicone mold, simply dish out amount of rice krispy mixture and gently press in to mold. If using cookie cutters, you can spray them with cookie spray so the treats do not stick – then place cookie cutter on parchment paper and fill cookie cutter with treats. Remove and repeat until mixture is gone. NOTE: if decorate treats with sprinkles, it's best to pour sprinkles on treats before they harded, so sprinkles will secure in to the marshamallow texture.
- Decorate hearts, if desired. See post for tips on icing and sprinkles.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutritional information is based on third-party calculations and should be considered estimates. Actual nutritional content will vary with brands used, measuring methods, portion sizes and more.
Allyssa says
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again! It’s really easy to make and it tasted so delicious! Highly recommended!
Jessica says
You’re so welcome! Thank YOU for taking the time to leave a review and for saying the kind words!
Betsy says
So easy and so fun & festive! These are really great! Thanks for the tips & tricks to get them perfect! So great for Valentine parties!!!
Jessica says
YES! Absolutely! So glad you liked them, thank you.
Faye Roner says
Love these so much. I used silicone molds and they came out great. Thank you@
Jessica says
YES! I love using the silicone molds! So glad you do too. Thank you!