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    Valentine Rice Krispie Treats

    By: Jessica · Posted: Feb 12, 2022 · Updated: Feb 25, 2023 · This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure policy.

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    Valentine Heart Rice Krispy Treats

    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!

    heart shaped rice krispie treats on white plate
    Valentine Rice Krispie Treats

     

    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!

    Jump to:
    • Why you’ll love this recipe
    • Ingredients
    • Instructions
    • Substitutions
    • Variations
    • Storage
    • Top tip
    • More Valentine’s Day Ideas
    • Recipe
    • Comments

    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!

    ingredients for Valentine rice krispie treats
    Ingredients
    • 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

    1. First, melt butter in large saucepan on low heat.
    2. Next, pour in marshmallow and stir to combine, allowing the low-heat to gently melt the marshmallows. Stir often.
    Melt Butter
    Add marshmallows
    1. Once marshmallows have melted, pour in vanilla extract and stir to combine.
    Pour in vanilla
    1. Next, pour in rice krispies cereal and stir to combine.
    Crispy rice cereal in large sauce pan
    Add in crisp rice cereal
    rice krispies and marshmallows mixed in pot
    Warm, marshmallowy goodness.
    1. 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.)
    heart-shaped silicone mold on counter
    Heart-shaped silicone mold
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    hand pouring sprinkles on heart-shaped rice crispy treats
    Optional: Sprinkles
    piping icing on to rice crispy treat hearts
    Optional: Piped icing

    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.

    Heart shaped treats on white plate with sprinkles on table
    Valentine’s Day Treats

    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!

    Heart shaped valentine rice crispy treats
    Heart Shaped Rice Krispy 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.)

    hand holding heart rice krispie treat
    Yum!! Valentine Rice Krispy Treats

    Top tip

    How far in advance can I make Rice Crispy Treats?

    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.

    How do you keep Rice Crispy Treats from sticking to your hands?

    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.

    Why did my Rice Krispie Treats come out hard?

    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

    heart shaped rice krispie treats

    Valentine Rice Krispie Treats

    Jessica Burgess
    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.
    5 from 4 votes
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    Prep Time 2 minutes mins
    Cook Time 5 minutes mins
    Decorating Time 3 minutes mins
    Total Time 10 minutes mins
    Course Dessert
    Cuisine American
    Servings 10 hearts
    Calories 140 kcal

    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

    How far in advance can you make rice crispy treats?
    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.
    How can I keep rice krispie treats from sticking to my hands?
    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.
    Why did my rice krispie treats come out hard?
    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.
    How to Store Rice Krispie Treats
    Store treats in an air-tight container for 2-3 days. Treats can be enjoyed longer than that, however they tend to get harder as the days go on so it’s best to enjoy them quickly.

    Nutrition

    Serving: 1heart | Calories: 140kcal | Carbohydrates: 26g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 2g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 9mg | Sodium: 47mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 12g | Vitamin A: 105IU | Calcium: 3mg | Iron: 1mg

    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.

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    1. Allyssa says

      February 14, 2022 at 5:44 am

      5 stars
      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!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 14, 2022 at 6:09 am

        You’re so welcome! Thank YOU for taking the time to leave a review and for saying the kind words!

        Reply
    2. Betsy says

      February 13, 2022 at 10:43 pm

      5 stars
      So easy and so fun & festive! These are really great! Thanks for the tips & tricks to get them perfect! So great for Valentine parties!!!

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 14, 2022 at 6:09 am

        YES! Absolutely! So glad you liked them, thank you.

        Reply
    3. Faye Roner says

      February 13, 2022 at 8:04 am

      5 stars
      Love these so much. I used silicone molds and they came out great. Thank you@

      Reply
      • Jessica says

        February 14, 2022 at 6:11 am

        YES! I love using the silicone molds! So glad you do too. Thank you!

        Reply

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