These Super Chewy Rice Krispies Cookies Are the Delicious Mashup I Didn’t Know I Needed

For many years, the straightforward Rice Krispies treat has delivered candy, gooey crunch with a facet of nostalgia on bake sale, classroom, and rec room tables all throughout America. Positive, we’ll take the occasional fancified model with brown butter, chocolate chips, or perhaps a swirl of tahini, however few issues surpass that easy marriage of butter, marshmallows, and crispy rice cereal. 

Regardless of being one thing of a Rice Krispies deal with purist, I used to be charmed immediately by this TikTok recipe from meals blogger Really Juli that turns the basic deal with into cookies (gasp!). She combines rice cereal crunch with a fundamental cookie batter, which she parts and chills earlier than baking. Right here’s what occurred after I tried them.

This can be a two-step baking operation, first on decrease warmth with the Rice Krispy crunch. Mix crispy rice cereal in a medium bowl with milk powder, sugar, and salt. Add the melted butter, toss to coat, then unfold the combination on a parchment-lined sheet and bake at 275°F for 16-20 minutes. It ought to look toasted and scent buttery. This combination will carry on the counter, tightly lined, for as much as every week — nice for making forward.

Put together the cookie batter by creaming collectively softened butter with brown and white sugars in a stand mixer. Add the egg and vanilla, combine, then tip within the dry components (flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt) and blend on low till simply mixed. Gently fold within the rice cereal crunch you made earlier and mini marshmallows till mixed. 

Portion out the dough on parchment-lined baking sheets, wrap tightly in plastic, and refrigerate for not less than an hour or as much as every week (which, actually, felt like a weird directive till I noticed what number of steps and dishes these cookies require). This recipe claims to make a dozen cookies, however I ended up with nearly two dozen. Subsequent time, I’d in all probability retailer half the chilled dough balls in a ziptop bag within the fridge and bake them off in a couple of days so I can get pleasure from contemporary cookies. 

Preheat the oven to 375°F, unfold out the chilled dough balls on the baking sheets, and bake them for 14 minutes till golden brown. Begin checking them each minute or so when you hit the 10-minute mark as a result of they’re susceptible to burning. Cool them fully on racks.  

I really like the concept of making a heftier tackle nostalgic marshmallowy squares. These cookies are tremendous chewy and edged with a beautiful molten crust of sugar. Their intense sweetness will get toasty depth from the browned melted butter and milk powder.

Nonetheless, as a self-described non-baker, I discovered them to be much more labor-intensive than good-old Rice Krispies treats — whose brilliance additionally lies of their simplicity of execution. I most definitely will stick with the OG after I’m craving that throwback dessert, although now I’m contemplating pre-toasting the cereal or swirling in browned butter for that wonderful toasty taste. Nonetheless, I do suppose these cookies are a tremendous tasty and enjoyable various to the basic for a special day.