Claire and I made these treats for her kindergarten class. I have been wanting to try scotcharoos cut into cookie cutter shapes for a while and this is the method I decided to try.
I put the rice crispy mixture into a cookie sheet to make it a little thinner, so my cookie cutters would go all the way through. Then I cut out shapes, placed them on a buttered pan and let them harden.
I put the rice crispy mixture into a cookie sheet to make it a little thinner, so my cookie cutters would go all the way through. Then I cut out shapes, placed them on a buttered pan and let them harden.
Once they were firm enough to pick up and move around, I melted the chocolate and butterscotch chips together and I dipped the shapes into the chocolate. This didn't work as well as I had envisioned, and I ended up just spreading the chocolate on with a spoon. So next time I do this (because you know I will do it again; I have such a weak spot for Scotcharoos) I will spread the chocolate over the crispies, like normal, and let it set, before I cut out the shapes. I think it would have looked better that way.
I put them in sandwich bags and made a label to staple on the top out of card stock. Claire had an easy time handing them out to her classmates this way.
6 comments:
Great Idea!
Love Scotch-a-roos!
Cute package. Claire must have had a lot of fun handing them out!
Happy Easter!
I love Sctoth-a-roos. Probably my favorite treat of all time. I would say muddy buddies and PNB squares are a close second and third.
Too bad you use milk chocolate instead of semi-sweet. Scotch-a-Roo purists use semi-sweet.
Did you put the chocolate/butterscotch chips on the rice krispie scraps too?
Dang it, now I have to go make me some.
I can't disagree with you more about the semi-sweet. Milk chocolate all the way. In fact I don't even buy semi-sweet for anything, because milk chocolate is heaven!
Um, no I didn't put the chocolate mixture on the scraps, because the scraps were all gone by the time I made the chocolate. Cody, for some odd reason, doesn't like scotch-a-roos very much, he prefers them without the chocolate on top (what?!?) so him and the girls devoured the scraps up, lickity split.
I remember the first time I made scotcharoos was for Michelle birthday the first year I was married, and I boiled it for like five minutes becuase I thought the sugar wasn't desolving (I am an idiot). they turned out rock hard and I made a smaller batch with left over ingredients to give to Michelle. The secret to a perfect scotcharoo is to just barely let it start bubbling. I learned that the hard way.
Oh, I love Scotcharoos! But I'm with Monica on this one. Semi-sweet all the way for Scotcharoos. I like to mix milk and semi-sweet for cookies though.
Love this idea Brooke!
I too had to learn the hard way that you only let it COME to a boil ;)
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