Create a whole zoo of these animal-shaped cookies.
Crispy Cocoa Creatures
- Prep Time 30 min
- Total 30 min
- Ingredients 6
- Servings 12
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup margarine or butter
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 (10 1/2-oz.) pkg. miniature marshmallows
- 6 cups chocolate-flavor crisp rice cereal
- 1/4 cup candy corn, small candies, shoe string licorice and/or miniature chips, if desired
Instructions
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Step1In large saucepan, combine margarine, cocoa, cinnamon and marshmallows; cook over medium heat until marshmallows are melted and mixture is smooth and creamy, stirring constantly. Stir in crisp rice cereal. Cool slightly.
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Step2Spray open metal or plastic cookie cutters of desired shapes with nonstick cooking spray. Grease large piece of waxed paper and place on work surface. With buttered hands, firmly press cereal mixture into 1-inch-thick rectangle. With sprayed cutters, cut out cookies; place on sprayed waxed paper. Press scraps together and re-cut. (Respray cookie cutters as necessary). Decorate cookies with candies. Let stand until set. Wrap each cookie individually in plastic wrap.
Nutrition
200
Calories
4g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
40g
Total Carbohydrate
25g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Small Cookie
- Calories
- 200
- Calories from Fat
- 35
- Total Fat
- 4g
- 6%
- Saturated Fat
- 1g
- 5%
- Cholesterol
- 0mg
- 0%
- Sodium
- 180mg
- 8%
- Potassium
- 35mg
- Total Carbohydrate
- 40g
- 13%
- Dietary Fiber
- 1g
- 4%
- Sugars
- 25g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 10%
- 10%
- Vitamin C
- 10%
- 10%
- Calcium
- 0%
- 0%
- Iron
- 6%
- 6%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 2 Fruit; 2 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 1 Fat;
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