Today, as we celebrate Father’s Day, I have noticed that it doesn’t seem too different than any other day of the year.
I remember when I was little and we celebrated Mother’s or Father’s Day and I would ask, “When is Kid’s Day?”
Of course my parents, like everyone’s, answered, “everyday is children’s day”.
Well, I’m kinda thinking the same thing applies to Father’s Day.
My mom didn’t tell me that little nugget.
My husband gets food cooked for him everyday and he gets gifts bought for him quite regularly.
Those are basically the two defining characteristics of having a “day”, right?
So, I am trying to make a big deal of all the things that I am doing for him today, so tomorrow when I refuse to make dinner or wash his clothes, I can be all, “It’s not Father’s Day anymore, husband….It’s REAL LIFE.”
And real life means laundry and toilet scrubbing.
That should be a bumper sticker.
Moving on…
Trail Mix Krispie Treats with a Salted Caramel Swirl.
Maybe this isn’t real life.
I have been wanting to try a trail-mixey version for a while, but just hadn’t had the chance.
But when I happened upon this snack mix down the aisles of Target, I knew it was karmic..or cosmic…or meant to be.
Yeah, all that.
Now if you can’t find this yummy stuff, no worries. Just use your favorite trail mix. I like this one because it has little pretzels, eensy cookies and M&Ms in it.
You just make it up kinda like regular krispie treats, but use half krispies, half trail mix.
Mix it up with the marshmallow.
It’s a beautiful thing.
But you mustn’t forget the salted caramel swirliness of it all.
So melt some caramel.
No. Don’t use ice cream topping.
THEN add a few pinches of coarse sea salt.
Oh yes.
Now plop it into your trail mixey, marshmallow concoction.
And DON’T stir it.
Just press it into your pan.
And let it sit for a bit.
THEN cut it.
Am I being bossy?
And this is why you don’t want to stir the caramel in…
You want to have nice little pockets of salted caramel through out.
Salted Caramel pockets are kinda the best.
And that’s it.
Trail Mix Krispie Treats with a Salted Caramel Swirl. Do it.
Now, go tend to your husband.
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Trail Mix Krispie Treats with a Salted Caramel Swirl
Description
makes 20 bars
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 (10.5 oz) bag mini marshmallows
- 3 cups trail mix
- 3 cups krispie rice cereal
- 1/2 cup chopped soft caramel candies or caramel bits
- 1 tsp milk
- 1 tsp coarse sea salt
Instructions
- Lightly spray a 9×9 baking dish with cooking spray, set aside.
- In a large pot on low heat melt butter.
- When butter is melted add marshmallows, stirring until melted. Set aside just while you melt caramels in microwave for 1 minutes. (You want the marshmallow to cool slightly before you add your trail mix in, because if there are chocolate pieces in the trail mix they will melt if the marshmallow is too hot)
- Immediately pour in you krispie rice cereal and trail mix, stirring until evenly coated in marshmallow mixture.
- Stir in coarse sea salt into caramel and drop my the spoonful into the marshmallow/trail mix.
- Without stirring the caramel in, pour mixture into prepared pan and press evenly into pan.
- Allow to cool for at least 30 minutes before cutting into squares.
Notes
If you use the M&M snack mix, like I did, you will need 2 bags, as 1 bag yields about 1 1/2 cups mix.
Salted caramel in rice krispie treats sounds amazing!
I don’t know why I don’t throw more delicious sweets into my krispy treats. These look incredible and I love the sea salt addition. I will definitely melt the caramel…no sauce for sure!
So, admission time. I had no idea how to make salted caramel. I have been hearing about it for a while, but, it sounded difficult to make. Your recipe and these treats however…could change my life. I will be making salted caramel more and seeing what I can put in it. Thank!
I have told you this a million times before, but you are genius. Pure genius.
Every day really is Father’s Day and I’d like to stage a protest. Or start a revolution. Or do some other really big history-sounding word and change things around here.
Exactly. Every day IS Father’s Day. Why don’t men realize this yet?
Also…if we’re in the bumper sticker business now…the other day, Jon David told me “nothing in life is free, mom” and I replied, “except government cheese and yo mama’s milk”
Well. Apparently what was a smarty passing remark on MY end has turned into something he has been repeating. To other people.
Just give me my worst mom of the year trophy and we can start our bumper stickers!!
These look ah-mazing! I’ve been dying to combine salted caramel and rice krispy treats – looks like you beat me to it! 😛
I Love RKTreats of any kind these look so good. That’s a new-to-me product that I will now have to raid my Target for 🙂
Totally agree with you! I feel like my husband gets to “get away” and “be child free” {to me, the epitomy of Mother’s Day} pretty much every week – it’s called travelling for work and staying in cushy hotels. 🙂
You really are the queen of krispy treats! I thought of you this weekend when I was creating some of my own. 🙂
Too funny! That’s exactly how I was feeling today.