gratefulness
settled in this week with quieting every-day events
{ there’s something to be said for “ordinary” sans the “extra”, isn’t there? }
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then this little package arrived in the mail from my sweet friend Sarah of Dayspring Knits
if anyone can make a knitter out of me.. it will be Sarah!
{ stop by and say hello for me }
{ I need to make a square for Elisa’s Interpurl Knitwork a Collaborative Social Knitting Project.
perhaps you’d like to join us? You only need to knit a small square to contribute. }
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I was interviewed this week by Cherie Lucas about my use of custom fonts
and met some new blogging friends via
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and since everyone seems to be on a New Year’s Resolution Purging kick these days,
I thought I’d join the fray..
for years this storage unit was crammed with school supplies..
now it’s a cozy new home for crafty stuff..
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in an effort to sell more product, Rice Krispie Cereal seems to have
“up-sized” their boxes with one massive size “fits all”..
so it was time to use those up,
and with Valentine’s Day just around the corner..
i enjoyed yet another quiet afternoon baking…
while frost lashed the trees outside, my friend Jane’s flowers
blossomed spring in my kitchen..
i got busy blossoming hearts and lashing white chocolate..
i am blessed
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This recipe is in most cookbooks, on the back of marshmallow packages
and sometimes the Rice Krispie box.. so I can’t lay claim to the creation of rice krispies squares,
but I did add extra marshmallows and vanilla extract..
White Chocolate Dipped Heart Rice Krispies Squares
- 1/2 cup butter
- 76 large marshmallows (recipe calls for 64)
- 10 cups Rice Krispie Cereal
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- cookie cutters (small and wee sized hearts)
- sticks (optional)
- 1 1/2 cups white chocolate bits
- 1 tbsp oil
- food coloring
- Butter a 9×13? baking pan. ( I also buttered a 9×9? baking pan so my hearts wouldn’t be too thick.)
- In an extra large saucepan, melt the butter then add the marshmallows. Stir frequently until the marshmallows are melted. Stir in the vanilla extract.
- Add the Rice Krispie cereal and stir and fold until all of the cereal is coated. Scoop the mixture into the baking pan, it will be sticky. Dampen your hands and press the cereal mix evenly in your pan.
- Set aside and cool completely.
- Using your desired cookie cutter, cut out shapes close together. Cereal scraps can even be pressed together at the end to cut out more shapes.
- If using, insert the sticks into the bottom of each shape.
- Meanwhile, melt the white chocolate in a microwave-proof bowl in 30 second bursts. Stir after each 30 seconds and repeat until chocolate is melted, usually only two 30 second bursts are needed. Stir in the oil and optional food coloring.
- Using the back of a spoon, drizzle the chocolate over the top and sides of each Rice Krispie shape, using the back of the spoon to spread and smooth. Set aside on a cooling rack and allow chocolate to set.
- If you wish, make another half batch of chocolate and leave white/untinted. Using a spoon or a small squeeze bottle, drizzle chocolate across the first pink layer of chocolate. The faster the movement, the thinner the drizzled lines. Allow to set. Then store in a plastic container or bag without stacking or sides touching until chocolate is completely set, usually overnight.
here are the tiny ones..
Barbara. what can I say …. stylish down to the last teeth. That storage unit will fit nicely over here … it has everything. So lovely everything .. just like you! The small nibbles .. adorable. Where do you find all the lovely boxes .. and laces .. for your photos. It’s such a joy to land here. Have to read the interview now. Thanks for being my online – sweetie shop.
If I had a sweetie shop and you popped in.. I’d never let you leave:D We’d have too much to chat about!xx
Brilliant answer …. maybe I have to take that detour over Calgary.
I saw and then read your interview on WP, congrats on that! Such a beautiful and quiet post. I just felt like I walked into a lovely space, almost like a favorite store, looked around at all the beautiful things, admired the gorgeous flower arrangements, got some ideas and was treated to these adorable and oh so pretty treats. I didn’t think I’d ever call a rice crispy treat lovely, but these surely are! Smidge if you ever opened a store no one would ever leave it…and I’ll bet no one wants to leave your house when they visit, either! 🙂
Thanks, Betsy.. I think I would love to have a shop, just not the stress that would go along with it:) I would never let you leave!! xx
Absolutely EXQUISITE! What you do with the ordinary, through high magic and Smidgery transforms the commonplace into something otherworldly! I think you’re part faerie I truly do!! Honestly Smidge, you are in a class of your own!!! To think Rice Krispies could ever be THAT! (My head is still shaking.) xxo (happy to see you back again my friend!)
spree.. you’ve invented yet another new word for the English language.. “smidgery”:) If I were a faerie, I’d be thrilled because I’d most certainly have a magic wand and I would cast spells far and wide! I’m so happy to be back.. thanks to some spree magic making:)
I love Rice Krispy Treats, and these are a masterpiece! Beautiful as always. ~ Misky xx
The chocolate.. well, they were so yummy this way!!
Oh that storage system looks so amazing Barbara! I am wanting to design better work space here too ~ but don’t think could ever accomplish what you did. Will make doing what you do even more delightful. You have a gift! xo Robyn
It was fun.. I just dragged everything out and assembled my craft, food props and wrapping stuff in a pile and began putting it in the cubbies.. I think ikea has a great storage unit with cubbies.. it was fun!
Really like Rice Krispy treats. Problem is they would never last long enough in this house to be decorated as beautifully as you’ve done them.
Paul
Hahaha.. too true!
Gorgeous!!
Thanks, April!
WOW! This is beautiful, so exciting and amazing. Thank you dear Barbara, as always hit me your post. Love, nia
Thanks, nia xx
I love your storage unit, Barb, and the interplay of whites and soft pastels … you make being organized look so pretty and inspiring! Speaking of which, you’ve transformed the humble Rice Krispie square into a lovely treat. Who wouldn’t want to receive one of these for Valentine’s Day?
If I can’t make it pretty, well, I don’t organize.. that’s half the fun for me:) I just sent the last of the batch over to my son’s friend’s house.. he’d seen them on Facebook, lol!
It’s good to have people to share all this baking with, isn’t it? Ah, the perils of being a food blogger
Unbelievable! Your craft room looks incredible! And these treats are Martha Stewart worthy! Wow.
Congrats on your WP interview too, heading over to read it now.
I was happy with how they turned out.. I think the secret was using “crafting” baking chocolate, not the expensive Callebaut. They melted much easier and poured better.
I missed your interview on WP News about custom fonts so I was glad, as an unadventurous user of them, to find a link to it. Everything in this post looks so pretty – you have a great talent for styling.
Thanks so much.. I enjoy changing my blog, sometimes too much and no one recognizes it, lol!
Oh my goodness B, these crispies are adorable!! I love the look of your white room!!
Heehee.. it’s a little storage closet/room, but it works:)
Barbara, this is the classiest version of rice crispies I’ve seen! Beautiful and delicate…love the sticks idea. Someday, I’ll convert our school supplies area into a pretty storage unit for my crafts and scrapbook supplies…and dreaming on:)
STUNNING!
GORGEOUS!
PERFECT!
BEAUTIFUL!
🙂 Mandy xo
Thanks!!xx
Every week I give myself the treat of visiting your blog…so lovely!
It is such a treat to visit each other’s “homes” and see what they’ve been up to.. baking away or otherwise:)
Some day I’ll take some photos of my version of one of your lovely recipes. There’ll be rice crispies and chocolate on the ceiling, on my nose, all down the units. It’s a disaster just waiting to happen. Off to read about your adventures with fonts now. Fabulous post, Smidge.
Haha, you’re too cute, if you lived close I’d give you a little lesson.. it’s not as hard as it looks:)xx
EVen your storage is a work of art! Please come round to my house and make it beautiful 🙂 Love rice crispie cakes and these hearts are just fantastic!
Whew.. I’ve just finished up the last job, filing, ugh! But now I’m free, so if I’m ever in your area.. xx
Smidge, everything you do is always SO stylish and elegant! No wonder you sell so many houses! (I’ve been reading your other website too! :)) xx
*blush* I wish I could sell more.. then I can buy more cookie cutters and cake pans:D xx
I could not be more jealous of your craft supplies storage. That is perfect, and I need one so badly.
The flowers are beautiful too…it’s so cold right now. I just can’t get warm, but seeing the flowers helps a little 🙂
I love the Krispy Treats! That’s such a good idea. I wonder if they’d last long enough around here to do this…. 🙂
Congratulations on all the fun stuff that’s happened this week, I’m so happy for you!
It’s not the shelving unit, it’s the paper, buttons and fabric that make it look pretty:) You could fill each one with yarn in chromatic families and it would be stunning!! Btw.. I’m so excited, I have one ball of thick fluffy yarn.. two thick knitting needles. I can now cast (caste?) on, knit and purl. Tomorrow I’m trying a cable stitch.. when I’m done it will be a scarf:D I can’t thank you enough for sending me the DVD, it was just the impetus I needed to be brave!!! xxx
Yes, I love that idea, Barb. I can do the same with all this fabric too, and it will look amazing in my little studio. Thank you!
Yay!!! It’s so exciting that you are ready to cast on. I simply can’t wait to see what you create. I know it will be beautiful. This is fun to see you take this on, you’re a natural for knitting with your patience and eye for style. Did I mention, YAY!!??
Loving your post – makes me want to get crafty:) Have a Great One!
The more crafts I do the more I want to make, they’re kind of addicting:)
Wow, Smidge, now I know for sure: You are the Canadian Martha Stewart!
Martha Stewart, eh?? That’s the highest compliment:) Thanks! xx
Love the treats. How fun!
They were totally fun to make! Thanks!
I never get tired of saying how amazing you are!!!!!
xoxo to you too:)
What a brilliant interview opportunity my friend, huge congratulations is in order 🙂
Your girly but classic sense of style is evident in your photos and interior design as well as these delicious and cute treats 🙂
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Thanks CCU.. You’ve got a nice way of describing it:)
This is fantastic!!! I will never take a picture of my photog office after seeing your craft room. Congrats to you , my friend! xxx
A working space is different from storage, so I wouldn’t show my desk without a lot of cleaning up first:) xx
You don’t want to see my storage area either….hehehe.
Congrats on the interview! I am so happy for you! I hope you got a lot of hits!
Love your work station. Wow! It is like a much more beautiful Martha Stewart collection. It has the Smidgen touch!
It was a fun day.. now it’s all back to normal:D Thanks so much, Susie.. Martha better move on over, lol!! Ok.. if she would just let me stand beside her for a day.. I’d be happy:)
You may get that chance Barb, be careful what you wish for! Hahaha!
Those rice crispy treats are adorable !
Thanks, Carolyn!
Those hearts are so delicate and beautiful! I absolutely love your crafting shelf. Oh to have that much space!
It’s in a tiny storage closet.. that part doesn’t show up in the photo:D
What a fun craft room with just about everything you would ever need to be creative. Tis the season for cleaning and organizing and that is really big here in China in prep for the Chinese New years. Beautiful and delicate little rice krispy treats. Who knew something so simple could be so fun and delicious. Have a super day! BAM
So that explains the cleaning I’ve been seeing, lol! I’m almost done.. I’m on my filing system.. and then that’s it!! (for the first time in about 8 years since we moved in here, haha). You must be excited about your move!!??
Purging and cleaning is therapeutic and after 8 years is required!
I was excited about the move, however I have encountered a bug in my new theme and it would require about 60 hours of re-configuration on my part to go live. I am on a hold pattern until I hear back some options from Theme Forest. So I will be at least a mid February go live. How about you?
You are so clever!!!!! Such cute heart shaped rice crispy treats. Quite an organized and well stocked craft area.
They were fun to make.. I’m planning some cookies now:D xx
So much in this post to love! Congrats Barbara on the interview. Your craft area looks impeccable and I would expect nothing less from you! 🙂 And of course, the marshmallow treats are simply works of art!!!!
Thanks so much, Danny! That’s a great compliment coming from a food writer that I admire!
You are too too kind!!!!! But thank you 🙂
So beautiful – everything.
Thanks:)
Such a simple recipe turned into an elegant Valentines treat!
They were so cute with the sticks.. if only my kids were still in grade school! xx
Hi Barbara, congratulations on the interview! I love the rice crispy treats, so cute and delicious-looking!
Thanks so much, Jasline.. Valentine’s is a fun time!
Congratulations! 🙂 I just loved this post…a quiet moment of beauty in my busy morning. The heart treats are just perfect!
I can’t wait to head over to see what you’ve been up to!! Thanks so much! xx
Smidge! When I first saw that craft cabinet on Pinterest, I thought it was from a magazine!!! It’s gorgeous 🙂 I love how you styled it, coordinating all of the colors. What a happy place to be. And your Rice Krispie hearts are adorable. I happen to have a little packet of pink chocolate in my baking cabinet that I need to use up 🙂 xx
I hope you try these.. they’re so worth it because they’re not difficult:) xx
I envy you your organization, as ever, Smidge, and those hearts are precious!
It was a craze.. and I’m finally organized in every storage room. It wasn’t a New Year’s Resolution, so I’m not sure what came over me, lol!
A post full of loveliness! Every visit to your blog is so inspiring! Thanks for being here Barb! <3 I love to knit, how can I join Interpurl Knitwork?
If you click on my link I think you could just make a comment.. but somewhere there it tells you where to send your small square of knitting. I have to buy needles and wool today, you knit a small square and mail it in with your name, etc, on it:)
What great news! Congratulations, Barb! Your storage are looks so nice and organized. If you like doing this kind of thing, do I ever have a place for you!!! 🙂
Rice Krispie treats are a bit too sweet for my tastes but that’s a good thing. They are one confection that I can make and give away without stealing some before packing them up. It’s the sampling that gets me into trouble. Let it get out of hand and the baker’s dozen of cookies gift is suddenly 11.
This was another well-written, beautifully shot and presented, Barb. A pleasure to read.
I have a strange obsession with organization.. I think it ties into my stationery obsession.. baskets, trays.. you name it, I’ve got it. In fact, it’s time to get rid of some of the older baskets. So.. if you’d lived closer I’d be glad to help:D I hear you on the baker’s 11… I have a sugar obsession as well, as if you didn’t know! xx
Beautiful post! I love your craft cabinet. Elegantly done. Your rice krispie treats look heavenly!
Thanks so much:D xx
I love your craft room and I will look closely at the design of shelves and drawers when we get to finishing our study 🙂
The combination of drawers and shelving is quite handy, not everything is attractive enough to keep out in the open. xx
These RIce Krispie treats are a cut above any I’ve ever seen before! They’re works of art! I love your organization system and of course, it’s beautiful, too! You have a way of making everything just a little special, Barbara. Including your beautiful fonts. I’m eager to read the interview, too! 🙂
Thanks so much, it was a much more pleasant week for sure:D xx
Hi Smidge! Congratulations for your interview. Your blog is an endless source of inspiration, so it was time already that WP give you credit for it 😉
I loved the recipe, and I’m borrowing it for San Valentine’s I don’t know if my husband is going to like it, but I know I will!!
Have a nice day 🙂
Likewise.. I love visiting your blog and seeing your recipes, they’re so often dishes I’ve never tried Giovanna!!
I have a new room in our house for my office/studio. I love it’s functionality but would love to make it prettier. Your shelves are serving a purpose and are pleasing to the eye- this is my goal. Thank you for the visual.
The rice krispy treats on a stick are also quite pleasing to the eye, taking the rough cut square up several notches… 🙂
xx wendy
You’ve taken an ordinary after-school treat and elevated it to an art object–well done, Smidge. And congratulations on the interview–interesting.
So organized! Love krispy treats. You have a knack of elevating the familiar to fabulous!
This is such a pretty post, Smidge. And, a very nice way to get back into the groove of reading some of my most favorite blogs. I too need to do some editing and organizing. Thanks for the inspiration in that department (I definitely need it!). I hope you are well and your new year is off to a great start (& congratulations on your interview too)!
Allison
You have a beautiful spot for storing and displaying your crafts! Thanks for the recipe, too–the rice krispy hearts look so pretty!
Thanks so much Nancy! xx
Your crafty storage unit is lovely as well as functional. I am craving rice krispy bars now. 🙂
NEVER have I seen Rice Krispie treats look anywhere as beautiful as what you have made.
I LOVE your storage craft area. I, like you, do tons of crafts, sewing, painting, etc. and have been wanting a craft, sewing, painting room FOREVER! Your crispy treats are adorable and your new website design and header is sooo beautiful. Your blog is one of my favorites, I truly enjoy it 🙂
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