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These Halloween Rice Krispie Treats are spook-tacularly easy to make and even more fun to serve. Decorated like pumpkins, ghosts, and mummies, they’re the perfect sweet to WOW your Halloween guests!
Cast a Delicious Spell on Your Next Halloween Party
These cute little Halloween Rice Krispie Treats are always a hit at my house! They’re everything I love about the classic treat —with a festive Halloween twist. The caramel and sweetened condensed milk add a rich fall flavor that makes them totally irresistible. It’s so fun dipping them in chocolate turning them into ghosts, pumpkins, scaredy cats, and mummies.
Perfect for class parties, work potlucks, or just a fun night of Halloween movies—these treats are frightfully fun and delicious!
💜 Echo
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Ingredients
It’s so easy to whip up a batch of these delicious goodies for a Halloween party. Just a few ingredients and a little creativity is all you need!
- Rice Krispies Cereal: Generic cereal brands work just as well.
- Butter: Margarine substitutes don’t work as well in this recipe.
- Sweetened Condensed Milk: Gives the Rice Krispie cereal a soft, chewy texture.
- Caramels: Unwrap about 25 caramels for this recipe.
- Marshmallows: About 30 large. You can use mini marshmallows as well. One large marshmallow equals about 13 mini marshmallows.
- Melting Chocolate: Purple, orange, green and white, or any other colors you wish to use. You can also use chocolate chips, see below for melting tips.
- For Decorating: Halloween sprinkles, chocolate chips, candy eyes, and lollipop sticks.
More Rice Krispie Square Options
I love the Rice Krispie Treat recipe we used for this recipe, but you can use any recipe as the Rice Krispie base you’d like! Our Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Treats are truly a family favorite. For a quick option try our 5-minute Microwave Rice Krispie Treats. For a more colorful option, try our Fruity Pebbles Rice Krispie Treats. Of course, if you want to focus all your time on decorating, you can use pre-made store bought Rice Krispie Treats.
How to Make Halloween Rice Krispie Treats
- In a large, heavy bottom pot melt milk, caramels, and marshmallows on medium heat. Stir constantly. I am always tempted to turn the heat higher to make everything melt faster, but this will result in hard Rice Krispie Treats! Don’t do it!
- Add Rice Krispie Cereal to a large bowl. I usually use the biggest bowl I have so I have plenty of room to stir in the marshmallow mixture. Pour the mixture over the cereal and stir until everything is evenly coated.
- Spread coated Rice Krispies firmly and evenly onto the jelly roll pan. Don’t press down too hard. Cool completely. When the Rice Krispies are completely cooled, cut them into 36 squares, or shapes for characters.
- When the Rice Krispies are completely cooled, cut them into 36 squares, or shapes for characters.
- Melt chocolate wafer in microwave safe bowls. Heat each individually on medium for about thirty seconds, then stir well. Continue heating in 30 second intervals until the chips are completely smooth and melted. The chips or melts will hold their shape until stirred, so it is very important to stir well between each interval.
- Ghost Rice Krispie Treats: Place a lollipop stick in the bottom of a Rice Krispie treat. Dip the treat in the white melted chocolate leaving a little plain Rice Krispie treat on the bottom. Place on waxed paper and add two chocolate chips for the eyes.
- Jack O’Lantern Rice Krispie Treats: Dip the entire Rice Krispie treat in orange melting chocolate and place on waxed paper. Add chocolate chips for the eyes, nose and mouth to create a Halloween Jack-o-lantern. Drizzle green melting chocolate side to the side on the top.
- Purple Cat Rice Krispie Treats: Cut out a triangle shape on the top of the Rice Krispie treat to create two cat eats. Dip the entire Rice Krispie treat in purple candy melts. Add candy eyes, and use sprinkles for the whiskers and nose before it starts to set.
- Mummy Rice Krispie Treats: Make blue coconut by adding 1 drop blue food coloring to ½ cup shredded coconut. Continue adding drops of food coloring until desired color is reached. Dip the entire Rice Krispie treat in green candy melts first then dip the top portion in the blue coconut. Add candy eyes and it’s a fun spooky treat. You can also easily turn this treat into a Frankenstein monster or use different colors to make witches.
Tips for Dipping
- Melting chocolate, also called Candy Melts, can be found at Walmart, Michaels or similar craft stores. They come in a variety of colors and they melt into a smooth texture easy for dipping.
- If want to use chocolate chips instead of candy melts, add a tablespoon of vegetable shortening for every one cup of chocolate chips when melting. This will give the melted chocolate a smoother, thinner texture for coating the squares.
- Once you’ve dipped the squares you can decorate the Halloween Rice Krispie Treats with any kind of sprinkles or candies. Just make sure you sprinkle before the chocolate cools and hardens.
- Let them dry on wax paper before transferring to another plate. You can also stick them in the freezer to let them harden more quickly.
Margarine doesn’t work as well due to its higher moisture and water content. Stick with real butter to ensure the right texture and flavor in your Halloween treats.
Absolutely! 30 large marshmallows are the same as roughly 10 cups of mini marshmallows (using a 13:1 ratio), so feel free to use whichever you have on hand.
For smooth chocolate coverage, melt your chocolate wafers in 30-second intervals in the microwave, stirring well between each until glossy and pourable. Work quickly, then decorate with sprinkles or candy eyes before it sets.
Allow the treats to cool completely—at least 30 minutes at room temperature—before carving shapes, inserting sticks, or dipping them. This ensures they are firm enough to handle.
More Halloween Treats to Try
Looking for some more holiday treats that will set you apart from the rest? Our Candy Apples, Harry Potter Pumpkin Pasties, and Skeleton Charcuterie Board make great Halloween treats. In addition, try some of these simple, fun recipes:
We’d love to hear how these turned out for you! Share your thoughts below, give us a star rating, and tell us which spooky shape was your favorite. 👻 🎃
Halloween Rice Krispie Treats
Ingredients
- 9 cups Rice Krispies Cereal, generic brands work just as well
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, ½ stick
- 3/4 cup sweetened condensed milk
- 25 caramels, unwrapped
- 30 marshmallows, large
- White, milk, or semi-sweet chocolate for dipping, melted (optional).
- Sprinkles or mini-chocolate chips for decorating, optional.
Instructions
- Gather your ingredients. Spray a jelly roll pan (12 inches x 18 inches) with non-stick cooking spray, or lightly grease using butter or margarine. Measure the 9 cups of Rice Krispies Cereal into a large bowl.
- In a heavy pot, melt butter, milk, caramels, and marshmallows on medium heat, stirring constantly.
- When marshmallows and caramels are completely melted, pour over the cereal and stir until well blended.
- Spread coated Rice Krispies firmly and evenly onto the jelly roll pan. The mixture will be sticky. I have found the easiest way to do this is to lightly butter my fingers, or spray them with non-stick cooking spray, and press the mixture into the pan. Cool completely. When the Rice Krispies are completely cooled, cut them into 36 squares, or shapes for characters.
For Halloween Characters
- Insert a lollipop stick or popsicle stick in the bottom of each square. Dip the Rice Krispie treat into melted candy melts and place on waxed paper. Quickly add decorations before chocolate hardens. See examples above. Let chocolate cool and harden. The dipped treats can be wrapped in decorative bags or cellophane, or kept in an airtight container.
For Decorative Squares
- Dip a corner of each square in melted chocolate and place on waxed paper. Sprinkle seasonal sprinkles on chocolate. Allow chocolate to cool and harden before serving or storing in an airtight container.
Equipment
- 12×18 inch pan
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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Did you leave out the butter in the instructions? Or am I missing it somehow?
You melt the butter in with the marshmallows.
These are so cute! Saving these to make for the holiday with my niece and nephew – I know they’ll love them!
I just love the ghost on a stick idea, my kids will enjoy making it
I saw these in Facebook and decided to give them a try since I needed to make a snack for my son’s soccer team. These tasted amazing because of the caramel and the condensed milk, but they didn’t set up as well as I’d hoped. They were still falling apart after several hours of setting. Not sure if it was something On my end or what. Oh well, the kids loved them and so did I.
It could be a difference in the brands of condensed milk and caramel used, I’m not sure. Next time you make them, add another cup of Rice Krispies or more if needed. This should help them set up quicker. You could also try putting the pan in the fridge to help them set up quicker. I’m glad you liked them!
What is a cube of butter? Are you talking a 1/2 a stick of butter? Or a 1/2 a cup of butter?
Thanks!
Yes, sorry! 1/2 cube is the same as 1/2 stick 🙂
Does 1/2 “cube” of butter mean 1/2 of a stick of butter? I just want to make sure to get the right amount….. Sounds yummy. I think my hubby will love these!!!
Yes, sorry… 1/2 cube = 1/2 stick… so it would be 1/4 C. of butter. 🙂
Thanks for posting this. Quick, cheap, easy and all kids will love it.