This is a camera, which is a thing that people once used to take photographs before everyone had a smartphone. It’s a great treat for your favorite shutterbug…but make sure nobody cuts into it before they have the chance to snap a bunch of pics! (Of it. Not with it. It doesn’t work like that.)
Rice Crisps Camera Ingredients:
1 D batch
- 6 cups of cereal
- 4 cups of marshmallows
- 3 tablespoons of butter
- 8 drops of black food coloring
1 F batch
- 3 cups of cereal
- 2 cups of marshmallows
- 1 ½ tablespoons of butter
- 5 drops white and 1 drop black food coloring
Decorating Icings
Sparkle Gels
Equipment
- Large stockpot
- Parchment paper
- Camera template
- Cooking spray
- Round icing tip
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- <H1>Step 1</H1><br />
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<p>Mix the D batch recipe: In a large stockpot, melt the butter over low heat until it’s 80 percent melted, about 1 minute 20 seconds. Note: If the butter begins to sizzle, lower the heat. It should melt very slowly.Add the mini marshmallows and stir gently, coating them with melted butter, about 30 seconds.</p>
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- <H1>Step 2</H1><br />
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<p>When the marshmallows are about 80 percent melted (when you can still see the individual marshmallow shapes but they are beginning to run together), add the black food coloring. Stir for another 15 seconds and then turn off the heat.</p>
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- <H1>Step 3</H1><br />
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<p>Stir gently until the color is well distributed but the marshmallows are still only about 80 percent melted, about 35 seconds (you should still be able to identify individual pieces within the melted ones). Note: If the marshmallows melt too much, the mixture will be too hot to handle—wait 1–2 minutes and then mold quickly!Add the cereal and mix well, until the marshmallows and cereal are fully combined, about 40 seconds. Do not overmix! </p>
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- <H1>Step 4</H1><br />
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<p>Once the mixture is combined, pour the mixture onto the parchment-covered template on the work surface. Generously coat your hands with cooking spray. Use both hands to mold it over section 1 of the template, smoothing the edges until the mixture begins to firm up.</p>
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- <H1>Step 5</H1><br />
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<p>Repeat steps 1–5 to mix the F batch recipe with the black and white food coloring. One handful at a time, fill section 2 of the template. You should have about two handfuls of this batch left over for Steps 8 and 9.</p>
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- <H1>Step 6</H1><br />
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<p>Take one large handful and mold it into a circle for the camera lens. Place it right off center on the treat, as shown.Take a second, slightly smaller handful and place it on top of the first circle, shaping it into another circle, about ½ inch smaller than the first.</p>
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- <H1>Step 7</H1><br />
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<p>Gently press together all the “seams” where one color mixture or one piece of mixture meets the other. Using black icing with a round tip, line the seams where the gray mixture meets the black.</p>
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- <H1>Step 8</H1><br />
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<p>Continuing with black icing and a round tip, draw and fill in a small rectangle at the top right of the camera for the viewfinder. Then draw a circle about ¼ inch from the edge of the circle , and fill it in.</p>
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- <H1>Step 9</H1><br />
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<p>Using blue sparkle gel, draw a circle on top of the black circle and use your fingers to blend. Repeat it with white sparkle gel.</p>
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- <H1>Step 10</H1><br />
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<p>Using white icing with a small tip, draw an oval in the top left of section 1 and 2 dots below the lens on either side, as shown.</p>
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- <H1>Step 11</H1><br />
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<p>Using white sparkle gel, draw a horizontal and reversed L shape along the top and right edge of the viewfinder, as shown</p>
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- <H1>Step 12</H1><br />
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<p>Snap on and crunch this Camera!</p>
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Excerpted from Treat Yourself: How to Make 93 Ridiculously Fun No-Bake Crispy Rice Treats by Jessica Siskin (Workman). Copyright © 2017. Photographs by Evi Abeler. Used with permission of the publisher.