Salted Caramel Apple Krispy Treats – all of the marshmallow and rice krispie treat flavor we know and love with a twist! Â These are perfect for fall with their salted caramel and apple flavor – easy to whip up recipe!
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Ok you guys. Â You special easy fall loving treat people. Â My kind of people. Â I have a problem with this marshmallow treat.
That problem is, that I don’t think I will ever look at a plain old rice krispy treat the same way again.
I mean, my hats off to the lovely person who decided to stick butter, marshmallow, and rice cereal together because that idea was completely genius. Â But, I now like these better. Â My secret is surely safe with you all, right? Â Thanks.
These treats come together just about as quickly as your standard cereal treat would. Â No patience required, yay!
The perhaps “longest” part, if you can call it that will be making your salted caramel. Â But, it’s so worth it, and still only eats up about 10 minutes of your day. Â If you have never made salted caramel before and would like to see step-by-step photos, you can find them right HERE.
As I was making these I also had to reminisce a teeny bit about the first time I ever attempted to make a batch of rice krispy treats. Â It was…..a DISASTER of epic marshmallow proportions.
I’d say this was a good ten years ago. Â I’d also say I should have read the directions, and not used an entire stick of butter and only 3 cups of cereal.
Luckily we all ate very buttery slightly marshmallow-y cereal pieces with a spoon, because they were still delicious. And, hey, who doesn’t need a little extra butter in their diet……says my former 21 year old self who could eat whatever she wanted.
Let me tell you a little about our treat friends right now.
Perfect texture….not too crispy (we have all had that one cereal treat that almost made us break our teeth and hate our lives). Â You won’t find that here. Â Just crispy enough to be satisfying to sink those chompers of yours into.
I used dried apple in these, and I love, love, love the flavor. Â No time spent peeling apples either.
The salted caramel makes them nice and rich, sweet with just a hint of salt.
If you weren’t ready for crisp weather, changing leaves, and all things fall….you will be after a bite of these babies!
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Salted Caramel Apple Krispy Treats
Ingredients
- Salted Caramel:
- 1 Cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 Cup cold water
- 1/2 Cup heavy whipping cream
- 4 Tablespoon salted butter
- 1 Teaspoon sea salt
- 1/2 Teaspoon vanilla
- Krispy Treats:
- 4 Cups miniature marshmallows
- 4 Tablespoons butter
- 6 Cups rice krispies cereal
- 1 Cup dried apple pieces
- 1 Cup salted caramel
Instructions
- Salted Caramel:
- In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the sugar and cold water.
- Continue to stir and cook until mixture turns a medium to dark amber color.
- Add the butter to your caramel, and stir to combine, about 1-2 minutes.
- Once butter is completely melted, slowly drizzle the cream into the caramel.
- Allow the caramel to boil for 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and add the vanilla and salt.
- Allow caramel to cool down and thicken before using.
- ***Caramel will bubble up in pan when you add the butter, as well as the cream. This is natural due to the butter/cream being colder than the caramel. Be careful while stirring***
- Krispy Treats:
- In a large saucepan, melt the butter over low heat.
- Add the marshmallows and 1 cup of the salted caramel, stirring over low heat until marshmallows are melted.
- Remove pan from the heat and add the cereal and apple pieces to the marshmallow mixture.
- Stir until all of the cereal is coated.
- Pour mixture into prepared pan and press down firmly.
- Drizzle with more salted caramel as desired and allow to cool before cutting into squares.