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In This Post: Everything You Need For Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars
The Rice Krispie Bar Love Story
I REALLY ADORE these Rice Krispie Bars. I’ve been making them for a long time, ever since my cousin’s wife Erica brought them to us years ago and I fell absolutely in love with them. I bothered her for the recipe, as one does, and she sent me this recipe from All Recipes. The adjustments I’ve made over the years have mostly to do with convenience: standard-size boxes and bags rather than the hard-to-find ones, light brown sugar instead of dark, and ditching the corn syrup, since you already have the sticky caramel to hold it all together. And also because I’m known to be a fan of short ingredient lists.
These Salted Caramel Rice Krispie Bars Aren’t For Everyone
If you’re the kind of person who likes an understated dessert, you might need to look elsewhere. These are butter-forward, sugar-forward, and salt-forward. These are not subtle. They are simple, but they are also big, very sweet and salty, obnoxiously extra, and so deliciously life-changing. They remind me of the Extra Good Puppy Chow – like, you’ve probably already had puppy chow, but you haven’t had AMAZING puppy chow until you’ve basically doubled the butter and chocolate and stuck the whole thing in the freezer. That’s what’s happening here. You’ve had a Rice Krispie Bar, but you have not lived until you’ve had THIS Rice Krispie Bar. Extra butter, extra gooey goodness in the form of a quick homemade salted caramel, and extra textural goodness from a pop into the fridge. DIAL IT UP. I won’t judge if you’re a person who takes their treats a little more restrained. But for those of us who enjoy a massively caramelly, unapologetically salty-sweet bite of a classic RKB, this one will deliver.
Please Refrigerate These Rice Krispie Bars – Yes, I Said It
Rice Krispie Bars usually aren’t refrigerated, but here is my weird secret: I really enjoy these Rice Krispie Bars cold out of the fridge. For regular Rice Krispie Bars, that would not work. They’d dry out in two seconds. But in this case, we have twice the butter (yay!) so the cold treatment tightens up the buttery-mallow-salty-caramel mixture into something a bit more firm, but still very soft and chewable. So what you get is a tight, tender, chewy, sweet and salty crispy-crunch that is just so ultra-satisfying. They are a 10 in all forms, so room temp will also work for you and be nice and soft. But just try refrigerating them for a texture boost. See if I’m crazy.
More Treats To Love
Modern Scotcheroos (another take on the classic Rice Krispie Bar) Favorite Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies (browned butter is next-level good) Old School Homemade Oreos (why are these so amazing??)
4.8 from 21 reviews Personally I don’t like to store these at room temperature for more than a few hours because of the cream in the caramel sauce. You can let them hang out on the counter for a bit before you serve, but then I usually pop the leftovers into the fridge for some cold, crunchy magic.
