Super-Quick No-Bake St. Patrick's Day Mint Krispie Treats

If you play your cards right, and you're willing to share the goods, you may get lucky in the kitchen when you serve up an Irish-inspired old family favourite.

Lucky can mean so many things: Will today be the day the kids empty the dishwasher? Probably not. Will the secret stash of chocolate still be safely hidden? Unlikely; you ate it in a post-workout, ravenous fit. Mint is also a known aphrodisiac that works to stimulate the senses and we all know what dark chocolate can do, so basically this recipe is a trifecta of luck - kind of like an Irish clover.

Don't say you weren't warned. 

It's that most wonderful time of the year, when every bar and artisinal, hand-crafted noodle maker greens their wares, so let's do the same, too. Whip up a batch of Rice Krispie treats with a dash of mint and some food colouring and you've transformed the easiest dessert ever into a treat fit for a leprechaun.

Ingredients

Green sprinkles

Directions

• Butter a rectangular 8 x 11.5" baking dish. 
• Melt the butter and marshmallows in a large saucepan over low heat. Don’t allow the mixture to boil.

• Once the marshmallows have begun melting, add the mint extract, food colouring, and milk and stir well. Add Rice Krispies, blend completely, and remove from heat.

• Press the Rice Krispie mixture into a buttered dish and press down using a cool, damp silicone spatula. This is key if you don’t want anything sticking to your spatula.
• Allow to cool and cut into squares.
• In a small saucepan, slowly melt two tablespoons of butter and the chocolate.
• Dip one half of each minty, green Rice Krispies square into the chocolate mixture and set aside. Decorate with sprinkles while the chocolate is still warm.
• Let the chocolate harden for one hour and enjoy.

Makes 15 squares.

Bon appétit!

Based on a recipe from NeighborFood.

IMAGE SOURCE: COURTESY OF KATJA WULFERS

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