American Flag Rice Krispie Treat

This American Flag Rice Krispie Treat is a great dessert for a 4th of July party – easy to make, easy to transport and everyone loves Rice Krispie Treats.  

What’s better for a 4th of July party than a patriotic dessert – we had made another version of individual American Flag Rice Krispie Treats that are always a hit at a get-together. But we thought it would be great to come up with another version that was a little easier to make so we combined two of our favorite 4th of July treats – our 4th of July Rice Krispie Treats and our Patriotic Rice Krispie Cake and we made it into this easy and fun American Flag Rice Krispie Treat.

How to Make the Rice Krispie Treat Mixture

Step 1:  The base for our American Flag Rice Krispie Treat is our Best Ever Rice Krispie Treat Recipe which we have adjusted and perfected over the years until it is now absolutely the best Rice Krispie Treat recipe we have ever tasted.  You can find all the directions you’ll need to make these delicious treats right here.  You will need a 2 1/2 cup batch of Rice Krispie Treat mixture (2 .5 Tbsp. Butter/2.5 Cups Marshmallows/2.5 Cups Cereal) without any food coloring for the white flag stripes.

Tinting Instructions

Step 2: Coloring Instructions for the Red Rice Krispie Treat Mixture
4 cups of Rice Krispie Treat mixture (4 Tbsp. Butter/4 Cups Marshmallows/4 Cups Cereal)
6 drops of Red Food Coloring

Step 3: Coloring Instructions for the Blue Rice Krispie Treat Mixture
2 1/2 Cup of Rice Krispie Treat mixture (2 .5 Tbsp. Butter/2.5 Cups Marshmallows/2.5 Cups Cereal)
8 drops of Blue Food Coloring/2 drops of Pink Food Coloring/1 drop of Red Food Coloring (Note:  This is the combination I used to get this pretty dark blue color.  I added the pink and red to counteract the yellow from the Rice Krispie cereal.  If you just use only Blue food coloring, your blue layer will probably be more aqua than American Flag blue.)

How to Create the American Flag Design

Step 4: We used a 9″ x 13″ glassing baking dish to build our American Flag Rice Krispie Treat.  We lightly buttered the pan before we started. Take the 2 1/2 cups of blue Rice Krispie Treat mixture and spoon it into the upper left hand corner of the pan.  Press it down to form a small rectangle.  The rectangle should go about half way down the short side of the pan and about a third of the way across the length of the pan.
Step 5: Make up the 4 cups of Red Rice Krispie Treat Mixture and start building the red stripes.  There should be two red stripes aligned with the top and the bottom of the blue flag piece as shown in the pictures above. Add a third red stripe along the bottom of the pan.

Step 6: Add a third red stripe along the bottom of the pan.
Step 7: Now make up the 2 1/2 cup batch of white Rice Krispie Treat mixture and fill in the open spots in the pan starting with the open spot in the top half of the pan.

Step 8:  Now fill in the white stripe on the bottom half of the flag.
Step 9: Now you have an American Flag Rice Krispie Treat.  But we need some stars! We decided to make our 4th of July dessert into the Betsy Ross version of the American Flag.  We took thirteen small pieces of white Rice Krispie Treat mixture and placed them in a circle on the blue area of our flag.

Betsy Ross Fun Fact

Did you know that historians aren’t really sure that Betty Ross actually created this early version of the American Flag? Her grandson wrote a biography about her almost 100 years after this flag was originally created and told the story of Betsy Ross being commissioned by George Washington to create the first American Flag.   We hope the story is true!

Other 4th of July Dessert Recipes You Will Love

• Patriotic Swirl Cupcakes
• Patriotic Chocolate Cookies
• American Flag Cake
• Red White and Blue Strawberry Shortcake

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