Description
These Snowman Scotcheroos are chocolatey combine peanut butter, butterscotch, white chocolate and crisp rice cereal for treats that are as yummy as they are adorable.
Ingredients
Ingredients:
- 1 ½ cups Light Corn Syrup
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup creamy peanut butter
- 1 cup butterscotch morsels
- 8 cups crispy rice cereal
- 4 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
Decorations:
- 4 red licorice pull-n-peel, for the scarves
- 15 pretzel sticks, for the arms
- 30 brown colored regular-size candy-coated milk chocolate pieces, for the eyes
- 15 mini candy corn, for the nose
- 105 brown colored mini candy-coated milk chocolate pieces, for the mouth and buttons (7 per snowman)
- 15 chocolate caramel candies
- 1/4 cup Light Corn Syrup
Instructions
- Cook corn syrup and sugar together in a large pan over medium heat, stirring to dissolve sugar. Bring mixture to a boil. Turn off heat. Stir in peanut butter and butterscotch morsels; mix well.
- Add cereal to a large bowl. Pour corn syrup mixture over the cereal and stir until evenly coated.
- Pour into greased 16.5 x 11.5-inch pan and pat into place.
- Melt white chocolate chips and 1 tablespoon oil in a saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly. OR melt the white chocolate chips and oil in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring between each interval until melted. Spread melted white chocolate over cereal in the pan.
- Cool 45 minutes, or until white chocolate is just set.
- To make the snowmen, use a 2-inch round cookie cutter to cut 15 circles from part of the bars. Then use a 2.5-inch round cookie cutter to cut 15 larger circles from the remaining bars in the pan.
- Press a smaller circle up next to larger circle so they stick together to create each snowman. Repeat with remaining circles until you have 15 snowmen. If the circles won’t stick together, use a little Karo®Light Corn Syrup to help them stick.
- To decorate each snowman, start by peeling two strands from a red licorice pull-n-peel and twist it to wrap around where the two circles meet for the scarf.
- Break a pretzel stick in half and press each half into the sides of the bottom half of each snowman for the arms.
- Use a tiny amount of corn syrup to attach the regular candy-coated milk chocolate pieces for the eyes, the mini candy corn for the nose, and the mini candy-coated milk chocolate pieces for the mouth and buttons.
- Dip the bottom of a chocolate caramel candy in the corn syrup and then stick it to the top of the snowman for the hat.
- Repeat until all of the snowman scotcheroos are decorated.