Rice Krispie Treats again!

  I discovered that Kelloggs sells rice krispies in 18 oz boxes - these are massive, and it makes you question, why would someone want so much puffed rice?  The answer, of course is to make rice krispie treats.

  Using roughly the same proportions as my recipe from 2014, I cobbled together:

  - 1 18oz box of Rice Krispies

  - 3 10oz bags of marshmallows (10 or 10.5 oz is the standard size - they'll all work)

  - 1 1/4 lb block of butter (aka 8 oz of butter)

  Standard procedure:

  1. melt butter

  2. melt marshmallows into butter; keep stirring and melting until you get a uniform glop

  3. add cereal, mix reasonably well, press into a pan.

  I used a microwave to melt everything - if you do that, make sure you break up the butter, lest you create an explosive buttery mess in your microwave.  You also have to heat in stages - heat, stir, heat, stir, heat.

  I used a 13x10 and a 12x9 pan, and I filled both, so that I was able to get about a 1-1.5" condensed (aka pressed) layer of treat in both pans.  I cut not-so-carefully to make about 48 treats.

  So how healthy was this?

Butter: 800 cal, 96g fat, 56g sat fat, 248mg cholesterol, 0 Na, 0 sugar
Cereal: 1950 cal, 0 fat, 0 cholesterol, 2400mg Na, 60g sugar
Marshmallows: 2430 cal, 675mg Na, 513g sugar

  One square (1/48th of all that above): 108 cal, 2g fat, ~1.2g sat fat, 69mg Na, 12g sugar

  Who knew that the biggest component of calories were the marshmallows?