Rice Krispie Easter Egg Treats

Awake, thou wintry earth -
Fling off thy sadness!
Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth
Your ancient gladness!  ~Thomas Blackburn, "An Easter Hymn"

After the snow and cold gray days of winter I love spring and especially Easter.  This is the first Easter treat I have made this season and wanted to share it with you!  As I have mentioned before I am not an overly creative person by nature.  I don't often come up with cute ideas on my own, but that is one of the things I like about reading your blogs!  I saw this cute idea at Sun Scholars.  Enjoy!

Rice Krispie Easter Egg Treats  Source: Sun Scholars

Ingredients:

3 tbsp. butter or margarine
6 C miniature marshmallows
6 C Rice Krispies cereal
Easter sprinkles
cooking spray

Directions:

1. Prepare Rice Krispies by your preferred method.  Stir in your sprinkles.  (I actually added my sprinkles after forming the eggs but think it would be much easier to add the sprinkles along with the Rice Krispies during this step.)

2. Spray plastic Easter eggs or Jello egg molds with cooking spray.  Spray your hands with cooking spray as well.  Using your hands fill the eggs with the Rice Krispie mixture.
3. Once the Rice Krispies have set up, carefully remove the formed eggs.  You may need to do a little more forming with your hands if they get mis-shapen when you remove them.  Just remember that eggs are fatter in the middle and skinner on the ends so you don't get funny looking eggs :)