Cinnamon Roll Rice Krispie

   Pet peeve confession. I hate when I reckon I've thought up some brilliant, new, amazingly different recipe.....and then I Google it, and there's a ba-zillion of my idea. MY idea! Golly, well, on that note, here's a delicious idea I came up with.....and so did everyone else.  

Cinnamon Roll Rice Krispie 

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup butter
• 1/8 tsp salt
• 2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 (10.5 oz) bag miniature marshmallows
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 6 cups Rice Krispies Cereal

Icing Swirl

• 1/4 cup warm water
  
• 1 tablespoon light corn syrup
  

• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract (or almond is yumm too)
  
• 3 cups confectioners' sugar, or more as needed
  
  

Method:

Rice Krispie Treats

1. If you plan to make these into squares, then grease a 9x13 baking pan with spray and line with parchment paper with overhang handles and set aside. If you want to roll them into circles, spray a large sheet of parchment paper and set aside. 
2. In a large pot, melt the butter over medium heat. Stir in the cinnamon.
3. Stir in the mallows and melt, stirring often, until you've got a nice melty mallow and butter mixture
4. Remove from the heat and add the vanilla extract and stir.
5. Add the Rice Krispie cereal and stir  until the cereal is coated.
6. Turn the mixture out into the prepared pan and press into the pan with lightly greased hands, then place into fridge to cool. Or dump the mixture out onto the prepared parchment paper and move it out until it's oblong. Bring the sides of the parchment up around the rice krispie treat, and roll into a log. Place parchment wrapped log into the fridge (seam side down) to cool.
7. Once your roll o' treats is cool and set, take it out of the fridge. Un-wrap the log, and slice into 1 inch rounds and place onto a piece of wax or parchment paper on the counter (feel free to use the parchment you just had the log wrapper in!)      

Royal Icing Swirl

1. Stir warm water, corn syrup, and  extract together in a small bowl until corn syrup and extract have dissolved. 
2. Place confectioners' sugar into a separate bowl and add liquid ingredients. Beat with an electric mixer on low speed until royal icing is smooth. 
3. Fill a piping bag or a ziploc bag with a tiny hole cut into one corner, and pipe a swirl onto each cinnamon roll!

   I quite enjoyed these particular treats. Now, I do love (x 100000) Rice Krispie treat anythings, but these had a delightful, grown-up, breakfast feel. I dunno. It makes sense to me!
   G'bye for now!