What are Kellogg’s Strawberry Rice Krispies Treats?
Rice cereal and marshmallow treats are a lunchbox classic, but to recall the prevailing wisdom of Alice Cooper, school’s out for summer. The time is right to freshen up a classic with the flavor of sweet summer strawberries.
How are they?
If you have ever felt sorry for the lonely strawberry ice cream stripe that seems to get overlooked in a container of Neapolitan ice cream, you will be happy to unwrap this pretty pink Rice Krispies Treat and know it is strawberry’s time to shine. If you are normal, still consider giving these simple new treats a try, because they are very good.
The treats are straightforward as can be: rectangular bars of crisp rice cereal bound together with a chewy, strawberry-flavored marshmallow mixture. Although Kellogg’s produces Strawberry Krispies cereal, the original variety of Rice Krispies were utilized to create these treats, allowing the strawberry flavor to come from the sticky pink marshmallow that coats every cereal grain.
Even the pink shade is no-fuss, more like the color of rosé in gentle lighting and not like the strawberry Kool-Aid stain on the carpet that your mom grounded you for making.
Although strawberries do not appear in the list of ingredients, the “naturally flavored with other natural flavors” treats smell and taste remarkably like freeze-dried strawberries. The result is a realistic, not-too-sweet strawberry flavor that is very easy to eat. The sweet cereal and strawberry combination reminded me slightly of the discontinued and much-missed Special K with Red Berries cereal bars.
Are the treats too simple? If you enjoy the Rice Krispies Treats varieties that boast drizzles, mix-ins, or chocolate-coated bases, you might be bored with humble strawberry, but I didn’t miss the extra frills.
Anything else you need to know?
Also available is a Rice Krispies Treats Mini Squares variety pack that includes the Strawberry treats alongside Chocolate and Original varieties. There are 64 mini squares in the variety pack, so if anyone is planning to buy one and smush together all three varieties to make Neapolitan Rice Krispies Treats, please invite me.
Conclusion:
Strawberry Rice Krispies Treats are successful in their simplicity and deliver a more realistic berry flavor than you might expect.
DISCLOSURE: I received a free product sample. Doing so did not influence my review in any way.
Purchased Price: FREE
Size: 6.2 oz box (8 bars)
Purchased at: Received from Kellogg’s
Rating: 8 out of 10
Nutrition Facts: (per bar) 90 calories, 2 grams of fat, .5 grams of saturated fat, 0 grams of trans fat, 0 milligrams of cholesterol, 105 milligrams of sodium, 17 grams of carbohydrates, 0 gram of fiber, 8 grams of sugar, and less than 1 gram of protein.
“If you have ever felt sorry for the lonely strawberry ice cream stripe that seems to get overlooked in a container of Neapolitan ice cream.” Uh, no, because I always eat it first. I’m like the one lone “weirdo” in the first Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs movie who says “Strawberry’s my favorite,” right before he dives head first into the ice cream. Strawberry is NOT my favorite flavor of ice cream, but give me strawberry over chocolate and vanilla ANY DAY!!!!
Preach it! Also, when I was a kid, I used to always think it was called “Napoleon” ice cream.
Sounds good, but I’d be tempted to poke some holes in them, and stuff chocolate chips inside. Good use for that fancy reusable stainless steel straw LOL
That’s a brilliant idea!!
My favorite cereal ever was the rice krispies with freeze dried strawberries in them I used to make my own rice krispie treats out of those. The closed thing I could replace that with was Special K Red Berries…. as I do not like the strawberry flavored rice krispie cereal much. I normally dont even like the packaged original treats and prefer to make my own however these are GREAT. I found a larger 16 count pack at Walmart and highly recommend these!