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Nutrition Facts

Serving Size 1 tombstones 83g

Recipe makes 16 tombstones)

The following items or measurements are not included below:

decorative candies

Calories 344
Calories from Fat 129 (37%)
Amount Per Serving %DV
Total Fat 14.4g 22%
Saturated Fat 6.9g 34%
Monounsaturated Fat 5.5g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1.1g
Trans Fat 0.0g
Cholesterol 14mg 4%
Sodium 287mg 11%
Potassium 126mg 3%
Total Carbohydrate 52.6g 17%
Dietary Fiber 1.4g 5%
Sugars 23.8g
Protein 3.5g 7%

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Halloween Tombstone Treats

Recipe #192164 | 1 hour | 45 min prep | add private note
Wildflour

By: Wildflour
Oct 24, 2006

Really cute rice crispy treat squares with decorated tombstones on top, coconut "grass" and candy pumpkins! Original recipe came from the Oct/Nov 2006 Taste of Home issue. (*See my notes if making for small children!)

16 tombstones (change servings and units)

Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons butter
  • 4 cups mini marshmallows
  • 6 1/2-7 cups Rice Krispies

  • 1 (18 ounce) package refrigerated sugar cookie dough
  • 2/3 cup flour
  • 32 wooden toothpicks
  • 1 teaspoon water
  • 4 drops green food coloring
  • 1 1/2 cups flaked coconut
  • black decorating gel
  • vanilla frosting
  • 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 16 decorative candies, pumpkins

Directions

  1. 1
    In large saucepan over low heat, melt butter.
  2. 2
    Stir in marshmallows until completely melted. Remove from heat.
  3. 3
    Stir in cereal til well-coated. (*Iused 6 1/2 cups because I think they come out less dry.And they hold up better if they have to sit out for awhile). The original recipe called for 7 1/2, but what i used worked out really well!).
  4. 4
    Press into a greased 13x9x2 pan with a buttered spatula. Cool.
  5. 5
    In large mixing bowl, beat cookie dough and flour til well mixed.(*You do have to add the flour, otherwise that store-bought dough is really awful -- very sticky!).
  6. 6
    On a lightly-floured surface, roll dough into a 6" x 16" rectangle.
  7. 7
    Cut into 16 small rectangles. 2 rows of 8. Each one being 3" x 2".
  8. 8
    You can trim tops (2" side)with a paring knife to resemble the top of a tombstone cutting an arch if desired.
  9. 9
    Place each tombstone onto ugreased baking sheets 2" apart.
  10. 10
    *Optional, along bottom edge (bottom 2" side)of each cookie, insert 2 toothpicks halfway into the dough. **If these will be for small children, I recommend not doing this. (My owm alternative directions to follow.).
  11. 11
    Bake cookies at 350º for 8-10 minutes or until edges are golden brown.(*Mine took 13-14 minutes.)But mine were probably a little thicker than the original recipe. It had said to roll out and hand-cut each cookie with a paring knife around a waxed paper pattern -- (Cutting them into rectangles from a large rectangle was MUCH easier! And made more sense to me.)Then just simply trim the tops to whatever shape/style you want.
  12. 12
    Remove to wire racks to cool.
  13. 13
    In large plastic ziploc bag, combine water and green food coloring.
  14. 14
    Add coconut, seal bag shut, and shake to coat.
  15. 15
    Toast coconut, set aside. (Optional.)I didn't, it was fine.
  16. 16
    Using black gel, tint frosting gray. (*I used one whole small tube and it was barely gray, but ok.).
  17. 17
    Frost cookies, decorate tombstones with more black gel. (*The black gel for writing didn't work for me! I had to scrape it off, refrost the ones I wrecked, and just used chocolate frosting instead for the writing part. That worked perfectly for me.).
  18. 18
    Cut cereal bars into 3"x2" rectangles.
  19. 19
    Spread with melted chocolate chips. (*I didn't do this, I used frosting instead.)BUT! See further instructions!
  20. 20
    Insert cookies into rice crispy treats sticking the toothpicks down in to hold up the cookie.
  21. 21
    Do this on the edge of one long side.
  22. 22
    *If you aren't using toothpicks, pipe a thick bead of melted chocolate chips on wide edge and hold in place til set. Or do on waxed paper, which is how i ended up doing this, and lay them down with the cookie pressed against it so you don't have to hold it. Refrigerate til set.(30 minutes was all it took.) Remove from waxed paper carefully.
  23. 23
    (*I then opted to use the rest of the chocolate frosting to frost the tops of the exposed rice crispy treats part. Pressed the pumpkin into the frosting, then sprinkled with coconut.).
  24. 24
    Decorate with coconut for "grass", and candy pumpkins.
  25. 25
    Makes 16 "Tombstones".

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From: Chef #961707 Love to cook

On Nov 1, 2009

Loved these. I had a tombstone cookie cutter so I used that instead of making my own tombstones. These were delicious and the rice krispy treats turned out perfect. The trick is really to put your stove on the lowest heat and wait and wait. It takes forever, but this will give you soft and chewy rice krispy's as apposed to hard ones. The hardest part for me was sticking the toothpicked cookies into the rice krispy treats without messing up the frosting on the cookies. Great recipe though

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    From: Angie Dobbels

    On Oct 19, 2009

    I made these for my son's kindergarten Halloween party and the children LOVED them. What I like best about them is, since I had to make a ton of them I could buy everything "pre-made" and just assemble it, so it went much quicker than if I had to make everything from scratch first. It was pretty time consuming assembling them, but worth it for the kids!

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  • From: aemarti23

    On Nov 9, 2007

    Ok, I Absolutely LOVED this recipe. I sent these to my son's Kindergarten Class before Halloween and they were so excited about them that they didn't want to eat them. I also changed it up a bit. Instead of using cookies as a head stone, I used Halloween Graveyard Goodies which were little headstones with an extra treat inside. Absolutely Perfect. No baking involved. Also instead of using frosting for the coconut to stick, I used the marshmallow Fluff. Overall, I recommend these to anyone. Very simple and yet so appealing. thanks.

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  • From: Aggee1010

    On Oct 30, 2007

    Cute and fun idea for the kids to make at Halloween. They loved it!

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