Marshmallow cereal shapes

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Snowmen for Christmas, ghosts for Halloween or teddy bears all year round. It's easy to make fun shapes when you've got marshmallows and Ricicles!

Ingredients

Look in books, magazines and comics for ideas of shapes to make.

Half a tbsp butter or margarine
110g white marshmallows
90g Ricicles or Rice Krispies
50g desiccated coconut
Decoration (dried cranberries, currants or blueberries or Honey Loops for eyes and mouth)

Melt the butter or margarine in a large saucepan over a low heat. Add the marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
Add Rice Krispies or Ricicles and stir until well-coated.
While the mixture is still warm, shape with wet or greased hands into any desired design (eg ghost) and roll or press coconut onto its surface.
Attach decorations of choice using a little melted chocolate or prepared icing. If cut, most dried fruit will stick without needing to do this.
To make flat ghost shapes, flatten mixture onto a greased 33 x 20cm swiss roll baking tray, lined with greaseproof paper, using a greased spatula (the quantity will fill half the tray). Depending on required size, cut mixture into squares or rectangles prior to cutting out ghost shapes which can then be bent into required shapes. To make 3D ghosts, cone shapes can be made by cutting out triangles and folding round.

Top tip: Look in books, magazines and comics for ideas of shapes to make. www.thebigbake.co.uk

By Andrea Mann