Christmas Dessert Archives - Allergy Awesomeness

The easiest tree decorating you’ll ever do. And no blinking lights or replacing bulbs! This festive, no-bake holiday treat is easily made allergy-friendly to involve your favorite allergy kids. Simple decorating helps little hands enjoy this fun Christmas treat. These Allergy-friendly Rice Krispie Christmas Trees are free of: gluten, dairy, egg, peanut & tree nuts. They can be vegan too!

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I am suffering with being torn you guys! If you’re a female, chances are you know what I mean!

My mom came early due to my Uncle’s death (hopefully you’re following along on my Instagram stories to know what I’m talking about). So, she gets to stay with us for over three glorious weeks.

Because she is an angel in disguise, she is sooo supportive and is like, “go lock yourself in your room and work and I’ll wash dishes/kiss babies/feed children/ and play transformers with your kids”.

And, so you’d think I’d be cranking out a million projects–but I sit up here and feel guilty! On one hand, I feel like because I don’t have family near by and stay up way too late and kill myself to run this little blog and keep littles alive, that I should take FULL ADVANTAGE of a free nanny. But, then I want to just spend my time with my mom and enjoy time with my son while he’s off of school. And then on the other hand, I just want to enjoy kid-free quiet time and binge watch Netflix’s The Crown alone in my room instead of work. UG.

Do you see why I’m torn??

Which is why once again–I’m posting yet ANOTHER rice krispie holiday treat (seriously, it’s adult play doh for me, look at the bottom of the post for other recipes). So, if you’re feeling torn and stretched this holiday season you can still give out cute, festive treats without spending all day baking.

It was great that this doubled as a way to spend time with said family and get a post done for you guys. Have I mentioned how much I love multi-tasking??!!

We did an assembly line and I would cut the krispies into triangles, and my mom would put the gluten-free pretzel in them, I would frost them and my kids would put the skittles on them. Easy, and fun!

Then, to hand out to neighbors, I simply put them in little cellophane bags and tied them with ribbon. Done and DONE!

Now, to the allergy-friendly ingredient questions I know you’ll have:

For pretels:
- We used Synder’s gluten-free pretzels. No, this is not sponsored, in fact–I’ve tried emailing them and they’ve never responded. So, if you know them–please let them know of my undying love for them.
- Glutino also has a straight pretzel.
- Quinn snacks (I have not tried them, but a friend has) also has straight pretzels.
- Unfortunately, I’ve never found a pretzel that doesn’t have soy, hence why these are not top-8-free.
- If you know of any other gluten-free pretzels, please let me know!
- *If you can’t do pretzels/soy I think these would still be cute without the pretzel at the bottom.*
For cereal: Regular and generic brands of rice krispies use barley in all the brands I’ve ran across. (So they are wheat free, but not gluten-free). I’ve found Malt-0-Meal & Erewhon are great gluten-free substitutions.
For food dye: I’ve been asked by many what food coloring I use. So, confession: I used Wilton’s food coloring gels long before I was smart enough to check their label. I don’t know why I didn’t think food coloring might have something in it! I have called Wilton before, and the person I talked to said they’ve added a may contain label if there is something in the same facility. So, we’ve used it and never had an issue–BUT–only do what you’re comfortable with for your own food allergies and go with what your allergist tells you. I’ve heard (but not personally tried) that AmeriColor has allergy-friendly food gels.
For marshmallows: If you’re needing this to be vegan, be sure to use appropriate marshmallows like Dandies. (Does anyone know them–I seriously should work with them since I’m always touting their product!)
For ornaments: We used Skittles. You could use any colored candy, really. Surf Sweets jelly beans would also work well.
For frosting: Welp–just look in the recipe card, silly! Just kidding, here it is.

I hope that we can all put away some of the mom guilt and enjoy this holiday season a little more. It’s hard balancing it–but how lucky are we to have amazing things to be balancing?! Have a safe, allergy-friendly holiday dear readers–I truly appreciate you stopping by my little corner of the internet. Every click you make helps my family out.

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Allergy-friendly Rice Krispie Christmas Trees

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Prep time

15 mins

Cook time

10 mins

Total time

25 mins

The easiest tree decorating you'll ever do. And no-blinking lights! This festive, no-bake holiday treat is easily made allergy-friendly to involve your favorite allergy kids. Simple decorating helps little hands enjoy this fun Christmas treat. These Allergy-friendly Rice Krispie Christmas Trees are free of: gluten, dairy, egg, peanut & tree nuts. They can be vegan too!

Author: Allergy Awesomeness

Recipe type: Christmas dessert

Serves: 20 trees

Ingredients

3 Tablespoons of coconut oil (or if you can't do coconut, shortening can work too)
6 cups of gluten-free crispy cereal (see post for details)
1 package of marshmallows (if you need a vegan option, see post)
Green food dye
Half a batch of my best dairy-free vanilla frosting
Skittles
Gluten-free pretzels of choice (see post for options)

Instructions

In a stock pot over medium-low heat, melt the coconut oil. Then, add the marshmallows and stir until they're melted. Add in your green food coloring until it's your preferred shade of green. Take it off the heat and stir in your cereal until everything is coated.
Pour the finished cereal onto a flat, greased surface. Flatten and shape into a large rectangle, or square with wet or greased hands.
While the cereal is cooling, make the frosting.
When the frosting is ready, put it into a baggie and snip the corner. Cut the cereal into triangles. Place a pretzel in the bottom, and frost the top in zig-zags. Place skittles along the frosting.
Keep in an air-tight container until you serve or eat. If you do use coconut oil, they can toughen when they get cold, because coconut oil is temperamental to temperature changes, so be sure you keep them room temp when storing.

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