Perfectly Practical #193 - Marshmallow Treats

I joined with several food bloggers this past week in a Valentine's Day dessert round-up.

As I was working on my recipe, I started thinking about all of the variations of marshmallow treats and how useful they were as a party food.

Besides being ridiculously simple and delicious, they are tremendously versatile as well.

Here are a few variations to make them a personal statement:

• Make "Hugs" by using half Cocoa Puffs and half Kix cereal
• Turn these into baby shower treats buy emphasizing the "HER"shey or Hers"HE"y kisses on the tags
• Put a couple of drops of food coloring in the marshmallow goo to match a theme
• Melt chocolate, peanut butter, or caramel chips in with the marshmallow goo
• Use pretty much any cereal:  Cheerios, Fruity Pebbles, Trix, etc. 
• Add in nuts, dried fruit, chocolate chips, M&MS, etc. in with the cereal
• Let them settle in a pan and use cookie cutters to make specific shapes
• While still pliable, mold them into shapes
• If you are super creative, make a centerpiece out of sculpted or carved marshmallow treats
• Dip them in chocolate

This is part of WFMW.