Friday, September 9, 2011

New England Patriots Rice Krispie Pops


Both the Mister and are football fans. Especially of our home team the New England Patriots. I don't know how it hit me but one day while looking at a Rice Krispie Treat I thought I'd be able to turn it into a football jersey. And since football season just started I decided to make a batch of Patriots pops.


Change the colors and logos and the same idea is good for any other team (except the Jets, this definitely won't work if you're going to make Jets jerseys). Really it's good for any sport- it doesn't have to be limited to football.

I also think they'd be great for a school team. Can you just imagine how excited each child would be getting one of these pops with their name and number on the back!

To make these pops I use pre-packaged Rice Krispie Treats.


They were the perfect shape and size. Also buying them rather than making a batch myself allowed me to get right to the decorating. (But you could make a batch and cut them into rectangles. Or better yet use a shirt cookie cutter if you have one!)

After unwrapping all my cereal treats I cut a treat into pieces that I used to make the sleeves. I got the sleeves for four jerseys out of every one treat I cut.



For the main body of each shirt I used a whole treat and cut a "V" shape out of the top for the neck.

Then I attached the arms to each side. It's amazing how the cereal treats will stick together and mush around like clay. When there were any gaps or areas that didn't stick I used a little of the extra that was cut out of the neck as filler/glue.


Then I stuck in the lollipop sticks. First dipping them into a little melted white chocolate candy melts to help them hold better.


Once all the sticks were in the little shirts I stuck them into the freezer for a few minutes so they would harden up a little.

While they were chilling I got ready to melt and dye a bag of blue chocolate candy melts.
As you might have already guessed this is the project that was delayed earlier this week after the chocolate fiasco. So I very carefully melted the chips. And carefully added enough dye to get a dark blue that more like the Patriots color than the baby blue color of the candy melts.

In case you are wondering it took a LOT of blue dye, a pretty good amount of black and a tiny bit of violet to get this color. Really be careful with the violet though... trust me, it's very easy to get Vikings purple instead of Patriots blue!


In a way I'm happy the chocolate fiasco happened. Without my self-imposed posting deadline of Monday afternoon I was able to relax and put a lot more detail into these pops than I had originally intended. And I think they turned out better for it!

I dipped my pops into the dark blue and set the upright in a stand to dry. One thing to note here, the chocolate came out very thick and sort of gloppy. I'm not sure if that's because I was dipping cereal treats or if that just happened to be the texture of the candy melts. It would have been easier if the chocolate was a bit thinner- but I smoothed it with a knife and most of them turned out fine. Luckily the imperfections also worked for these, it made the shirts look more like fabric with wrinkles and movement instead of a plastic-like brick.


Once all my pops were dipped I began to cutout numbers. I started with a printed template. Then used the paper numbers as my guide while I cut the numbers for the pops out of a white sugar sheet.



After the numbers were done on a whim I thought I'd try to cut out the little logo for each sleeve. I was surprised at how easy it was, and before I new it I had more than enough for all my pops!

I glued my numbers and logos to the shirts with little dabs of frosting.


Then used food coloring pens to color the top part of the logo and the outlines for the numbers.


All that was left was to pipe the finishing details. This was the scariest part for me because I'm really not very good at piping. And was going to have to use the smallest tip I've ever held to fit all the letters in the player's names on those tiny jerseys.

Honestly... I was pretty sure this would be the point where I'd wreck them and I was dreading it because they were almost finished.

And well, it's definitely not the best piping job by any means but I'm pretty happy with the way they came out.

After the names were finished I decided to add the number onto the top of each sleeve just like on a real jersey.

Then added a gray line to each sleeve. Piping the gray was super easy after all those tiny nerve wracking details of numbers and names!



Finally- because I was totally captivated by the tiny sugar decorating minutia of it all I used a toothpick to add gray into the face of the logo on each sleeve.


Happy Football Season- and GO PATS!

P.S. I have received no compensation from the makers of Rice Krispie Treats or the New England Patriots in exchange for this post.




19 comments:

  1. Girl, these are spectacular! What a great hack for readymade Rice Krispie treats. I need to make a Colts set.

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  2. Thanks Diane! I bet you wouldn't even have to use candy coloring- I think the the blue candy melts that you can buy are already Colts blue.

    If you make them I'd love to see pictures!

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  3. These are super cute! I love your idea...I'm going to try and make some Cowboy ones... TFS! Vicki

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  4. Thanks for leaving a comment Vicki! I'd love to see a picture of how your pops turn out.

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  5. You are amazing! Cute, cute, cute! I am sure football fans everywhere would enjoy having these at halftime!

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  6. These are fantastic!!! Great job! I've undertaken such a project, but I definitely want to try now that I have seen your work (my boyfriend's family are Eagles fans -*shudder*- and they would really love an Eagles version). If it is not too much trouble, would you mind listing the names of the products you used? I was able to find the coloring you used based on the picture you took, but I'm a bit lost on everything else.

    Thank you so much, your blog is fantastic and I'm definitely looking forward to trying your recipes.

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  7. Hi Vicks, Thanks for leaving a comment. I hope you do make these pops (and if you do please send a picture to me! I'd love to see them.)

    I used Boxed Rice Krispies, Chocolate Candy (there are several brands Wilton Candy Melts, Mercken Candy Coatings just to name two), Lollipop sticks, Candy coloring dye (most candy brands have one I think) unless you can find Eagles green already in a packaged candy melt which might not be hard. Then you don't need candy dye. I also used Wilton Sugar Sheets for the numbers, Food Coloring Markers (for outlines on the numbers), and decorator frosting (for the names and gray details on each jersey).

    In order to pipe those details you'll need a pastry bag and two tips a round that's very small- I used a #1 and a larger round #4.

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  8. The candy turned thick because you added the gel color. But they turned out really cute! I've found the best way to change the color of those melts is to mix melts (like for grey I mixed black melts & white melts). You could probably get that dark blue by adding some black to it.

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  9. Hi Wendy, Great to know that bout the candy coloring making the texture thicker! That makes sense because it didn't seem so thick when I first melted it. I did originally try to use just black and blue candy but ended up with a weird gray/blue. I guess if I make them again I'll try to find if they make a dark blue that I can order online.

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  10. Cute! Go Patriots! we are looking great thus far.

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  11. Awesome! These are so cute and easy! And I bet they were delicious! How long did all this take you? I will definitely try this idea in the future! :)

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  12. Thanks Audra. They took most of the day because I was figuring out how to do it as I went along. But if I were to make them again it'd be a lot easier and faster knowing all the steps.

    If you were going to make them I'd set aside a good few hours and some drying time between some of the steps.

    I'd love to see a picture of how they turn out if you make them next year!

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