Chocolate Crackles

A chocolate crackle in a pink cupcake liner with pink and white heart shaped sprinkles.

Chocolate crackles are a favourite at birthday parties and children's celebrations, easy to make and so fun to eat.

Course: Baking

Cuisine: New Zealand

Keyword: dairy-free rice bubble slice, gluten-free rice bubble slice, honey rice bubble slice, rice bubble recipe, rice bubble slice, rice bubble square, rice krispie treat

Servings: crackles

Calories: 73kcal

Author: Stacey

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Ingredients

125 g butter
¼ cup sugar 50 grams
3 tablespoon honey 55 grams
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup cocoa 20 grams
¼ cup desiccated coconut 20 grams
3 cups rice bubbles 120 grams (rice bubbles are a puffed rice cereal).

Instructions

Start by lining a muffin tray with cupcake liners, I use reusable silicone ones, but any cupcake liners will work well.
Melt the honey, butter and sugar in a saucepan over a medium heat
Let the mixture come to the boil, you will want to boil it for about 3 minutes
You will know when it is ready as the colour will change to a light caramel, and the mixture will begin to thicken, it is perfect when you can run a wooden spoon through it and you are able to create a channel that holds for a few seconds (there is an image up above that shows this
Remove from the heat and stir through the vanilla, it will bubble a bit when you do this
Stir through the cocoa powder and coconut until well combined.
Add the rice bubbles
Stir until well combined
Scoop the mixture into your cupcake liners (you need to do this while the chocolate crackle mix is still warm. I use an ice cream scoop to do this
Leave to cool - approximately an hour, they will harden and be ready to enjoy!
Once hardened it will keep in an air tight container at room temperature.

Notes

Sprinkles for fun: While the chocolate crackles are still warm you can add some sprinkles for colour and fun.
Add chocolate chips: If you want a more decadent chocolate rice krispie treat you can add chocolate chips when you are stirring through the puffed rice cereal. Add up to 1 cup of your favourite chocolate chips or mini m & ms.
Make it a slice! You can press the chocolate crackle mix into a lined cake tin with a spatula and slice it into pieces when cool rather than serving in cupcake cases.
Rice bubbles: This is a puffed rice cereal, if you need gluten-free check that the puffed rice cereal you use is gluten-free. Rice Krispies is another brand name for rice bubbles. You can also use cocoa-pops (ie chocolate breakfast cereal) when making this recipe.
Butter: This recipe will work also with coconut oil
Honey: This recipe will also work with maple syrup or rice malt syrup.
Sugar: I use white granulated sugar but this recipe will work with caster sugar, icing sugar, brown sugar or coconut sugar.
Salt: You can add a small pinch of salt to your chocolate crackle mix, this will bring out the chocolate flavour especially if you are not using salted butter.

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