A few weeks ago while grocery shopping a package of Gingerbread men marshmallows found their way in my cart next to the Cinnamon Apple air fresheners and box of Cold Stone Hot Cocoa mix. It was nice to see a change from the red and green malllows that come back year after year for the holiday season. This year Kraft is spicing it up, and that spice is Ginger.

Now while these marshmallows are sugary sweet and wonderful, I can't imagine anyone that is so gaga for gingerbread that they'd fill their cocoa mug with these sugar daddies more than a couple times this winter. These are the kinds of treats that lend themselves more towards decorations on baking projects.


I'm no Rachel Ray, I surely don't have the 1989 Batman Jack Nicolson Joker smile, but also I'm not that big of a wizard in the kitchen. That's not to say I don't enjoy or know how to cook, but last week I had to search YouTube to figure out how to cut a mango. I do, however, know that marshmallows are one of the three main ingredients in Rice Krispy Treats.


The melting marshmallows looked like Freddy Kreuger in Nightmare on Elm Street 4 when all the souls are escaping his stomach. They seemed a bit thicker than traditional marshmallow goo, which I just attributed to extra sugar needed to offset the gingerbread spices.


The mallows turned the treats a golden guido brown. They were super, super sticky, but maybe it just seemed that way because I packed them down pretty hard. I was fairly impressed with the Gingerbread Rice Krispy Treats -- they were a perfect morning cup of coffee snack. I bet they'd make an awesome replacement for gingerbread cookie houses, but that's another project for another day.