I love making healthy refined sugar free desserts and yes, as you can see I enjoy baking and challenging myself in the kitchen… but that’s for those occasional treats – my usual healthy desserts/ treats are super quick and easy! These Healthy Crispy Rice Treats are the kind of treats I usually make – easy peasy no fuss delicious little somethings to satisfy out sweet tooth (but usually have some extra healthy boost to them) – point is – they’re super quick, easy, organic and delicious! Yaaasssss!!!
Healthy Crispy Rice Treats
(gluten free, vegan rice crispy treats)
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil
- 2 tablespoons cacao powder
- 2-3 tablespoons maple syrup or honey
- 2 cups organic crispy rice cereal
- 2 tablespoons hemp powder (optional) or vanilla protein powder
- 1/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup coconut flakes (fine textured)
- In a medium pot, heat the coconut oil, add the cacao powder and maple syrup and stir. Add in the crispy rice cereal and stir to coat all over.
- Add in the hemp powder, almond flour and coconut flakes and stir to combine right in the pot. (you do not need to transfer the mixture like I did (I did that so that my kids could stir in a bowl rather in a hot pot).
- Once mixed, distribute evenly between 10-12 cupcake liners. (you do not need to use a muffin pan, but you could) You can just place them on a flat surface that basically will fit in your freezer.
- Freeze for about 10 minutes before serving as the oil needs to solidify to keep these together.
- Note : if leaving out for more than 30 minutes in a warm temperature, they may become soft again. Simply return to the freezer for about 5 minutes to set. (Honestly, we did not have this problem as they were gone in minutes from the table.)
- Alternatively, you could just store then in the freezer for a healthy snack on hand :) Enjoy!
You could also omit the almond flour if a nut-free snack recipe is desired. This would make them great school-safe snacks!
You could also easily add in chia seeds and other nuts and seeds, like sunflower seeds – but you’d want to grind them so they stick better, otherwise these would be very crumbly.
This is just the best little treat! If you have an impromptu guest dropping by for a coffee you could practically make these while you’re chatting with your friend :)
Or if you have little hands around you could get them to help make and eat these and see some happy smily faces on a rainy day :)
Cut the Sugar Tips :
- For this recipe I used a refined sugar free sweetener like maple syrup and only 2 tablespoons total.
- And I added protein! Protein helps you feel fuller so you are satisfied with less – I have hemp and almond flour in there to add in the protein – these ingredients also add a health boost as they contain lots of nutrients among them Omega 3 fatty acids, magnesium, calcium, etc.
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These look so good! I have a question about a substitution though… I have dark chocolate chips that are sweetened with stevia so they have zero sugar and they taste amazing which is great! So could I use those in place of cacao powder and maple syrup? And any idea what a good amount to melt would be? I’m guessing I should keep the coconut oil to help them solidify. Thanks!
Hi Hannah,
Great question! Your dark chocolate sounds amazing (you’ll have to share what brand :))
So basically once you melt the chocolate and mix it all together you may not need the cacao powder and maple syrup or even the coconut oil. The chocolate will solidify and hold it together.
However, you may want to thin out the chocolate more with the coconut oil – it really depends on how that chocolate behaves when you melt it – if it’s too thick and not very runny, then I would add in the coconut oil into it, mixing it up and then adding in the puffed rice and the other ingredients :)
Have fun making and eating these :) xoxo ella
Ok thank you very much for the help! And the brand is Lily’s and they are dark chocolate baking chips sweetened with stevia. I looked them up online but my local health food store actually sells them cheaper so I’m lucky! I think they’re worth the higher price to be able to indulge in chocolate. I added them to your two ingredient sugar free cookies and they were so awesome!!
Oooh these remind me of my childhood so much! So much fun to make (and eat!) :)
The chocolate chips worked really well with the melted coconut oil! I added some peanut butter instead of almond flour and they are sooo tasty and easy. Thanks for the great recipe!
Do you recommend which rice cereal to use? The best I can find is 9.7g sugar per 100g
Wow that’s a lot of sugar! Yeah, you really want to stay away from cereals like that :)
This is the one I used and do recommend a similar unsweetened variety.
http://ca-en.naturespath.com/product/crispy-rice-cereal
Also, you could do this recipe with puffed quinoa or millet too :)
Let me know how you like them. xox