cinnamon toast crunch treats

It's Friday night and I've had a long week...obviously in need of a good dessert! I had all this frozen cream cheese that I thought I couldn't use, but I discovered that you can bring frozen cream cheese back from the dead if you let the package sit in water and then microwave it to make it smooth again. Otherwise, you have this weird grainy cream cheese...icky. I was at the store and jumbo boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch were on sale. Score! I have been wanting to try to make something with this cereal for a while, and I had heard of people substituting Cinnamon Toast Crunch for Rice Krispies. Genius. So, to make these bars even more of a sugar bomb, I whipped up a cinnamon cream cheese glaze to go with them. Anything to make them seem more like a cinnamon roll, one of my all-time favorites. These are really yummy and a nice change from the standard (but yes, awesome) rice krispie treat. Enjoy!

Cinnamon Toast Crunch Treats Cereal 

6 cups Cinnamon Toast Crunch

4 cups marshmallows

3 TB butter

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For the cream cheese glaze

1 8oz package of cream cheese

1/4 cup butter

1 cup confectioners sugar

1 tsp of vanilla

a few dashes of cinnamon

In a large saucepan (or even the microwave), melt butter over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until melted. Remove from heat, add to cereal. Mix completely and divide mixture into a 13x9 pan. Let cool. 

For the cream cheese glaze, combine softened cream cheese and butter with either a hand mixer or a stand mixer. Add confectioners sugar, vanilla and cinnamon. Beat until smooth. Transfer cream cheese to a ziploc baggie. Cut off corner of baggie (1/4 inch) and use to decorate bars with icing. You could just spread the icing too if you don't want to add a step!

Happy Friday!

Julia