It's National Cereal Day! Every March 7, cereal lovers all over the country celebrate by digging into a bowl of their favorite brand with extra vigor. In honor of this day, we're bringing you a few cereal-based recipes to try out this week that will certainly satisfy your sweet tooth.
As an extra cereal day treat, we'll also show you some weird and wonderful cereals from throughout history and around the world.
1. Golden Grahams S'mores Bars.
These are rice crispie treats but even more delicious. Milk chocolate, graham cereal, and mini marshmallows mixed in perfect harmony. They taste just like s'mores but there's no need for a campfire.
This milkshake is inspired by the delicious, sweet milk left at the bottom of a bowl of cereal, and it's garnished with - what else? - Lucky Charms marshmallows.
3. Cereal Breakfast Popsicles.
These are much healthier than they look, made with yogurt and bananas. The brightly-colored cereal makes them amazing for kids.
4. No-Bake Butterscotch Cookies.
These cookies come together in a flash and they're made with only four ingredients: corn flakes, peanut butter, butterscotch chocolate chips, and chocolate chips.
5. Cereal-Flavored Macarons with Cereal Milk Frosting.
These are for the die-hard cereal lover who also doesn't mind a baking challenge. Macarons are notoriously hard to perfect, but even any failed experiment will taste delicious - especially when it tastes like cereal milk.
Once you're done sugar-rushing with all of those cereal treats, check out these odd cereals that were popular in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
1. Mr. Wonderfull's Surprize.
Aside from being horribly spelled, this cereal was apparently poorly engineered, so the cereal's chocolate filling would fall out and sink to the bottom of the box. Mr. Wonderfull is also pretty creepy.
2. Grins & Smiles & Giggles & Laughs.
Sort of like an older, less-adorable Snap, Crackle and Pop, these cereal box characters were on a mission to get a grumpy machine to pump out "funny" cereal. The '70s were a strange time.
3. Rice Cream Flakes.
These were cornflakes covered in freeze-dried ice cream powder, and they caught on and did very well in stores. Unfortunately, Nabisco wasn't able to find enough freeze-dried ice cream to keep production running. A true loss to the cereal aisle.
