<p style="margin-bottom:16px">Advent and Christmas can be a commercialized, monthslong celebration of consumerism.</p> <p>One way sisters help return the holy meanings of the holidays is by creating and selling gifts that, thanks to the internet, can now be purchased from convents across the United States without traveling beyond a computer or mobile device.</p>
Sr. Karen Zielinski is pictured with her Rice Krispies Treats. Over the last ten years, she has evolved her treats with a variety of designs and concoctions, such as watermelon slices, Christmas ornaments and bird s nests. (Courtesy of Karen Zielinski)
I am the queen of Rice Krispies Treats. Really.
I can t remember when or why I started making them, but during the last ten years, I have evolved. I started making squares, using a metal brownie baking pan where I patted down the gooey marshmallow mixture into the pan, and then cut them into perfect squares by pressing the pan s metal dividers into the mix. After cooling, the sticky treats came out easily.