Experiment: Grown-up Rice Krispie Treats

This is how grown ups eat. 

There are tons of Rice Krispie treat recipes online. My quick search brought up Pinterest pages, 50 best lists, and even Krispie truffles (uh, yum!). But I didn't see exactly what I was looking for in a recipe.  So, I'm creating it.
I believe in experimenting with your food. It's the best way to get the flavor and texture you desire. Yes, you can always ask a restaurant for substitutions or to make something more or less spicy, but restaurants aren't really in the business of individualizing your dinner choices. If Burger King really wanted you to have it your way they would just send you home with a bag of groceries.
I'm not much of a drinker. I prefer to eat my alcohol. I find that a lot of "spirits" give foods a unique taste that I can't necessarily create with non-alcoholic ingredients (tequila marinade for steak!). You don't usually need much, and most of the alcohol is cooked off during the process leaving you with a wonderfully complex flavor.
That being said, I usually put a teaspoon or so of Bailey's Irish Cream in my Rice Krispie treats.  It gives them a delicious creamy taste that butter or vanilla haven't been able to provide. So, that part is not really the experiment.  I wanted to see what adding cream cheese would do to my treats.
I started off with the basic Rice Krispie treat recipe, but halved it (if it didn't work I still wanted my Rice Krispie treats). There was some eyeballing, but this is what I came up with:

Ingredients
1 heaping tablespoon of cream cheese
1/2 tablespoon of butter
10 jumbo marshmallows
1 1/2 teaspoons of Bailey's Irish Cream (Yes, I keep Bailey's in the house. Yes, I like bingo. Yes, I think this muumuu compliments my figure. What are you trying to say?)
3 cups of Rice Krispies (You can use the store brand. Kellogg's ain't paying nobody's bills.)

You'll also need: a greased pan (I used an 8x8 square) and a greased spatula for smoothing.

1. I melted the butter and cream cheese over low heat. Low heat! This recipe is so quick that you don't need to speed things up by overheating your butter. I kept taking mine off the heat so it wouldn't brown, but I hear brown butter treats are tasty too.

Low heat!

The butter melted pretty quickly. The cream cheese didn't so much melt as form a white blobby shape in my pot, but I figured that was good enough.

Ugh! Cream cheese is such a diva.

2. I then added the marshmallows. The mixture was smooth. The blobby cream cheese mixed right in. Oh, it smelled so good!

This is probably what marshmallow porn looks like.

3. I took the pot off the heat and added the Bailey's. The Bailey's always prompts the marshmallow mixture to bubble furiously so don't freak out. Mix it in to the marshmallow. It will give the mixture a lovely light brown coloring, as if it has been summering on the Cape with it's distant, but still loving family.

"Just below the marshmallow's plain facade raged a bubbling Bailey's volcano."

4. I mixed in the Rice Krispies.  Make sure you mix it well. If you don't you'll end up with some dry Rice Krispies and a blob of marshmallow mixture.

5. I turned the warm Rice Krispie/marshmallow mixture into my greased pan and smoothed it over with my greased spatula.

6. You're then supposed to wait until they cool before cutting into them...Hahahahahahaha!!!

Results?
I think I need more cream cheese. When I first bit into one I didn't think it was anything too special, but there is a really creamy, rich after note that I kind of love.  The cream cheese adds to the overall experience of the treat, but I feel as if the taste of cream cheese (that little bit of tart) gets lost. Also, these don't firm up as much as a regular treat.  At least I don't think they do. I kind of eat them all before they get to final cooling point.
You'll notice that mine are also on the thinner side.  If you put your treats in a smaller pan there will less spreading.
The raspberries at the top were supposed to be just for decoration, but they actually tasted really good with the treats.  I may have to incorporate them into my next batch. I'll definitely eat them because they're delicious, but I have not found my perfect treat yet.

Snap and Crackle were cool to work with, but Pop was clearly off the wagon during this photo shoot.

  Leave me questions and suggestions in the comments.  I can always use fresh ideas!