Rice Krispy Treats

For the past two years, I made gingerbread cookies with royal icing as Christmas gifts. It was a complete nightmare having to bake the cookies, let them cool, make the royal icing and outline the cookies, wait for them to dry, then flood the cookies, followed by another period of waiting, then the eventual wrapping.
This year, haunted by past Christmas baking episodes, I turned to rice krispy treats. They only require one pot, 5 ingredients and little waiting! So here's an easy alternative for a Christmas gift. I'd have to warn you though, this will get you less "ooh"s and "ahh"s compared to red velvet cupcakes, gingerbread cookies and what not.

Rice Krispy Treats recipe, adapted from The Vegan Mom
Ingredients:
1-1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
7 cups puffed rice, or more as needed

Method:
1. In a large pot, heat together light corn syrup and sugar over medium heat until it begins to bubble. Stir constantly to avoid burning the pot.
2. Add in butter and continue heating until melted. Remove from heat.
3. Add vanilla extract. Stir.
4. Add in the puffed rice and stir until the puffed rice grains are well coated with the syrup mixture.
5. Scoop the rice crispy treats into little paper liners with a spoon.
6. Leave it in the fridge to set.