1/2 cup butter
3 cups miniature marshmallows
1/2 tsp almond extract
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp green food color
4 cups corn flakes
red hot candies
silver dragées
Melt butter, add marshmallows, stirring until all marshmallows are melted. Add extracts and food coloring; stir until it is a uniform green color. When mixture is smooth, add corn flakes; mix well but gently so as not to crush the cornflakes. Form into wreath shapes on sheets of waxed paper, decorate with red cinnamon candies and silver dragées. Let cool.
Note: Reviewers, please help us out and note the yield. Thanks!
Heather in Sacramento Dec 21, 2008
Would make this again.
When shaping the wreaths, it helps to butter your fingers so they don't stick to you! I've made hundreds over the years and they are still my favorite holiday treat!
Brenda in in Orlando Dec 21, 2008
Would make this again.
I remember these cookies from elementary school...so good. It's also fun to make one giant wreath, and then people can cut a piece off like a bundt cake. Easier to form and less beat-the-clock that way.
Veronique in Virginia Dec 21, 2008
Would make this again.
Yummy....used red M&M instead of cinnamon candy. You have to smooch it in the leaves to stick. This recipemade 16 3" cookies.
Merry Cheer and Peace!
A cookie baker in Michigan Dec 20, 2008
Would make this again.
They are so gooood!!!!!!!! I love making them. So did my 5 year old. The only thing was hard was stopping him form eatting all the candy. LOL
But to tell you the amount it makes is about 16 of the "CHEATER" way. I made them that way so he could just put the candy on them. I used a tablespoon to drop them on the paper. That is just a guess as to how many they make, but I that is what I got.
Erin in Ohio Dec 16, 2008
Would not make this again.
Maybe I am culinary challenged, but I had a hard time shaping these into wreaths. I ended up putting two red hots on each glob and I will call them "grinch cookies". I doubled the recipe and got 27 glob/wreaths. I probably didn't need to quite double the butter.
