Cereal Christmas Wreath Treats with Red Hots

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A Treat With Personality

These cereal christmas wreaths treats are so cute! I first fell in love with them when I was a kid.

I remember my mom brought a couple wreaths home after attending one of her work christmas parties. You know the kind, the office christmas potluck.

Matter of fact, that is where I got my recipe. That had to be back in 1977 or there about. Those were the days when recipes were hand written on a piece of paper, copied via xerox machine and shared with all that wanted the recipe.

After I made these little cereal christmas wreaths I come to the conclusion these cute little treats remind me of The Original Talking Wreath!

I mean look at those cuties! The have personality! Don’t you agree?

Cereal Christmas Wreath Treats

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup butter (1 stick)
• 30 large marshmallows
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 teaspoon green food color
• 4 cups corn flakes
• cinnamon red hots (buy the 9 ounce bag and use leftovers to make red hot cinnamon apples)
• 1 Tablespoon butter (used for hands when shaping treats)

Directions:

Stovetop

First step, prepare your work surface by placing a sheet of wax paper or parchment paper on the countertop. I call this “work smart”.

Next place butter in a medium non-stick saucepan and cook over medium heat until melted stirring constantly. I stress a non-stick pan because, trust me on this, if you use anything different you may just have a total mess and potentially burning the marshmallows. Oh, speaking of marshmallows I have a recipe for that too. You should try it sometime, it’s super easy. Check out my homemade marshmallow recipe.

Remove from heat

After marshmallow mixture has melted remove from heat and add vanilla, green food coloring and corn flakes. Using a wooden spoon works best.

Hint: Work quickly after combining all ingredients before the mixture cools down or the wreaths will be difficult to shape.

Shape treats

Before starting to shape wreaths butter your hands. Make a ball about the size of a golf ball (or smaller). Note: Make one wreath at a time before making the next ball.

Using your thumbs push a hole in the center of the ball and make wreath shape. Place shaped wreath on waxed paper.

While the wreath is still pliable immediately add red hot cinnamon candy to make the holly berries. I usually only use two red hots per wreath but add however many you want.

Now, move on to making your next wreath. I can usually make about 16 -18 wreaths but it all depends on the size of the wreaths I make.

Enjoy!

What personalities have created with your cereal christmas wreaths?

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