Easy Christmas Wreath Cookies
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Easy Christmas Wreath Cookies
Description
Easy Christmas Wreath Cookies blend melted marshmallows and butter with green gel food coloring to coat cornflake cereal gently. The marshmallows provide a sticky binding agent ensuring the cereal pieces hold together without getting soggy. Adding vanilla and optionally almond or peppermint extract gives the mixture a subtle, sweet aroma. The shaped wreaths keep crisp cornflake texture while offering chewiness from the marshmallow. Red candies or mini M&Ms serve as decorative accents mimicking wreath ornaments, applied before the mixture sets to adhere well.
The marshmallow mixture requires quick handling while warm and gooey, best done with butter-greased gloves to shape the sticky dough into wreath forms on parchment paper. The recipe includes careful folding to avoid breaking the cereal, preserving the cookie's attractive look and texture.
This cookie is mainly served as a festive treat for the Christmas season, providing a playful and colorful addition to holiday dessert tables. It does not require baking and can be prepared quickly once the marshmallows melt.
Important tips include using fresh marshmallows for proper melting and not overheating them to keep the right consistency. Overmixing or adding extra cereal leads to dryness, so following the ingredient ratios carefully preserves the cookie's texture. Decorations should be applied promptly to stick before the mixture sets.
Ingredients
- 1 tick butter
- 10 ounce marshmallows
- 1 ½ teaspoon Green Gel Food Coloring adjust the quantity depending on how bright or light you like
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract optional
- 4 ½ cups cornflakes cereal
- red hot candies or mini red M&Ms
Instructions
- Have a baking tray lined with parchment paper greased with oil or butter ready. Also, keep butter greased latex gloves near you.
- Start by microwaving butter and marshmallow in a microwave-safe bowl for 30 seconds increments until the marshmallow melts.Pro-Tip – Do not use old marshmallows. It won’t melt the way you want it to.
- Keep stirring at regular intervals. Once marshmallow fully melts, add in green gel food color and vanilla and almond extract (I skipped almond extract).
- Into the bowl, add cornflakes. Gently fold in cornflake cereal into marshmallow melt. Try not to break the cereal too much. Stir until cornflake cereal in completely blended with marshmallows.
- Wear your latex gloves. It’s easy to work if you have your gloves greased with butter.
- With butter-greased glove hands, remove a spoonful of the “dough”. Note this “dough” is going to be gooey, sticky, and tricky to work with. The trick here is to work fast.
- Place the spoonful wreath “dough” over greased parchment paper. Shape it into a wreath by rounding the “dough” with a hole in the center to resemble a wreath.
- Very quickly with an extra pair of helping hands, decorate the wreath cookies with red hot candies, and red sour candy roll-ups for the bow. You can sprinkle gold or red sugar if you like.
- Let the cookies set at room temperature for about 2 hours. You can refrigerate it for 30 minutes to speed up the setting process.
- Cool completely before serving. For later use, store it in air-tight containers once cooled completely.
Notes
- Use fresh marshmallows for best melting; older ones may not melt properly.
- Avoid overheating marshmallows; residual bowl heat will complete melting upon stirring.
- Gently fold in cornflakes to prevent breaking; intact flakes keep the cookies visually appealing.
- Do not add extra cornflakes beyond the recipe amount to prevent dryness.
- Work quickly while handling the sticky dough; butter-greased gloves prevent sticking and ease shaping.
- Place decorative candies on wreaths before mixture sets to ensure they stick properly.
- Vanilla and almond or peppermint extract add flavor; peppermint is an optional seasonal alternative.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 12cookies
Amount Per Serving
Calories 107 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Calories | 107kcal | 5% |
| Carbohydrates | 9g | 3% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 8g | 12% |
| Saturated Fat | 5g | 25% |
| Cholesterol | 20mg | 7% |
| Sodium | 144mg | 6% |
| Potassium | 18mg | 0% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 1g | 2% |
| Vitamin A | 423IU | 8% |
| Vitamin C | 2mg | 2% |
| Calcium | 2mg | 0% |
| Iron | 3mg | 17% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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