One of my favorite holiday treats to make (and eat!) this time of year are Holiday Cornflake Wreaths. Maybe you make them too? Oh man, they are so good. We made these every Christmas when I was little and now I make them with my littles 🙂 Making them is a great activity for the preschool set too as they can help you pour the cereal, count out the marshmallows and of course lick the spoon and bowl when you are done…every kids favorite part, am I right!
I always drop mine by the spoonful into individual mini wreaths because they are easier to add to our cookie trays we hand out every year but my momma always made one giant circular cornflake wreath for our family to enjoy.
Holiday Cornflake Wreaths
Recipe Type: Holiday
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Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
- 30 large marshmallows
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 2 tsp green food coloring
- 4 cups cornflake cereal
- red decorating sprinkles or sanding sugar
Instructions
- Place the marshmallows and butter in a large microwavable-safe bowl and heat for 1 minute in the microwave.
- Stir until butter and marshmallows are completely melted.
- Add in vanilla and green food coloring and stir until the color is mixed throughout.
- Add in 4 cups of cornflakes and stir until completely coated.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto a greased sheet of wax paper.
- While still warm, add red sprinkles or sanding sugar for the holly berries.
Grab yourself a bag of large marshmallows and count out 30 little puffs of happiness.
Place them in a microwave-safe bowl with 1/4 cup butter and microwave on high for 1 minute. The marshmallows should puff up pretty big when done. Grab a spoon and stir them until the marshmallows and butter are nice and melted.
Then add in 1 teaspoon of vanilla and 2 tsp of green food coloring and stir until the food coloring is nicely incorporated. Yup, as you can see I ran out of green coloring, hrmph! I ended up using 1 teaspoon of yellow food coloring and 1 teaspoon of blue food coloring for this batch instead…yeah, we’ve been making these a lot this week 🙂
Then add in four cups of cornflake cereal.
Stir it up until the cornflakes are well coated…nice and GREEN! Then drop by spoonfuls onto a greased piece of waxed paper…Mmmm! Now just to warn your this is only slightly a sticky mess, well okay, it’s a huge sticky mess but a good one none-the-less.
Then grab some festive red (and/or green) jimmies, holly bits or sanding sugar and lightly sprinkle them over top of each wreath.
Just perfect, I say!
Make yourself a whole bunch of them and then have at those babies if your being naughty.
Or share if you’re begin nice!
Merry Christmas to all!
XOXO,
we make these every year! Has been a family tradition recipe for as long as I can remember. We do alter the wreath decorations though – my Grandma always used red hots. I like to use red icing…
Hmmm….might need to start making them ASAP. These are a big time family favorite!
Happy Holidays!
omg! I use to make these at the daycare I was in as a kid!! I honestly haven’t even thought of them since.. that’s like 20 years! I love them!!! Wow… thanks for the memory flash!
I make these every year too…just like my Momma used to make. Except we use Special K cereal and 3 red hots on each one, and call them “holly”. They are perfect for all the kid’s parties, and so colorful on a plate of cookies! Yum!
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Love this! Thanks for sharing…
Hi,
a few days ago, I found your blog…
For some ingredients I have to use a dictionary, and some things I can’t find in the german supermarkets-but I like your blog =)
Every year I make similar cornflake sweetmeats, but I have an other recipe without Marshmallows (I think your recipe will be faster to make-I’ll try it in the next days )
I melt chocolate, then I put cornflakes and almondpieces into the chocolate.
Little hills onto a paper an wait untill they are hardend-yummie!
Sorry for my bad english =(
Greetings
Wow, your photos of treats make me want to toss my Jenny Craig to the side and eat this stuff. Very nice blog and very colorful.
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My mom used to make these all the time when I was a kid, but like someone else said, she shaped them as wreaths. My aunt started making them as well, but she never had the patience to shape them, so she would just make pretty much like you show, and we got to calling them “green globs”.
They look awesome. Great in different colours too and suitable for every Holiday there is! I’m going to run to the shop today to get some cornflakes!
We always had these at church at Christmas time. They always put “red hots” candy on them. YUM!
We make this every year too… it’s a tradition in my husband’s family and it’s not Christmas to them without them. They add little red tamales for the ‘ornaments’ which I don’t like (spicy holly, nah, no good). Soooo, this year maybe Ill request sprinkles because yours look so cute and I do LOVE me some sprinkles!
I made these for our Christmas get together this year. Loved them! I could not find the green coloring at the store and just used my cake color. It was a different green, not so dark but a good color. My DD has said that we could do this for every holiday now! I never thought to melt the marshmallow in the mircowave!
hmmmm, I’m going to have to try these. I’ve never heard of them before. It’s so funny, I was talking to a couple from England yesterday and they mentioned a treat they make there using cornflakes called honey crackles. It uses cornflakes, honey sugar and butter. They drop them into little cupcake liners. I’d never heard of those either. And today I see your sweet recipe for something sort of similar. Such a small world.
I do so love your blog!
We alwAYS made those as a kid, but I haven’t made them much as an adult. My mom would put it around a bundt pan and they would be bigger…and a circle/wreath. Then add red hots as the ornaments, but I like the colorful sprinkles here. I also like the extra sugar kick when using frosted flakes–naughty, I know!