I made this whole grain, not-too-sweet cake using some freshly harvested pears and graham flour that I needed to use up. If you can’t get Graham flour, whole wheat flour will do just fine. Graham flour gives wonderfully nice nutty, honeyed overtones.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 5 mins |
| Additional Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 40 mins |
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 3 dozen |
Ingredients
- waxed paper
- ½ cup butter
- 4 cups miniature marshmallows
- 1 teaspoon green food coloring, or as needed
- ½ teaspoon almond extract
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups cornflakes cereal
- 1 (2.25 ounce) package cinnamon red hot candies
Instructions
- Gather all ingredients.
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- Line a baking tray with waxed paper.
- Place marshmallows and butter in a microwave-safe bowl; microwave on high for 2 minutes. Stir, then microwave on high for 2 minutes more; stir.
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- Mix in coloring, almond extract, and vanilla until the desired color is reached; gently stir in cornflakes to coat.
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- Drop by tablespoonfuls onto the prepared tray and use lightly greased fingers to form wreath shapes; decorate with 3 red hots each.
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- Allow cookies to cool and set, about 15 minutes; store in an airtight container.
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- If you don’t have a microwave, place marshmallows and butter in a double boiler over simmering water. Stir frequently, scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula to avoid scorching, until marshmallows and butter are melted, about 5 minutes.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 118 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 18 g |
| Cholesterol | 14 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 1 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 92 mg |
| Sugars | 9 g |
| Fat | 5 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
You need to add green food coloring until it’s green enough for you.
I followed the recipe but they turned out very hard like hard candy. Not edible.
When making these for years with my mother in law. She has been making these since she was a kid in the 1920’s. They are a wonderful way to have the kids and grandkids make something fun in the kitchen and they love to eat them!
I used mini red M&M’s instead of red hots and LEAVE OUT or at least cut down majorly on the almond extract- It is WAY too overpowering- I wouldn’t say it’s a delicious or amazing dessert but they are cute and fun for the holidays.
I don’t like these that much, but others do like them a lot. They’re very sticky & hard to keep together. If you don’t like red hots, you can use M&M’s instead. Or, if you wanna get fancy, cut cherries in half.
Use your fingers but as someone said it’s so much easier to wet them to mold them. I dusted with a bit of powder sugar to give it snow but other than that followed directly (skittles though since the store didn’t have cinnamon hots) yummy!
Yummy! I didn’t make wreaths, I made more like blobs since they were a little hard to work with. I topped each of them with a a couple of green and red m&m’s.
Fun to make and tasty! I didn’t use the almond extract, not a fan of almond flavor but you really can use any flavor of your choice.
As wreaths, they are pretty on a cookie plate. For gift giving and family gatherings, I just make them in a 13×9″ pan and cut into squares or shapes. Fun to change up the colors, depending on the occasion….baby showers, graduations, etc.
I love these. And fun to make with kids.
This recipe was amazing! they turned out perfect and only took minutes. i made a double batch because everybody wants some…super easy!
This has been on many holiday cookie trays. I made recipe as is, and the only trouble was getting the cornflake mixture off my fingers to form a wreath. I tried buttering my hands, which worked, but then the cinnamon candies wouldn’t stick! Pretty and worth the effort.
Awesome freakin possum! I couldn’t get enough!
Delicious and a huge hit.
These were fun to make!
Something seems to be missing from this recipie… followed the instructions exactly. It was so hot and hard to work with, we burnt our hands. We only got a few made before the mix was too hard to work with. When the ones we made cooled, they were rock hard. We tossed everything.
you can also use this to make one single wreath, and just cut slices from that. simply shape into a giant doughnut and decorate from there.
My family loves these made with the small red M&M’s
This is a recipe from my childhood. It’s just as delicious as I remember, and the use of a microwave makes it quicker and easier than the traditional method. I made holly “bushes, and they looked great with less fuss than wreaths. The whole thing from start to finish took about 15 minutes. This makes a relatively small batch (compared to many other cookie recipes), so it is perfect when you have a craving, but don’t want an enormous bath of goodies sitting around the house calling your name.
Although I give these treats 4 stars, I’d like to make one thing clear. If you have a high wattage microwave and cook them for the whole 4 minutes as the recipe recommends, you will burn them. They will not come out right. Two years in a row I did that and forgot about not leaving in them for the whole 4 minutes. I prefer to cook them over a low heat on the stove. They come out much better!
This recipe calls for way too much butter as well as marshmallows. The wreaths stuck to the wax paper!