You will adore these meatballs made of turkey that are sweet and tangy. They are delicious and simple to make. Suitable for pairing with noodles or rice.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 15 mins |
| Total Time: | 45 mins |
| Servings: | 18 |
| Yield: | 18 cookies |
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter
- 30 large marshmallows
- 1 ½ teaspoons green food coloring
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 4 cups cornflakes cereal
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon red hot candies
Instructions
- Gather ingredients.
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- Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows, and cook stirring constantly, until melted.
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- Remove from the heat, stir in food coloring and vanilla, then stir in cornflakes.
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- Set out one or two sheets of waxed paper. Fill a skillet with 1 inch of very hot water. Place the saucepan into the skillet so cookie dough stays warm.
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- Quickly drop a heaping tablespoonful of cookie dough onto the waxed paper, and use lightly greased fingers to form it into a wreath shape. Immediately decorate cookie with red hot candies. Repeat to shape and decorate remaining cookies.
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- Allow cookies to cool to room temperature before removing from waxed paper, about 15 minutes. Store in an airtight container.
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Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 112 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 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
THIS recipe is the best. I have my 40 year old recipe for this wreath and mine is way off. How the heck did I make them back then? Sooooo, follow this explicitly and your happy world of festive cooking, creating this scrumptious wreath is a winner. Thank YOU for your website and your excellence with articulated instructions, including the video too. Bravo!
We’ve been making these for years, but with bran flakes instead of corn flakes. This year we also sprinkled powdered sugar over them which did double duty of making them look snow covered and less sticky to handle.
I have been making these for decades, my youngest child is 39 and my oldest is 45 and they still ask if I am making them…lol
Tastes just like when I was 5. Yummy!!!
Love the look…did not love trying to get the red candies to ‘stick’. They just wouldn’t and all fell off eventually! bummer! otherwise good!
Blast from the past and not in Mom’s Christmas cookie book I just inherited! We used both rice crispies and corn flakes depending on shapes. We first did 2 spoon fulls set diagonally together as Holly leaves (Mom called them Holly Cookies). We also used several different extracts to flavor as noted by others. My favorite shapes were the holly leaves and Christmas trees — 1 triangle of mixture over a piece of chocolate or black licorice for trunk. The decorations are as endless as your imagination! We had so much fun making these and they are great to do with kids. So glad this was here to remind me.
Good, easy to make recipe, but only made 9 5″ wreaths for us. And yes, we put eyes on some! Happy Holidays!
Simple easy classic. Just as others say- buttered hands help and they turned out super cute!
These are always so pretty no matter how they look. I’m not a huge fan of red hots but I found some Wilton Gingerbread Boy mix that turned out really cute. You could also use Wilton Confetti.
My favorite Holiday treat! This was easy to make and yummy to eat!
I make this every year. The red hots help cut through the sweetness of marshmallow treats, and the color really livens up my cookie plate gifts at Christmas.
Amazing recipe! Only things I changed were food coloring (added it as I needed to because 1 1/2 tsp. seemed like too much, and I substituted red cookie icing for the red hots (not a big fan). Outstanding!
I got this recipe from my M-I-L. She made them every Christmas. I don’t have the patience to form the wreaths so I just drop the mixture on waxed paper, add the red hots and call them Holly bushes. Between my husband and kid, they don’t last long.
Very good. Bet you can’t eat just one.
I couldn’t wait to make these as they reminded me of my childhood. I used 4 cups of mini marshmallows. I also used almond extract instead of vanilla. I dip my fingers in a small bowl of water when the mixture gets too sticky; it helps when trying to shape them. These are always a crowd pleaser each Christmas.
These were easy for the teenagers to make. Quick, easy and festive. All enjoyed.
DO NOT PUT THESE ON WAXED PAPER. I don’t know what tlou should use instead, but they DO NOT come off. I even sprayed the wax paper with Pam the 2nd batch and I’m still tearing the paper off in bits and pieces.
Kids loved making, so easy to make and delicious!
This recipe has been handed down through my Family for at least six generations, so it truly shocked me to see it here today. Something I’d like to add is that you can use a variety of colored candy gems and other cake decorations to make your wreaths, and in fact, you don’t have to make them in round shapes. There is nothing you can’t make with this recipe as the starting point. Maybe I’ll make something for the Dodgers on Opening Day.
It definitely takes a lot of green food coloring but I didn’t need a full teaspoon… I used 3-5 generous squirts from the food coloring bottle. The liquid needs to be bright green… pastel doesn’t work to cover the cornflakes… Results are super cute and fairly easy! A winner!
Easy to make and they came out pretty cool looking and tasty too!