Christmas wreath cookies are by far the easiest and perfect Christmas cookies for the holidays. Made of cornflakes and marshmallows these no bake cookies are festive, fun to for kids to help and very tasty Christmas treats.
Cornflakes Christmas Wreath Cookies
What’s Christmas without the wreath, right? Now that you have the most beautiful Christmas wreath hanging on your front door, it’s time to get into the kitchen and make some tasty wreath treats!
And if you can get kids to help you out, it’s always a bonus during the holiday season. What better way to gather around in kitchen with kids and family and have some fun time creating delicious food together.
In fact a pair of helping hands is needed here. You’ll need to work fast while shaping cookies into wreath and while you’re doing that, your kid can help you place red hots. While cornflakes mix is still hot, shape it, place the red hots and rest of decorations as fast as you can, because this cookies sets pretty fast. If you want the red hots to stick to the wreath cookies, you have to place it on the cookie, soon as you shape and before it sets.
Christmas wreath cookies are retro treats! Cornflakes, marshmallow, butter and green gel food colors are combined to make a sweet treat that resembles Christmas wreath. It’s pretty, it gooey, it’s sweet, it delicious! It’s guaranteed to be a huge hit with the kids and adults alike.
To give it a complete festive wreath look, place red hots – mini round cinnamon candies over the wreath. Against the bright green cornflake wreath cookies, red hots stand out and make it look all festive and pretty.
Don’t just stop at red hot candy decoration on the wreaths. You can use licorice ropes twisted to bow for decoration. I would like to add sparkle too on the wreath. If you can, use some gold sugar sprinkles to sprinkle over the cookies. Red sugar sprinkles would not be a bad idea too. Use your creativity and decorate these cookies to your hearts content.
Ingredients for Christmas Wreath Cookies
With just three main ingredients plus green gel food color and red hots you’ll have the most festive treats ready in about 20 minutes for your holiday cookie tray.
All you need –
- Cornflakes
- Butter
- Marshmallow
- Green food color gel
- Red hots candies
- And vanilla and almond extract.
How To Make Cornflakes Christmas Wreath Cookies
Step 1 – Have a baking tray lined with parchment paper greased with oil or butter ready. Also keep butter greased latex gloves near you.
Step 2- Start by microwaving butter and marshmallow in a microwave safe bowl for 30 seconds increments until marshmallow melts.
Pro-Tip – Do not use old marshmallows. It won’t melt the way you want it to.
Cook’s Tip –If marshmallows are not fully melted, you see tiny bits of marshmallows, do not get tempted to overheat marshmallows. Keep stirring. The residue heat of the bowl will melt marshmallows completely.
Step 3 – Keep stirring at regular intervals. When marshmallow fully melts, add in green gel food color and vanilla and almond extract (I skipped almond extract).
Step 4 – Into the bowl, add cornflakes. Work fast and be gentle while folding in cornflakes cereal into marshmallow melt. Try not to break the cereal too much. Continue to stir until cornflakes gets completely blended.
Step 5 – Wear your latex gloves. It’s easy to work if you have your gloves greased with butter. I worked with bare hands greased with butter. The food color I used did not stick to my hands at all.
With butter greased 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.
Step 6 – Place the spoonful wreath “dough” over greased parchment paper. Shape it into wreath by rounding the “dough” with a hole in the center to resemble wreath.
Step 7 – Very quickly with an extra pair of helping hands, decorate the wreath cookies with red hot candies, red sour candy roll ups for bow. You can sprinkle gold or red sugar if you like.
Step 8 – Let the cookies set at room temperature for about 2 hours. You can refrigerate it for 30 minutes to speed up the setting process.
Step 9 – Cool completely before serving. Store it in air tight containers once cooled completely.
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Easy Christmas Wreath Cookies
Ingredients
- 1 stick butter 1/2 cup
- 1 10 ounce packaged marshmallows
- 1 ½ teaspoon green gel food color adjust the quantity depending on how bright or light the green 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 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 cornflakes cereal into marshmallow melt. Try not to break the cereal too much. Stir until cornflakes cereal in completely blended with marshmallow.
- 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 wreath by rounding the “dough” with a hole in the center to resemble wreath.
- Very quickly with an extra pair of helping hands, decorate the wreath cookies with red hot candies, red sour candy roll ups for 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.
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Notes
- Do not use old marshmallows. It won’t melt the way you want it to.
- If marshmallows are not fully melted, do not get tempted to overheat marshmallows. Keep stirring. The residue heat of the bowl will melt marshmallows completely.
- Almond extract along with vanilla extract works great. In place of almond extract you can use peppermint extract too.
- Folding cornflakes gently is crucial. Try not to break the cereal too much. Wreath cookies won’t look it’s best with broken bits of cereal.
- Work fast. Have a pair of helping hands to decorate wreath cookies with candies and red sour bows before the cookies sets. The decorative ornaments won’t stick if you delay placing the decorative items.
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Ben
I have to make this! My Mama Ruby used to make Corn Flake cookies, so I know I’m going to love these.
jyothirajesh
Do try it Ben
Leslie
I’m loving this fun, Holiday treat! I always love the recipes that kids can help with. I love that each kid can customize their wreath too. So fun!
jyothirajesh
Glad you liked it Leslie. You are right, kids can have so much fun creating their own Christmas treat
Kelly Anthony
How cute are these Christmas wreath cookies! My girls will love helping me make these next week.
jyothirajesh
Thank you Kelly
Danielle
These cookies are simply amazing – so cute and so colorful. They would certainly be great to surprise your friends with – they will love it!
jyothirajesh
Thank you Danielle
Shelley
Oh, Jyothi – what fun! Seeing this post absolutely jolted me right back to my childhood, when we used to have wreath cookies like these. I haven’t thought about them for years and years, and I was so happy to find this recipe to be able to recreate them again! So adorable and festive – definitely a bright spot for any cookie tray and a real treat for kiddos, too!
jyothirajesh
So glad you liked the recipe Shelley. Hope you give it a try
Veronika
Wow! These cookies look so adorable and festive! I would never think that it’s so easy to make them! Definitely need to make them for Christmas!
jyothirajesh
Thank you Veronika
Uma Srinivas
This Christmas cookie looks so yummy and creative. Yes, this will be such fun for kids during the holiday season.
jyothirajesh
Thank you
Paula Montenegro
I love that they are no-bake, it’s summer here! I’m making these tomorrow with my nephews. They are amazing! Thanks for sharing.
jyothirajesh
Thank you
Lori | The Kitchen Whisperer
Such a classic, retro treat. Gosh I can remember sitting at my grandmother’s kitchen table, green food dye all over me (it was my job to mix it together) with Christmas songs in the background.
I haven’t thought about these in forever. Thank you so much for bringing back such incredible memories! Grandma would also decorate hers with little piped white chocolate snowflakes for a little “snow” magic.
jyothirajesh
Glad the post bought some memories back for you. Hope you try and like it, thank you Lori
Jenni LeBaron
These Christmas Wreath cookies are so delicious. We make a similar version every year for Christmas, but I’ve never added almond extract before. I’m glad I came across your recipe because it looks like my wreaths are going to get an upgrade this year now!
jyothirajesh
Thank you Jenni