No Bake Christmas Wreath Cookies

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

1. 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!
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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. Use your creativity and decorate these cookies to your hearts content.

Ingredients Needed

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

Jyothi Rajesh

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.

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Prep Time 10 mins

Cook Time 5 mins

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Servings 12 cookies

Calories 107

Ingredients

  

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• ▢ 1 stick butter (that's about ½ cup)
• ▢ 10 ounce 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

1. Do not use old marshmallows. It won’t melt the way you want it to.
2. 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.
3. Almond extract along with vanilla extract works great. In place of almond extract you can use peppermint extract too.
4. 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.
5. 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.

 

Nutritional Info – Please keep in mind that nutritional information provided is only a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutritional values mentioned here are for single medium sized cookies. Depending on your cookie size, these values may vary.

Nutrition

Calories: 107kcalCarbohydrates: 9gProtein: 1gFat: 8gSaturated Fat: 5gCholesterol: 20mgSodium: 144mgPotassium: 18mgFiber: 1gSugar: 1gVitamin A: 423IUVitamin C: 2mgCalcium: 2mgIron: 3mg

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