Cornflakes | God centered mom

Instead of putting this in my few favorites friday post I thought I would make it its own post so you could find it easily and maybe make some this week with your children!

Christmas wreaths were a staple holiday treat at our house growing up. They are basically a Cornflake version of rice krispie treats.

The ingredients are:

1/4 cup of butter (1/2 stick)
10 oz of mini-marshmallows
green food coloring
5 cups of cornflakes
cinnamon red hots
(wax paper & a little more butter when forming the wreaths)

I like to start by laying out a couple of sheets of wax paper and keep a Tbsp of butter available, next to the wax paper…so that once I’ve made the mixture I’m ready to make the wreaths.

Melt the 1/2 stick of butter & 10 oz of marshmallows in a large pot on the stove, stirring constantly to keep marshmallows from burning.

Once melted turn off the heat and add food coloring to desired “greenness”.

Then stir in the 5 cups of cornflakes.

The key is to form the wreaths while the marshmallow/cornflake mixture is still warm and before it gets stringy. Also it’s important to coat your hands in a little butter to keep the mixture from sticking to you (I take off my wedding rings so they don’t get yucky!).

Place wreaths on the wax paper and have your children place red hots on the wreath (you can put the red hots in groups of 3 if you want to look like holly or just let them do it more haphazardly).