For a fun holiday dessert that can double as a craft, make our cornflake Christmas wreath cookies recipe. They are absolutely delicious, adorable, and make for the perfect Christmas cookie recipe.
For the best no bake dessert recipe this time of year, give our cornflake Christmas wreath cookies recipe. They are super simple to make and a fun project for the kids to help with.
These green cornflake Christmas wreaths are always on my christmas cookie list because they are super good, but I just love how they look too! I mean green cornflakes with the red mini M&Ms look so perfect together.
Recipe Ingredient Notes
To make Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies, you will need the following ingredients:
- Cornflakes, slightly crushed
- Butter
- Miniature marshmallows
- Green food coloring
- Mini M&M’s
Equipment Needed
For this recipe, you only need a few simple kitchen tools. We recommend using the following equipment:
How To Make Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies
- Place corn flakes into a large bowl.
- Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Once melted, add the marshmallows and stir continuously until completely melted.
- Stir in food coloring.
- Pour melted marshmallows into the large bowl with the corn flakes. Stir until well coated.
- Lay out a piece of parchment paper on your kitchen counter.
- Dollop spoonfuls of the corn flake mixture onto the parchment paper.
- Grease clean hands with butter or cooking spray and use your fingers to shape each spoonful into an individual wreath.
- Top each wreath with red candies.
Storage Suggestions
If you manage to not eat the whole tray of cookies immediately, these Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies store well. Once cookies have completely cooled, here is how you can store them:
Counter: Store in an airtight container in a single layer for up to 4 days at room temperature.
What Can You Use as the Red Holly Berries on these Wreaths?
You can use red hots candies, red sixlets, red mini M&M’s, red candy balls, or even red licorice or pull and peel to make a red candy bow!
If you want an even more extensive list of red candies All City Candy has a great list of red candies you check out too!
Can I Substitute the Cornflakes?
Of course these are very appealing no bake cookies, but cornflakes aren’t for everyone, even myself when given a choice of cereal cornflakes definitely would not make the top of the list. But I will say for this recipe they are delicious when they are smothered in butter and marshmallows.
You can always try making them with your favorite cereal, but make sure you think the flavors of the cereal will work!
Of course switch out the cornflakes for rice crispies, cheerios, or even fruity pebbles I think would taste great.
One I definitely think that would be worth trying is cinnamon toast crunch! However whenever I buy it, it tends to disappear to fast to try it. So if you do, please let us know how you liked it!
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Cornflake Christmas Wreath Cookies
Ingredients
- 5 ½ cups corn flakes, slightly crushed
- ½ cup butter
- 5 cups miniature marshmallows
- ½ teaspoon green food coloring
- ½ cup mini M & M's, red
Instructions
- Place corn flakes into a large bowl.
- Melt butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Once melted, add the marshmallows and stir continuously until completely melted.
- Stir in food coloring.
- Pour melted marshmallows into the large bowl with the corn flakes. Stir until well coated.
- Lay out a piece of parchment paper on your kitchen counter.
- Dollop spoonfuls of the corn flake mixture onto the parchment paper.
- Grease clean hands with butter or cooking spray and use your fingers to shape each spoonful into an individual wreath.
- Top each wreath with red candies.
Notes
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