Chrsitmas wreaths

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Light corn syrup
3 tablespoons Sugar
3 tablespoons Butter
Green food coloring
2¼ cup Corn flakes
Red cinnamon candies
Shredded coconut

Directions

Combine corn syrup, sugar and butter in a saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Stir constantly. Continue boiling for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and aed a few drops of food coloring at a time until the mixture is about the color green that you want. Remember, you are trying to simulate the color of a Christmas evergreen wreath.

Now stir the warm syrup into the dry corn flakes. Stir until well comvbined. Now drop by the teaspoons onto waxed paper. You want to make little round wrieaths. They can be as small as an inch or you can use all the mixture and make one hugh wreath to use as a centterpeace-dessert.

Decorate you wreaths with cinnamon candies to look life ornaments or hooly berries. You also may spinkle on shredded coconut to look life snowy branches. Let coolk to harden.

Yield": This will depend on what size wreaths you make. You might get one big one or lots of tiny ones.

Recipe by: The Times Magazine/ Oct. 23, 1978 Posted to MC-Recipe Digest by "abprice@..." <abprice@...> on Apr 13, 1998

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