The Cheerios® Cookbook shares a recipe! Gather a group of crafty kids to create edible holiday table decorations.
Cheerios® Christmas Trees
- Prep Time 45 min
- Total 1 hr 45 min
- Servings 18
- Ingredients 5
Ingredients
- 6 cups Honey Nut Cheerios™ cereal
- 6 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 4 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
- Betty Crocker™ green gel food color
- Betty Crocker™ red cinnamon decors or sliced gumdrops
Instructions
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Step1Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
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Step2Pour the cereal into a 4-quart bowl. Set the bowl aside.
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Step3Place the butter and marshmallows in a 3-quart saucepan. Heat over low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is smooth. Remove the saucepan from the heat.
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Step4Stir in the food color until the mixture is evenly colored. Pour the marshmallow mixture over the cereal and stir until the cereal is evenly coated.
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Step5Lightly spray your hands with cooking spray. For each tree, shape about 1/4 cup of the cereal mixture into a Christmas tree shape on the cookie sheet.
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Step6Press the candies into the trees to decorate. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Store the trees in a loosely covered container.
Nutrition
120
Calories
4 1/2g
Total Fat
1g
Protein
20g
Total Carbohydrate
12g
Sugars
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size: 1 Tree
- Calories
- 120
- Calories from Fat
- 40
- Total Fat
- 4 1/2g
- 7%
- Saturated Fat
- 2g
- 10%
- Trans Fat
- 0g
- Cholesterol
- 10mg
- 3%
- Sodium
- 120mg
- 5%
- Potassium
- 30mg
- 1%
- Total Carbohydrate
- 20g
- 7%
- Dietary Fiber
- 0g
- 0%
- Sugars
- 12g
- Protein
- 1g
% Daily Value*:
- Vitamin A
- 6%
- 6%
- Vitamin C
- 0%
- 0%
- Calcium
- 4%
- 4%
- Iron
- 8%
- 8%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1/2 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;Carbohydrate Choice
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