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Cheerios Christmas Trees

Cheerios Christmas Trees

The Cheerios® Cookbook shares a recipe! Gather a group of crafty kids to create edible holiday table decorations.

Recipe by Cheerios

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Prep Time: 45 minutes

Total Time: 1 hour 45 minutes

Servings: 18 trees

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Nutrition Info

1 Tree
Calories120
Total Fat4 1/2g
(Saturated Fat 2g, Trans Fat 0g)
Cholesterol10mg
Sodium120mg
Total Carbohydrate20g
(Dietary Fiber 0g, Sugars 12g)
Protein1g
Percent Daily Value*
Vitamin A 6%
Vitamin C 0%
Calcium4%
Iron 8%
Exchanges
Fat1
Other Carbohydrate1/2
Starch1/2
Carbohydrate Choices
1

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

Tips & Techniques

Special Touch
Personalize the trees using Betty Crocker® decorator icing (from 4.25-oz tube) and use as place cards. Use the icing to add a garland.

Ingredients

6 cups Honey Nut Cheerios® cereal
6 tablespoons butter or margarine
4 1/2 cups miniature marshmallows
Green food color
Red cinnamon candies or sliced gumdrops

Directions

1Line a cookie sheet with waxed paper.
2Pour the cereal into a 4-quart bowl. Set the bowl aside.
3Place 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.
4Stir 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.
5Lightly 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.
6Press the candies into the trees to decorate. Refrigerate until firm, about 1 hour. Store the trees in a loosely covered container.

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Anonymous said:

cmconrad-I would melt some white chocolate, add some green gel food coloring and then add cheerios and shape them like trees and then decorate them. Hope that helps :)

12/4/2012 11:37:23 AM

cmconrad said:

I made these for a Christmas party. They were still sticky after being in the fridge in the morning. I had to warn folks about the red hots I added for decoration. They were very hard in comparison to the mushy cheerios.

12/21/2009 1:18:56 PM

cmconrad said:

12/21/2009 1:18:52 PM