Every year around the holidays I make cereal wreaths for our parties and get togethers, which are always a big hit. This year I stayed true to form in making my cereal wreaths, but found a way to make them even better – by using Quaker® Life cereal. The sweetness of the Quaker® Life cereal blends great with the marshmallows and the icing, and the cereal is the perfect size and texture for making these. I made these and brought them to the Christmas celebration we had with my in-laws and they were gone in minutes. Delicious and cute… oh and quick and easy to make? Sign me up.
Here’s what you need:
>9 Ounces (half of an 18 ounce box) Quaker® Life Cereal
15 Drops Green Food Coloring (use more or less as desired)
1 10 Ounce Bag Marshmellows
Red Icing (can also use red candies)
1/3 Cup Butter
Here’s what you do:
1) Melt your butter over medium heat. Add marshmallows and melt, stirring occasionally. Add food coloring and stir well, remove from heat.
2) Add Quaker® Life and stir well, until cereal is evenly coated with marshmallow mixture. Coat a spoon and your hands well with butter. Begin spooning out the mixture and forming into wreath shapes with your hand. You will probably have to continuously reapply the butter to your hands so that the cereal doesn’t stick to your hands. Work quickly so your mixture doesn’t have time to cool before you shape it all!
3) Using red icing or red candies, make the berries on your wreath. Allow wreaths to cool (it won’t take long) before transferring to serving plate.
I was able to find all the ingredients I needed for these at my local Walmart, on the baking and cereal aisles!
Quaker® Life fits into our life in several ways besides just making these fun wreaths. It is one of our favorite cereals, and both my husband and I snack on cereal all day long. I often throw it in a sandwich bag to take on the go with me. Other Quaker® products that we love are Quaker® Rice Medleys®, Quaker® Oatmeal Squares, and Quaker® Simply Granola.
Do you have a staple Holiday recipe that you make every year? Please tell me about it below!
These are precious!! What a nifty little (and easy!) christmas treat.
Xo
Alyssa nicole @ justanothermanicpixiedreamgirl.com
Thanks! They are fun to make too!
I love cereal but never thought to make cereal wreaths before, love how easy they are to make and they look delicious.
They are fun too!
These are so cute! I love the idea and it looks really easy! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
I have never seen these before but it is a really cute idea!
They are so fun!
These are ADORABLE! I totally want to make them now! I love muddy buddy but haven't made it – my sister does some years and other years we get it from neighbors or friends ha! That's one of my favorites 🙂
Thanks! You should!!!
My kids would love making these!
Oh I bet they would! They might make a mess though haha!
cute!
Yum! I love Life Cereal!
Me too!
Interesting Christmas treat!
So adorable!! And a perfect treat to make with kids.
Thank you! They are!
Cute wreaths! I LOVE Life cereal:).
Thanks! Me too!
Oh how yummy and fun at the same time! This looks like a project my kids would like to make with me in the kitchen <3
They were! Kids would love this!
Cute wreaths! I think it might also look great to go with a brown (chocolate) version, with red candies and gold flakes (if you wanted to get luxe); the green is a bit.. vivid.. 🙂
xo,
lauriel
EyeForElegance.com
Thanks! There is a lot you could do with these!