Christmas Eve: Holly Treats

Long ago, when I was maybe a third grader at Avery Elementary, I went to the Fall Festival. At the bake sale, somebody's mom had made these things that were sort of like rice krispie treats, but they looked like holly--little green leaves and red hot berries. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I've never really forgotten those treats, but it never occurred to me that--with Google--I could figure out how to make them myself!

Well, Christmas Eve was the perfect time to figure it out. We Googled some recipes, and then Megan (the marshmallow treat expert), cooked us up some holly treats. Now you can make these in the shape of leaf clusters, like so. But we were not feeling ambitious, so we just threw ours in a pan. I was still 100% happy with the result.

- Kristin

I on the other hand, was not super happy with these Krispy treats. I thought they were too sweet! They differed from the S'More Krispys in that they used a lot less cereal so there was a lot more sugar coating to go around on these ones. If you used more cereal they wouldn't have been coated green all the way. Here is the recipe:

1 package large marshmallows
1 stick of butter
6 cups of cornflakes
1 tsp vanilla
1.5 tsp green food coloring
some Christmas M&Ms

1) Melt butter and marshmallows on low heat
2) Mix in vanilla and food coloring 
3) Stir in the cornflakes
4) Pour in some M&Ms (as many as you want!)

This time I was supposed to wait to put in the M&Ms so they didn't melt and make the treats look... non appetizing. But I just couldn't wait for things to cool down. I started pouring in the M&Ms as Kristin yelled, "Not yet! Not yet! You said you would wait this time!" You can imagine how I laughed and laughed as I stirred the marshmallows into the hot cornflake mixture. But.... the M&Ms didn't melt. I got to have a good laugh and Kristin got her non-brown treats.

- Megan Leigh