Holly Berry Drops

Ingredients:
1 stick butter or margarine
32 large marshmallows
1 1/2 teaspoons green food coloring
3 cups corn flakes
Red cinnamon candies

Melt together the butter, marshmallows and the food color in a large pan. Remove from heat and add the corn flakes and then stir. Drop immediately by spoonful onto waxed paper. Shape with fingers and add 2 or 3 candies to each drop.

Makes about 2 1/2 dozen.

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Jodi Notes:

Melt the butter & marshmallows into a crock pot & set it either on "Medium" (if you have that setting) or "High." Then watch it & stir it, watch it & stir it. 5 minutes - 20 minutes - and it will all be melty. Add in the cereal at that point. It keeps it warm as you drop the cookies onto the waxed paper.

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My mom says these are the prettiest on the Christmas plate. She also makes sure that if she's giving out plates of cookies (as she does every year) that these are on there. She does not, however, make the Cathedral Window cookies. I make both.

You can make a variation on these cookies by using red food coloring instead of the green. Sometimes I sprinkle on some green sugar sprinkles if I can find them. You can also substitute Rice Krispies cereal instead of Corn Flakes. But you knew that already.

Traditionally, these used to be shaped into wreaths. I saw them once a year or two ago. I think, honestly, that takes TOO much time. Is TOO much a "labor of love." I just drop them by the spoonful onto either a cookie cooling rack or onto waxed paper on my dining room table. It's so much faster that way!