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No-Bake Spruce Cookies

These easy treats won first prize at our last cookie exchange for prettiest and best-tasting cookie! They're fun to make, and your kids will like trimming them with red-hot candy ornaments.
-- Jeanette Alessi, Orange, California

You Will Need
36 large marshmallows
1/2 cup butter, cubed
1 to 2 teaspoons green food coloring
1 teaspoon almond extract
4 cups cornflakes
Red-hot candies
12 Tootsie Roll Midgees, cut in half, optional

What to Do
1. In a heavy saucepan, combine the marshmallows, butter, food coloring and almond extract. Cook and stir over low heat until smooth. Remove from the heat; gently stir in cornflakes until well coated. Drop by tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper.

2. Using a 3-in. Christmas tree cookie cutter, shape into trees. Add red-hots for ornaments. Press a Tootsie Roll half into the base for tree trunk if desired.

Yield: about 2 dozen.
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These cookies are gorgeous and no-bake cookies? Why not...so simple, especially for kids. But the pretzel shaped ones with coffee, yum!

By happyg17, on 12/10/2008

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