This is my quick version of the Chocolate Cornflake Christmas Tree recipe. If you’re looking for a festive recipe you’re in the right place!
This recipe makes one tall Chocolate Cornflake Christmas Tree, although you can easily scale up the recipe to make as many as you like.
This recipe is a simple festive activity for children and adults of all ages, providing there’s a responsible adult to melt the chocolate safely.
Instead of using biscuit cutters to draw templates, you simply fill them with the chocolate cornflake mixture instead, which takes a fraction of the time. Your finished tree will be taller, with less definition than the longer recipe – but it’ll be every bit as delicious!
You can add sprinkles as I have, or leave them out. A dusting of icing sugar snow will transform your finished tree effortlessly.
This is a quicker recipe, perhaps better suited to smaller children compared to my longer version recipe:
Chocolate Cornflake Christmas Tree
Makes one tall tree
- Ingredients:
- 200g chocolate – I used milk chocolate
- 25g butter
- 1 tbsp golden syrup
- 120g cornflakes
- To assemble:
- 100g chocolate, melted
- A nesting set of 6 round biscuit cutters.
Melt the chocolate, butter and syrup in a heatproof bowl, over a pan of barely simmering water.
Line a baking tray with baking parchment paper.
Lay your set of cutters out on the paper with a couple of centimetres gap between each one.
Stir the melted chocolate mixture until smooth, then pour into the cornflakes and mix together until all the cornflakes are coated in chocolate.
Using 2 small spoons, fill each of your cutters with a layer of the chocolate cornflakes.
The smallest one should be a tall pointy pile of cornflakes as it’ll crown your tree.
Use the back of a spoon to smooth the tops of all the other layers flat, then remove the cutters.
Add sprinkles, if you like. I added red and green sprinkles.
Put your trays of chocolate layers in the fridge or a cool dry place to set for 1-2 hours.
Melt the remaining 100g of chocolate and stir until smooth.
Put the biggest cornflake layer onto a plate or a tray. If you want to stick your tree to the plate, put a spoonful of melted chocolate on the bottom of the cornflake layer and press gently onto the plate.
Repeat with all the other cornflake layers in size order.
Put a spoonful of melted chocolate onto the bottom of each layer and stack, pressing gently to stick together.
Leave in a cool place for an hour or two to set.
Sift icing sugar over your finished tree to resemble snowfall.
Top tips:
You can add dried fruit & nuts to the cornflakes if you like.
This recipe works with milk, dark or white chocolate. Just make sure you use the same chocolate for the cornflakes and for the assembly.
The photos below are for the longer version of this recipe:
Happy baking!
Abi – The Brownie Lady
