Christmas Balls

         Yield: 6 Servings
    Categories: Desserts, Christmas

      3 tb Blue Bonnet margarine
     10 oz Large marshmallows
      1 ts McCormick/Schilling vanilla
           -extract
    1/2 ts McCormick/Schilling green
           -food color
      6 c  Cheerios cereal
        sm Gumdrops
 
  Heat margarine and marshmallows in 3-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring
  constantly, until melted; remove from heat. Stir in vanilla and food color.
  Fold in cereal until well coated. Shape warm mixture into balls with
  buttered hands. Place balls on waxed paper. Cut gumdrops into fourths;
  press onto balls. 6 balls.
  
  Recipe by: The Cheerios Recipe Booklet, General Mills, 1977