Gumdrops

Betty Crocker's Good and Easy Cookbook, 1954.

Holiday Open House

Wassail Bowl
Cold Cider
Fruit Cake
Christmas Cookies
Stuffed Dates
Nuts
Cream Mints
Kix Cone Trees

Kix Cone Trees
1/4 cup butter
1/2 lb. marshmallows
5 cups Kix
wooden skewers
colored sugar or fine colored candies

Stir butter and marshmallows over low heat until syrupy. Pour over Kix in greased bowl; stir briskly. Pack lightly into greased paper cone-shaped drinking cups. Insert skewers for trunks of trees. When cool, remove paper cups and roll cones in sugar or tiny candies. Push end skewer into large gumdrop or thick slice of apple. 9 to 10 Christmas trees.