And now for a tribute to Mike and his infamous green things. What exactly is a green thing? Well, let’s make a few and find out. Mike says all I have to do is assemble the specified ingredients, and follow the directions on his site. Here’s the list:

half a cup of butter
150 grams of marshmallows (about one bag)
teaspoon of green food colouring
teaspoon of vanilla
3-4 cups of Cornflakes – depending on how green you like ‘em

And now for the directions. Again – Mike said follow the steps on his site. Me being a stickler for following the rules – that is exactly what I’m going to do. So, let’s begin…

Step 1 – assemble all said ingredients for a group photo:

Check. Damn – those are some fine looking ingredients. Apparently you need to have a mobile phone (preferably recharging) underneath your marshmallows. I suppose this is to do some pre-melting, or – better yet – to grow some marshmallow tumors for added gooeyness. I don’t question these things – Mike’s the master.

We did cheap out and not get real Cornflakes for these though – which I suppose alters the taste dramatically. We had these Vita Weeties from good ol’ Uncle Toby sitting in the cupboard just waiting to be eaten, so I thought I’d use them up in a tasty way.

Step 2 – melt the butter and marshmallows:

Check. Unfortunately, as you can see – we have some pink and white marshmallows. Pure white marshmallows are next to impossible to find in Australia. This is due to the pink marshmallow movement of the 1960′s, requiring all bags to include both white and pink ones. You know – equal marshmallow rights and all. Who said you don’t learn a bit of history on genfab.com?

Step 3 – add green food colouring to make a big green ugly mess:

Check. Goddamn that’s green!

Step 4 – add flakes to the green goo:

Check. Now it’s looking like someone’s lost their lunch consisting of granola bars and Mountain Dew into our pan. Ah well – I’m sure it’ll taste better than it looks! For whatever reason, ours turned out a more earthy green than Mike and Kumi’s radioactively green ones. I suspect our liquid food colouring and darker flakes have something to do with that.

Step 5 – toss your cookies (i.e.: make single serving sized green bits):

Check. It’s all coming together now…

Step 6 – top with something red:

Check. Mike said the originals were topped with cinnamon candies that no one liked. Now he’s improvised / improved the recipe with strawberry jam. Our new twist on it – raspberry jam for some added roughage.

Step 7 – admire your creations:

Check. Nicely done if I do say so myself. Mike and Kumi made 15 on their go at it. We made 16. Does that make us better than them? Yes, I believe it does.

Step 8 – take a photo of the first apprehensive victim:

Check. Mmm – mmm! While the recipe is dangerously close to Rice Krispie Treats, it’s way tastier with the extra butter and red topping. And how could you possibly get a more Christmas-y looking treat? You’d swear these were turds from Santa Claus himself (or at least his reindeer).

Thanks Mike! They rock.

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