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I’ve reinvented my classic chocolate cornflake Easter nest recipe to make easy no-bake chocolate cornflake reindeer cakes. They are very easy, and very delicious and perfect as a little Christmas treat. So read on for my recipe for easy no-bake reindeer chocolate cornflake cakes.
Ingredients for No-Bake Christmas Reindeer Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
You only need a few ingredients for gooey no-bake chocolate reindeer cornflake cakes:
- 200g of broken up chocolate – milk or plain both work well, but kids tend to prefer milk chocolate in my experience
- 50g butter cut into small pieces
- 3 tablespoons of golden syrup
- a few handfuls of mini marshmallows
- 100g of cornflakes
- pretzels
- edible candy eyes
These chocolate reindeer heads work equally well with rice krispies as cornflakes, if that is what you happen to have in the cupboard.
Method for No-Bake Christmas Reindeer Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
- Make pretzel ‘antlers’. Break up your pretzels into antler shapes. Snapping them in half works well most of the time, and you can easily eat any that don’t quite work!
- Prepare a bain marie. This is a saucepan with about 5 cm of simmering water, with a mixing bowl over the top. Make sure the water doesn’t touch the base of the bowl.
- Melt the chocolate mixture. Add the broken up chocolate, butter, golden syrup mini marshmallows to the mixing bowl over your bain marie.
- Stir until there are no lumps. Melt together and stir until the mix is nice and smooth.
- Mix in the cornflakes. Remove the bowl from the saucepan and stir the cornflakes into the chocolate mixture.
- Add more cornflakes if needed. You may need to add a few more handfuls of cornflakes depending on how generous you were with the mini marshmallows.
Putting Together Your No-Bake Christmas Reindeer Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
Put out the cake cases. Place around 12 paper cake cases in a muffin tin, or a baking tray. We ended up needing 16 in the end, it depends how large you make them.
Fill the cake cases. Use a spoon to add the chocolate cornflake mixture to the paper cases. 
Make the chocolate reindeer faces. Add a pair of candy eyes, a pair of pretzel antlers, and a mini marshmallow nose to each chocolate cornflake cake and allow to set.
Here’s a Closer Look at Our Reindeer Faces…
Decorate your chocolate cornflake reindeer cakes with broken pretzels, candy eyes and marshmallows to make reindeer faces.
And here is the one Thea made, which looks like Santa’s sleigh has been involved in a terrible accident.
The best thing about these no-bake chocolate reindeer cornflake cakes is that they all have their own personalities, thanks to the way the eyes point.
Some look surprised, some confused, and some a bit dreamy. It all adds to the fun! And these gooey chocolate cornflake reindeer faces are absolutely delicious too.
This super-easy, yet delicious recipe is a great one to make with kids when they’re bored in the Christmas holidays, or to give as a fun gift. Why not Pin this recipe for later?
