You’ll love these thick and chewy Cornflake Cookies. Buttery cookie dough loaded with chocolate chips, rolled in crunchy Cornflakes and baked until golden and crisp.
If cookies are covered in cereal, can you eat them for breakfast? 💕
These thick and chewy Cornflake Cookies are my latest weakness. Buttery chocolate chip cookie dough rolled in crunchy Cornflakes and baked until golden. It’s the best of both worlds.
Crunchy on the outside, chewy in the middle. And loaded with chocolate. Yes please!
I don’t know about you but I love incorporating cereal into my baking. Whether it’s Rice Bubbles (or Rice Krispies) in my Chocolate Slice or my Peanut Butter Pie. Or Cornflakes in my cookies.
But this is not the first time I’ve shared a Cornflake Cookie with you. My Chewy Cornflake Marshmallow Cookies are super thin and crispy and have toasted Cornflakes mixed through the cookie dough, adding both flavour and chew. They’re the best.
But these thick and chewy Cornflake Cookies are rolled in Cornflakes prior to baking. Adding texture and crunch. #winwin
The cookie dough itself is buttery and smooth and requires NO chilling. Which means these cookies can be ready to eat in just 30 minutes flat.
Typically, here in Australia, Cornflake Cookies are filled with sultanas or raisins but I couldn’t help but add chocolate chips – because you know I just can’t resist adding to chocolate to everrrything.
And biting into a Cornflake Cookie while it’s still warm with melted chocolate oozing out is just the b-e-s-t.
So how do you get the Cornflakes to cover the cookies just like these? 👆🏻 It’s super easy. You simply grab a large tablespoon of cookie dough, roll it in your hands and then roll in a bowl of slightly crushed Cornflakes.
Use your hands to press the cornflakes all over the cookie dough – they should stick. Then place the balls of cookie dough onto your baking sheet. As the cookies bake, they will spread out and the Cornflakes will go roasty-toasty.
Crispy, crunchy, buttery and sweet, these Cornflake Cookies will be your new go-to.
Watch how to make it
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Let’s Bake
Cornflake Cookies
Thick and chewy cookies covered in crunchy Cornflake Cookies.
Ingredients
- 115 grams (1/2 cup / 1 stick) butter, room temperature
- 90 grams (1/2 cup) brown sugar
- 50 grams (1/4 cup) caster sugar or granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large egg
- 210 grams (1 and 1/2 cups) plain flour or all purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 75 grams (1/2 cup) chocolate chips
- 45 grams (1 and 1/2 cups) Cornflakes
Instructions
- Line two baking trays with baking or parchment paper. Preheat oven to 180 C (350 F) standard / 160 C (320 F) fan-forced.
- In a large mixing bowl, beat butter and sugars using an electric beater for 1-2 minutes or until pale and creamy.
- Add vanilla and egg and beat until combined. Sift in flour and baking soda and mix to combine. Add chocolate chips and stir. In a separate bowl, add Cornflakes and crush them slightly using your hands.
- Scoop balls of dough (roughly 1.5 tablespoons each) and then roll them in the Cornflakes, pressing the Cornflakes into the cookie dough using your hands.
- Place cookie dough balls onto your prepared trays, leaving room for the cookies to spread out.
- Bake for approximately 12-13 minutes or until golden brown. Carefully transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Nutrition Information
Rix says
is it possible to freeze the cookies for another day (with or without the cornflakes on)? don’t think i can eat all 14 cookies within 3 days!!
Jessica Holmes says
Hey Rix, I haven’t tried to freeze these myself but it should be ok! If you are worried about the Cornflakes on the outside, you could roll the cookie dough into balls, freeze it, then bring it back to room temperature and then roll in the Cornflakes to bake.
Charleen Tai says
So good! So simple and easy… My colleagues love it. Thank you!!
★★★★★
Jessica Holmes says
Yay! Love hearing that Charleen!
Lisas says
This recipe was the greatest I have ever made thank you for the recipe and the crunch, so good with the chocolate, who could have thought of chocolate. Thanks Jess.
★★★★★
Jessica Holmes says
So glad you enjoyed them!
Sean says
Something was missing from the flavor profile. Why no salt in the recipe? Maybe browning the butter would help too.
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Sean, thanks for your feedback. Feel free to add as much salt as you like.
Ashley says
These looks so good! Would like to attempt one of the days. Just wondering if the cornflakes on the cookie will stay crunchy after 2-3 days? Thank you!
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Ashley, it’s likely they will soften over time. Hope you enjoy them!
Susan Cheong says
Hi Jessica.. Thanks for the recipe. I baked the cookies with my son..We love it. Chewy and thick inside. And the cornflakes made it crunchy. Awesome.
Jessica Holmes says
So glad you enjoyed them Susan! Thank you for your kind review!
Kenna says
The flavor was good and I liked the crunch but they were a but cakey. I followed the recipe exact so not sure what happened.
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Jessica Holmes says
Hi Kenna, glad you enjoyed them! These cookies are meant to be thick and chewy as described but if you’d like them thinner you can add a touch (35g) less flour. Also make sure you measure the flour using a kitchen scale so you don’t accidentally over measure.
Allyssa Hao says
HI! Some cookies require to chill the dough first before baking it. So is it actually necessary to chill the dough first before scooping and baking them? Or we can bake them right after doing the dough?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Alyssa, if the recipe specifies chilling the dough, it’s usually for a reason. If you don’t you risk your cookies spreading too much in the oven.
Allyssa Hao says
ohh so for this recipe, we dont have to chill it right? i actually tried it already and it came out kinda cakey. do you happen to know why?
Jessica Holmes says
Hi, that’s right. You don’t need to chill the dough. If it was very cakey, it’s likely you added too much flour – make sure you measure using a kitchen scale for accuracy.
Allyssa Hao says
Hi, ohh alright. I actually put it in the fridge overnight. I used a kitchen scale and followed your recipe by using 210g of flour. Also, I followed the baking time and temperature. So I really don’t know where I went wrong.
Jessica Holmes says
If you baked the cookie dough chilled it won’t spread as much, which may make them more ‘cakey’ as you described. Here’s a blog post about why cookies don’t spread in the oven that might be helpful to you.
Joanne says
I was going to make these cookies until I saw that there were 196 calories per cookie. Can you make this recipe with less calories per cookie? Thanks
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Joanne, I’m not sure, sorry.
HelenBeee says
You can swap out the chocolate chips for dried currants or not add them at all. The other thing to do is keep reduce sugar to 1/2 cup and reduce butter to 100gms of butter. They still work and it makes them a little less calorie heavy. IF you really wanted to keep the calories down just make a low cal plain cookie and add roll the dough in cornflakes before cooking.. Wont be exactly the same but it would be a close second.
Hannah Thomas says
I usually never comment on recipes, but knew I had to with this one. These cookies are divine! One of the best cookies ever. I did make a little mistake in the beginning by swapping my measurements for the sugars, but they still turned out great. I also didn’t have regular corn flakes so I used frosted flakes. My husband isn’t a huge sweets person but went on about how good they are. This recipe will be kept in my cookie rotation! They are the best, thank you =)
★★★★★
Jessica Holmes says
Aw thank you so much for your comment Hannah! It means so much to hear you enjoyed these cookies – and using frosted flakes sounds brilliant!
Janet wadsworth says
In your recipe for cornflake cookies with choc chips has two sugars one castor one brown sugar which brown sugar brown castor sugar or soft brown sugar
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Janet, just regular brown sugar for this recipe. You can read more about the different types of sugars here in this blog post I wrote about caster sugar.
Ali says
These look delish! Wondering if you could use any type of cereal for these like Life for instance. I don’t have corn flakes 😋
Jessica Holmes says
Hi Ali, I don’t think we have that cereal in Australia but there’s only one way to find out – you might have to give it a try!
Carrie Davies says
These are delicious cookies! I tripled the recipe because I am baking for my local fire station this week. That made the ingredients a bit hard to incorporate so after I burnt out my electric hand mixer (hated that thing 🙂 ) I had to enlist my husbands muscle. I got 5 1/2 dozen 2.5 – 3″ cookies. I did cut the chocolate back a bit and wish I had cut it back a bit more but they have a really nice crunch with a soft centre. Definitely will be making these again!!! (Once I get a new mixer)
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Jessica Holmes says
Oh wow! That’s such a lovely act of kindness Carrie! So glad you enjoyed them and sorry to hear you broke your mixer! 😂 Maybe a good excuse to buy a new one? Thanks for your lovely feedback!
Nadz says
Easter Sunday very cold day in Melbourne Australia and we are all quarantined, so why not bake up a storm 😉 delicious!!!!
Jessica Holmes says
Yay! So glad you enjoyed them!
Amali says
I forgot to put in the chocolate chips but they still taste so good!!! Love them!
★★★★★
Jessica Holmes says
So happy to hear that Amali!