Cornflake Cookies – Easy Crunchy Cookies

If you love crunchy cookies, these cornflake cookies are just for you! Shaped into bite sizes, these cookies are beautifully crunchy inside and out.

The cookie dough is made with a combination of cornflour and plain flour. The use of cornflour gives these cookies a lovely light texture. Combined with the plain flour, the cookie dough bakes into lovely light and crumbly cookies and complements perfectly with the crunchy cornflakes inside and out.

These cookies make great festive treats. I often bake them in 1 tablespoon sizes, but you can always reduce them in size if you wish so. You can also make them extra festive with sprinkles like I did here for my Christmas sprinkles cookies.

These cookies are very basic and very easy to make. And they last well too. They can also be customized with nuts or even dried fruits for extra flavor if you wish.

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How to Make Cornflake Cookies

Ingredients

• Cornflour + plain flour + baking powder + salt
• Cornflakes
• Butter
• Granulated Sugar
• Egg Yolk
• Vanilla

Mixing the cookie dough

1. Start by creaming the butter and sugar. Do not overbeat. Suffice if the butter and sugar appears creamy.
2. Add the egg yolk and vanilla. Continue beating until the traces of the egg are no longer visible.
3. Sift in both the flour, baking powder and salt.
4. Mix until well combined.
5. Add the cornflakes.
6. Mix again. If you are using a mixer, suffice if you let the mixer break the cornflakes as it mixes the cookie dough. If mixing by hand, crush the cornflakes lightly as you mix the cookie dough.

1. Shape the cookies into approximately 1 tablespoon sizes. It will be hard to scoop the dough with a measuring spoon because of the cornflakes. The best way to do this is by using a normal tablespoon to apportion the cookie dough. Form the cookies into balls with your hands. The cookie dough tends to be a little sticky immediately after mixing but does become more manageable when allowed to rest for 5 to 10 minutes. Nevertheless, you can start shaping the cookies as soon as you finished mixing the dough.
2. Press the cookies lightly with a fork to flatten them. You can also do this with your fingers.
3. Place them slightly apart on the baking tray. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 175 degrees Celsius for 12 minutes.
4. Remove cookies from the oven. Transfer them onto a wire rack to cool completely. Keep cookies in an airtight container to retain their crunch.

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Notes

Use fresh, crunchy cornflakes

• If your cornflakes are no longer as crunchy as they should be, do not use them to make these cookies. They will remain as such and your cookies will not be as crunchy as they should be.

Do you need to crush the cornflakes before adding them to the cookie dough?

• No, there is no need to crush them. Simply add them to your cookie dough, and if you are using a cake mixer to mix the dough, that in itself will help to crush the cornflakes lightly.
• If you are mixing by hand, crush them lightly with your spatula as you mix them into the dough.

Can you increase or decrease the amount of cornflakes in the cookies?

• You can reduce the amount of cornflakes. That will give you cookies with less crunch.
• You can also increase the amount of cornflakes but I do not quite recommend this as that would mean that there is probably not enough cookie dough to hold all the cornflakes together to form cookies.

Can you use frosted or sugar coated cornflakes

• No, I would not recommend these as they will make the cookies too sweet. This recipe uses plain cornflakes.

Can you add dried fruits or nuts into the cookies?

• Yes, you certainly can. Do take note, however, that too much of extra ingredients will change the texture of the cookies as the cookies will have lesser dough to hold the cornflakes and the fruits and nuts together.
• The other option is to reduce the amount of cornflakes you add to the cookies, to balance up the remaining extra ingredients.

Can you increase or decrease the cookies size?

• These are crunchy cookies. They are crispy on the edges and crumbly on the inside with a lovely crunch from the cornflakes.
• Reducing the cookie sizes is fine. You will still get cookies of the same texture. Just remember to reduce the baking time accordingly.
• Increasing the size of the cookie, however, might alter the texture of these cornflake cookies. Too large a cookie might leave you with cookies that are crunchy on the outside but soft on the inside.
• Depending on how large you make the cornflake cookies, you can try to increase the baking time and reduce the baking temperature. That way, you don’t risk your cookies from burning on the sides while waiting for the insides to cook.

Do the cookies rise in size after baking?

• This cornflake cookies recipe uses baking powder. This helps the cookies rise in size during baking.
• Hence, the cookies do rise in size, however, it is only a slight rise. Also, they do not spread much.
• For this reason, when putting the cookies onto baking trays, you need not place them too far apart. Suffice if you place them just slightly apart to avoid them from sticking to one another during baking as well as for easy handling.

How to store the cornflake cookies

• Since these cornflake cookies are meant to be crunchy, it is important that they are stored in an airtight container. This will help the cookies (including the cornflakes in the cookies) retain their crispness and crunch.
• These cookies last for a good 2 weeks when stored well.

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Cornflake Cookies Recipe

Here is the full printable version of my cornflake cookies recipe.

Ad that’s pretty much it, my super delish crunchy cookies with cornflakes.

Here are my other posts you might want to check out:

• Crunchy Chocolate Chip Cookies – Mini and Bite-Sized
• Snowflake Sugar Cookies
• Light Fruit Cake
• 3 Ingredients Shortbread Cookies

Happy baking 🙂