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Cornflake Cookies
February 7th, 2010Recipes, Baking Recipes, Recipes, Chinese New Year, Recipes69 Comments
After a few savory dishes, I thought it’s time I share a Chinese New Year baking recipe with you.
Chinese New Year calls for major baking and kuih (local sweet cakes) making sessions in Malaysia. The popular items are pineapple tarts or pineapple rolls, kuih kapit (check out the step-by-step in pictures!), kuih bangkit, kuih bahulu, peanut cookies, kuih loyang/kuih rose, and other traditional kuih and cakes. Western-style cookies are also very popular, for example: butter cookies and cornflake cookies.
Cornflake cookies are absolutely delightful, crunchy, and addictive—imagine butter-rich cookies rolled with crunchy cornflakes and every bite is a perfect crunch, and then the cookie just melts in your mouth. Heavenly!
This cornflake cookies recipe is contributed by Siew Loon, my very talented “intern” who is based in Malaysia. She has mad baking and kuih-making skills and I have pretty much “outsourced” that department to her while I focus on what I do best, cooking. You can check out her other baking and kuih recipes on Nyonya Food.
I made a big batch of cornflake cookies using the following recipe and they were gone in practically no time. Do try this easy cornflake cookies recipe. To convert the measurement, please go here.
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I agree, Bee. Cornflakes cookies are delicious with nice crunch.
Yes, and that’s why I love it and the cornflakes smell so good after baking. Hehe.
Oh my, these cornflake cookies do look great and I can totally imagine it with a cup of coffee or tea for tea. Well, I guess I can have these anytime not just CNY.
These look so good. I so agree that baking is different from cooking, baking is more scientific and cooking is more creative.
I guess I am not scientific then. ;)
Looks great! Approximately how many cookies does this yield?
I think it made about 30+ cookies. I didn’t count exactly but two trays of them.
These sound so simple to make but they look great! I need to get a baking intern as it’s not my strong suit either:-) Know where I could find one?
Good luck finding your baking intern.
I made cornflake cookie too but non baking type, this look good too.
Non-baking version of cornflake cookies. Interesting. Do share the recipe.
I’ve never had these before! They sounds so yummy! :)
Joey – they are yummy, butter, sugar, and cornflakes, what’s not to like?
Imagine I was just surfing the net over the weekend looking for the perfect cornflakes cookies recipe. Could this be it? Will try over the CNY hols.
I think this is it. I love this cornflake cookies recipe.
Mm, I can smell these now! They’re a nice change from the pineapple cakes that I can’t stay away from :-P Red bean buns too…I love Asian desserts!
LOL, yeah, now there are cornflake cookies to let you off pineapple cakes. ;)
I was so surprised to see these on your blog! These little cornflake cookies are really popular here in New Zealand, they are in bakeries everywhere. They look fairly similar, although I think the new Zealand version has raisins in them. I’ve never seen them elsewhere.
Hi Lisa – wow, I never know this about New Zealand. I almost never see this type of cookies in the US either but it’s quite popular in Malaysia. Now NZ and Malaysia has one more thing in common.
By the way, adding raisins to this cornflake cookie is such a great idea. YUM.
I have been LOVING this chinese new year series — I am super inspired to celebrate in style this year with all these beautiful recipes! I thought the crab noodles were my favorite — until these cookies turned up :-)
Bethany – thank you, I am glad you like the series. Yes, what’s not to love about cornflake cookies!!!
I am a big fan of cornflake cookies. My mom always made it for Raya but since residing in State, I’ve been making it all the time. Your recipe is very good and almost to the basic. I always like to jazz up my cookies by adding crushed almond (lately I’ve been using pecan instead), raisins, diced cherries (green and/or red) and dried cranberries. It is so good that I eat it in replace of my breakfast, lunch and dinner! Thanks for sharing your recipe, I’ll certainly try it :).
these cookies look so delicious! can i have one?
Of course, just dig in. ;)
What’s universal is that, this cookies is even emulated by the Malays and Indians, as you can see them in jars during Deepavali and Raya.
Pineapple tarts or rolls on the other hand, may have YET to attain that same level of popularity, though personally, I like the latter MUCH MUCH more.
Hi, is the cornflour used in this recipe the same as cornstarch?
Yes, they are the same.
Cornflake cookies are one of those CNY treats that I couldn’t stop munching on! Yours look so golden! Perfect for this festive season!
I made these last night (using egg replacers as we don’t eat eggs). I used ingredients I already had at home. It turned out amazing. So buttery, crispy and just great! Thanks for an amazing but simple recipe:)
Thanks for sharing this recipe! Will the cookies work without cornflour? I have everything except cornflour.
Without the corn flour (corn starch), they will not be as crispy.
Hmmm, really? No choice but to give it a go and see what happens. :(
I made TWO batches of this today, but thats coz the first batch came out horrible. They were really bitter, and I wondered why it tasted that way. I asked my husband of two years how old is his cornflour (we got married and I moved to his house), and he said, ohh, I think about SEVEN years!!!! Ewwww.
I was determined to make another batch, and thats just what I did 2 hours ago. With NEW cornflour too. I used Kelloggs Frosties and they came out really nice coz the sugar dusting on the cornflakes caramelized a bit and it was yummy! And oh, I definitely needed more than 60g of cornflakes. What I did was pour out the cornflakes bit my bit, using as much as I needed as I went along.
Will be sharing these cookies with my non-Malaysian friends tomorrow, hope they will be impressed! ;)
i made these moments ago and they came out tasteless ):
i subbed sugar with brown sugar. i don’t think it makes that big of a difference right? T_T it was almost tasteless. i had to dip it in melted chocolate (but now it tastes like cheap biscuits </3)
Vonn – I don’t know what happened but I made this cornflake cookies following the exact recipe and they turn out great. My colleagues are all asking for the recipe after they tasted the goods.
Hey Vonn,
Brown sugar is less sweet compared to normal white refined sugar, so if you do use brown sugar you’ll have to use more than the amount stipulated for normal white sugar.
these look fabulous! :O)
happy CNY!
i love the cookies is so delish but i forget to add the cornflour but it still turns out very good.
i follow the instrutions but it did not say when i suppose to add the cornflour that’s why i miss out the cornflour.
I like to thank you and all the good receipe here.
oops sorry wrong spelling, instructions!!
You really can make cookies out of just about anything. Thanks for the great new recipe.
Jill, thanks, but I think my best cookie recipe is this plain old butter cookies recipe. It’s really really very good:
http://rasamalaysia.com/butter-cookies-recipe/
These sound simple and look wonderful! I can imagine these cornflake cookies tasting like KFC chickens! Although, i do not have All-purpose flour at the moment, can i use cake flour to substitute??
Yes, you can.
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Is there any way you can convert this recipe to teaspoon, Tablespoons, and cups? I really want to try it but am having a hard time converting it, thanks so much! (Is it 13.94 T butter, as I couldn’t figure out the amount of cups, 12.52 Tablespoons of sugar, 3.02 C flour, 2.82 C of cereal, and 3.17 T cornstarch??? That was the closest I got.)
You can convert it at http://www.onlineconversion.com/
Thanks but unfortunately that is where I went to find my conversions (13.94 T butter and 12.52 T sugar, etc) and my results prevents me from accurately following your recipe so wanted to know if you or any of your readers could help me to get a more accurate measurements in cups and table/teaspoons for this recipe which I am dying to make.
Lena – it will be best if you use a kitchen scale with both metrics and lbs/ounces. I don’t have the conversion in tablespoons.
this is a grat recipe! i love cornflake cookies a lot. thanks for putting this up and sharing it to the world. that is if you have internet connection…:)
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I have wanted to try baking these for a while now and am putting this to the test today.
A couple of things, though: Don’t we use the metric system? Or perhaps it is best to have the measurement and temperature in different conversion factors. For example 175oC / 347F.
The other thing is the sequence of the steps are a little in disarray. For amateurs, they need to know to preheat the oven first and possibly, have the crushed cornflakes laid out on a plate or something flat to make rolling easier.
But anyway, I’m very excited to bake these *fingers crossed*
I have wanted to try baking these for a while now and am putting them to the test today.
A couple of things, though: Don’t we use the metric system? Or perhaps, have the measurement or temperature in different conversion factors, for instance: 175oC / 347F.
The other thing is that the steps are a little in disarray. For amateurs, they would need to know to first preheat the oven and possibly state to have a plate or something flat laid out for the crushed cornflake to make rolling easier.
But anyway, this recipe looks as easy as pie so, hopefully mine will turn out well. I already have my faithful tasters waiting *fingers crossed*
So glad to come across this recipe. Reminds me of my childhood days of helping my mum to bake and sell them during Christmas and CNY. Tried it this past weekend with my 15 year old daughter, love it! Thanks!
it’s an easy and healthy delicious cookies. children like it very much.
thanks for sharing, i tried baking it over the weekend for CNY and came out good. i tweaked it a lil though, i used brown sugar and added 2 tbsp of ground almond for some extra nutty aroma ;)
is salted butter or unsalted butter better for baking? will it affect the cookies much between the two types?
Its grateful to have this recipe. I tried it today but my mixture is very sticky. I would like to know how to fix this problem. Thanks for your reply.
It’s supposed to be sticky please use a spoon to shape the dough.
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hello, may i know the must i use salted or unsalted butter for this recipe? thank you ^^
well,salted butter comes with the salt and unsalted butter is without the salt.if you opt to use salted butter,you can do away without the salt and vice versa. Unsalted butter is moree fragrance than the salted one.
hi,
i just baked some cornflake cookies using your recipe. I halved all ingredients, do without the vanilla essence and the cookies still turn out good. By the way, i used salted butter. Thanks for sharing this simple and yummy recipe. My kids and I enjoyed the whole baking session :)
Hi,
May I know if it is possible to replace a bit of the flour with milk powder?
You can skip but don’t add more flour
thanks for replying =)
But I don’t really understand…so it means I can add in milk powder but I need to reduce the flour, right ?
For example, instead of 300g flour…I can do it with 270g flour & 30g milk powder? Is this correct ?
hi there. i tired a batch yesterday but it turned out not cook in the middle. what did i do wrong?
Bake longer.
So yummy,
At home we’ve got three packets of corn flakes and no one( especially me)
Eats them.
And I came across this and it was delisious!
Thank you
Love Unitedpandas xoxo