After a few savory dishes, I thought it’s time I share a Chinese New Year baking recipe with you.
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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.
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How Many Calories Per Serving?
This recipe is only 488 calories per serving.
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Cornflake Cookies Recipe
Easy cornflake cookies recipe that yields buttery, crunchy, and tasty cornflake cookies. Cornflake cookies are great for festive seasons or just about anytime.
Ingredients
- 200 g unsalted butter
- 150 g sugar
- 2 eggs
- 300 g all-purpose flour
- 60 g bran or any cereal, coarsely crushed
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essense
- 30 g corn flour/ cornstarch
Directions
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Beat butter and sugar till pale and creamy. Add vanilla essence. Stir in the lightly beaten eggs. Fold in the flour mixture including corn flour. (Mixture must not stick to our hands when touched.) Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out about 1 teaspoon of the cookie dough and roll it into the crushed cornflakes. Transfer them to a baking tray lined with parchment paper and bake for 25 minutes at 350 degree F or till golden brown.
sk
Hi.
Will like to know is vanilla essence a must? Thanks.
Rasa Malaysia
It’s optional.
Star
Hi, is kellogg corn flakes considered cereal as per your recipe? Thank you.
Rasa Malaysia
Yes.
Star
Hi, I don’t have bran or cereal, can I use rolling oat? Or if not, can I substitue with more plain flour? If yes, how much? Thank you.
Rasa Malaysia
Hi Star, I don’t recommend any substitute, please follow the recipe.
YC
Can I use cake flour to replace all purpose flour? Will the measurement be the same?
Rasa Malaysia
I am not sure without trying.
mary tonelli
Hello – Your recipe calls for 30 cornflour/cornstarch. There is a huge difference between these two ingredients. Please confirm, which is it? I’d love to give it a try.
Rasa Malaysia
Corn starch.
rosa plevano
Hi Rasa, many compliments for your site! In my country Italy it is very difficult to eat Malaysian food and your recipes are easy and great! In my region, Veneto, we make Zaeti cookies with cornmeal the same flour we use to make polenta. When making your recipe can I use cornmeal or it is important that it be cornstarch? I also add raisins and pinenuts. Thank you!
Rasa Malaysia
You need to use cornstarch. Corn meal is completely different. Thanks for trying this Cornflake cookies recipe.
Baker mum
Can i mix d corbflakes inside the batter by using the same recipr
E. Wld the hidden cornflakes in the cookie crispy also? Pls adv
Rasa Malaysia
I don’t actually understand your questions.
Baker Nate
What Baker Mum probably meant was: Will the cornflakes stay crisp if I mix them into the cookie dough? I actually have the same question too as we have more cornflakes than we can handle right now. Haha! This recipe caught my eye while I was looking for Chinese almond cookie recipes.
Sonja
I recently discovered cornflake cookies in a bakery in Belize, Central America. I”m addicted! Grateful to have found your recipe because the bakery very often sells out completely before i get there. I want to try putting a small depression in the middle and filling it with toasted coconut custard when they cool. I’ll let you know how it works out.
Rasa Malaysia
Awesome, sounds so delish with the toasted coconut. Let me know.
Fressia
Hi, if I want to bake a smaller batch, can I just halve all the ingredients?
Rasa Malaysia
Yes.