Cornflake Cookies
Many of you may remember these deliciously chewy peanut butter cornflake cookies from your childhood. If they don’t immediately ring a bell, the first bite might fix that! They are super easy to make and a nice break from your standard cookie as they are made on the stovetop. If you’d like to jump right to the recipe just scroll down to see the printable recipe card. But if you want a step by step tutorial scroll from here.
Now Let’s Make Cornflake Cookies:
An ole fashioned recipe that my husband’s grandmother used to make for him.
To make this old fashioned Cornflake Cookie recipe, the ingredients you’ll need are:
- Sugar
- Clear corn syrup (usually sold as Karo) or Light Colored Honey or Maple syrup
- Smooth peanut butter
- Cornflakes
How To Make Cornflake Cookies with Peanut Butter Step by Step
- Tear off two large sheets of waxed paper (about 12 x 16 each) and spray lightly with cooking spray. Set aside on a table or countertop.
- Place sugar and karo syrup (or light honey, or maple syrup) in a large pot over medium high heat. Stir constantly as it comes to a boil. As soon as it comes to a boil, remove from heat.
- Immediately stir in peanut butter until smooth.
- Pour entire box of cornflakes in and stir rapidly until coated.
Like this.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto greased waxed paper and allow to cool completely before storing in airtight container.
- These are so chewy and good! All of your peanut butter lovers will flip and those who remember these from their childhood might even tear up a bit after the first bite!
Enjoy! (you will)
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar or Swerve
- 1 + 1/2 cup clear Karo syrup or honey or maple syrup
- 2 cups smooth peanut butter
- 12 ounce box cornflakes unsweetened
Instructions
- Tear off two large sheets of waxed paper (about 12 x 16 each) and spray lightly with cooking spray. Set aside on a table or countertop.
- Place sugar and syrup in a large pot over medium high heat. Stir constantly as it comes to a boil. As soon as it comes to a boil, remove from heat.
- Immediately stir in peanut butter until smooth. Pour entire box of cornflakes in and stir rapidly until coated.
- Drop by spoonfuls onto greased waxed paper and allow to cool completely before storing in airtight container.
Notes
Nutrition
Can I Freeze Cornflake Cookies?
Yes as a matter of fact they should be stored in the freezer to keep their shape.
You may like these other no bake recipes:
Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls No Baking Necessary
Low Carb Chocolate No Bake Cookies
Peanut Butter No Bake Cookie Bites
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I have all the ingredients in my pantry! Hubby loves peanut butter so he will love these!
I remember when I was young many of my friend’s Mom’s would make these – they were so good. My Mom always made a Cornflake cookie using marshmallow cream / butter/ vanilla / and a lot of green food coloring – she made them in little mounds so they looked like holly and added red hots to look like berries. I still remember the first time she made them – she sent my brother and I down stairs to the “rec” room to watch Charlie Brown Christmas and told us at the end of the show she would have a special treat for us. We loved how they turned our lips green eating them.
This is fairly simple recipe that I would like to try over the holidays.
Cornflake Chewies is what I called them. I made them so much when my kids were little that I don’t think they knew that corn flakes could go in a bowl for breakfast.
Here’s a great quote: Food tastes better when the wife is happy. Told to me by a man from Virginia. His first name is Wade. Love your recipes! They are easy, quick and very inexpensive. Thank you so much for taking the time to share them, my family thanks you as well!
What does this mean, please?……
“1+ ½ cup clear Karo syrup”
Does it mean add “one and a half cups” of syrup to the sugar? Or does it mean add “one cup of syrup to the sugar and do something different with the other half cup” ??
Showing it like “1+ ½ cup” is very confusing because no other recipes are shown like that. You usually see it written as just “1 ½ cup” and be done with it. So please kindly explain if the “+” means something OTHER than just one and a half cups of syrup added to the sugar — or if the syrup is supposed to be split up into ONE cup, and then the extra HALF cup is supposed to be for something else (and if so, then what?). Thank you.
Hey Moxie, it means one and a half cups of Karo syrup. I understand what you are saying and in a perfect world that way of writing it would work, but here in internet land I have had many people ask if I meant 11 cups when I write it 1 1/2, and so I add the plus sign for clarity. This is actually the first time I’ve had a question about the plus sign but I promise, I’ve had far more eleven cup questions. 🙂 You’ll find just about all of my recipes have the plus sign there so I guess I disqualify the statement that “no other recipes are written like that”. I’m just a rebel! 🙂
Have a great day!
Well, the rebel in me honors the rebel in you! 😀 Typically, I usually see the term “one and a half” just typed as “1-1/2” but to each her own. Thank you for clarifying it for me though! So, you must excuse me now while I RUSH OFF TO MAKE THESE YUMMY SINFUL THINGS! LOVE IT!
Girrrrrrl you and me, together, we could take over this world and have a ball doing it!!! I hope you enjoyed them! Thank you for coming back and making my night a little brighter!
I have been making these for years at Christmas! My grown kids still love them. Only thing different is I add a teaspoon of vanilla right before I add the peanut butter.
I love that you still make them for your “kids”!