Cornflake Cherry Cookies

Yes I'm in cookie mode!

Made pineapple tarts on Tuesday and cornflake cookies yesterday!

I enlisted the help of my darling baby boy since he wasn't sleepy yet. Junior was glad to help!

Junior trying his best to drop the dough, most of the time failing haha. But I let him continue still and rearranged them later.

I love my mum's cornflake cookie recipe so I tried to get it from her. Sadly the recipe isn't complete as there's no measurement for flour. In her words, as long as can drop off the spoon can oredi. Like how vague is that!! T_T

So I searched for other recipes trying to see if I can sorta estimate, and yesterday I used only 3 cups flour. Less flour is better than too much flour, but the cookies were quite sweet. Maybe 4 cups could be okay too?

Anyway. Here's the recipe!

Cornflake Cherry Cookies

250g salted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
3 cups flour
1 small box of Kellogg's cornflakes, 275g
diced cherries
diced almonds

Cream butter and sugar together, then adding in the eggs and mix well.
Add the flour until the right consistency and taste, hence that's why I stopped at 3 cups. Didn't dare try 4.
Add in cherries, almonds and cornflakes. Crush the cornflakes as you mix, something Junior loves to do haha!
Spoon batter using a teaspoon, drop them onto the pan with 1 inch apart from each other.
Depending how you want the cookies to be (all crunchy or slightly chewy centre), bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 14 - 18 minutes.

So colourful! I wanted only red cherries but Junior insisted to pour in the green ones too, hence we have colourful cookies!

All done in 2 and a half hours :) Started at 9pm and ended at 11.30 and I wasn't tired. I guess you won't be tired doing something you love. Yay! So cookies for my home is settled! Made 2 types, ordered 2 types. Am planning to do one more batch of pineapple tarts to give my parents and in-laws. And maybe another one for the house judging by how fast stock is depleting -_-"

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