Tuesday Dinners

Cereal Cookies

Creating a cookie made for milk.

⏲️ Prep Time
10 minutes

⏲️ Cook Time
15 minutes

🍴 Makes
12

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 cup flour
  • 2 cups cereal

Directions

  1. Cream together the butter and your sugars
  2. Add all the other ingredients to your bowl and mix until combined
  3. Place a dozen cookies on a baking sheet and bake for 15 minutes in a 350 degree oven

Step By Step Directions

Combine room temperature or softened butter in a bowl with your two types of sugar. This process is called creaming, which just helps to incorporate some air your mixture and will give your cookies the signature texture.

Now dump all the rest of your ingredients into the bowl.

For this recipe I used the chocolate version of the very small rocks. Pebbles, if you will, just pebbles made of chocolate. These work well because the size of the cereal is relatively small, if you are working with larger objects, or those that have a hole in the middle you may need to either crush your cereal or add more than two cups worth (maybe two heaping cups).

Mix all the ingredients together.

You should have a fairly uniform mixture at this point, if your dough seems to too dry then I would recommend adding a little milk (more recommended) or water (less recommended) to help things bind.

Turn your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit and scoop out your dough into 12 balls (on in my case disks). You want to leave as much room as your baking tray allows between your dough. If you want to make 24 cookies instead of 12 then feel free, just bake them for a little less time.

I’ve found that 15 minutes gets my cookies to be firm but not burnt, but ovens vary so I would start checking at 12 minutes and adjust accordingly.

Take them out and enjoy. (I would recommend having them with a glass of milk, for old times sake).

Variations

  • You can use any kind of cereal you want in this recipe (although I believe some would taste better than others).
  • If you want a wetter dough add a splash of milk, this will also help turn the dough the color of whatever the cereal is.
  • Replace a half cup of the flour with cocoa powder if you want a chocolate cookie.

Unsolicited Feedback

  • YD: Are you trying to give people cavities? Because this is how you give people cavities.
  • LK: I really like cereal, so the fact that this has cereal, let along chocolate cereal is great, really, really great. Can you tell my mom about this recipe, please, please, can you? Actually, no, don’t. She said I’m supposed to be having less sugar, because sugar is bad for you, but this doesn’t have sugar in it, does it? Or at least not that much, because cereal is what we eat in the morning, and that makes it healthy, right? Or is it the milk that we have with it that makes it healthy? Maybe if it wasn’t chocolate cereal then it would be healthy, right? So can you tell my mom about this recipe but not with chocolate cereal?
  • LK’s Mom: You gave my kid what kind of cookie?