Crunchy Butter Cornflakes Cookies

Chinese New Year is just round the corner and this is my first year baking CNY cookies, therefore I have been sourcing for recipes and trying out to find the nicest ones. Have tried 2 butter cornflakes recipe and I am happy that I have finally found the recipe which I like and is super addictive to it.

The original recipe is Cranberry Cornflakes Cookies but I have omitted the cranberry as my nephew is still young to eat too much of cranberries. In addition, I have also modified the recipe a bit.

Ingredients:
(makes 77-80 pcs)

120g Salted Butter, cut into cubes soften at room temperature
50g Icing Sugar
2 egg yolks, lightly beaten
135g Top Flour/ Plain Flour
30g Corn Flour
100g + 100g Cornflakes (Coarsely Crushed)

Method:

1. Place 100g cornflakes in a plastic bag. Crush them with your fingers into smaller pieces, do not crush too finely. Set aside. Do this for another 100g of cornflakes but into another plastic bag.
2. Place salted butter in a mixing bowl. Shift over the icing sugar. Beat the butter and icing sugar till the mixture turns pale.
3. Whisk as you dribble in the egg yolks, whisk till combine.
4. Shift over plain flour and corn flour. With a spatula, fold the mixture until the flour is incorporated.
5. Add in cornflakes. Mix with spatula till combined.
6. Arrange mini paper liners, evenly spaced, on a baking tray.
7. Measure 7g doughs and rolled them in a plate of 100g crushed cornflakes. Place each into a mini paper liner. (Note: It is not necessary to shape the dough into a smooth round ball, just roughly gather it into a lump. These cookies can be baked without using paper liners, arrange them evenly spaced on a baking tray lined with parchment paper. They don't expand much after baking.)
8. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 deg C for about 25 mins until lightly golden. (Note: all ovens behave differently, do keep a close watch near 20 mins of baking time to prevent the cookies from over browning. Turn the tray around half way, when necessary.)
9. Remove from oven and transfer to a cooling rack, leave to cool completely before storing in air tight containers. (Note: When the cookies are still warm, the cornflakes may taste a little chewy/soft, but it will turn crispy after cooling.)

Original Recipe adapted from Little Cookies Earn Big $