Healthy No-Bake Cornflakes Cookies (2024)

Healthy no-bake cornflakes cookies are easy, crunchy sweet treats 100% refined sugar-free, dairy-free, and vegan with no baking required!

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Everyone loves chewy, sweet, and crunchy cornflakes cookies.

They bring back childhood memories for me, and my kids love this healthier version made with only five simple ingredients.

What Are No-Bake Cornflake Cookies?

The authentic no-bake cornflake cookie recipe is an easy recipe made with sugar, peanut butter, cornflakes, and corn syrup.

It’s not a healthy cookie recipe since it contains lots of added refined sugar and, for most recipes, sweetened cornflakes cereals.

My recipe below is an adaptation of the classic cornflake cookie recipe, made healthier using two times less sugar by choosing the best wholesome ingredients, including unsweetened cereals, natural peanut butter, and a refined sugar-free sweetener.

How To Make No-Bake Cornflakes Cookies

All you need to make a healthy cornflake cookie recipe are five wholesome ingredients.

Ingredients

Let me share with you how to choose them:

• Cornflakes – look for no-sugar-added cornflakes. Some also have a boost of iron or vitamin B12. It’s the best choice if you are vegan, as these treats will also bring you great nutrients.
• Maple Syrup – Maple Syrup or agave syrup. They and the best-refined sugar-free sweeteners for vegans.
• Peanut Butter – choose natural peanut butter with no added sugar and no added vegetable oil. The ingredients listed should only be peanuts and eventually salt.Find out how to pick vegan peanut butter.
• Coconut Oil – Coconut oil is the secret ingredient in any healthy no-bake cookie recipe! Don’t replace it with any other oil. Coconut oil firms up under 73°F (23°C), and it’s the ingredient that holds the cookies in shape and adds a chewy texture. If you don’t like coconut flavor, you can use refined coconut oil for this recipe. It has no coconut flavor but the same properties.
• Vanilla Extract

This is the easiest no-bake peanut butter cornflakes cookies ever!

All you have to do is combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients, and your cookie dough is ready to be used!

Combining Liquid Ingredients

First, add all the liquid ingredients into a large saucepan: peanut butter, maple syrup, coconut oil, and vanilla.

Cook and constantly stir under medium heat until it forms a smooth peanut butter mixture.

You can also use a large microwave-safe bowl, microwave the ingredients for 30 seconds, stir and repeat until smooth.

Stirring In Dry Ingredients

Remove from the heat and stir your gluten-free cornflakes.

If you love chocolate cookies, you can add 1 or 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder at this stage, preferably unsweetened cocoa powder or the cookies will be too sweet.

Shaping The Cornflakes Cookies

Before shaping the cookies, prepare a plate covered with a sheet of parchment paper.

]Then, use a tablespoon to scoop out the cookie batter and drop it onto the plate.

Don’t make bigger cookies, or they won’t hold as well. One tablespoon of batter per cookie is what I found the best ratio.

Freezing the vegan cornflakes cookies

To set these cookies, you must freeze the plate on which you drop the cookie dough. The cold from the freezer solidifies coconut oil and creates crunchy cookies.

Then, transfer the cookies to a sealed container and store them in the freezer.

Just pop them out before serving to prevent them from melting too fast at room temperature.

Taste and Storage

These healthy no-bake peanut butter cookies with cornflakes are refined sugar-free cookies. It means they don’t use white sugar as the authentic cornflake cookie recipe.

As a result, their texture is very soft, and they melt easily at room temperature.

That is why you must store these cookies in:

• Fridge – for soft, chewy cookies.
• Freezer – eat them straight out of the freezer for a crunchy cookie.

Are Frosted Flakes Vegan?

Yes, most frosted flakes are vegan. Always double-check the ingredient list. The packaging shouldn’t show more than two or three ingredients, including:

• Cornflakes
• Sugar
• Added vitamins like B12

Note that for these no-bake cornflakes cookies, it’s recommended to use unfrosted cornflakes to avoid the added sugar.

Have you made these cornflakes cookies? Share your feedback below. I love to read your comments on my recipes!

Your friend, Carine