This week’s Tuesdays with Dorie recipe from Dorie’s Cookies is one that comes together really easily and has a myriad of possibilities when it comes to “add ins”. These are a baked version of no-bake cornflake treats (I’ve made the “Desert Rose” cookies from Baking Chez Moi which fall into that category), using an egg and agave syrup to bind the mixture together. I didn’t have any agave syrup on hand so I used brown rice syrup which, although is still contains a whackload of sugar, is not too sweet itself. I added cranberries, sweetened shredded coconut, sunflower seeds and milk chocolate to mine and baked for the suggested amount of time (30 minutes).
Letting them cool on the tray, they hardened considerably more than I would have liked (the brown rice syrup contributed to this for sure) so mine were more crunchy than chewy which I would have preferred. I also think next time I might just use honey (and, um, maybe butter) and unsweetened coconut to improve the taste. These were fine but Mr Neil said they tasted “too healthy”. I took them to the staff room and they were polished off in a flash. And noone complained they “tasted too healthy” 😉 Loved the idea of these, will make again in different flavour combinations for sure.
Get the recipe for Dorie’s Chocolate Cornflake Haystacks on p 174 of Dorie’s Cookies.
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i like your mix-ins combo…”too healthy” didn’t come to mind for me, but i did kinda wonder if the cornflakes could be replaced with potato chips. i am so not trying that, but it popped into my brain for a quick second. hahaha
LOL re:potato chips. I think that would be great!
I feel the same as you. Not quite cookie enough somehow. More of a muffin taste maybe? Anyway love that yours are perfectly shaped! Mine are kinda all over the place.
Cookie scoops for the win (re: rounded cookies!)
These weren’t my favorite, but not I’m wondering if I made a mistake, because mine look way more chocolatey than the others I’ve seen today!
Dorie’s looked chocolatey too – not like mine!
I used honey in mine and they got quite dark, but were still chewy.
I’m interested to try that next time!
I used honey in place of agave. I quite liked these, but my big oops was using baking paper frim a $2 shop, so all the cookies stuck to the paper!! Have to peel the cookies to eat them.
Oh boo! I’ll use honey next time too!
Funny my husband said the same thing, too healthy, but of course I disagree they have plenty of sugar. Anyway these were not a hit for me but I am sending them to work.
Oh I know they are FULL of sugar but they “taste” healthy!
Those are pretty and round. I like the idea of the sunflower seeds.
Just used what I had on hand that was nut=-free!