My Gramma made all sorts of cookies when we were growing up, but nothing went over as wildly as her Cereal Cookies. They were famous in our neighborhood. Lots of my friends have the recipe now and make the cookies for their kids, which I know would make my gram so happy.
Cereal Cookies
You need:
1 cup softened butter or shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 cups flour
2 eggs
2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 cups Special K cereal, crushed (measure before crushing)
Sift together the dry ingredients. I am assuming this mixes them well? I don’t know, I just follow directions.
I used my mixer to cream together the butter and granulated and brown sugars, but you can definitely do this by hand if the butter is soft (room temp is best). My gramma used to use a hand mixer.
But it’s pretty nice to just stand there and let it do all the work.
Once the butter and sugars are well-mixed, add in the eggs.
Then add in the dry ingredients and mix together again.
Put your cereal into a ziplock bag and smash it up. Annie thought this was particularly interesting.
Mix the cereal into the dough.
A finer photo of me has never been taken.
Roll out the dough by hand into small balls. The dough is pretty sticky, but if it seems runny add a bit more smashed cereal.
Bake at 350 degrees for ten minutes, until the cookies are golden brown.
They are so good right out of the oven, mmm.
My dad hadn’t had cereal cookies in years, and Annie was just excited to have a cookie in general. Cookies are a treat ’round these parts.
They both liked them! Annie has a mouthful of cookie.
I brought a plate of cookies over to my friend Tara – this recipe makes plenty of cookies for sharing. Enjoy!
- 1 cup softened butter or shortening
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 2 cups flour
- 2 eggs
- 2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 cups Special K cereal, crushed (measure before crushing)
- Cream together butter and sugar, then add eggs. Mix well.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix together.
- Add crushed cereal to mix and stir together.
- Form dough into small balls and place on a cookie sheet.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes, until cookies are lightly browned.
Shannon says:
What a unique recipe. And the finished product…well they looked like something out of a cookbook..just perfect!
French Cannes Cannes says:
fingers up! love it! haha
Nanette says:
Yum!
And I just got that dress for Em yesterday. TWINSIES!
Barbara says:
I wonder if this would work with Happy Sun cereal lol I think I am going to try it
Leigh Elliott says:
Great photos and intriguing recipe….I will definitely try them! It looks like your parents spend time with Annie and really enjoy it. I just think that is awesome. My parents live within about 30 minutes from me but don’t spend much time with our daughter. Breaka my heart. Good for them for making that time. They will in turn have a very special relationship with Annie as she grows. Much like it sounds like you had with your grandmother.
Bianca S says:
Great photos!! Annie’s “hey-wait-a-minute” expression while you lick the spoon is priceless!
Sifting means you need to pour the dry ingredients into the bowl from about a foot above the bowl (preferably through a sieve). This means you get more air into the ingredients so that they rise better. As you can probably imagine, this is more helpful when making cake than when making biscuits – so when making biscuits you can probably just mix them :p
The cookies sound really nice – though Special K is quite sweet anyway, plus you’re adding extra sugar, so I’d be more inclined to try them myself using a less sugary cereal, like bran
Charlotte Gall says:
This looks so delicious and the instructions are straightforward.
I will get some top grade butter from the farmer’s market this weekend and give it a try – thank you for the recipe.
Julia says:
There is so much about this post which is priceless. I Love your writing and the photography x
Nikki says:
Yum! I may have to try this over the weekend.
Annie’s “thumbs up” continues to be my favorite part of the post. That kid is awesome.
Rebecca says:
These sound delicious and it looks like Annie either needs a bigger high chair or a place at the big kid table. Wow she’s getting so big and tall!
Mar says:
When adding eggs to creamed butter and sugar, it really helps if the eggs are room temp instead of straight out of the fridge. (not assuming, just a tidbit I recently learned!). These cookies look pretty yummy!
Trish says:
Just made them – YUM!!!! My daughter won’t be home until tomorrow – hope I can keep from eating the whole batch before she gets home!!
Trish says:
UPDATE: My six year old is home and LOVES these cookies!!! They will now be used as tool for bribery. Hey, a mon’s gotta do what a mom’s gotta do!
liezelsy says:
Wow this is great for my daughter it reminds me of the my grandma oatmeal cookies. i might try this for my daughter. Thank you for sharing it.
Tressa says:
Thanks for the fantastic recipe, Heather. My 9 year old daughter and I made them for a school bake sale- they were a hit!
Alexandra says:
I suck at cookie making. Really suck. As in I was asked to never make cookies again(said with love and acknowledgement that everything else I make is amazing). But when you posted this originally I decided to make them and my entire family loved them. They’ve mentioned them periodically but I haven’t made them since. But I told my son last week that if he aced his spelling test I would get him a treat he asked “CAN YOU MAKE CEREAL COOKIES!!! You need Special K for them!!” LOL he even remembered the ingredients! So that was his reward for his great test Had to come here again to look up the recipe so I wanted to drop you a line to say THANKS!!