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Butterfinger-Inspired Cookies

Soft and chewy peanut butter cookies filled with crunchy cornflakes and drizzled with dark chocolate.

Course Dessert
Keyword butterfinger inspired cookies, vegan dessert recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 12 minutes
Total Time 27 minutes
Servings 12 cookies
Author Taavi Moore

Ingredients

Cornflakes

  • 1 ½ cups (75g) cornflakes
  • ¼ cup (64g) natural creamy, unsalted peanut butter
  • ¼ cup (85g) maple syrup
  • Pinch of flaky sea salt

Peanut Butter Cookies

  • ½ cup room temperature vegan butter
  • ½ cup (128g) creamy natural, unsalted peanut butter
  • ¾ cup (150g) granulated sugar
  • ¼ cup (55g) packed brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp unsweetened, plain non-dairy milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 ½ cups (204g) all-purpose flour
  • ½ tsp baking soda
  • ½ tsp kosher salt
  • ¼ tsp baking powder
  • ½ cup dark chocolate chips, for topping

Instructions

Cornflakes

  1. In a small saucepan over medium heat, whisk together the peanut butter, maple syrup, and salt until well combined. Remove from heat and stir in cornflakes until well saturated. Set aside to cool.

Cookies

  1. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.

  2. In the bowl of a stand mixer with a paddle attachment on medium-low speed, cream together the room temp. butter, peanut butter, and sugars until light and fluffy (about 3-4 minutes). On low speed, beat in the milk and vanilla extract.

  3. Add flour, baking soda and powder, and salt. Combine on low speed until a soft dough forms. You may need to stir it with a spoon so the dough comes together – sometimes the paddle attachment won't press the dough together all the way. Fold in the cooled cornflakes.

  4. Use a ~1 ½ tbsp cookie dough scoop to portion dough onto prepared baking sheet (~8 cookies per sheet). Bake for 12-14 minutes until tops are lightly golden. Let cookies cool for 10 minutes before transferring to a wire cooling rack.

  5. Melt chocolate in microwave in 15 second intervals. Drizzle chocolate over cooled cookies. Enjoy!