Frosted Flakes Maple Cookies
If you enjoy a sweet treat, let me suggest these Frosted Flakes Maple Cookies. The cookies themselves smell like pancakes when they’re baking. Topped with a light buttercream and crunchy flakes, they are a temptation.
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Frosted Flakes Maple Cookies
Syrupy sweet ccokies for the sugar fiend in your life.
Servings: 48 cookies
Calories: 125kcal
Ingredients
Cookie
- 1 cup butter unsalted, room temperature
- 3/4 cup brown sugar packed
- 1 egg
- 1 cup maple syrup
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 3 cup all purpose flour
Buttercream Frosting
- 1/4 cup butter unsalted, room temperature
- 1 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
- 2 tbsp milk
Topping
- 2 cups Frosted Flakes
Instructions
Cookies
- Preheat oven 350°F.
- Cream the butter and add sugar. Stir.
- Add egg and mix.
- Add maple syrup and vanilla. Mix.
- Add flour, soda and salt. Mix.
- Drop by tablespoons onto a cookie sheet and bake until the bottoms turn golden brown, about 8 minutes.
Frosting and Flakes
- Cream the butter and add 1 cup of sugar, whisking while slowly adding the milk. Add the rest of the sugar and mix.
- Frost the cookies after they cool. Sprinkle with frosted flakes and serve immediately as the flakes will become less than crispy if stored overnight.
Nutrition
Sodium: 148mg | Calcium: 14mg | Vitamin C: 1mg | Vitamin A: 182IU | Sugar: 12g | Fiber: 1g | Potassium: 33mg | Cholesterol: 16mg | Calories: 125kcal | Trans Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Fat: 5g | Protein: 1g | Carbohydrates: 19g | Iron: 1mg
Finally, when they got to the Hess, Kylie asked, "Can we split a Reese's?" She had yet to outgrow an unwavering devotion to sugar-- she would pour maple syrup over Frosted Flakes if you turned your head the other way.
If you like this recipe, check out the book that inspired it!
You can buy Two Girls Down (and the sequel, The Janes) here from Amazon or you can also choose to support local bookstores by purchasing it from Bookshop although I highly recommend listening to this book! You can buy the audio version at Libro.fm here.
