Cornmeal Cookies
Today, we’re breaking baking boundaries, by turning honey cornbread into Corn Cookies! Witness the sweet revolution as honey cornbread undergoes a metamorphosis into soft, chewy cookies that will have you questioning how a vegetable cookie can be so delicious. Made with cornmeal, a corn cookie is a delightful fusion of savory and sweet flavors that defy conventional baking norms. Let’s break those baking boundaries one crumbly, corny bite at a time!
Sweet Corn Cookies
Why should you give this recipe a whirl, you ask? Well for starters, we Midwesterners have mastered the art of turning everything – and I mean everything – into a corn-infused masterpiece. It’s time to embrace your inner corniness with a dash of fine cornmeal, imparting a crunch that’ll have you feeling like you’re biting into a freshly harvested ear of corn (without the kernels getting stuck in your teeth). And as for the honey, well, let’s just say it’s the golden elixir that transforms these cookies from ordinary to extraordinary. Let these cookies be your ticket to corn nirvana, where every bite is a journey through fields of gold and honey.
Easy Corn Cookie Recipe Ingredients
- Butter: Butter is a delightful addition to any cookie recipe, and serves as the flavor powerhouse that transforms mere dough into a symphony of richness. Its creamy texture and luxurious taste add a velvety mouthfeel and depth of flavor that simply can’t be replicated. Plus, let’s not forget its magical ability to create that perfect golden-brown crust on the edges of your cookies, signaling to the world that they’re ready to be devoured.
- Sugar: Sugar is the sweet seductress of the baking world. Its mission? To send your blood sugar levels skyrocketing to heights unknown, leaving you in a state of blissful sugar-induced euphoria. Forget subtlety – we’re talking about enough sugar to give Willy Wonka a toothache.
- Honey: Honey is the sticky sweetness that takes your cookies from basic to bougie in one drizzle. Its role is to add a touch of sophistication to your dessert while simultaneously sticking to everything it touches, including your fingers, countertops, and hopes of ever having a sugar-free diet.
- Egg: The humble egg, the unsung hero of structural integrity in baking. Its job is to hold your cookie dough together like a culinary superglue, ensuring that your cookies don’t crumble into a sad, pathetic mess.
- Cornmeal: Cornmeal is the gritty, corny sidekick that adds texture and a subtle hint of corniness to your cookies. Its role is to make you feel like you’re chewing on sandy kernels of corn, but in a good way. Who needs smooth, refined flour when you can have coarse, gritty cornmeal?
- Flour: Flour is the reliable workhorse of the baking world. Its purpose is to provide structure, stability, and a sense of normalcy amidst the chaos of sugar, butter, and honey. Without it, your cookies would be nothing more than a sad, doughy mess – a fate too cruel to contemplate.
- Baking Powder: Baking powder is the magical leavening agent that gives your cookies that satisfying rise. Its job is to puff up your dough like a pastry-filled pillow, ensuring that your cookies come out light, fluffy, and ready to be devoured. Without it we’d have flat, lifeless cookies instead of pillowy perfection.
- Salt: Salt is the unsung hero that adds balance and depth of flavor to your cookies. Its mission is to cut through the sweetness like a culinary samurai, bringing harmony to the chaos of sugar, butter, and honey. Plus, it gives your cookies that addictive salty-sweet flavor profile that keeps you coming back for more.
- Vanilla: Vanilla is the delicate flavoring that adds a touch of elegance to your cookies. Its role is to impart a subtle hint of floral sweetness that dances on your taste buds like a sugar-coated ballerina. Plus, it covers up any lingering traces of egginess, because who wants their cookies to taste like breakfast?
Equipment Needed to Make Corn Cookies
Here’s what you’ll need to whip up a batch of delicious corn cookies: (This list includes Amazon affiliate links.)
- Mixing Bowls: What’s baking without a few bowls to mix things up?
- Hand Mixer or Stand Mixer: To cream together the butter, sugar, and other ingredients until light and fluffy.
- Measuring Cups and Spoons: For precise measurements to ensure your cookies turn out just right.
- Spatula: To scrape down the sides of the bowl and ensure all ingredients are fully incorporated.
- Baking Sheets: For baking your cookies to golden perfection in the oven.
- Parchment Paper or Silicone Baking Mats: To prevent your cookies from sticking to the baking sheets.
- Cookie Scoop or Spoon: For portioning out the cookie dough onto the baking sheets.
- Cooling Rack: To allow your cookies to cool properly before devouring them.
- Oven: To bake your cookies to golden perfection.
- Rolling Pin: Optional to use, if you’re rolling out the dough for cut-out cookies.
With these essential tools at your disposal, you’ll be well-equipped to tackle the corny goodness of homemade corn cookies!
How to Make Corn Cookies
Makes about a half dozen cookies per 1x batch.
Corn Cookies
Today, we're breaking baking boundaries, by turning honey cornbread into Corn Cookies! Witness the sweet revolution as honey cornbread undergoes a metamorphosis into soft, chewy cookies that will have you questioning how a vegetable cookie can be so delicious. Made with cornmeal, these cookies are a delightful fusion of savory and sweet flavors that defy conventional baking norms. Let's break those baking boundaries one crumbly, corny bite at a time!
Equipment
Ingredients
- 4 Tablespoons Butter
- ¼ Cup Sugar
- ¼ Cup Honey
- 1 Egg
- ½ Cup Cornmeal
- ½ Cup Flour
- 1.5 teaspoon Baking Powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
- ¾ teaspoon Vanilla
Instructions
- Mix room temperature butter and sugar until smooth. (You can melt the butter if it isn't soft.)4 Tablespoons Butter, ¼ Cup Sugar
- Beat in the egg, vanilla, and honey.¼ Cup Honey, 1 Egg, ¾ teaspoon Vanilla
- Stir in baking powder, salt, cornmeal, and flour (it is easiest to leave the cornmeal flour for last if mixing by hand).½ Cup Cornmeal, 1.5 teaspoon Baking Powder, ½ teaspoon Salt, ½ Cup Flour
- Cover and chill for at least 1 hour. (This step is optional, but it will prevent the cookies from spreading and flatening while baking.)
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Arrange heaping tablespoons full of dough on a cookie sheet (about 2 Tablespoons per cookie). Sprinkle the top with sugar to enhance the appearance and texture.
- Bake on an ungreased cookie sheet, at 400°F for about 11 minutes, until the tops or edges start to turn golden brown.
- Let the corn cookies cool on the baking sheet for 5 minutes, then transfer the cookies to a cooling rack.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition
Nutrition Facts
Corn Cookies
Serving Size
1 Cookie
Amount per Serving
Calories
182
% Daily Value*
Fat
7
g
11
%
Saturated Fat
4
g
25
%
Trans Fat
0.2
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
1
g
Monounsaturated Fat
2
g
Cholesterol
36
mg
12
%
Sodium
279
mg
12
%
Potassium
56
mg
2
%
Carbohydrates
28
g
9
%
Fiber
1
g
4
%
Sugar
15
g
17
%
Protein
3
g
6
%
Vitamin A
205
IU
4
%
Vitamin B1
0.1
mg
7
%
Vitamin B2
0.1
mg
6
%
Vitamin B3
1
mg
5
%
Vitamin B5
0.2
mg
2
%
Vitamin B6
0.1
mg
5
%
Vitamin B12
0.1
µg
2
%
Vitamin C
0.1
mg
0
%
Vitamin D
0.1
µg
1
%
Vitamin E
0.3
mg
2
%
Vitamin K
1
µg
1
%
Calcium
51
mg
5
%
Iron
1
mg
6
%
Magnesium
14
mg
4
%
Phosphorus
60
mg
6
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
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Corn Cookies Recipe Substitute Ingredients
- Gluten Free Corn Cookies: Simply replace the flour with gluten-free flour.
- Milk Bar Corn Cookies: Substitute the 1/4 part cornmeal with corn flour (2 Tablespoons of cornmeal per 1x batch). This alteration will give a distinctive chewy texture.
- Cornmeal vs Corn Flour: Cornmeal will give a grittier texture than corn flour, and will add more corn flavor.
- Blue Corn Cookies: You can purchase blue cornmeal (Amazon affiliate link), or feel free to grind your own blue corn into corn powder to make blue corn cookies. (Blue corn tastes the same as yellow or white corn.)
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