RECIPES | Cookies, Bars & Brownies
Sierra Nuggets
These cookies are loaded with spices, nuts, corn flakes and oats (and a bit of coconut, too!), making for an unexpectedly delicious treat with a treasure in every bite. Make as cookies or timesaving bars.
- Difficulty
- 1/3
- Working time
- 40 minutes
- Yield
- 7 dozen 2-inch cookies
- ContainsRecipe contains
- Tree Nuts, Gluten, Eggs, Dairy
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cupsUnsifted all-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 tspBaking soda
- 1 tspSalt
- 1/2 tspMace
- 1 1/2 tspCinnamon
- 1/4 tspNutmeg
- 1/8 tspPowdered cloves
- 1 cupButter, softened
- 1 cupFirmly packed Brown Sugar
- 1 1/2 cupsGranulated sugar
- 3 tbspMilk
- 1 1/2 tspVanilla
- 2Large eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 cupCorn flakes (dry, not crumbled)
- 3 cupsRolled oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked)
- 1 cupShredded coconut
- 2 cups (12 ounces)Guittard Real Milk or Semisweet Chocolate Chips
- 1 cupPine nuts, peanuts or chopped walnuts
Method
- 1
Lightly grease cookie sheets. Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- 2
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Set aside.
- 3
In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until smooth. Add milk, vanilla and beaten eggs and mix well. One at a time, stir in corn flakes, oats, dry ingredients, coconut, chocolate chips and nuts, just until each addition is incorporated.
- 4
Drop dough by well-rounded teaspoonfuls onto greased cookie sheets. Bake for 10-12 minutes; let stand 2 minutes before removing from cookie sheets.
- 5
Sierra Nuggets Pan Cookies: Prepare dough as directed. Spread evenly in greased 15x10x1- inch pan. Bake at 350ºF for 20-25 minutes. Cool before cutting into 35 two-inch bars.
