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Umbrian Snowflake Cookies

Umbrian Snowflake Cookies - A Family Feast
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Umbrian Snowflake Cookies are tender and crunchy chocolate chip cookies with cornflakes. A sprinkle of confectioners’ sugar looks like fresh snow on top!

Ingredients

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2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups almond flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup granulated sugar

2/3 cup brown sugar

14 tablespoons softened butter (1 stick plus 6 tablespoons)

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

3 whole eggs

2 egg yolks

8 cups cornflakes, divided (buy the 12-ounce box)

1 cup mini chocolate chips

Confectioners’ sugar, for dusting

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
  2. Line three rimmed sheet trays with parchment and set the oven rack in the top third of the oven.
  3. Measure out all-purpose flour, almond flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl and whisk to combine.
  4. In the bowl of a stand mixer with the paddle attachment, cream granulated sugar, brown sugar, softened butter, and extract for five minutes until pale. Scrape and mix again to combine.
  5. With mixer running on low, add in one egg at a time plus the egg yolks, mixing fully before adding the next. Scrape and mix again.
  6. With mixer running on low, slowly add the dry ingredients until combined. Scrape and mix again. Do not overmix.
  7. Crush 2 ¾ cups of cornflakes. Lay out the remaining cornflakes, (not crushed), onto a sheet tray for later.
  8. Add crushed cornflakes, and mini chocolate chips to the mixing bowl and mix with a firm rubber spatula. Mix in by hand until combined.
  9. Use a 1 ½ ounce scoop and scoop out 36 balls and place into the tray with the cornflakes then press into the cornflakes on all sides. Dip the scoop in water between scoops. (Each cookie should be about 1.4 ounces each to yield 3 dozen. I weighed each cookie before rolling in the corn flakes. If you don’t have a kitchen scale, scoop out 36 cookies onto a sheet of parchment paper and move some of the dough between them to equal 36 pieces).
  10. Line up 12 cookies per sheet pan and bake for 18 to 20 minutes*, one pan at a time. Ours took exactly 20 minutes per pan.
  11. Cool on a rack and once cool, dust with powdered sugar and serve.

Notes

*Every oven is different. Check your cookies at the 18-minute mark and adjust timing from there.

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