Recipes

Chocolate-Cornflake Cookies (Marens-Kornflexkökur)

November 14, 2014

Icelandic chocolate cornflake cookies — Cornflakes bring a pleasing crunch to these fluffy, chewy chocolate meringues.Ingalls Photography

Cornflakes bring a pleasing crunch to these chewy chocolate meringues, a popular holiday treat in Iceland. This recipe first appeared in our December 2014 issue with the story Northern Lights.

Cornflakes bring a pleasing crunch to these chewy chocolate meringues, a popular holiday treat in Iceland.

Yield: makes 2 1/2 DOZEN

Ingredients

4 egg whites
1 cup sugar
4 ¹⁄₂ oz. semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped
3 cups cornflakes
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Instructions

Heat oven to 300°. Using an electric hand mixer, beat whites while slowly adding sugar until stiff peaks form. Fold in chocolate, cornflakes, and vanilla. Space tablespoon-size amounts of batter 1" apart on parchment paper-lined baking sheets; bake until crisp, about 20 minutes.