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Why You’ll Love My Recipe

Chewy, fluffy, and sweet, these retro Chocolate Corn Flake Meringues deserve to grace your snack table this holiday season. They may even become a lifelong family favourite.

If you’d like to try another retro treat, check out this Original Ambrosia Salad (Nana’s 5 Cup Salad) or this Retro Strawberry Fluff. For a simpler meringue cookie, make some of The Perfect Meringue Cookies.

Reader Review

The perfect Christmas treat
My mother used to make these for our family every Christmas back in 1955! I have been making these for my family and now my kids are making these treats for their friends. They are light, sweet, crunchy /chewy with a little chocolate. Everybody loves these and the green and red makes them a beautiful festive treat -visually but they take away from the perfect taste of the meringue-oon (meringue + macaroon)

– Kerry

Karlynn’s Recipe Notes

Skill Level: This is an easy recipe, especially if you’re already familiar with making meringues.
Total Time: Making these cookies will take you about 40 minutes from start to finish.
Variations: Try using white chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, or peanut butter chips in these cookies. You could also add some festive sprinkles or glittery sugar for extra flair. Try coconut extract instead of vanilla if you’d like to boost the coconut taste.
Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a stand mixer or a hand mixer and large bowl, an egg separator, some parchment paper, and a couple of large cookie sheets.

A plate and a cake stand hold clusters of chocolate chip cookies topped with red and green candied cherries. Colorful Christmas ornaments and festive holiday decorations surround the scene.

What You’ll Need For Ingredients

Corn Flakes: No need for the brand name cereal here. Any similar flaked corn cereal will work for this recipe. here are numerous generic alternatives available in most grocery stores.

Coconut: Flaked coconut will work best for this recipe, but if you can only find shredded that should work too. You would probably want to stick to small shreds rather than large ones, unless you really like huge strands of coconut in your cookies.

Chocolate Chips: This recipe calls for semi-sweet chocolate chips in particular, but feel free to change it up. Try dark chocolate for a bit more bite, or milk chocolate for creaminess. Or use any other baking chips you’d like.

A top-down view of various baking ingredients in green bowls, including chocolate chips, two eggs, cornflakes, flour, shredded coconut, red and green candied cherries, vanilla extract, and a small bowl of sugar.

How To Make Chocolate Meringue Corn Flake Cookies

This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.

Preheat oven to 300°F and line a large baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a stand mixer or large bowl, beat the egg whites until they form stiff peaks.
Beat in the sugar slowly, until the mixture is smooth and shiny. Beat in the vanilla and salt.
By hand, gently mix in the coconut, corn flakes, and chocolate chips until they’re coated evenly.
Drop by tablespoons onto the prepared baking sheet. Space them one inch apart.
Bake for 25-30 minutes.

A plate of holiday cookies topped with chocolate chips and red and green candied cherries, displayed on a light green cake stand with festive decorations and ornaments in the background.

Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Chocolate Meringue Corn Flake Cookies

Dried Out: These cookies are meringue-based, which means they dry in the oven rather than really baking. So, since the moisture level of the air changes depending where you are in the world, you’ll need to pay close attention to these as they bake. If the climate where you live is quite dry, your cookies may be ready a few minutes earlier. If you live somewhere with more moisture, you may have to give your cookies extra time to fully dry.

Cherry on Top: Candied cherries are colourful and fun, but not everyone enjoys them. If you’d rather skip them for this recipe, that’s absolutely fine. You can add some festive colour with sprinkles, or maybe even some dried cranberries instead.

Storage Instructions

Once these cookies are fully cooled, you can store them in a sealed container, between layers of parchment paper, at room temperature for up to 5 days.

With the same layering in a sealed container, you can freeze them for up to 3 months.

Are you looking for more variety to add to your snack trays this holiday season?

Try some Gingersnap Cookie Bars With Cream Cheese Buttercream Icing or a classic Old Fashioned Gingerbread.

Make a batch of Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies or 3 Ingredient Christmas Fudge for easy bite-sized treats.

There we go. Another easy and delicious recipe. Try making these chewy cookies for your next holiday party and let me know what you think.

Happy Baking!

Karlynn