Life Cereal Cookies were recommended by my old baking buddy Claire, who found the recipe on a box of Life Cereal. Well, sort of. She got it off a box of the Kroger brand of Life called "Living Well". After reading her review I immediately went to the store and bought some Life.
If you get to the bottom of a box of Life (or Living Well) cereal and want to use the remaining crushed cereal, this recipe is pretty useful. The cookies are very good. They're not too peanut buttery and have an interesting texture from the cereal, which also adds flavor.
A Few Tips for Life (Cereal, That Is)
Chilling the dough keeps them from spreading much, so if you chill the dough you might want to press down the mounds of dough a little. Also, the recipe just calls for "butter" and doesn't call for any salt, so I recommend you use regular butter or use unsalted and add ¼ teaspoon of salt.
Recipe
Life Cereal Cookies
Ingredients
- ½ cup salted butter, softened (114 grams)
- ⅔ cup sugar (130 grams)
- ⅓ cup brown sugar (70 grams)
- ⅓ cup peanut butter (85 grams)
- 1 large egg
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ¼ cups all-purpose flour (160 grams)
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 1 ½ cups Life Cereal (or Living Well, the Kroger brand)
- 1 cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- With an electric mixer, beat the butter, sugars and peanut butter together in a large mixing bowl.
- Add egg and vanilla and beat until mixed, scraping side of the bowl as needed.
- Stir together flour and baking soda and add to make a soft dough, then stir in cereal and chocolate chips.
- Drop gobs of dough onto an ungreased or parchment lined baking sheet (or use a cookie scoop).
- Bake for 8-10 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.
Anna says
Hi Dawn,
Thanks for taking the time to share your results and thoughts. I haven't made these in a while, but next time I have some Life I'll make a batch. Good luck with the new version, and let me know how they turn out. I've found that extra flour usually makes cookies a little less crunchy. The extra peanut butter may cause little less crunch too. Have you tried flourless Monster Cookies? If you are looking for really crunchy cookies, Monster Cookies are good. You could even try throwing some Life cereal in with the oats just for kicks. https://www.cookiemadness.net/2020/01/06/bird-bakery-monster-cookies/
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Dawn Roberts says
I just made a batch of these cookies - quite tasty! However, I was surprised that the cereal didn't have more crunch to it. The next time I make them, I am going to increase the peanut butter to 1/2 cup (I used crunchy and liked the texture of it)and decrease the white sugar to 1/2 cup (the sugar definitely came through). I also increased the flour by 1/2 cup just to make them a little more "perfect" looking, and they were!! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Mackenzie @ The Caramel Cookie says
Putting cereal in cookies means you can eat more because they are "healthy" :).
Katrina says
I saw those on Claire's blog, too. Hers and yours both look like a great cookie. Love putting cereal in cookies. Next time we have some Life I'd like to try these.
Emily says
Mmm sounds good. I've always loved Life cereal.
claire says
Ooo...I'm honored! You're right, they weren't overly peanut buttery but the combination of PB and the extra flavor and crunch from the cereal makes them fun. I tried some cookies using Chex the other day and they were SUPER crunch, so the Life cereal is definitely better for cookies.
Gloria says
The picture of these cookies look like they should be in a magazine.
I haven't tried cereal in any baked good yet, but I bet if I ground up something like All bran and added it to brownies, maybe I could call the brownies health-food!
vanillasugar says
that sounds good to me. i used rice kripies in cheese crackers once, but i think everyone has done that. i want to try and use raisin bran in homemade granola bars.
Sue says
I always wondered about putting Life Cereal in cookies but never did it.