Want to know how to make chocolate cornflake cakes? If you don’t, you should! These delicious naughty chocolate treats are incredibly simple to make, but wonderful to eat. My better half made some last week and the twenty chocolate cornflake cakes vanished within a matter of days. So if you want to cook a lovely treat, why not give these a go?
How to Make the Chocolate Cornflake Cakes
What you need
– A bag or box of cornflakes.
– 300g bar of Milk Chocolate suitable for home baking.
– A large glass bowl.
– Wooden spoon.
– A small saucepan.
– Baking cases (what each cake sits in).
– Cake baking tray (with places for individual cakes to sit).
– Heat prove mat.
Step 1 – Melt the chocolate.
Pour water into a saucepan until it is a quarter full and then bring to a simmer, but not allowing it to boil. Then on your counter break up the chocolate and place into the glass bowl. When the water in the saucepan is simmering, place the bowl on top of the saucepan and stir the chocolate whilst it melts. Remember not to allow the water to boil.
Step 2 – Pour the Cornflakes into the bowl.
Once the chocolate is melted, turn the heat off to the saucepan. Then place the glass bowl onto your heat proof mat. Now pour in the cornflakes in stages, stirring them into the chocolate. Use your best judgment, but don’t be tempted to use too many cornflakes. All the cornflakes need to be thickly covered. My better half used under half a tesco value cornflake bag.
Step 3 – Place in the baking cases.
Put your cake tray on the side, then place baking cases in each slot. Using the wooden spoon place the chocolate cornflakes into the baking cases. Leave them to cool on the side, then once cooled transfer into a box once set and then place into your fridge for a couple of hours.
I think the secret is to store these in the fridge, which probably adds to the chocolate cornflakes cakes being extra solid and crunchy. If you get the mixture of chocolate and cornflakes right, they are quite solid. Hope you enjoy!
Hi Andrew,
what a wonderful Foodie Post that is!:)
I know your Chocolate Cornflake Cakes under a different name: Chocolate Crossies. We use to make them before Christmas. I can remember doing them as a kid and how messy the kitchentable looked like afterwords!! 😀
It was a delight to jump into this memories again thanks to your blog!!:)
Have a wonderful week *Linn*
Hello Linn,
Sorry for the late response. Cheers for the kind words. ‘Chocolate Crossies’ is a funky name. Making them before Christmas sounds like a grand idea, though I can eat them all year round. You should make some again. 🙂
All the best to you and Kai.
Andrew
hi is there any chance you can tell me how many grams of cornflakes i need because i am doing at cake sale on turesday at my school and im going to make these but i need qauntities. 🙂 xxx
Hi Catherine,
Cheers for the comment. First of all I recommend you do a trial run if you’ve never made these before, just so you are comfortable making them, before doing a cake sale.
As mentioned in the instructions, we mix in roughly half a bag of cornflakes, but not too many as they need to be thickly covered.
This would probably be approx 250g of cornflakes to roughly 300g chocolate. I must stress roughly, as a) my better half never cooks more than one tray b) she judges how many cornflakes to use, whilst stirring in the mixture. So whilst I’ve given rough weight for the ingredients, that isn’t how my girlfriend makes the choc cornflakes, she goes by thickness of layer of chocolate on the cornflakes.
So please, please, please don’t hold us responsible for any problems. Plus I recommend a trial run.
I hope you enjoy making the chocolate cornflakes and we wish you the best of luck with the sale. 🙂
All the best
Andrew