These delicious cookies have oats, coconut, pecans, corn flakes, and icing!
With an electric or stand mixer, cream butter and brown sugar together until light and fluffy.
Add the egg, and beat well, until combined.
Add the flour, baking powder, and baking soda, and stir on low to combine.
Add the oats, coconut, pecans, and corn flakes; mix on low until combined. (If using an electric hand mixer, stir them in with a rubber spatula.) The dough will be stiff.
Use a medium (1.5-tablespoon or #40) cookie scoop or two spoons to portion dough onto a parchment- or silicone mat-lined cookie sheet, about 2 inches apart. You'll get 12 cookies per sheet.
Use the bottom of a glass dipped in extra crushed corn flakes, or your clean fingers or a plastic spatula, to flatten the dough slightly to an even height.
Bake at 350F for 12-15 minutes, until the edges are a little browned. Immediately make the icing.
Stir together the melted butter, powdered sugar, water, and vanilla.
Brush icing lightly over still-warm cookies. Alternatively, thin icing with another teaspoon or two of water to drizzle over cooled cookies.
Store cooled cookies in an airtight container at room temperature.
I used quick oats or old-fashioned rolled oats. Instant and steel-cut oats won't work.
I use sweetened shredded coconut; you can use unsweetened coconut, but I recommend you double the icing.
You can use frosted corn flakes instead of regular corn flakes, but your cookies will be sweeter.
Icing is NOT optional for these cookies, and I say that as someone who's not always keen on icing. If you're an icing lover, you can double the icing recipe just as my friend Karen does.
12 minutes baking time makes a chewy cookie; 14-15 minutes makes a darker one with more crunch.
You can play around with the mix-ins and substitute them as you'd like. To accommodate a nut allergy, I recommend replacing the pecans with an extra 1 cup oats, crushed cornflakes, or a mix of the two, which has worked successfully for me.
Recipe adapted from one of my friend Karen's childhood favorite recipes