Chinese New Year Chocolate Cornflakes Clusters (No Bake) – These super easy no-bake Asian Western fusion sweet treats are popular in some parts of Southeast Asia for Chinese New Year celebration. Made with only 3 ingredients!
These No-Bake Chinese New Year Chocolate Cornflakes Clusters is probably one of the easiest Chinese New Year’s sweets I’ve ever made!! Kids love these Chocolate Cornflakes Clusters! I remember liking these as a kid too. Not so much now though as an adult 🙂
All you need are chocolate and cornflakes cereal! It’s very obvious that these aren’t Asian origin 🙂 I’m not sure how it gets so popular as one of the CNY cookies though! Another popular version is the non-chocolate, usually coated with honey.
These are REALLY easy to make! and I know some people make them for Christmas too. I like to wait until the melted chocolate cools down a little bit before I stir in the cornflakes. I find that these really help to keep the cornflakes crispy longer!
The little guy wanted to be included in the photo too!!!!
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Please weigh ingredients with a digital kitchen scale instead of using measuring cups as they are not very accurate especially when it comes to recipe that requires precision.
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup Milk chocolate or dark chocolate - about 175 gr
- 1/2 cup cornflakes - about 25 gr
- 1 Tbsp chunky or smooth peanut butter - optional, about 20 gr
- Nonpareil - for decoration
INSTRUCTIONS
- You can either melt the chocolate in the microwave or use a double boiler. Microwave the chocolate for about 30 seconds. If using a double boiler, melt the chocolate over low heat until it's melted. Stir in the peanut butter and mix
- I wait for about 15-20 minutes until the chocolate is not too hot before I stir in the cornflakes. The cornflakes will stay crispy so much longer this way
- After 20 minutes, stir in the cornflakes until all is coated. Scoop into mini muffin cups, sprinkles with nonpareil and let the chocolate solidify. Keep in an air-tight container. Depending on humidity, but here they can stay crispy for weeks
Other Chinese New Year recipes you might like:
Chinese New Year Cookies & Cakes
Chinese New Year Meals
8 comments
Ahh! I love this one! My mom would normally also put chopped raisin and cashew nuts!
It brings lots of memories!
Hi Linda,
That’s a great variety to add raisin and cashew!! I bet it’s delicious.
Hi Marv, nice to find your blog. Like this recipe, simple yet yum!!! Need to ask you regarding one of the ingredients from the recipe, there’s peanut butter there. Yet you didn’t say when to mix, could you please enlight me? Thank you 🙂
Hi Loisa,
Sorry for leaving that out! I’ve updated the recipe. You stir the peanut butter in after the chocolate is melted. Hope that helps! Let me know if anything is unclear! Thank you for stopping by 🙂
Hi,
Are you able to provide the weight in grams for the ingredients? Thank you 😊
Hi Alison, I’ve updated the recipe in grams.
Hi How many cups of cornflake clusters are made ?
Hi Shelly, this makes roughly about 25 clusters