Fruity Pebbles cookies are so enjoyable, colourful, and fruity (after all!). We’ll add a cereal milk glaze to present them a connoisseur, bakery-style look! Recipe features a how-to video.

Enjoyable Fruity Pebbles Cookies
Whereas I’m not personally an enormous cereal individual on the subject of breakfast (we choose scrambled eggs or French toast round right here), I do love including them to my desserts! These Fruity Pebbles cookies are huge, thick, gourmet-style cookies with tender, comfortable facilities and pops of crunchy cereal. The glaze on prime is made with cereal milk (like my Fruity Pebbles frosting!), and the ultimate product is simply so enjoyable and colourful!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Straightforward to make regardless of being connoisseur. In case you don’t thoughts one thing a little bit extra concerned however equally enjoyable and spectacular, you need to strive my blueberry muffin cookies subsequent!
- Distinct Fruity Pebbles taste. We’ll add the cereal to the cookie dough, within the glaze, and as a ornament. We’ll additionally skip the vanilla extract and use lemon as an alternative, which actually boosts the fruity taste as nicely.
- Solely Half-hour of chilling. Or you possibly can hold the dough coated within the fridge for just a few days when you don’t really feel like baking the identical day.
- Tender, chewy texture, because of cake flour. I first experimented with including cake flour to my Lofthouse Cookies and beloved the tender outcomes. I do embrace notes for utilizing all-purpose flour under, if that’s all you may have.
What You Want
Let’s overview just a few of the elements in in the present day’s recipe, simply in case you may have substitution questions.

- Fruity Pebbles. The star of the recipe! You’ll want roughly 1 ¼ cups of cereal for this recipe. If it is advisable to deplete extra of your cereal, strive my Fruity Pebbles macarons!
- Cake flour. Cake flour is greatest for a young and comfortable texture. All goal flour will work in a pinch, however it isn’t an excellent substitute when you measure with cups. I talk about this in additional element within the recipe card under.
- Softened butter. Use unsalted butter and be sure to don’t let it soften an excessive amount of, or your Fruity Pebbles cookies can be flatter than meant. Usually, softened butter nonetheless has a little bit of a chill to it; when you use a thermometer, it ought to be about 68F.
- Lemon extract. We’re not utilizing vanilla extract in the present day–that is intentional. I discovered that including vanilla diminished the fruity taste of the cereal. As a substitute, we’ll use a tiny little bit of lemon extract, which provides the cookie an all-over fruity taste and works rather well.
- Milk. I take advantage of entire milk within the cereal milk glaze, since that’s what I hold available. I think different milks would work too, however you could not want so as to add fairly as a lot relying on how skinny the milk is. Be aware that utilizing different milks with a stronger taste like coconut milk could change the flavour of the glaze (however, additionally? That sounds scrumptious).
SAM’S TIP: I like to interrupt up a number of the cereal items earlier than including them to the dough. That is non-obligatory, however I like how the smaller flecks look all through and like the feel this fashion!
Bear in mind, that is simply an outline of the elements I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the submit!
The way to Make Fruity Pebbles Cookies
Cookies

- Cream the butter and sugar with an electrical mixer till fluffy.
- Stir within the eggs and extract till nicely mixed, then put aside.
- Mix the dry elements in a separate bowl, then step by step add them to the moist elements. It is a dry dough, so it’s essential so as to add the dry elements step by step (I do that in 4 elements). In case you have been so as to add them abruptly, your dough could be very tough to work with.
- Fold within the Fruity Pebbles, then cowl and chill the dough.

- Roll giant scoops of dough between your palms earlier than inserting on parchment lined baking sheets. You’ll be able to simply drop the cookies instantly on the baking sheet, however they give the impression of being neater and extra uniform when you roll them first.
- Bake till the bottoms begin to flip gentle golden brown, then take away and let cool utterly earlier than adorning.
Glaze

- Make the cereal milk by steeping the cereal within the milk. Pressure and discard the cereal after 20-Half-hour, saving the milk.
- Whisk splashes of milk into the powdered sugar till you may have a thick glaze. You could not use all the milk.
- Drizzle glaze over a cookie, then instantly beautify with further crushed cereal if desired. Repeat with the remaining cookies, then take pleasure in!
SAM’S TIP: The glaze companies up quick, so it’s greatest to embellish one cookie at a time! In case you add the glaze to your entire cookies directly, the cereal ornament on prime gained’t stick!

Ceaselessly Requested Questions
Due to their dimension, these cookies take fairly a little bit of time to chill and arrange after baking, often an hour or so. In consequence, when you dig into them whereas they’re nonetheless heat, they might seem underdone within the facilities. That is regular and intentional! In case you have been to bake the cookies right through within the oven (versus ending on their baking sheets outdoors the oven), they wouldn’t be as comfortable and tender.
You don’t must, however I extremely advocate you do! The glaze isn’t only for seems; it provides a whole lot of taste (and offers the additional, ornamental cereal one thing to stay to!).
Whereas I haven’t tried it, I believe this recipe would work nicely with one other cereal of an analogous texture (cocoa pebbles, perhaps?). In case you experiment with completely different recipes, I’d like to know the way it works for you!

In case you love cereal-themed desserts, it is advisable to strive my peanut butter rice krispie treats subsequent!
Take pleasure in!
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Fruity Pebbles Cookies
Servings: 14 cookies
Energy: 404kcal
Elements
Cereal milk glaze (this quantity provides us 3 Tbsp of infused milk)
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Directions
For the cookies
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Mix butter and sugar in a big mixing bowl and use an electrical mixer (or a stand mixer with paddle attachment) to beat collectively till gentle, fluffy, and well-creamed (about 2 minutes on excessive pace).
1 cup (226 g) unsalted butter, 1 ½ cups (300 g) granulated sugar
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Add eggs and lemon extract and stir till nicely mixed.
2 giant eggs, ½ teaspoon lemon extract
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In a separate, medium-sized mixing bowl, whisk collectively cake flour, baking powder, baking soda, and desk salt.
4 cups (450 g) cake flour, 1 ½ teaspoons baking powder, ¼ teaspoon baking soda, ¾ teaspoons desk salt
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With mixer on low-speed step by step stir the dry elements into the moist till utterly mixed.
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Add Fruity Pebbles and use a spatula to softly fold into the dough till nicely included.
1 cup (46 g) Fruity Pebbles cereal
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Cowl bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for at the least Half-hour and as much as 2 days. When almost able to bake, start preheating oven to 375F (190C) and line a number of baking sheets with parchment paper.
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Scoop ¼ cup (75g) of dough per cookie and roll into spherical balls between your palms (or simply drop on the baking sheet, I simply choose the extra uniform look of the rounded cookies!). Area cookies at the least 2” (5cm) aside on ready baking sheet.
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Switch to heart rack of 375F (190C) preheated oven and bake for 11-12 minutes. Cookies can be pale when completed baking however close to the underside they are going to be turning a light-weight golden brown.
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Permit cookies to chill on baking sheet for at the least 10 minutes earlier than transferring to cooling rack to chill utterly earlier than adorning. You’ll be able to start getting ready the cereal milk whereas the cookies are cooling.
For the cereal milk glaze:
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Pour milk over cereal in a small dish and let sit for 20-Half-hour.
¼ cup (12 g) Fruity Pebbles cereal, ¼ cup (60 ml) entire milk
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Pour by a positive mesh strainer right into a measuring cup, utilizing a spatula to press as a lot milk from the cereal as doable. Discard strained cereal. (If the cookies aren’t but cool sufficient to embellish, you possibly can cowl the cereal milk and refrigerate till prepared to make use of).
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Pour the powdered sugar right into a small mixing bowl and step by step whisk within the cereal milk, a splash at a time, till you may have a thick glaze that ribbons easily off the whisk and holds its form for a number of seconds earlier than dissolving again into the bowl. You could not want all the cereal milk, or when you want extra you possibly can simply use a splash of standard milk.
1 ½ cups (190 g) powdered sugar
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Drizzle glaze over cookies and, if desired, instantly sprinkle with further crushed Fruity Pebbles. Permit glaze to set earlier than serving.
Extra Fruity Pebbles for adorning
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Be aware that cookies will look underdone within the facilities till they’ve cooled utterly, which may take over an hour (they’re completely positive to eat earlier than then, although!).
Notes
Why cake flour
Cake flour yields a extra tender comfortable cookie. It simply labored rather well to present me the outcomes I used to be on the lookout for. You’ll be able to substitute all-purpose flour, you would want 3 ⅔ cups (450g) of all-purpose flour, simply know the cookies gained’t be fairly as comfortable.
Storing
Retailer in an hermetic container at room temperature the place they may hold for as much as 4 days.
Vitamin
Serving: 1cookie | Energy: 404kcal | Carbohydrates: 64g | Protein: 6g | Fats: 15g | Saturated Fats: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 1g | Monounsaturated Fats: 4g | Trans Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 59mg | Sodium: 210mg | Potassium: 58mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 36g | Vitamin A: 536IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 51mg | Iron: 1mg
Dietary info relies on third-party calculations and ought to be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will range based mostly upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
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