Posted October 30, 2023 by: Admin #Kitchen

I’ll cover some optional ingredients in the waffle cookie variations section below.

Tips for the Best Waffle Cookies

Before we dive into variations, let’s go over some tips and tricks.

These will help ensure that your waffle cookies turn out as perfect as possible.

1. Don’t forget to preheat the waffle iron. If you don’t, your first cookies will take much longer to cook and probably won’t be perfect.

2. Don’t forget to grease the waffle iron. Greasing the waffle iron may seem like an obvious step. However, it’s one that many people often forget.

Regular waffles don’t always require a greased waffle iron. Therefore, some people think these cookies don’t either.

If you forget to grease it, though, the cookies will stick and break.

3. Don’t scoop too large dollops of dough. These cookies may look like waffles, but they’re not as light and airy. Instead, they’re rich and dense, just like sugar cookies.

You don’t want to make them too big, or they’ll be too indulgent to eat.

Plus, they can spread into each other if you make them too large.

4. Remove the cookies from the iron while they’re still relatively soft. They will continue to harden as they cool. If you wait too long to remove them, they’ll become too hard as they cool.

Lifting them while they’re still soft makes them easier to handle.

This also ensures that the cookies are soft and fluffy when baked.

Waffle Cookie Variations

These cookies have so many variations, including the dough and toppings.

For example, you can mix in unsweetened cocoa for chocolate waffle cookies.

Additionally, you can add nuts, chocolate chips, or berries to the raw dough.

Here are some other variations to try:

• Drizzle them with maple syrup instead (or in addition to) powdered sugar.
• Drizzle or dip them in melted chocolate, caramel, or fruit topping.
• Experiment with the extracts you use for flavoring. You don’t have to strictly stick to vanilla.
• Add food coloring to the dough to color the cookies.
• Add whipped cream, frosting, or sprinkles.
• Make homemade frosting from powdered sugar and milk and dip them in it.
• Add cocoa powder to the dough, but don’t mix. This will give the cookies a nice marbled look.
• Dip them in honey or Karo syrup.
• Mix in pieces of caramel or butterscotch into the pre-cooked dough.
• Dip them in chocolate (or another topping) and then in broken pretzel pieces.