We don't have a waffle iron. It's one of those small appliances that's only good for one thing, and we don't eat that one thing often enough to warrant owning one.
But if we could use it to make cookies? Maybe we'd reconsider.
We saw this tip at Fine Cooking and were immediately intrigued. Crispy, chewy, thick oatmeal chocolate chip cookies baked in 90 seconds, just like a waffle. What do you think?
The magazine makes the point that you're saving time, and yes, 90 seconds is a blissfully short pause to get a warm, melty cookie in your hands. But obviously you can't make a dozen at a time, so by the time you cook an entire batch, you could have baked a sheet pan full of cookies in the oven.
However, if you're someone who rations out her dough, baking just a couple of cookies at a time so that they're always hot and fresh, this could be a great method. Plus, they look cool.
We haven't tried this recipe, and we can't (see above note about not owning a waffle iron), but we're curious if anyone else has made cookies this way. Would you try it? Let us know if you do.
• Get the recipe: Oatmeal-Chocolate Chip Waffle Cookies, from Fine Cooking
Related: Fudge and Walnut Oatmeal Cookies
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Hmm but then you have to clean the waffle iron...
Genius! I am trying this at some point this weekend!
I saw this and immediately thought why not make the full sized waffle/cookies and make ice cream sandwiches out of them. YUM! Thanks for the tip!
Thinking about this a little more...
Whenever I make a whole batch of cookies, I end up eating way too many in one sitting. If I could make a couple cookies at a time, it would be much less taxing on my self control!
I keep regretting the loss of my waffle iron in my recent move.
I remember seeing this recipe in Fine Cooking sometime last year too and thought the same thing, that they looked delicious and fun to make but wasn't sure it merited owning a waffle iron.
Can someone please make these and report back soon?
Eating well had a recipe for waffle iron cookies in their Holiday cookie issue a few years ago: http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/boot_tracks.html
On the same theme of using a waffle iron for non-waffle items...
We made french toast in the waffle iron once. It turned out like I didn't want it to: soft all the way through. Lacking the crispyness of a good waffle and also lacking the fluffy awesomeness of good french toast.
These cookies though. I'm all over them.
waffles are so good that it's hard to NOT own a waffle iron. i'm absolutely going to try this. it never occured to me (even remotely) to only make a few cookies at a time until a chef friend was able to pull out frozen cookie dough and make us a few lovely molasses goodies to have with tea. i'm a cookie eater, so 4 at a time - better for dosage control!
A friend of mine used to do this with brownie mix, served warm with a small scoop of vanilla ice cream. Yum!
Why not pop a cookie or two in the toaster oven? It might not be instant gratification, but the wee little ovens do heat up fast and cookies only take about 10 minutes to bake.
Cooking your cornmeal muffin mix in a waffle iron is another thing that works well.
Another waffle iron tip: cook french toast in it (I think I got this idea from the Joy of Cooking).
I've made chocolate sugar cookies in a waffle iron before. I don't remember why I did it that way, but they were good with ice cream sundaes on top.
Get the Black and Decker Waffle Iron with the reversible grills and you can make melty sandwiches too. We use our several times a week (with a 3yo in the house)
Is a Belgian Waffle maker too deep for this?
Oh em gee. *drools*
Rain, do you have a recipe, or will any cornbread batter work for this?
Huh, what an interesting idea.
I might have to try them.
I just showed this to my husband, who immediately and emphatically pointed towards the kitchen. This must be tried.
These chocolate waffle cookies are a favorite in my house. They're from Martha Stewart's Cookies cookbook and they're phenomenal: http://melissamckelvey.com/?p=179
I would definitely want some Christian Louboutin shoes after eating a chocolate chip waffle.
Go to your local thrift store - or church yard sale come spring.....you can find waffle irons of every size and quality - for well under $10.......both non-stick and regular old metal.....just use a little Pam or old-fashioned butter.....
I found a wonderful 8" sq. Belgian waffle iron at local thrift store for $2.50 on sale 1/2 price from $5.00.....people, sadly, just don't use them anymore - seems to take too much time for them......
Anyhow, I also found a 1960s Sunbeam waffle iron - probably 12" sq. (almost art-deco style) for $6.00........I wanted to buy it just for the design - it was beautiful - but don't need 2 waffle irons......
When I had previously gotten the bug for a waffle iron - I priced them in several stores (new ones) and most were over $50 each (and most Made in China)
The ice cream sandwich thing is a great idea. I bet it'll prevent ice cream from being squished out as easily.
@verily: but 10 minutes might not be that long, but it's quite different compared to 90 seconds. If you have both a toaster oven and a waffle iron, why choose the toaster oven. Certainly, if you were only making a few cookies and you didn't have a waffle iron but did have a toaster oven, then it would seem the better choice compared to the regular full sized oven.
i have a mini mickey mouse waffle maker that this would be PERFECT for!!
yah for appliance with multiple uses!
I have the Hello Kitty Waffle iron - HK chocolate chip cookies sound great!
I just tried this last night with my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe. They were good when dunked in milk but had way to much crispy and not enough gooey! The cookies are so soft until they cooled that i had a really hard time getting them out whole... we had mostly cookie mash (it was still tasty though!)
I bet it could work with a different recipe but I think I'll be sticking to the oven from now on!
This is a good idea. For those of us familiar with making pizzelles, it doesn't really seem too time consuming making a couple of cookies at a time.
I gave this a try and posted the results (with pictures) over on Chicagoist. :)
http://chicagoist.com/2009/11/13/experiment_cookies_in_the_waffle_ir.php
L.Stolpman
I've been learning recently that waffle makers can not only make waffles (which I used to think was the only thing they can make), but also cookies, bacon (drains the fat better), paninis, and brownies!
Now I'm tempted to get one. *bites lip*
Oh gosh, and now this:
http://lifehacker.com/5408949/use-a-waffle-maker-to-roll-your-own-pizza-pockets
My mom does this with brownies - it's not my favorite, but my little sister loves them. I agree with what someone said earlier - it makes too much crispy part & not enough gooey...
In college I used to make grilled cheese sandwiches in a Belgian waffle maker all the time. We didn't have a sandwich grill in our dining hall, so I'd grab a sandwich roll, put in the cheese, and place it in the waffle maker. 45 seconds later I had the most amazing grilled cheese sandwich I've ever had. PAM was the key to making sure it didn't stick.
My fiance and I made these this weekend because we were just dying to try this recipe. Sadly, they turned out nearly inedible. Much too crispy on the outside, and the inside was not even remotely "gooey"--the way I like my chocolate chip cookies. Mainly they were dense and hard, and we ended up throwing the whole batch away. The original recipe was not sweet at all, so we added more brown sugar, more vanilla and white sugar. Still no luck. Glad we tried it but we won't be making these again. (Plus our waffle maker is a mess!)
Why would you show me this? Now I must buy a waffle iron
I juSt tried these and sadly it was a huge mess. It just turned into a chocolatey mess and there was way too much oatmeal, which doesn't have enough time to cook in only 90 seconds (I used quick oats even). The mess was fairly tasty but not very cookie like. I tried to bake the rest of the dough so it wasn't a waste and it just turned into rock hard cookies. I think this technique might be best used with sugar cookie dough, for example if you don't have time to roll it out and cut it into shapes.
Fantastic idea. These looks so yummy. I'm going to try some gingersnaps this weekend.
I linked to this recipe on my blog:
http://oliveobserver.blogspot.com/2012/01/fivethingsfriday-making-non-waffles.html
I have done this a cast iron waffle iron while camping - fresh hot cookies around the campfire are fantastic!