Experiment: Cookies in the Waffle Iron.

By L. Stolpman in Food on Nov 13, 2009 5:00PM

We tried both chocolate chip cookie dough and sugar cookie dough in the waffle maker. The next two pictures will show you what kind of waffle iron and cookie dough we used.

$Here\'s our waffle maker. It makes mini Belgian waffles. We were a little concerned that the wells were too deep for this experiment but we didn\'t let that stop us. We put the heat setting on 4 of 7.$

Okay, so that was probably too much chocolate chip cookie dough to press in the waffle iron.

$That\'s funny. These don\'t look like awesome waffle cookies. In fact, the chocolate chips burned. The sugar cookie dough was incredibly hot. We suspect the very hot waffle iron caramelized the sugar in the dough and then kept that dough extremely hot to the touch. Even after we managed to removed the crumbling bits of dough (which were oddly soft and sponge-like) from the waffle iron, they remained incredibly hot for many minutes. They then lost their soft texture and turned very crunchy.$

Top of our cookies still claimed by the waffle iron.

Our plate of hot cookies. Well, hot cookie dough. Hot cookie dough bits. And pieces. Cookie crap. Crunchy cookie crap. Which we were slightly tempted to pour milk over and call cereal.

$We tried a lower heat setting and let the cookie remain in the waffle iron longer, hoping to have it cook more thoroughly. Didn\'t happen.$

$No, turns out it wasn\'t PAM we needed. AH! Maybe we need a different waffle iron!$

Nope. Turns out we may need a cookie sheet and a hot oven.

We saw this article on Lifehacker that said you could make cookies in your waffle iron in 90 seconds.

Cookies! In 90 seconds!

We admit... we may have jumped the gun a little by not using one of the recipes suggested. Here's why: Obviously, if we're going to try to make cookies in 90 seconds, we aren't exactly patient. So we went out and bought pre-made cookie dough and then we fired up the waffle iron. Read the photo captions to hear how it went.

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