Best Chocolate Waffle Turtle Cookies Recipes

CHOCOLATE TURTLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.
• Cream together butter, sugar, and brown sugar using a stand mixer or hand mixer.
• Add in eggs and vanilla extract and beat until combined.
• Beat in cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
• Use a spoon or rubber spatula to stir in flour until combined. Stir in chocolate chips and pecans.
• Scoop out about two tablespoons of the cookie dough and roll into a ball and place on prepared pans. Repeat with remaining dough until you have 24 cookies. Place in the freezer for 30 minutes.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 12 minutes.
• Meanwhile, place unwrapped caramels and heavy cream into a microwave safe bowl. Place in the microwave for 30 seconds. Stir, and microwave again for 30 seconds. Continue until caramel is completely melted and smooth.
• Once the cookies are out of the oven drizzle with caramel and let cool completely on a wire rack.

WAFFLE IRON CHOCOLATE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a bowl, combine sugar, butter, eggs and vanilla. Combine flour and cocoa; gradually add to the sugar mixture. Drop tablespoonfuls of batter into each section of a preheated waffle iron. Bake according to manufacturer's directions. Remove carefully; cool on wire racks. Spread with chocolate frosting.

FROSTING FOR WAFFLE IRON COOKIES (TURTLE COOKIES)

Steps:

• 1. Combine first 4 ingredients in a sauce pan, bring to a boil and boil for 3 min.
• 2. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla extract.
• 3. Allow to cool a bit then add powdered sugar to make a soft, pourable frosting.
• 4. Pour frosting over the cooled waffle iron cookies, filling the holes and making a smooth, shiny turtle shell. (Follow Just a Pinch Recipe posted by Marsha Baker, "Waffle Iron Cookies" to make the cookies.)

CHOCOLATE WAFFLE TURTLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Preheat waffle iron.
• In a large bowl stir together melted butter, granulated sugar, eggs, 1/2 cup cocoa powder and 2 teaspoons vanilla.
• Add flour; stir just until combined.
• Drop heaping teaspoonfuls of batter into center of each waffle grid.
• Cook on medium-high heat about 2 minutes, adjusting heat as necessary.
• Using a fork transfer cookies to rack; cool.
• Repeat with remaining batter.
• When cool, mound cookies on a platter.
• For glaze: In a small saucepan heat 1/4 cup butter and water over low heat until melted.
• Add the 3 tablespoons cocoa and stir until smooth.
• Remove from heat.
• Beat in powdered sugar and the 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• Stir in additional hot water, if needed, to reach drizzling consistency.
• Drizzle over cookies along with caramel topping.
• Sprinkle with pecans.

CHOCOLATE-CARAMEL TURTLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F (if using dark or nonstick cookie sheet, heat oven to 350°F). In medium bowl, soak pecans in water while making dough; drain well.
• In medium bowl, beat sugar, butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on medium speed until light and fluffy. On low speed, beat in flour and cocoa until dough forms.
• On ungreased cookie sheets, for each cookie, arrange 5 pecans to look like head and legs of a turtle. Shape dough by rounded teaspoonfuls into 1-inch balls. Place 1 ball on top of each group of 5 pecans, pressing lightly into pecans with palm of hand.
• Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until set. Immediately press 1 caramel gently onto top of each cookie; let stand 5 minutes to soften caramel. Use small spatula to flatten candy slightly. Remove cookies from cookie sheets to cooling racks.

CHOCOLATE WAFFLE COOKIES

Steps:

• Heat waffle iron to medium-high (spray with cooking spray before heating if necessary). Heat 1/3 cup chocolate chips and the butter in 1 1/2-quart saucepan over low heat, stirring constantly, until melted. Stir in remaining ingredients except 1/2 cup chocolate chips and the powdered sugar.
• Drop 1 tablespoon batter onto each section of ungreased waffle iron. Close lid of waffle iron. Bake 2 to 3 minutes or until steaming stops.
• Remove from waffle iron to wire rack. Immediately sprinkle each cookie with about 1 teaspoon chocolate chips and powdered sugar. Serve warm.

CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE COOKIES

Steps:

• In the microwave or in a metal bowl over a pan of simmering water, melt unsweetened chocolate, 1 cup of the chocolate chips, and the butter stirring occasionally until smooth. Remove from heat and set aside to cool. In a large bowl, whip eggs and sugar until thick and pale, about 2 minutes. Stir in the vanilla and the chocolate mixture until well mixed. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually stir into the chocolate mixture. Fold in remaining 1 cup chocolate chips. Cover dough and chill for at least an hour or overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Roll chilled dough into 1 inch balls. Place on ungreased cookie sheets so they are 2 inches apart.
• Bake for 9 to 11 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.

CHOCOLATE WAFFLE COOKIES

Steps:

• In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Beat in chocolate. Gradually add flour and mix well. , Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls 1 in. apart onto a preheated waffle iron. Bake for 1 minute. Remove to wire racks to cool. Dust with confectioners' sugar.