Baking these fudgy cookies in the waffle iron gives them their unique “turtle-like” shape. The fudge frosting becomes the mounded “turtle shell”. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t love Waffle Iron Turtle Cookies and it’s nice to have a cookie recipe that doesn’t require heating up the kitchen with the oven.
Ingredients
For the Cookies:
¾ cup cocoa
¾ cup butter
4 eggs
1 ½ cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups all-purpose flour
For the Frosting:
¾ cup butter
1 ½ cups cocoa
⅔ — 1 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 lbs. powdered sugar (confectioner’s sugar)
Instructions
For the Cookies:
Spray and heat up your waffle iron to medium while you are making the cookie batter. (The temperature settings run from 1–5 on my waffle maker. I set it at 3.)
Melt the butter in a 3 quart sauce pan. Only heat long enough to just melt it. You don’t want it to become super hot.
Once the butter is melted, remove the pan from the heat and mix in the cocoa.
Add the sugar and vanilla. Stir thoroughly to bring everything together. This will also help cool the mixture in the pan.
Test the mixture in the pan by touching it. It’s okay if it’s warm. You just don’t want it to be so hot it cooks the eggs.
Beat the eggs into the chocolate mixture. Continue stirring until everything is combined.
Finally, stir in the flour. Continue stirring until all the ingredients come together evenly. Your batter will be thick and similar to the consistency of fudge brownies.
Use a spoon ( I just use a spoon from the silverware drawer.) to drop the cookie batter onto your hot waffle iron. I can do 4 at a time in mine. Adjust according to your own waffle maker.
Bake the cookies in the waffle iron for 1 minute. Remove to a cooling rack.
Repeat the process until all the cookie batter has been baked.
For the Fudge Frosting:
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