Chocolate chip cookies cooked on a waffle iron: baking fail

Chocolate Chip Waffle Cookies

The idea seemed simple enough: use a waffle iron to make waffle cookies and then drizzle chocolate on top. We decided to try this experiment. My standard chocolate chip recipe was used with the exception of the chocolate chips which were to be melted and drizzled on after.

We set the waffle iron on the lowest setting to begin (and intended to adjust higher if needed during subsequent trials)

Trial 1 Results: Catastrophic Failure

Further trials were suspended as a result of trial 1's disaster

Speculations of what led to the accident:

• Waffle iron was not greased before adding dough
• Dough may need to be thicker (higher flour content?) for desired results
• Human error

Thankfully the remainder of the dough was quickly converted into normal chocolate chip cookies and enjoyed

Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies: baking fail

Candy Cane Chocolate Chip Cookies

The idea seemed simple enough: add crushed candy cane to chocolate chip cookie dough. For this experiment, I used my standard chocolate chip cookie recipe.

I had high hopes for this batch (see fig 1.) of hybrid candy cane chocolate chip cookies. As you will see, the results differed from my expectations and proved my hypothesis, that adding crushed candy cane would create a simple Christmas variation of this classic cookie, very wrong. We have to be honest when our plans go awry.

Figure 1.

Results and Observations:

The candy cane bits melted during the baking process, leaving gaping holes in the cookies, and adhered to the cookie sheet which resulted in fractured cookies when attempting to move them to the cooling rack.

Thankfully the candy cane modification was only added to twelve cookies (see fig 2). The rest of the dough served as a control group and yielded wonderful and normal chocolate chip cookies.

Figure 2. The results of Trial 1 candy cane cookies

Figure 3.