Waffle Cookies???



Ya, thats right, I said waffle cookies.  You haven't really lived until you've eaten one.  I recall years ago when my age was a single digit, mom used to occasionally make these waffle cookies in a waffle iron.  (Remember those old dangerous things?)  YUMMY!

Fast forward to about the time I met my future bride.  Near the time we were about to celebrate our first Chrismas as a couple, she invited me over for a family tradition of waffle cookie making.  Wow, I couldn't wait.  It was years since I've had one!

Well, as the years passed, we found ourselves carrying on her family tradition with the waffle cookie manufacturing.  It has become a rather streamlined process over the years, as the family & friends come up with more & more ideas.  We find additional irons at flea markets and auctions to replace them as they wear out.  We're up to using three at a time and I don't think the old house wiring can take much more than that!  The easier it became, the more we could make and 20-some years later, we find ourselves shooting for about 2000 cookies in about 9 hours time.

Usually Tammy will get started gathering the ingredients around Thanksgiving time.  At some point before the big day, she pre-measures the dry ingredients and puts them in zip lock bags.  Then on the day of manufacturing, she simply dumps the bag in a bowl, adds the milk, eggs & margarine and we mix it up into a thick batter.  It's dropped by spoonfuls onto the iron for about a minute, then cooled.  After all the cookies are made, we make the frosting.  A couple of adults will frost the cookies and place them in front of the children for the final topping of nuts, candy pieces, colored sprinkles, or some just left plain.



So the big kitchen seems to get real small, and the mess is a lot of work to clean up, but there's a lot to be said about family and friends getting together to spend quality time on a cold winter day.  And oh yeah,...those cookies!  Mmmm!

Here's my good friend Matt-KC0MUG.  Couldn't get thru the day without his family's help.

Oh yeah, note my Hallicrafters S-38B on the fridge behind him....after all this is a radio website, right?