A soft, brown-sugar based cookie dough, with the addition of crushed sugar cones added into the batter, to make a cookie that has the soft texture of a cookie but all the taste of a waffle cone! Plus I rolled the cookies in sugar and sugar cone crumbs for added texture.
How does one come up with a cookie made out of crushed up sugar cones? Well…there I was one day. Surrounding by three boxes of sugar cones and a knife. I was cutting off the end (the tip) of the sugar cones to use as the horns in Unicorn Cupcakes I was making. So now I was left with 36 sugar cones with the tips cut off. Useless for an ice cream cone, but I hate wasting food. So as I sat there painting all 36 unicorn horns with gold food coloring, I came up with the idea to crush the sugar cones and try to use the crumbs like flour in cookies.
I mixed up my cookie dough, and after chilling it, I baked them off in the oven. These cookies have all the taste of a waffle cone, but the soft texture of a cookie!
Rolling the cookies in sugar cone crumbs and white sugar is totally necessary!
Ready for the oven!
Waffle Cone Cookies
Print RecipeIngredients
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup light brown sugar, packed
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar, packed
- 1 egg, room temperature
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- pinch of nutmeg
- pinch of salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 cups of finely crushed sugar cone crumbs
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- TOPPING:
- 1/4 cup sugar cone crumbs
- 1/4 cup white granulated sugar
Instructions
In the bowl of a stand mixer, affixed with the paddle attachment, add the butter and beat on medium-high speed until creamy. Add the dark and light brown sugars to the butter and beat until light and fluffy. Mix the egg into the butter-sugar mixture completely. Add the vanilla extract, nutmeg and salt to the wet ingredients, and mix until all ingredients are fully incorporated. Scrape down the sides of the bowl as needed.
Change the mixer speed to low, and slowly add the flour, sugar cone crumbs and baking soda into the wet ingredients. Mix until just combined. Once combined, remove the bowl from the mixer and cover with plastic wrap. Place dough in the refrigerator to chill for at least 2-3 hours.
After dough has chilled, preheat the oven to 350-degrees and line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Prepare the topping by mixing together the sugar cone crumbs and white sugar together in a small bowl. Remove the cookie dough from the refrigerator. Use a standard size cookie scoop to scoop cookie dough balls. Roll the cookie dough balls in the topping and place on the cookie sheet. Space the cookie dough balls a few inches apart, to allow slight spreading.
Bake cookies, one cookie sheet at a time, for 7-9 minutes (I baked mine for 8-minutes). Remove cookies from the oven and let cookies set on the cookie sheet for 5-minutes before transferring to a wire rack to finish cooling completely.
Store cookies in an air tight container at room temperature.
Notes
Cookies stay fresh for several days.
Don’t these cookies look yummy?? The sugar cone crumbs on top stay nice and crunchy too!
I will definitely be making these cookies again…this will be one of my go-to cookie recipes. So definitely pin this recipe, share it and try it for yourself. Tell me what you think! Oh, and a box of sugar cones only cost me a little more than $1!!
XOXO,
Kelly
15 Comments
Amy
September 7, 2017 at 8:37 AMOh, you are so creative. I love it when people’s creative juices get flowing when the opportunity arises. I would have had a difficult time wasting all of those sugar cones too. I’m not sure that I would have come up with this idea, but I love it. Thank you for sharing and have a fabulous day!
Kelly
September 7, 2017 at 11:09 AMThanks Amy! I love when an idea pops in my head and when it actually works! Have a great day too 🙂 XOXO
Kelsie | the itsy-bitsy kitchen
September 7, 2017 at 9:09 AMThese cookies are genius! I looove waffle cones, and hate wasting food too 🙂 I can’t think of a better way to repurpose your leftover cones!
Kelly
September 7, 2017 at 11:09 AMThank you Kelsie! Have a great day!! XOXO 🙂
Maria Doss
September 7, 2017 at 11:17 AMYou are a genius Kelly!!! Who would have thought of adding waffle cone on a cookie??
Kelly
September 9, 2017 at 12:59 PMAww thanks Maria! They turned out so yummy too 🙂 XOXO
ChocolaTess
September 8, 2017 at 6:10 PMI love it! Gotta go with the genius vibe on this one! Sounds amazing Kelly!
Kelly
September 9, 2017 at 1:04 PMAwwww! Thanks Kim! I was pretty proud of how these came out, I ain’t gonna lie 😉 XOXO
Deepika|TheLoveOfCakes
September 9, 2017 at 7:18 AMI love waffle cones and I love your genius innovative ideas! I am sure these cookies are so good!
Kelly
September 9, 2017 at 1:06 PMThanks Deepika! These cookies are my new favorite for sure 🙂 XOXOX Have a great weekend!
laura70ak
September 10, 2017 at 1:45 PMWhat a FUN idea Kelly!
Kelly
September 10, 2017 at 3:39 PMThanks Laura! Have a great weekend! XOXO
Melissa
September 14, 2017 at 4:35 PMGirl, you come up with some creative cookies and these look absolutely delicious. I’ll put them on my list for the holidays. Pinned!!!
Kelly
September 15, 2017 at 7:30 AMHehehe thanks Melissa! I hope you make these. They were a crowd pleaser for sure! XOXO 🙂
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