Vegan waffle cookies with hazelnut-chocolate filling 

For me – chocolate and hazelnut is a divine combination. I thought of the filling for these cookies first, when I created this recipe. The nutty chocolate filling together with a crunchy little waffle cookie is a great little snack, paired with your afternoon tea or coffee. According to your preferences,  you can make these sandwich cookies vegan or you use regular butter, milk and chocolate.

I added instant coffee to half of the cookie dough. This added a nice extra flavour and I really like both versions! Leave out the coffee or give it a try – with half of the dough – and then only half a teaspoon of coffee – or not. 🙂 Check, what you have in your pantry and get the waffle iron out.

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R E C I P E

Waffles

• 260 grams of all purpose flour
• 70 grams of brown sugar
• 4 grams of fresh yeast
• 125 grams of melted (vegan) butter
• 30 ml of (almond) milk
• Pinch of salt
• 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract 
• (Optional) 1 tsp of (decaf) instant coffee

1. Mix the flour, milk, sugar and yeast together. Add in the melted (cooled down) butter and incorporate.
2. Mix in the vanilla & salt. Form a ball of dough and cover this in a bowl, with a clean kitchen towel.
3. Let the dough rest at room temperature for ~ 60 minutes.
4. Bake little waffles in a waffle iron for thin waffles. 
5. Take from the waffle iron when golden brown. This takes according to your waffle iron – 1 or 2 minutes. Optional: Use a cookie cutter to create a certain shape & let these cool down. If you want to make sandwich cookies, it is easier and prettier to have the same shapes, so I would go for the cookie cutter-variation. But feel free to just bake waffles and put the filling in between.

Hazelnut-chocolate filling

• 100 grams of dark (vegan) chocolate
• 100 grams of hazelnut butter from @prozis https://prozis.com/N2mW
• 3 tsp of coconut oil
• 3 tsp of maple syrup

1. Melt the chocolate and the coconut oil in the microwave for 30/60/90 seconds. Add in the hazelnut butter and mix in completely. 
2. Stir in maple syrup last. 
3. Now you can take two waffle cookies and add the filling to the middle. 

This recipe needs a couple of steps, but it creates really delicous, little waffle cookies. Hope you will enjoy these.

Love and Happiness,

Sue