Waffle Turtle Cookies! Gluten Free

These cookies are fun to make, easy, cute, and would be a great project with the kids.

Ingredients:

4 oz. Semi-sweet Chocolate Chips

2/3 c. butter

Melt these together. 

Then stir in:

3 c. GF flour (I use a combination of 2 c. white rice flour, 2/3 c. tapioca flour, and 1/3 c. potato starch)

1 c. sugar

1/2 c. milk

1 t. vanilla

2 eggs, beaten

Spray waffle iron with a gluten-free cooking spray. Pre-heat to LOW setting.

Drop batter by spoonfuls onto hot waffle iron. Bake (press??) for 3 minutes.

Open waffle iron and gently remove cookies with a fork. Place on waxed paper or racks to cool.

When cool, melt together to make a glaze of:

4-5 oz. Semi-sweet chocolate chips (No, you don't need a scale. I happen to have one because I have to measure ingredients for my soaps - and my chocolate chips are in a huge glass jar. In the photo above, the few extra chocolate chips to the left of my recipe are to motivate the baker, an essential part of making these cookies!)

1-2 t. shortening

Drizzle over cooled cookies. Place a pecan half on the top of each. Okay, this doesn't look like a turtle now, but I like the pecan effect. You can improvise if you want. :-)

My waffle iron has an inscription etched into the underside:  'Made by Tubal-Cain.' It is ancient and refused to be photographed.

For my gluten-free flour, I keep on hand a ziploc baggie with a mixture of the following flours:

• 6 c. white rice flour
• 2 c. tapioca flour
• 1 c. potato starch

That way, I've always got a GF flour ready to use for cookies and cakes.

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and Tasty Tuesday Parade of foods

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