Spiced Chocolate Waffle Cookies

Deliciously spiced chocolate waffle cookies drizzled with a cream cheese glaze. Made with Stevia In The Raw® for reduced calories and sugar.

Ingredients

• 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
• 0.5 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 0.5 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 0.5 teaspoon baking powder
• 0.5 teaspoon fine sea salt
• 2 sticks unsalted butter, softened
• 0.5 cup sugar
• 0.5 cup Stevia In The Raw® Bakers Bag
• 3 large eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 ounces cream cheese, softened
• 1 tablespoon Stevia In The Raw® Bakers Bag
• 1 ½ teaspoons quick-cooking tapioca
• 0.5 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 tablespoon heavy cream, or more as needed

Steps

1. Whisk flour, cocoa powder, cinnamon, cardamom, baking powder, and salt together in a medium bowl.
2. In a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat butter, sugar, and stevia until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then vanilla. Stir in flour mixture just until combined. Cover batter and refrigerate at least 2 hours.
3. Preheat a Belgian waffle iron. Add spoonfuls of batter (about 2 1/2 tablespoons per cookie) to the waffle iron, spacing them evenly. Close the iron and cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes per batch. Transfer to a rack to cool completely and repeat with remaining batter.
4. For glaze, in a food processor, combine cream cheese, stevia, tapioca, and vanilla and process until smooth, scraping down sides of the bowl as needed. With machine running, add cream to reach a smooth, pourable consistency.
5. Drizzle cookies with glaze before serving.