Chocolate Wafer Cookies (wafer rolls)

These Chocolate Wafer Cookies are crispy, buttery, chocolate-y cookies that serve as a great vessel for chocolate hazelnut cream, chocolate, jam, whipped cream, or whatever filling you desire. These cookies are just as much fun to make as they are to eat. I guarantee you will impress your friends and family with these!

Do you remember the Pirouette Cookies from Pepperidge Farm? I loved eating those growing up. They were one of those cookies we didn’t get often, but would get only during special occasions, like around Christmas time. The cookies feel fancy, and look fancy, so it was fitting that they only made their appearance around that time of year.

Well, I decided to make cookies similar to that, except in chocolate form. These Chocolate Wafer Cookies are a delight to make and eat during the Christmas season. I could even picture them being a great valentines cookies. You do have to work sort of quickly once the cookies come out of the oven, as the cookies can harden quickly. But, once you get the cookie rolled up and let it fully harden, it feels like such an achievement. Other than working quickly to roll these cookies up, they really aren’t hard to make. They just look fancy, feel fancy, and when you make them, you’ll feel a huge sense of accomplishment, well at least I did. I don’t know, there’s just something about making these cookies that gives you that enormous sense of accomplishment. I suppose it’s because these wafer rolls are different than a regular cookie.

These chocolate wafer cookies can certainly be served flat if desired. You could even sandwich them together to make a cookie sandwich with Nutella, jam, or a filling of your choice. I filled these wafer rolls with Nutella.

The details

Ingredients

• unsalted butter, melted
• granulated sugar
• cocoa powder
• all-purpose flour
• teaspoon salt
• large egg
• large egg white

Here’s how to make these chocolate wafer cookies

The ingredient list for these wafer rolls is small and truly, the cookies come together quickly. No dough chilling, or any of that fancy stuff.

mix the dough

You’ll begin making these chocolate wafer cookies by beating the egg and egg white together in a large mixing bowl. Add the melted butter and sugars and whisk to combine. Add in the cocoa powder, flour and salt. Whisk to combine. The dough will be soft, but stiff enough to hold it’s shape.

scoop and bake

I recommend baking one cookie on your baking sheet to start, just to get the hang of rolling up the cookie when it comes out of the oven. Scoop the cookie dough onto your parchment paper lined baking sheet. Measure out 2 teaspoons full of cookie dough. Use a rubber spatula to spread the dough into a 4-inch circle. The dough will be very thin. This is how you want it. You need it thin enough to be able to roll it into a cylinder. Bake the cookie for 4 minutes.

roll the chocolate wafer cookies

Wear a pair of gloves to protect your hands from the heat of the cookie dough. Remove the parchment paper from the baking sheet. This prevents the cookie from continuing to cook and harden. Using a straw (you can use a metal straw if desired), or a chopstick, place at one end of the cookie dough. Roll the cookie up quickly onto the straw or chopstick into a cylinder. Place, seam side down, on a wire cooling rack.

Now that you had practice with one, you can decide if you feel comfortable to add two to a baking sheet. Use your other prepared baking sheet and spread 1 or 2 cookie dough balls (2 teaspoon measurements each) onto baking sheet. Spread each into a 4-inch circle. Bake in oven 4 minutes. Repeat process above.

Since you are using two baking sheets, you can alternate baking the cookie dough. While one baking sheet is in the oven baking the chocolate wafer cookies, you can scoop and spread the cookie dough onto the parchment paper of the other baking sheet. When ready to bake, put the parchment paper onto the baking sheet. You don’t want to spread the cookie dough on top of the parchment paper if it is sitting on top of the hot cookie sheet. It will melt the cookie dough (making it hard to spread) and begin to bake the cookie dough.

Assemble the chocolate wafer cookies

Certainly if desired, or if you find it too hard, you don’t have to roll these cookies up. You can simply leave them as is and eat them plain, or sandwich them together with Nutella, jam, or a filling of your own choice.

I recommend filling these wafer rolls when you are ready to serve them. I used Nutella for these chocolate wafer cookies.

How do I store these?

These chocolate wafer cookies are thin and delicate. They need to be handled with care. Store the cookies gently stacked in an air-tight container on the counter. Don’t fill the cookies until they are ready to be served.

Here are a few of my favorite cookies

• Lace Cookies
• Snickerdoodle Cookies
• Butter Pecan Cookies

Let me know what you thought!

If you make these chocolate wafer cookies, let me know what you thought in the ratings and comments below. I absolutely love reading all of your comments! Also, make sure to snap a picture of your wafer rolls and tag me @simplebakingwithpep on instagram. It truly makes my day to see all of your wonderful creations.

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