Eggnog Cookie Waffles

It's a whole New Year, and you know what THAT means - Whoo hoo!!! Holiday stuff is on sale!
We bought a few packs of Betty Crocker Eggnog Cookie Mix on clearance just to see if it would make a good base for waffles. (I also bought the Gingerbread ones, but one of those made it into cookies already.)

 Hey - Did anyone try the Key Lime Waffles I made from a box mix from summer clearance?

One thing I've noticed when using prepackaged mixes for waffles is that they tend to come out crispier, and not in a way I like as much. My guess is that it might have to do with the consistency of the sugar, or the flour, or some mysterious ingredient designed to create a crunchier texture. Who knows?

This is the ingredients list from the cookie mix package.

Here's the recipe I came up with:

Cream together:
1 stick + 1 Tbsp butter, softened
1/4 cup sugar
1 Tbsp molasses
1 Tbsp vanilla
(and then taste it, because you know you want to)

Add:
2 17.5 oz packages of Betty Crocker Eggnog Cookie Mix (Limited Edition!)
2 cups whole milk
1 cup ricotta cheese
1 1/2 cups of egg (9 eggs of various sizes which I actually measured out in volume)(why various sizes? I have chickens, and their eggs are all over the range on sizing, from tiny to jumbo)
1 1/2 tsp baking powder

Then alternate:
2 cups white flour
1 1/2 cups water

And then add this
1/3 cup oil (it keeps the waffles from sticking as much)

Mix well, and start firing up those waffle makers!

I'm sure there's a better way to arrange the input of those ingredients, but that's just how I roll on a waffle-invention quest.

Give it a try, and tell me what ya think. Just don't go to Amazon for the Betty Crocker packs - where some crazy person is selling 2 packs of Eggnog and 2 Gingerbread for $24.87. I think I paid $.90 each!