Crunchy & Caramelized Crust, Soft & Chewy Center!
Difficulty: Easy
Prep Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cooking Time: 10 minutes
This Authentic Belgian recipe is served warm throughout the day as more like a snack. These waffles are a richer, denser, sweeter, and chewier waffle. In Belgium, the waffles are prepared in plain, vanilla and cinnamon varieties by street vendors across the nation.
Ingredients
3 1/2 cups flour
1 tbsp dry yeast
3/4 cup lukewarm milk
2 sticks butter, room temperature
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
8 oz. pearl sugar http://www.larsown.com/
butter for greasing
Cooking Tools
Electric waffle press
Large mixing bowl
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| No Syrup Needed For This Waffle! |
Directions
In the mixing bowl, add lukewarm milk, 1 tbsp sugar and yeast. Mix yeast and sugar into the milk and set aside to activate the yeast for 15 minutes. Into the mixing bowl with the activated yeast, add; flour, salt and vanilla and stir with fork. Mix in the egg one at a time and mix well in between. Using your hands, mix and knead in room temperature butter a tbsp at a time until well incorporated. Cook's Note: The texture will be more like cookie dough than batter, very thick. Let dough rise in a warm location for 1 hour, it will have doubled in size. Fold in pearl sugar into the dough, small amounts at a time to evenly distribute. Preheat and grease waffle press and add a ball of dough into each well and cook for 1-2 minutes on medium-high heat. Time will vary and will have to be adjusted accordingly, depending on the appliance you are using. Make sure the waffles are cooked through, caramelized and crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
Yields 12
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