Homemade waffles - general cooking principles
Waffles are an exquisite dessert based on the preparation of flour. Waffles can be crispy, soft, fluffy and thin, with the aroma of vanilla or rum. But no matter how you prepare them, this dish will in any case be eaten in the first minutes after serving.
Where did this dish come from? It is difficult to establish the country of origin, but historians believe that this is a Chinese national dish, which was based on eggs, flour and milk. Waffles came to the modern world from the Netherlands, and in the fifties of the last century a real “waffle boom” passed around the world. What does the word waffle mean? One version suggests that it is the French word wafla, meaning honeycomb. It was this picture for the press that the Americans chose before launching waffles into mass production.
What to serve waffles with? This dessert is tasty both in pure form and with sweet fillings. Water the finished homemade waffles with condensed milk, jam, sour cream, whipped cream, jam and honey, hot chocolate. While the dessert is hot, the waffles can be twisted into a straw or with an envelope, or you can let them cool in a round “classic” shape.
Homemade waffles - preparing food and dishes
The main products for making waffles at home are eggs, milk, flour, sugar. Some supplements can make homemade waffles softer, others more crispy and thin.
How to make waffles? The process of creating a delicacy will greatly facilitate the waffle maker, but you can make homemade waffles in a frying pan. In addition, not all components are basic, - waffles can be prepared without eggs and without milk, it will be a more "lite version" of the classic dessert for vegetarians.
Recipes for homemade waffles:
Recipe 1: Waffles in a waffle iron (option 1)
If you have a waffle iron, then it will be quite easy to make a dessert. Waffle irons were especially popular in the eighties, they were heavy and uncomfortable. Homemade waffles should be baked in them carefully, turning the waffle iron on the other side in 15-20 seconds to prevent the dish from burning. Before you start baking waffles, grease the "honeycombs" of the waffle iron with butter.
Now you can buy a modern waffle iron, lighter and more convenient.
Ingredients Required:
- Wheat flour 400 grams
- Sour cream fat (you can use homemade) - 200 ml
- Egg 3 pieces medium size
- Sugar 250 grams
- Soda 1 tsp.
- Butter for baking
Cooking method:
- Soda pour in sour cream and mix.
- Beat egg with a mixer, add sugar to them.
- Melt the butter and pour in the eggs, mix. Add sour cream to the mixture.
- Pour the flour into the mixture in a thin stream, stir it so that there are no lumps.
- Pour the dough into a waffle iron and bake.
Recipe 2: Waffles in a waffle iron (option 2)
For this recipe, we will not take sour cream, because the waffles are not so fatty and less high-calorie.
Ingredients Required:
- Chicken egg 6 pieces
- Sugar 1.5 cups
- Flour 1.5 glasses
- Butter 150 grams
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Beat the egg, add sugar to it gradually, while continuing to beat. The finished mass should be of a consistency like thick foam.
- Melt the butter and pour it into the mixture, salt it. Continue to beat.
- In the egg mixture pour a thin stream of flour, stir so that there are no lumps.
- Pour dough on a hot waffle iron and fry waffles for 30-40 seconds.
Recipe 3: Waffles in an electric waffle iron (option 3)
If you consider the main ingredient of crispy egg delicacies, this recipe will dispel this myth! Such homemade waffles will turn out no less tasty, thin and crunchy, even if the basis of their preparation will be based on flour and sugar!
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 400 grams
- Sugar 200 grams
- Vegetable oil 100 ml
- Soda, ½ tsp vinegar quenched
- Water 1.5 cups
- Vanilla
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Mix all the dry ingredients (except soda) and vegetable oil to make a crumb slurry.
- In the mixture, add water and stir until a homogeneous mass, consistency resembling a rare cream. At this stage, it is best to use a mixer or blender.
- In the dough, add soda, slaked with vinegar, mix.
- In the heated electric waffle maker, pour a tablespoon of dough in the middle and cook for about 40-60 seconds.
Recipe 4: Viennese waffles
One of the distinguishing features of the preparation of Viennese homemade waffles is the use of milk. Also, do not forget to add rum or rum essence to the dough for a pronounced flavor.
Ingredients Required:
- Flour 1 cup
- Eggs 4 medium size pieces
- Sugar 200 grams
- Butter 120 grams
- Milk 2.5 cups
- Dry yeast ½ tablespoon
- Rum
- Vanilla
Cooking method:
- Separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the yolks to a thick foam and refrigerate.
- Mix yolks with flour and salt using a blender or mixer at this stage.
- Heat the milk to room temperature. Butter butter melt. Pour the milk and butter into the dough, stir it so that there are no lumps in the dough. Add rum, salt, sugar, vanilla, dry yeast. Enter the protein foam, mix again and let the dough infuse for about 20 minutes.
- Bake Viennese waffles, pouring a spoonful of dough in the middle of the waffle iron.
Recipe 5: Belgian waffles
This is not to say that there is one exact Belgian waffle recipe that needs to be followed precisely. In Belgium, for the preparation of waffles use a variety of ingredients that significantly affect the taste of the finished product. We offer to your attention exactly the recipe for waffle street vendors in Brussels. A special ingredient for the dough is mineral sparkling water.
Ingredients Required:
- Milk 1 cup
- Flour 300 grams
- Egg 3 pieces of medium size
- Butter 150 grams
- Mineral carbonated water 100 ml
- Sugar ¾ cup
- Baking powder for dough ½ tsp
Cooking method:
- Beat the eggs, separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the whites immediately using a mixer to form a dense foam, adding a little salt to them. Put protein foam in the fridge.
- Melt butter, heat milk to room temperature.
- Combine yolks with sugar, mix. Pour oil into the mixture, salt and mix again.
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour and baking powder, pour in a thin stream of milk, and then sugar-yolk mixture. Add protein foam and mineral water to the dough. When the mixture is of a uniform consistency without lumps, you can bake Belgian homemade waffles.
Recipe 6: Crispy Waffles
Make waffles crispy, you can, if you do not use eggs in the recipe. This recipe is described above, so here's another secret to crispy waffles - put in more flour than is needed for “regular” waffles, and a little soda.
Ingredients Required:
- Eggs - 4 medium sized pieces
- Flour 2.5 cups
- Sugar 1.5 glass
- Sour cream 100 ml
- Soda 1 tsp.
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Add soda to sour cream and mix well.
- Smash the eggs, separating the yolks from the proteins. Whip proteins to foam, then put them in the refrigerator.
- Pound egg yolks with sugar, stir in sour cream and flour. In the test there should not be lumps, and therefore it is best to interfere with a mixer.
- In a buttered spoon waffle iron, place the dough in the middle of the table and bake the crispy homemade waffles.
Recipe 7: Thin waffles.
Thin, like a cobweb, homemade waffles are especially tasty when cooled. Cooking dough is simple and quick, and the secret is in equal amounts of flour, sugar and butter.
Ingredients Required:
- 4 eggs chicken
- Flour 250 grams
- Sugar 250 grams
- Butter 250 grams
- Vanilla sugar
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Break the egg, separate the yolks from the proteins.
- Beat the whites well with a mixer, then let them cool in the fridge.
- Melt butter in a water bath.
- Mix egg yolks, sugar, pour in oil. Stir in the flour in a thin stream. When the dough becomes homogeneous, add protein foam to it, mix with a spoon.
- In a buttered waffle iron, bake thin homemade waffles.
Recipe 8: Soft Waffles
Not everyone likes crispy homemade waffles. Try to cook a gentle and soft delicacy. You can serve soft waffles without toppings by simply sprinkling them with powdered sugar. For such waffles butter, take more than other components. The dough should not be as liquid as for "ordinary" crispy waffles.
Ingredients Required:
- Egg of the average size of 5 pieces
- Flour 200 grams
- Sugar 200 grams
- Butter 250 grams
- Vanilla
Cooking method:
- Melt butter in a water bath.
- Beat eggs with a mixer, add sugar, salt, vanilla to them. Without turning off the mixer, pour melted butter into the eggs.
- Stir in the dough flour, bring the mixture to a state of thick cream. Soft homemade waffles can be baked.
Recipe 9: Chocolate Waffles
Finished homemade waffles can be poured with melted chocolate, and you can immediately make chocolate. Of course, the secret ingredient in this case will be cocoa. Do not buy cheap confectionery cocoa powder, since the taste of ready-made chocolate waffles depends on the quality of this component. On sale you can find French cocoa with vanilla or imported cocoa, made from 90% cocoa beans. Of course, such a product is several times more expensive, but you won't need a lot of cocoa on waffles.
Ingredients Required:
- Egg medium size 4 pieces
- Cocoa 1.5 tablespoons
- Flour 250 grams
- Sugar 200 grams
- Butter 150 grams
- Rum (or rum essence)
- Salt
Cooking method:
- Melt butter in a water bath.
- Mix egg, sugar, salt with a mixer. Without turning off the mixer, pour the melted butter to the mixture.
- Add a thin stream of flour and cocoa into the dough. Stir thoroughly to make the dough uniform.
Bake chocolate homemade waffles, bake for half a minute and roll up the straw.
Homemade waffles - secrets and tips from the best chefs
- If the recipe uses sour cream, you can replace it with homemade mayonnaise.
- The secret of golden waffles is turmeric in the recipe. Use on 2 glasses of flour half a spoon.
- When drown butter for the dough, it is most convenient to use a water bath. However, do not bring the oil to a boil.
- In addition to rum, you can add cognac to the dough, the waffles will turn out more fragrant and with a pleasant light taste.
- More oil in the recipe will make homemade waffles softer.
- Very tasty dessert will be waffles rolled into a tube, filled with inside. However, remember that waffles can be rolled up only while they are hot. After removing the waffle from the bottom of the waffle iron, immediately tighten it using a knife and a towel so as not to burn yourself. As soon as the tube cools, fill it with a thick boiled condensed milk or protein cream.
- Before you start baking waffles, prepare a waffle iron. To do this, heat it for ten minutes before starting the process, lubricate with oil. If the coating in the waffle iron is non-stick, then you can not lubricate, as the butter in the dough will not allow the product to stick.
- If you put ready-made hot waffles on top of each other, they soften and stick together. Place them separately - on a plate or board, and fold them tightly when the waffles are cool.
- To reduce the calorie content of waffles, or if you stick to a vegetarian way of eating, milk can be replaced with water in the same proportion. These homemade waffles will taste more fresh. Milk waffles are more soft and dark in color.
