Luikse wafel

Luikse wafel
Pre-prep Time: 1 hour (chilling batter) (unverified)
Prep Time: 15 minutes (unverified)
Cook Time: 3-5 minutes per waffle (unverified)
Servings: 12 pieces (unverified)

I got the recipe from Dyniel on Wykop.pl. Have a look at this guy’s bread. He’s a bad-ass baker.

Dyniel’s bread. Source Recipe

Time Planning

Make sure you have a spare hour before cooking, or just chill in the freezer, mixing once or twice. That’s all.
You’ll need a waffle maker.

Ingredients

This was enough to make 12 pieces.

  • 250 g plain flour
  • 200 g melted butter
  • 150 g sugar (that’s a lot, I’m fairly confident we could reduce it to 100 g or even less)
  • 3 eggs
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 tablespoon vanilla pudding (instant powder)
  • a pinch of salt
  • 1/2 vanilla pod (I had none but had some vanilla sugar, so I replaced some sugar with it)

Luikse wafel
Luikse wafel

Instructions

  1. Melt the butter, but don’t burn it. Some use microwave to do it, I did it on a cooker
  2. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, pudding and salt in a bowl
  3. Open a pod and add the seeds into the bowl
  4. Add eggs and mix the batter
  5. Gradually add butter and mix to get a runny batter
  6. Put it in a fridge for at least one hour to get stiff, kind of like ice-cream. I’m a lazy bastard, so I placed it in a freezer for 20 minutes, mixing it twice in the meantime
  7. Heat up your waffle maker
  8. Place a dollop of batter on the iron and close it to bake. Don’t make them rectangular like waffles, it’s supposed to be irregular
  9. Transfer onto the cooling rack to get them cold and crunchy

Luikse wafel with marmalade
Luikse wafel with marmalade

The recipe suggests there should be no additions, but I’m an ignorant, so I had them with a plum marmalade and also with maple syrup.

WARNING: they are very sweet. I will be trying to make an altered version based on the Dyniel’s experiments, replacing sugar with xylitol and white flour with a dark one. Stay tuned!