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Showing posts with label Cookie Waffles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cookie Waffles. Show all posts

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Mini Waffles

500 g self rising flour
300 g sugar
250 g butter
4 eggs
2 packages of vanilla sugar
pinch of salt
heavy cream

1. beat the butter together with the sugar
2. add the eggs one by one
3. add salt and flour
4. if you want a real soft dough, add a bit of heavy cream, mix well
5. put the dough in the fridge for about 15 minutes
6. role little balls from the dough
7. bake them in hot waffle maker!
8. you can keep them in an airtight container up to a week



Saturday, March 2, 2013

Waffles to take to school!

My kids always take waffles to schools in stead of cup cakes whenever there is a birthday or something to celebrate.  It happens regularly that mothers ask me for the recipe so their kids would stop begging them for these waffles!

8 cups of selfrizing flour
6 sticks of butter or margarine
3 1/2 cups of fine white sugar
8 eggs
1 cup milk

1. Melt the butter together with the sugar
2. take from the stove and add flour, mix well
3. separate egg whites from yolks
4. add egg yolks to batter
5. add milk and mix well until you get a nice batter
6. beat egg whites to snow and fold them under the batter
7. let stand for at least 1/2 hour
8. bake in hot waffle maker!
9. let them cool of and wrap them individually in nice bags to take to school!

Saturday, February 23, 2013

Waffles with Pearl Sugar

4 cups of flour
1 package of dry yeast
1 egg
1/2 cup of milk
1/2 cup of water
2 sticks of butter
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
1/2 cup of Pearl Sugar
1 tablespoon of regular white sugar

1. dissolve yeast in the milk
2. add egg, mix well
3. add cinnamon, water, regular sugar, salt and butter
4. add sifted flour, mix well
5. in the end fold the pearl sugar under the dough
6. let rest for at least 15 minutes
7. bake in a hot waffle maker
8. let cookie waffles cool off



Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Nuts and Fruit Waffles!

4 cups of flour
1 cup white sugar
3,5 sticks of butter
6 eggs
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 packages of vanilla sugar (if you can't find this, use a bit of vanilla extract)
1/2 packages of vanilla powder (this is powder to make vanilla pudding)
pinch of salt

1. Put flour, powder, sugar and salt in bowl, mix well
2. melt the butter and let cool of
3. add the eggs to the butter one by one
4. add this mixture to the bowl and mix well until you have a smooth batter
5. let batter rest for a couple of hours, or if possible over night
6. add dry nuts, raisins, orange or lemon zest or any other kind of dried fruit
7. bake in warm waffle maker
8. SERVE COLD WITHOUT TOPPING

You can keep these cookie waffles for at least a week in an air tight container.
Vanilla extract and vanilla powder add taste and texture to this waffles, but if you can't find these ingredients, just try the waffles without.  

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Wheat Waffles Cookies

4 cups of wheat flour
3 sticks of butter (or margarine)
3 packages of vanilla sugar (or vanilla extract)
6 eggs
2 1/3 cups sugar

1. Put flour in a bowl, together with the sugar, mix well
2. melt the butter and let cool of
3. add butter to flour mix and stir well
4. separate egg whites from yolks
5. add egg yolks one by one and mix well
5. beat egg whites to snow and fold it under the dough
6. let rise for 1 hour
7. bake in hot waffle maker

These waffles you can keep for at least a week in an airtight container!

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Valentine Belgian Waffles!

For this recipe you best use a waffle maker that has a heart shaped plate, but if you don't have this, you can use whatever plate you have and make the toppings more decorative eg. a heart out of whipped cream!


2 cups of flour
pinch of baking powder
1 1/3 stick of unsalted butter or margarine
3/4 cup of fine white sugar
1 package of vanilla sugar (if you can't find this, just use a bit of vanilla extract)
2 eggs

1. beat butter until creamy
2. add sugar and eggs and beat well again
3. add the sifted flour and the backing powder and mix well
4. put this batter in a pastry bag so you can put it nicely on the waffle maker
5. you have to cool off these waffles and you can keep them for more than a week in an airtight container!



Monday, February 11, 2013

Belgian Cookie Waffles!

5 cups of flour
7 eggs
2 cups of fine white sugar
2 packages of vanilla sugar (you can use vanilla extract when you can't find this)
3 sticks of butter

1. Put a pot on the stove and melt the butter
2. separate egg whites and beat them to snow
3. put egg yolks in a separate bowl and add the sugar and vanilla, beat well
4. add the butter to mix and stir well
5. add sifted flour to mixture and stir until you get nice dough
6. fold in the egg whites
7. let rest for half hour in fridge
8. bake in hot waffle maker!



Saturday, February 2, 2013

Super Bowl Waffles!!!

With these waffles you can score a lot of points with your super bowl friends! It is a waffle that you can keep for more than a week in an airtight container and you serve them (as cookies) for desert!
You will have about 50 waffles with this recipe:

8 cups of flour
2 cups powdered sugar
2 cups white sugar
5 packages of vanilla sugar (if you can't find these packages, just use a bit of vanilla extract)
3 cups of margarine or butter
15 eggs


1. Melt the butter in a large pot on the stove and dissolve the sugar in it
2. add the flour
3. add the eggs one by one, mix well together until you get a nice dough
4. bake in hot waffle maker
5. let them cool off and serve or put them in container




Saturday, January 26, 2013

Cookie Waffles

You can keep these waffles at least for a week in an airtight container.

4 cups of self rising flour
2 cups of butter
2 cups fine white sugar
10 eggs
little bit of vanilla extract (in Belgium we use Vanilla sugar, if you can find it, use 1 package)

1. Take big container and mix the butter with the sugar, add vanilla
2. add the egg yolks one by one and mix well until you get a smooth batter
3. add flour to batter
4. take egg white and beat them to snow
5. fold in the egg snow
6. heat your waffle iron
7. start baking!



Monday, January 14, 2013

Belgian Cookie Waffles

These waffles are meant to eat like cookies and since they are already sweet enough, you don't need a topping!  You can usually keep them for a week or more in a closed box.  You can make about 50 waffles with this recipe from grandma's kitchen:

Ingredients:

3 cups of creamy butter
5 cups of white sugar
8 cups of all purpose flour
10 to 20 eggs
1 package of baking powder

1. Take a big pot and melt the butter on a small fire  (do not make it too hot)
2. take the pot off the stove and with a wooden spoon, fold in the sugar
3. separate the egg whites from yolks
4. add yolks to batter and stir well with wooden spoon
5. add the flour and stir until you get a nice batter
6. whip egg whites until stiff and fold them under the batter
7. let your batter stand for at least 15 minutes in a warm place
8. bake it in a hot waffle iron