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!

Belgian Family Recipe for Every Day Waffles!

8 cups of flour
2 cups of SPARKLING water
4 cups of milk
2 cups of butter or margarine
5 eggs
4 packages of vanilla sugar (if you can't find this, use vanilla extract to taste)
2 packages of dry yeast
2 tablespoon of sugar
1 tablespoon of oil

1. Put a big pan on the stove and make the milk lukewarm
2. add the butter and let it melt
3. take it of the stove and add the water
4. in another bowl put the flour
5. add the sugar, separate the egg whites and add the egg yolks to the flour
6. beat the egg whites to snow and fold them with WOODEN spoon under the dough
7. let rise for about 15 minutes under a towel in warm place
8. stir the dough once and let rise until it doubled in size
9. bake in hot waffle maker!
10. eat warm with your favorite toppings!

Girl-Scout Waffles!!!

These are waffles that the scouts in Belgium like to make for fundraising or just because they want to eat them themselves!  With this recipe you can make about 40 waffles!

8 cups of self rising flour

4 cups of milk

2 cups of water

3 tablespoons of sugar

2 packages of vanilla sugar (if  you can't find this, just use vanilla extract)

1 package of backing powder

1 tablespoon of oil

1 cup of butter

2 eggs

1. Mix flour, vanilla, sugars, backing powder, oil, egg yolks and liquids in a BIG bowl

2. melt the butter and let cool of

3. add butter to mix

4. take the egg whites and beat them to snow, fold them under the dough

5. bake in hot waffle maker!

6. Eat hot with favorite topping!

Leen

Belgian Breakfast Waffles

2 cups of self rising flour
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup of high quality butter
2 cups of SPARKLING WATER
pinch of salt

1. Take big bowl and sift the flour
2. add salt, sugar
3. melt the butter and add to mix
4. add sparkling water and mix well
5. add egg yolks one by one and mix well
6. beat egg whites to snow and fold nicely under the mixture
7. bake immediately!

Add your favorite topping!  

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

Every Day Waffles!

8 cups of self rising flour
3 cups of SPARKLING water
3 cups of milk
8 eggs
1 1/4 cup butter
vanilla extract (or if  you can find it 3 packages of vanilla sugar)

1. Mix flour with the water, milk and vanilla
2. stir well so you get a light dough
3. add egg yolks
4. melt the butter and add to mixture
5. whip the egg whites to snow
6. fold the egg whites into the dough
7. heat your waffle maker and start baking!

Waffles with Buttermilk!

5 cups of flour
4 1/4 cup buttermilk
1 or 2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon soda
pinch of salt

1. Put pot on stove and make the milk lukewarm, take from stove
2. add flour little by little
3. add soda and sugar and mix well
4. beat eggs and add to dough
5. add oil and mix well
6. bake in hot waffle maker!  

Warm Waffles Made with Ice Cold Water!

8 cups of flour

2 packages of dry yeast
4 eggs
1 cup of butter
2 tablespoons of white sugar
vanilla (in Belgium we use vanilla sugar, but a bit of extract will do the job)
1 tablespoon of Potato starch
3 cups of milk
2 cups of water
1 cup of ICE water
1 tablespoon oil


1. Dissolve the yeast in a bit of lukewarm water
2. put flour in a big container and add the yeast mixture
3. add the sugar, the vanilla,  and the egg yolks
4. put a pot on the stove and warm the milk and the 2 cups of water, let the butter melt in it
5. add this with the flour mix and stir well
6. let rise for about an hour in a warm place
7. whip the egg whites to snow
8. add the spoon of oil to the mixture
9. fold in the egg whites
10. heat your waffle maker
11. add the ice water to the dough
12. bake in hot waffle maker!

Working with the ice water, gives you a crispy waffle on the outside and soft on the inside.  Nice with fruit, butter, powder sugar and/or whipped cream!

Very Light Warm Belgian Waffles!

2 cups self rising flour
1 cup milk
2 cups of SPARKLING water
3 tablespoons of butter (=about 100 gr)
2 eggs

1. Put flour in big bowl
2. add the milk little by little and mix well
3. add egg yolks and mix well
4. add the sparkling water
5. melt the butter and add to the mixture
6. take the egg whites and whip them until they are stiff
7. fold them nicely under the dough
8. heat your waffle iron and bake the waffles when it is hot

As you can see, there is no sugar in the dough, so you can choose your own "sweetening" topping!

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!

Grandma Waffles!

This is a recipe from around 1912 in Belgium!


8 cups of all purpose flour
2 1/2 cups water
2 1/2 cups milk
2 cups sugar
2 cups margarine
5 eggs
1 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cream of tartar

1. Take a big pot and warm up most of the water and milk together until lukewarm
2. add sugar and margarine and let melt
3. take off the stove and let cool off a bit
4. add the egg yolks and mix well
5. take egg whites and beat them to snow
6. add flour to milk mix and mix well
7. fold in the egg snow
8. take a bit of the left over water and solve the soda in it, add it to mixture
9. do the same with the cream of tartar and also ad to mixture
10.  bake in hot waffle iron!

Inauguration Waffles!

This is a recipe from Annick's Grandmother in Belgium!

8 cups of all purpose flour
4 cups of milk
1 1/4 blocks fresh yeast (0.6 once size)
1 cup butter (or margarine)
1 cup and 1/4 white sugar
3 eggs
1 tbsp oil
pinch of salt

1. Melt the butter in a pan on a light fire or in the microwave and set aside
2. make your milk lukewarm on the stove and add sugar and yeast
3. put the flour in a big bowl and whisk the milk mix into it
4. separate egg whites and beat them to snow, set aside
5. add egg yolks to mixture and whisk well
6. add oil and butter
7. whisk well until you have a smooth batter
8. slowly fold the egg whites under the batter
9. let rise for at least 30 minutes or until it doubled in size
10. heat your waffle maker and start baking!

Choose your own topping!

Leen

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

Authentic Belgian Waffles

8 cups of all purpose flour
3 cups of milk (2% is fine)
3 cups of SPARKLING water
1 package of yeast
pinch of salt
4 sticks of butter
8 eggs
1 tablespoon white sugar

1. heat butter and milk together until luke warm
2. add sugar and take off the stove
3. add the sparkling water, the flour and the yeast (broken in a little bit of water)
4. separate the egg yolks from the white and add the yolks in the dough mixture
5. whip egg whites until stiff, together with the salt and fold it under the dough
6. leave it in a warm spot and let rise for 1/2 hour
7. bake in hot waffle maker
8. serve with powdered sugar en/or your favorite toppings on top!

K.