The Waffle Web

The beginning of this story

When my wife and I bought a house 10 years ago The Nova waffle baker was sitting in the closet.

If you understand dutch you can read from the text this is an old booklet. It implies that only women bake waffles.

In 2007 A coworker shared a secret recipe with me. I started baking waffles for birthdays and occasions. They always got really good feedback. Good stories never last, so the original Nova waffle Iron started deteriorating (the stand broke, then the cables (which wer still fabric) started wearing. One day the machine fell and the handle broke too. It was time for a new one.

I went looking for a good waffle iron, not the 15 euro mass produce. I found the Frifri. It has changeable irons for multiple waffle types (wich I wanted). This is what I use now. The new Frifri does not come with nice recipes and a cool booklet like Nova's used to have.

A quick recipe for 5 waffles

Kitchen

Breakfast

4/4 (quatrequart) recipe

10 o'clock snack

soft

Diner

Brussels

Dessert

Chantilly

Dessert

Cinnamon

For travel

Fruit waffles

Kids party

Fine

Almond

Hunting

Sugarwaffles

Secret grandmothers waffle recipe

The waffle recipe that rules them all

Lukken (Galetten)

This recpie of Crispy butterwaffles (lukken or galetjes) is really super super good.

These are kind of hard to make. You need a specific Iron, the timing has to be absolutely right (if not they will be yellow/mellow or dark and overkooked). When they're golden and you aded the salt in the correct temperature and moment. Your tastebuds explode with taste. Makes people look at you with funny hungry eyes.

• 200 g flower
• 150 g sugar
• 105 g butter, room temp.
• 1 egg
• 1/2 vanille (but I go with a full one)
• Pinch of coarse sea salt

Mix the sugar with the butter, stir well until the sugar is completely dissolved. Cut open the vanilla pod, scrape out the seeds with a small knife, and add them to the batter. Add the egg, knead well. Add the flour and coarse sea salt, knead until it forms a homogeneous mixture. Cover the batter with plastic wrap and let it rest overnight (i dont have the nerves foor this long). Preheat the waffle iron, make balls of approximately 25 grams from the waffle batter. Bake the waffles until crispy (and golden colored). Use my waffle timer for repeating the exact bakes.