I cook today: Belgian waffles with hot cherries
Preparation: 35 minutes
Cooking time: 35 minutes
Total time: 70 minutes
Category: Baking recipes, waffle recipes, dessert recipes, sweets & more
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Belgian waffles with hot cherries
Belgian waffles with hot cherries
Ingredients for 12 waffles:
- 300 grams of flour
- 300 milliliters of milk
- 300 milliliters of water
- 3 eggs
- 150 grams of butter
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- ½ cube of yeast
- Powdered sugar to dust the waffles
- A pinch of salt
- 1 glass of sour cherries
- 1 heaping teaspoon of cornflour
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- Some oil for the waffle maker
Kitchen Helper/Gadgets:
- Mixing Bowl
- Mixer
- Kitchen towel
- Sieve
- Waffle iron/maker
- Brush
Instructions:
…preparations:
Melt 150 grams of butter in the microwave. Crumble ½ cube of yeast into a high vessel, pour in 300 milliliters of lukewarm water and whisk until yeast has completely dissolved. Separate 3 eggs in egg yolks and egg whites.
…for the batter:
Give egg yolks together with flour, milk, yeast-water, 1 tablespoon of sugar and the melted butter into a mixing bowl. Mix all ingredients using a blender/mixer until a smooth batter and let rest/stand covered with a kitchen towel for about 30 minutes.
…other preparations:
Beat egg whites until stiff with a pinch of salt.
…for the hot cherries:
Drain sour cherries through a sieve, collect the juice in a bowl. Stir 3 – 4 tablespoons of cherry juice together with a heaping teaspoon of cornstarch and 1 packet of vanilla until smooth.
Heat up a small saucepan adding the remaining cherry juice and bring to a simmer. Stir in the cornflour mixture and continue to simmer for about 1 minute. Add the drained cherries, give them a good stir and then remove the saucepan from the heat.
…for the belgian waffles:
Briefly stir the batter after the resting period, then carefully fold in the stiff egg whites. Slightly brush the waffle iron with oil, then give about 1 ladle of batter per waffle in a waffle iron and fry for about 4 – 5 minutes until golden brown.
Serve the waffles still hot on plates and dust with icing sugar. Serve waffles together with hot cherries.
Bon Appetite!
Video Tutorial:
Watch the video tutorial to see the recipe and the preparation method precisely (German Audio only, English Subtitles available):