There's Messy unpacking our latest kitchen gadget, a Krups waffle maker. We won it during Foster's Urban Homeware's grand opening weekend raffle. They were gave away all kinds of really cool stuff to celebrate the opening of their new store on 4th and Market — how awesome of them! Messy — who has not won anything by chance since age the age of five (when she won a Peanut Butter and Jam LP and a Puffalump in a church raffle) even though she is obsessive about entering contests every chance she gets — was so amazed to see that her ticket had won. But when she looked at it the winning ticket closely, it turned out to be Picky's handwriting. So. . . one of us won, and we're really happy about that. Thanks, Foster's!
As you can see, our new waffle iron is all nice and shiny. No smudges. No stains. No cracks. No batter.
It's all primed and ready to go. There's only one problem – neither of us have a good waffle recipe. What we're looking for is a solid waffle recipe (without bananas, Messy doesn't like bananas) that we can try out for brunch. Vegan recipes are especially welcome as we have several vegan friends.
The best homemade waffle recipe I've tried comes from Alton Brown. They have a higher sugar and fat ratio than say, pancake batter, to ensure cripsy brown outsides and light airy insides:
4 3/4 ounces all-purpose flour, approximately 1 cup
4 3/4 ounces whole-wheat flour, approximately 1 cup
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons sugar
3 whole eggs, beaten
2 ounces unsalted butter, melted
16 ounces buttermilk, room temperature
Vegetable spray, for waffle iron
Preheat waffle iron according to manufacturer's directions.
In a medium bowl whisk together the flours, soda, baking powder, salt, and sugar. In another bowl beat together eggs and melted butter, and then add the buttermilk. Add the wet ingredients to the dry and stir until combined. Allow to rest for 5 minutes.
Ladle the recommended amount of waffle batter onto the iron according to the manufacturer's recommendations.
Yay for winning things!
We tried two of the three banana-free waffle recipes from the Vegan With a Vengeance cookbook – Ginger Pear and Lemon Corn with Blueberry Sauce – using that very same lovely waffle iron (which belongs to someone else). The batter is pretty quick to make and variety is fun so we made half-recipes of both, and they were both tasty, but I can't really strongly recommend them because the waffles came out much floppier than we expected (which might be the fault of the inexperienced waffle-makers rather than the recipes).
Nice!
Try my chocoholic waffles with cacao nibs:
http://urbanvegan.blogspot.com/2007/10/chocoholic-waffles-with-cacao-nibs.html
or my Better Than Buttermilk Waffles (Scroll down for the recipe):
http://urbanvegan.blogspot.com/2007/02/ice-ice-baby.html
[...] As we mentioned before, we won a Krups waffle maker from one of our favorite stores in all of Philly, Foster's Urban Homeware. Shortly after picking up the waffle maker, we decided to throw a little waffle brunch party with a few friends. We asked for some recipes and got a few responses from our fellow waffle-loving foodies. We were originally going to make three types of waffles, but after realizing how many waffles we could get out of one batch, we decided to only make two: standard buttermilk and vegan chocolate. The photo above is of e's suggestion of using the Alton Brown waffle recipe. It was the first time either of us had made waffles so the first batch weren't perfect squares, but they look nice, eh? They also tasted excellent. [...]