Name: Liège waffles
Prep time: 1 h 52 min
Cook time: 3 min
Total time: 1 h 55 min
Yield: 12 waffles
Cuisine: french
Ingredients: 125 ml milk; 250 g flour; 1 egg; 10 g caster sugar; 10 g Vanilla sugar; 125 g butter; ½ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon Bicarbonate of (baking) soda; 20 g yeast; 150 g Pearl sugar

Step by step recipe:

1 min.
Prepare 125 ml milk.
15 min.
Put into a food processor bowl: 250 g flour, 1 egg, 10 g caster sugar, 10 g Vanilla sugar, 125 g butter, ½ teaspoon salt, ½ teaspoon Bicarbonate of (baking) soda and 20 g yeast.
1 hour 30 min.
Knead on slow speed and slowly pour in the milk.

Once evenly mixed, continue kneading on slow speed for a further 5 minutes.

Cover the bowl and leave to rest in a warm place for about 1 hour 30 minutes.
5 min.
Heat the waffle iron.

Pour 150 g Pearl sugar onto the batter and mix well (you can do this with the food processor for 30 seconds).

Note: the sugar crystals are added at the last minute so that they don't dissolve. They add a little crunch to the inside of the waffle.
1 min.
Make the waffles: pour a large spoonful of batter into each half of the lightly-oiled waffle iron and cook...
3 min.
... until the waffles are golden brown.

Remarks:

To bring out the caramel flavour, you can dust the batter with a little caster sugar just before closing the waffle iron.

If you don't have sugar crystals, you can use granulated sugar or crushed sugar lumps (use a hammer).

As always with regional recipes I wish to stress an important point: this should not be taken as "the" Liège waffle recipe, but just one among many.

Source:

From the Internet, but dedicated to my son Nicolas, recently installed in Brussels.

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