Liège waffles

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 12 waffles, you will need:

• 1 125 ml milk
• 2 250 g flour
• 3 1 egg
• 4 10 g caster sugar
• 5 10 g Vanilla sugar
• 6 125 g butter
• 7 ½ teaspoon salt
• 8 ½ teaspoon Bicarbonate of (baking) soda
• 9 20 g yeast
• 10 150 g Pearl sugar
• Total weight: 745 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
22 min.	1 hour 30 min.	3 min.	1 hour 55 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Prepare 125 ml milk.
2	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.
3	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.plastic sheet
4	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.
5	Make the waffles: pour a large spoonful of batter into each half of the lightly-oiled waffle iron and cook...
6	... 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.

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