Luikse wafel
I present to you the greatest culinary achievement from Belgium: Luikse wafel. It’s not waffles! They are very crunchy and not fluffy at all. We had them as a top up to our breakfast. Awesome!
Przedstawiam Wam największe osiągnięcie kulinarne z Belgii: Luikse wafel. To nie gofry! Są bardzo chrupiące i w ogóle nie pulchne. Zjedliśmy je jako pośniadaniowy bonus. Wyborne!
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I got the recipe from Dyniel on Wykop.pl. Have a look at this guy’s bread. He’s a bad-ass baker.
Planning
Make sure you have a spare hour before cooking, or just chill in the freezer, mixing once or twice. That’s all.
You’ll need a waffle maker.
Ingredients
This was enough to make 12 pieces.
250 g plain flour
200 g melted butter
150 g sugar (that’s a lot, I’m fairly confident we could reduce it to 100 g or even less)
3 eggs
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 tablespoon vanilla pudding (instant powder)
a pinch of salt
1/2 vanilla pod (I had none but had some vanilla sugar, so I replaced some sugar with it)
Luikse wafel
Preparation
Melt the butter, but don’t burn it. Some use microwave to do it, I did it on a cooker
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, pudding and salt in a bowl
Open a pod and add the seeds into the bowl
Add eggs and mix the batter
Gradually add butter and mix to get a runny batter
Put it in a fridge for at least one hour to get stiff, kind of like ice-cream. I’m a lazy bastard, so I placed it in a freezer for 20 minutes, mixing it twice in the meantime
Heat up your waffle maker
Place a dollop of batter on the iron and close it to bake. Don’t make them rectangular like waffles, it’s supposed to be irregular
Transfer onto the cooling rack to get them cold and crunchy
Luikse wafel with marmalade
The recipe suggests there should be no additions, but I’m an ignorant, so I had them with a plum marmalade and also with maple syrup.
WARNING: they are very sweet. I will be trying to make an altered version based on the Dyniel’s experiments, replacing sugar with xylitol and white flour with a dark one. Stay tuned!
