Or to be more precise: from Liege as we call them “Gaufre Liégeoise” here…. I hadn’t done them in a long while and I fancied a change from pancakes…. Apologies for the lack of pictures at the beginning but I wasn’t thinking about my blog whilst making them….

Ingredients: Makes 18

• 550 g plain flour
• 15g vanilla sugar
• pinch of salt
• 3 eggs, lightly beaten
• 330ml lukewarm milk
• 1 ½ sachet fast action/ easy blend yeast
• 225g melted butter
• 100g pearl sugar ( I didn’t have any and still tasted perfect)

Preparation:

• Mix together the flour, sugar and salt
• Make a well and add in the eggs
• Mix the yeast into the milk and fold into the above mixture, the batter becomes quite compact
• Leave for 30mn, at room temperature away from draught (you won’t see much difference at this stage)
• Add the melted butter, a little at a time and well incorporated ( not easy) with a spatula
• Add the pearls if you have them
• The batter will loosen a little. Let it rest for at least 30mn to an hour. It will double in size and become very “elastic”

• Warm up your waffle iron and spoon a little in the middle, don’t try to spread it

• Close your iron but don’t lock it as it will rise quite a bit to form that “belgian” look

• YOU MUST: Enjoy warm! jam, chocolate, sugar, etc….