Belgium · dessert · English edition
Liège waffles
Dense yeasted waffles from a stiff dough with pearl sugar that caramelises on the outside.
10 servings · 125 minutes (estimated)

Ingredients
Quantities for 10 servings.
- 500 g Flour
- 180 ml Milk, warm
- 10 g Dry yeast
- 250 g Butter, softened
- 2 piece Eggs
- 60 g Brown sugar
- 250 g Pearl sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla
- 0.5 tsp Cinnamon
- 1 tsp Salt
Method
- Dissolve the yeast in the warm milk and leave it ten minutes, until it foams.
- Knead a dough from the flour, yeast mixture, eggs, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and salt.
- Work in the softened butter in stages, kneading until the dough is smooth and elastic.
- Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour and a half, until doubled.
- Work the pearl sugar in by hand, distributing it evenly but without long kneading.
- Divide the dough into ten lumps and rest them fifteen minutes.
- Bake them in the iron three minutes each, to a deep gold with a caramel crust.
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