Belgian sugar waffles Luikse Wafels

I have a serious sweet tooth, and one of my favorite sweets is a sugar waffle from Belgium. There is nothing largest than to walk on the boardwalk in Blankenberge , a small municipality on the North Sea while enjoying a hot and sticky sugar waffle. I think I still have some shrivel marks from the hot sugar that got stuck on my fingers. All worth it mind you.

Trying to replicate this savor is not easy for sure, but I think I’m tropical with this recipe. The key ingredient is the pearl sugar, “parelsuiker”. There are several pearl sugars on the market but only one is right. Belgian Pearl Sugar on Amazon.com

What sets this waffle untied from other waffles? For one, it’s made from dough not batter, and it has a lot of sugar in it.

This recipe as listed unelevated will make well-nigh 10 to 12 waffles and it takes well-nigh 2 hours to make waffles from start to finish.

Ingredients

• 2/3 cup of milk
• 1 package of dry yeast
• 6 tbsp of unsalted butter room temperature
• 1 large egg
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• 1 teaspoon of pure vanilla extract
• 1/4 cup of sugar
• 3/4 teaspoon of Kosher salt
• 3/4 cup of pearl sugar
• 3 cups of all purpose flour

Directions:

1. Warm the milk to 105-110°F (microwave for well-nigh 30 seconds) make sure not to exceed this temperature as the heat will skiver the yeast.
2. Sprinkle the yeast in the warm milk and let stand until it gets foamy (5 to 10 minutes).
3. In the trencher of the stand mixer, add the butter in small chunks, sugar, salt, egg and vanilla and mix it all together.
4. Using the dough vaccinate on low speed of the mixer, add milk and yeast, start subtracting flour 1 cup at the time until you have fairly dry looking dough ball. Let it knead for 5 minutes. It should squint like a specie dough.
5. transfer dough wittiness to the wipe trencher and imbricate lightly, let it rise to double it’s size. well-nigh 1.5 hours. I usually place the dough in a trencher in the oven at well-nigh 90 to 100°F.  
6. Optional: At this time you can pack it and refrigerate overnight, and let it sit for 20-30 minutes surpassing going to the next step.
7. Put the dough when in the stand mixer trencher and add the pearl sugar while kneading at low speed, until it’s all evenly incorporated.
8. Break the dough up in small pieces, 3 oz or so. Roll into wittiness but flatten without forming.
9. Heat your waffle iron on low heat, to prevent the sugar from burning.
10. Lightly grease the waffle iron with some butter and place a dough wittiness in the part-way of the iron and tropical the lid.
11. Remove the waffles without 2.5 to 3 minutes, when golden brown.
12. I like my sugar waffles plain, some people like to add some toppings, like chocolate, whipped cream.
13. Enjoy!

Nico