How to make waffles in a waffle iron: instructions, recipe, waffle secrets

When a new waf­fle mak­er appears in the house or a “Sovi­et-type” unit is tak­en from the pantry, you always want to quick­ly test the device. And the rea­son­able ques­tion is how to make waf­fles in a waf­fle iron so that they turn out tasty, crispy and suc­cess­ful on the first try.

Homemade waffles: sweets options and cooking nuances

There are a lot of vari­eties of waf­fles, as well as the­mat­ic devices for their self-bak­ing. Wafers can be savory or sweet, vary in size and shape, have a vari­ety of fla­vors, and go well with a vari­ety of top­pings. At the same time, the con­cept of “clas­sic” or “tra­di­tion­al” waf­fle does not exist, the recipes for the usu­al sweet­ness depend on the coun­try or region where this or that vari­ety is espe­cial­ly pop­u­lar.

Depend­ing on the waf­fle iron you choose, you can bake dif­fer­ent ver­sions of this sweet at home. But it is worth­while to under­stand that when pur­chas­ing a device for work­ing with thin dough, it will not work to cook a Vien­nese ver­sion of a treat in it.

How to cook waf­fles in a waf­fle iron: the dif­fer­ence between house­hold appli­ances

1. If bak­ing dough is pre­ferred Sovi­et tech­nol­o­gy, then such waf­fles are often cooked on gas, they turn out thin, crispy. But there is a risk that they will burn, over­bake, since the old units are not equipped with tem­per­a­ture con­troller sen­sors, it is impos­si­ble to select the bak­ing mode. How to bake waf­fles in a waf­fle iron of such a plan? Just pour the dough inside the device with a thin lay­er, close the device tight­ly and wait 1.5–2 min­utes.
2. Using the device with swiv­el mech­a­nism, the cook­ing process is sim­pli­fied. Such mod­els of waf­fle irons cost a lot, but jus­ti­fy their price. After pour­ing the fin­ished dough into the kitchen device, the waf­fle iron clos­es and turns over, which helps the dough to bake bet­ter. Cook­ing time is a cou­ple of min­utes per serv­ing.
3. When you want to make volu­mi­nous, soft waf­fles in a waf­fle iron, you will need spe­cial mod­el for bak­ing thick dough. Thanks to this rub­ble unit, you can cook Vien­nese, Bel­gian, and even Amer­i­can waf­fles on your own. Often, such elec­tri­cal appli­ances make it pos­si­ble to make sev­er­al serv­ings of sweets at once. The dough poured inside is baked for no more than 2 min­utes.
4. How to make waf­fles thin and crispy? To do this, it is nec­es­sary not only to use non-yeast dough for waf­fles, but also to roll it over the entire sur­face of the device. You can cook such pas­tries only using waf­fle mak­er for thin waf­fles, hav­ing a rec­tan­gu­lar or round shape, shal­low hon­ey­combs. These sweets are baked very quick­ly, some­times 30 sec­onds is enough for readi­ness.

Most mod­ern mod­els for mak­ing such bak­ing at home have:

• indi­ca­tors that show the degree of readi­ness;
• spe­cial sen­sors with which you can set the cook­ing mode;
• addi­tion­al molds for bak­ing, they allow you to make waf­fles in the device not only in a round, square or rec­tan­gu­lar shape, but also in the form of hearts, stars, and oth­er shapes.

Cooking goodies in waffle irons of various types

Elec­tric waf­fle iron

1. Lubri­cate the inter­nal sur­faces with oil;
2. We turn on the device in the net­work;
3. We are wait­ing for 4–5 min­utes;
4. Dough. For thin waf­fles, pour 2 table­spoons on the bot­tom sur­face; for thick­er and denser dough. We take it the size of a child’s fist and lev­el it over the sur­face.
5. Close the top half and wait 4–5 min­utes. Open the lid from time to time and mon­i­tor the degree of brown­ing. Too pale will take anoth­er cou­ple of min­utes, and it’s time to take out the gold­en one.

Waf­fle iron for cook­ing sweets on gas

The prin­ci­ple is the same, only the device will heat up not from elec­tric­i­ty, but from being on the stove. To warm up, turn on the fire a lit­tle above medi­um, and bake the waf­fles them­selves over medi­um heat. The wait­ing time is the same as that of an elec­tri­cal appli­ance.

To check if the appli­ance is ready for bak­ing, do not touch it with your hands. In addi­tion to the risk of burns, you can get an elec­tric shock in the case of elec­tric mod­els. It is bet­ter to drip quite a bit of dough and if you see that the prepa­ra­tion has begun, you can safe­ly lay out the main por­tion.

Interesting Tips

If you are going to cook home­made sweets, you need to take into account that depend­ing on the type of waf­fles, the addi­tion­al ingre­di­ents and the method of knead­ing the dough will dif­fer slight­ly. Whichev­er option you choose, it is impor­tant to remem­ber that using more than 12 waf­fle ingre­di­ents at a time is not rec­om­mend­ed.

What can be added to the dough?

• sweet alco­holic drinks: rum, milk and choco­late liqueurs, fruit tinc­tures, cognac;
• yeast when you need to make Vien­nese waf­fles at home;
• var­i­ous fla­vors: fruit mix­tures and syrups, vanillin, cin­na­mon, spices;
• you can use chopped nuts, choco­late, dried fruits for waf­fle dough;
• for more fat-tast­ing sweets, cream, milk should be added to the waf­fle dough;
• this del­i­ca­cy can also be pre­pared on whey, bak­ing pow­der, with the addi­tion of soda or bak­ing pow­der, using var­i­ous flours, which will give a new taste to the prod­uct.

Lit­tle tricks

Very often it turns out that sweets stick to the sur­faces of the waf­fle iron grates. How to avoid it? It is enough to use fat­ty dough (not pan­cake), do not for­get to grease the sur­face of the waf­fle iron with oil, and also use pow­dered sug­ar, not gran­u­lat­ed sug­ar, in the process of prepar­ing the dough.

Before prepar­ing waf­fles in a waf­fle iron, this device must be warmed up for 10–15 min­utes. This will get rid of the result, in which the waf­fles are not baked to the end and look unap­pe­tiz­ing.

Regard­less of the size of the inner cells of the waf­fle iron, it is not rec­om­mend­ed to fill them with dough to the brim. Any, and espe­cial­ly yeast dough, will rise quick­ly, may leak or burn.

In a sit­u­a­tion where dough for waf­fles is knead­ed with bak­ing pow­der, it must be “defend­ed”. Start such a dough in the evening, so that it lies in the refrig­er­a­tor dur­ing the night. Only the next day, use it to pre­pare treats.

To make Vien­nese waf­fles in a home­made waf­fle iron soft, airy, it is nec­es­sary to stir the dough on them not very hard. And also add beat­en egg white to it at the very end.

When prepar­ing the dough, you need to thor­ough­ly soft­en the but­ter or mar­garine, bring to the same (room) tem­per­a­ture all the nec­es­sary ingre­di­ents for the select­ed del­i­ca­cy recipe.

If you want to cook crunchy sweets in a waf­fle iron for sev­er­al peo­ple, you need to use addi­tion­al bak­ing molds, and for an appe­tiz­ing crunch, add a lit­tle starch to the waf­fle dough.

How to cook waf­fles in a waf­fle iron quick­ly and sim­ply is described in the video below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5mSkaMdxBs

Homemade Waffle Dough Options

There are a lot of dif­fer­ent waf­fle recipes in waf­fle irons. They can be mixed with each oth­er, replace any com­po­nents, based on the final desired result. Three deli­cious and easy waf­fle dough recipes are pre­sent­ed below.

How to make dough for home­made sweets with yeast

3 cups flour, half a tea­spoon of salt and a stan­dard pack of yeast are mixed. Slight­ly warmed milk (400 ml) and 100 ml of melt­ed cold but­ter are poured into the result­ing mix­ture. Then 4 yolks are added and every­thing is mixed. The remain­ing pro­teins are whipped, poured into an almost ready dough. At the end, a spoon­ful of pow­dered sug­ar and a bag of vanillin are added.

The dough should be left for 50 min­utes in a heat­ed room, then used for its intend­ed pur­pose.

Waf­fle dough in a Sovi­et waf­fle iron

A glass of pow­dered sug­ar (or reg­u­lar sug­ar) is mixed with a bag of vanillin. 4 chick­en eggs are shak­en, sug­ar-vanil­la mix­ture is added to them. After you need to pour melt­ed but­ter (cold, 1 pack). Beat­ing the dough with a mix­er or fork, fine flour (2 cups), a pinch of salt and a tea­spoon of soda dilut­ed with a few drops of vine­gar are poured into it.

Cook­ing waf­fles in a waf­fle iron: dough with wheat flour

These sweets in a waf­fle iron have a fair­ly sim­ple recipe, although you need a lot of ingre­di­ents for the dough. Such waf­fles will have an unusu­al and mem­o­rable taste.

Mix half a glass of wheat flour with a quar­ter of a tea­spoon of bak­ing soda, 75 grams of starch and 3–5 table­spoons of thick sour cream. Hav­ing melt­ed a pack of mar­garine (or but­ter), add 2/3 cup of sug­ar, a pack­age of vanil­la to it, beat every­thing well. Com­bine the first and sec­ond mix­ture, pour­ing in slight­ly beat­en yolks (3 pieces), add a pinch of salt. Final­ly, stir the remain­ing egg whites and pour into the dough.

Mak­ing waf­fles at home using spe­cial house­hold appli­ances is not dif­fi­cult. Such a del­i­ca­cy can be served with jam, thick cream, reg­u­lar or boiled con­densed milk. Waf­fles are suit­able for both hearty break­fasts and fes­tive feasts, becom­ing a favorite del­i­ca­cy.