It has been my dream for many years now to find a good recipe for yeast based Belgian Waffles. Recently a friend of mine shared how much she loved the recipe she uses and I gave it a try. I don’t think the regular waffles will impress my hubby after he tried these.
Yeast based waffles are richer, denser, sweeter and chewier. They will easily fly off the table as a dessert or make an impressive breakfast.
Belgian Waffles an be stored in a air tight container for 2-4 days.
Note: If you don’t have pearl sugar on hand you can crush some sugar cubes into pearl size pieces.
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Recipe
Yeast based waffles are richer, denser, sweeter and chewier. They will easily fly off the table as a dessert or make an impressive breakfast.
Ingredients
- 2 tbsp Instant Yeast
- 2/3 cup Milk
- 1 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt
- 5 cup Flour
- 6 Eggs
- 2 cup Melted Butter
- 2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Combine yeast, lukewarm milk and two table spoons of sugar into a bowl and let it sit for about 5 minutes, until bubbles appear.
- Combine the flour, reminder of sugar and salt in a separate bowl and make a well in the center.
- Pour the bubbly yeast mixture into the well and mix until combined. Into the mixture, add eggs, one at a time.
- Add melted butter, and vanilla extract to the dough. The dough will turn out sticky. Let the dough sit for about an hour in a warm place or until it doubles in volume.
- Heat the waffle iron to a medium. Place a spoonful of the dough in the middle of a waffle iron and flatten it slightly.
- Cook waffles until they are golden brown.
Do you use 2 cups or 2 sticks of butter? Two cups is a lot of butter.
You would use 2 cups of butter. This is a large portion, 5 cups of flour. The butter makes all the flakes in the waffles.
How many waffles does this recipe make?
This makes about 20 of them but this would depend on the size of your waffle maker.
Hi Natalya so what kind of sugar do you use?
Inside dough granulated sugar but you can also add pearl sugar while you are making waffles in the iron.
Hi Natalya! I saw this recipe and wanted to give it a try. At what point do you add pearl sugar? Its not listed in the ingredients list but in the comments section. I just want to make sure I am not missing anything. Thx
Its option to add pearl sugar to the dough while you are making it on waffle iron. I stopped adding pearl sugar. I should add more details to the recipe
With this new recipe my dough doesnt double in volume second time trying already. Cant figure out what im doing wrong.
There could be a lot of factors. is yeast fresh? Maybe the liquids are too hot and make yeast inactive or cold. As long as the steps are followed, it should work. Did you like the taste in the end?
Oh maybe my milk was cold...it was last minute idea to make waffles and i didn't warm up the milk. Definitely have to plan ahead next time. It tasted the same but sadly got less waffles out of it ?
Yeah when milk is cold it doesn't activate the yeast. Hope they turn out perfect next time.
I used 1 cup of melted butter, for sugar used brown sugar and didn't use pear sugar, nor added more sugar. Came out perfectly! Not too sweet, so I still could eat it with syrup or jam 🙂
That sounds delicious, I bet that brown sugar makes them really good.
What do you do with the cinnamon?
Hey Jillian, I added cinnamon to the instructions in step one. Great catch 😉 Thanks
I am a little bit confused, your recipe calls for 2 tablespoons and I have seen similar recipes that call only for 1. When I made these waffles, the yeast smell was so strong I didn't want to continue cooking and the taste was very prominent throughout the waffles as well. Has anyone else experienced this or might I have done something wrong?
I had the same thing happen, my waffles had strong taste of yest,
Gave this recipe another try today, had yeast, milk and sugar develop for about 20 minutes before adding to the flour mix and waffles turned out to be delicious. The only thing i would want to try next time is adding less butter as dough was very oily. 🙂
I will test the recipe again and see how they turn out. I have made them a few times and they were great.
I haven't heard this from anyone else. So far this is the way we have been making waffles. Maybe it's the yeast you used a bit more powerful.
where do you buy the pearl sugar?
I used sugar cubes and crushed them into pearl size peaces. I know you can find pearl sugar on amazon.
This looks heavenly! Im so looking forward to trying them. 😀 Thank you for the recipe! Can the dogh sit in the refrigerater over night so its ready to go without prep in the morning or no?
I havent tried letting dough sit overnight. But I think it would work, just dont add pearl sugar until right before cooking them.
You can make it night before and after rising place it in the fridge, it needs to get to room temperature before using it in the morning
Dasha, thank you so much. Thanks for amazing recipe
Okay, thanks!
What if I decide using regular sugar. How much cups would I need?
You can't use regular sugar instead of pearl, pearl sugar is what makes this liége waffles, without it it's not liege waffles.
I haven't tried using regular sugar, pearl size chunks of sugar add waffles nice crunch. If you dont want the sugar crunch, you dont have to add additional sugar. You can also add coconut flakes instead.