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Waffles for Valentine's

Waffles and Strawberries

Today I feel like sharing desert recipes for people to cook together on Valentine’s Day, or any days you feel like wining a heart of somebody over! After seeing somebody for a while and you have been to his/hers’ place before…What did the trick for me last time was to bring waffles & strawberries along. He/she will love it – and there are plenty for his/hers mama, papa, grandma and grandpa, and we all had a great afternoon. The recipe for the wonder waffles is a mix of various other waffle recipes, and I usually like them to be more on the dense side.

Waffles and strawberries

The recipe is pretty straightforward. Whisk soft butter and sugar together in a bowl. Add lemon zest and/or vanilla (scraped out of a length-wise cut vanilla bean).
Now individually add the four eggs and beat the mix well after each one. Add both the milk and the cream, as well as the flour. Depending on how you want the dough (more or less dense) feel free to vary the amount of flour, a good starting point is 150g. Meanwhile heat up the waffle iron and brush it lightly with the butter if needed.
Pour batter into the center of the lower half of the waffle maker. Try not to use too much batter, since it’s a superfluous (literally) experience to clean up a sticky and hot waffle iron…been there done that. Bake them for a few minutes (3-5) until they become golden brown. Let them cool on a plate.
Layer the waffles with whipped cream (with the 1/2 vanilla bean) and the sliced strawberries - depending on how sweet you like it, you can add a little more sugar (e.g. to the whipped cream). Dust lightly with powdered sugar.

It was fun to pick off the layers individually, a probably contrary method to the original intended one (slicing it more like a cake) - of course we weren’t asked ;) However, we still prefer it the old fashioned way straight from the iron, with warm cherry compote and whipped cream on top gradually melting away…