Crispy shortcakes, with or without the filling - a whole page of European confectionery art. Even in the Middle Ages, they entered the menu and the folklore of citizens and villagers, they were prepared at fairs, served to the nobility table.
Confectioners made dozens of recipes for the waffles themselves and without counting the number of fillers and fillings. Waffle cones filled with cheese and seafood, in the course are mushrooms, minced meat and vegetables. But there is no better waffle than filled with condensed milk, cream, and just jam or honey. Sweet tubules and horns scatter from the stalls of street vendors, like scared sparrows.
Today we are preparing this luxurious treat at home. The process will be fascinating, but time consuming, and, the most difficult, - to save at least some sweets from the main small tasters.
General principles of making waffles
The presence of an electric waffle iron is a big plus in making waffles. It significantly reduces the time and facilitates the process itself. In the absence of such an assistant, many refuse to treat and completely in vain, because waffles can be baked in a frying pan and even in the oven.
The main components of any waffle dough are eggs, flour, sugar and fat: butter or margarine. But this is only a basic basis, the dough is often complemented with products that give homemade waffles softness or, on the contrary, make them crispy. Such an additive can be sour cream, milk, kefir, cottage cheese. For taste usually put vanilla, but if desired, it can be replaced with cinnamon powder. To make the waffles have a coffee flavor, the dough is prepared with coffee brewed in milk.
How to bake waffles in an electromixer? Before baking, both work surfaces are abundantly rubbed with vegetable oil and only then included in the network. The dough is poured on the work surface after full warming up, for which the device is kept closed for at least 10 minutes. The dough is poured strictly in the center of the bottom plate and, without leveling, cover the top. Baking usually takes from one and a half to three minutes, depending on the power of the device. Willingness can be established and visually, when the crackle is sufficiently propeksya, stops steaming. Cooking in a pan almost does not differ from the previous version. Due to the lack of pressure on the dough from above, it should immediately be poured into a thin layer, giving the desired shape, and invert in time.
Bake waffles in the oven a little longer and the process itself is more time consuming. The dough is usually poured on a baking sheet, previously rubbed with vegetable oil. But it is best to cover it with a silicone substrate. Bake waffles in the oven in stages. Initially, they hold it for four minutes, then they take it out and let it stand for a minute. Then put the baking sheet in the oven again and bake for a minute.
Ready waffles are left in the form of cakes or immediately, still hot, rolled up in the form of horns and tubules.
Homemade waffles can be used as cake cakes or simply served with tea with jam or condensed milk. The most common application is tubules or horns with a filling.
A classic recipe for simple waffles with condensed milk - horn “Lakomka”
Ingredients:
large eggs - five pieces;
200 gr. sugar;
wheat flour - one glass;
200 gr. quality margarine.
For filling:
a small can of condensed milk.
Cooking Method:
Before foaming, beat eggs with sugar in a mixer.
Add the melted, cooled, margarine, and again everything is well whipped.
Stirring with a whisk or spoon, in small portions enter the sifted flour. Knead thoroughly, each time controlling the uniformity of the dough. Lumps should not remain.
We cover the upper and lower surfaces of the waffle iron with vegetable oil. We warm up for at least five minutes in the closed state.
We open, in the center we pour one and a half spoons of dough and, without waiting for its spreading, tightly close. After a minute, open, gently remove the wafer with a spatula and immediately turn it into a cone. Waffle iron at this time close.
Turning the horn, pour the next portion of dough into the device.
Cooled waffles are filled with caramelized condensed milk.
Simple waffles in an electric waffle on sour cream
Ingredients:
melted butter - half a cup;
sugar - five tablespoons;
one cup of wheat flour; half a cup of sour cream;
eggs - 5 pieces, selected.
Cooking Method:
Choose two bowls. Carefully, keeping the shell of yolks, splitting the shell of eggs. Squirrels need to be drained into one bowl, and the yolks into another.
Proteins are placed in the refrigerator, and sugar is added to the yolks and carefully ground. It should be a homogeneous white mass.
Pour into the yolks non-hot melted butter, add sour cream and whisk thoroughly. It is better to take a mixer, then the grains of sugar dissolve faster. Gradually pouring the flour, knead until homogeneous.
We get a bowl of squirrels. Add a little, literally with a match head, salt and begin to slowly beat. The mixer speed is increased gradually. Beating whites in a strong foam, we shift them to the yolk mass. Slowly, we interfere the curvy mass from top to bottom.
Pour a full spoonful of dough in the middle of the grated butter and the preheated form and close it tightly. Holding the handles in order not to weaken the pressure of the upper plate, bake the wafer for one and a half minutes.
Hooking a knife or a wide shovel, transfer the product to the table and immediately wrap it up in a straw. You can not hesitate, even slightly cooled cake will not curtail gently.
Recipe for unsweetened simple waffles on milk for electric waffle
Ingredients:
wheat flour - 200 gr .;
one egg;
half a spoon of lemon;
a glass of milk;
three tablespoons of melted margarine;
baking soda - 0.5 spoon;
half a teaspoon of vegetable oil.
Cooking Method:
Cooking baking powder. Combine soda with citric acid, thoroughly stir.
Twice on a fine sieve, sow the flour, mix it with a self-prepared ripper. We do this not with a spoon, but with a whisk - the ripper will spread evenly.
Beat the yolk with cool milk, pour over the flour, mix. In a thin trickle, stirring the flour mass in a circle, enter the melted and cooled margarine. Beating, bring the dough to homogeneity. Then we cover the bowl with the canvas and set aside for an hour. Protein at this time, put in the refrigerator.
Beat the cooled protein in foam and gently mix in the dough. Apply vegetable oil on both halves of the waffle iron with a thin layer, turn it on in the net and leave to stand closed for warming up.
In the usual pattern we bake waffles. Finished products do not lay out a stack. It is advisable to lay them on the grill to dry out a bit.
Simple waffles on cottage cheese
Ingredients:
elastic, 9%, cottage cheese - 100 gr .;
two eggs;
two spoons of sugar;
50 gr. natural cream, preferably 72%, butter;
three spoons of flour;
teaspoon of vanilla sugar crystals;
baking soda - a quarter of a teaspoon;
homemade sugar powder.
Cooking Method:
In a wide bowl, break the eggs. Pierce the shell of yolks, razbaltyvaem to homogeneity. Add the cooled melted butter, sugar and whisk well.
In the prepared mass we grind the curd through a sieve. Pour flour, then soda, stir the dough until smooth. Do not whisk.
On a preheated, buttered waffle iron, lay out no more than one and a half spoons of dough, bake for about two minutes. Readiness can be easily determined by a couple. When the cake is ready he stops quitting.
After cooling, we put the finished cottage cheese waffles with icing sugar.
Simple waffles on kefir - “Dietetic”
Ingredients:
kefir, maximum fat content - one glass;
100 gr. sugar;
two eggs;
2 spoons of frozen butter;
a full glass (without a hill) of flour;
teaspoon of soda, incomplete.
Cooking Method:
Pour kefir in a bowl. We put soda and, having stirred well, we maintain a quarter of an hour so that the “ripper” is activated in an acidic environment.
Separately whip eggs with sugar. We achieve not only uniformity, but also maximum dissolution of sugar crystals.
Combine kefir with egg mixture. Mix, add all the flour and stir thoroughly again.
Ready, the consistency of a rare sour cream, pour the dough in a spoon on a preheated waffle iron. We bake about two minutes.
Recipe for simple waffles in the oven on a baking sheet
Ingredients:
squirrels of four eggs;
80 gr. sugar, homemade powder;
half a cup of flour;
5 gr. crystalline vanillin;
cream - 4 tbsp. l
Cooking Method:
Put the egg whites in the fridge. After an hour we reach, add a small pinch of salt to them and start to beat slowly. When they begin to foam, the whisk revolutions gradually increase. Beat until a stable foam. Mix powdered sugar with flour. Twice the mixture, add vanilla sugar into it and whisk it. Gradually mix flour mixture with whipped proteins, at the end add cool milk.
Lubricate the silicone backing with oil, you can also take an ordinary baking sheet. We warm the oven to reach a temperature of 180 degrees.
Pour a tablespoon of dough on the prepared surface in three places and gently spread it. Ideal to make a circle in diameter of not more than 15 cm, 2 mm thick.
Waffles are baked in stages. First put the pan in the oven for four minutes. Then we take and leave for a minute on the table. Then put it in the oven again and bring to readiness for a minute.
Hot waffles roll up the cone or tube.
Simple waffles with coffee
Ingredients:
instant coffee - 30 g .;
150 ml of milk;
standard bag of vanilla sugar;
half a pack of sweet cream butter;
three eggs;
sugar - 75 g;
ripper for dough, factory - 0.2 teaspoons;
150 gr. flour.
Cooking Method:
Pour milk into the pan. Add vanilla, set to maximum heat. Bringing to a hot state, we fall asleep brewed coffee, stirring with a whisk, bring it to a boil. Turning the heat down to medium, boil the coffee with milk for three minutes. Cool, strain using a sieve.
The softened, lightly melted butter is whipped with sugar to a creamy state. Continuing to beat, one by one we introduce the eggs. After each whisk the oil mass a minute.
Mix and sifter flour with baking powder. Pour the mixture into the oil mass, gently mix with the same mixer at low speed. At the end pour coffee brewed in milk. Beat the coffee dough until it is smooth. Then we cover it with a linen napkin, withstand at least half an hour.
We bake waffles in a classic way, on a well-heated waffle iron.
The most simple waffles without a waffle iron in a pan
Ingredients:
three eggs;
a full glass and 2 more spoons of sugar;
a glass of wheat flour;
70 gr. frozen homemade cream.
Cooking Method:
Waffles need liquid, but not hot fat. Melt the oil over low heat or in a microwave and let it cool well. Smash three eggs into a bowl and begin to beat. Bringing to foaming, gradually pour granulated sugar. It is desirable to achieve complete dissolution saccharin.
When the sweet egg mass increases slightly in volume, we begin, like sugar, gradually introduce flour into it. The result should be a tight dough.
On medium heat, dry and heat the pan. Pour oil into it in a thin layer and warm it up for no more than 30 seconds.
With a large spoon or a small ladle for pancakes, pour a small amount of dough into the pan. We turn over almost immediately, it takes no more than 15 seconds to bake one side.
We put the finished waffles on a platter. Served with jam or condensed milk.
Tips for making waffles - useful tips
If you like crispy waffles that do not soften during filling and long-term storage, choose recipes with the least amount of fat and high sugar content. Fill the tubes or horns with thick creams - custard, oil, protein, and ordinary caramelized condensed milk will do.
To avoid getting burned, roll up hot waffles with gloves. Neat tube can be wrapped with a stick. It is desirable that its diameter does not exceed 1.5-2 cm. A beautiful horn can be obtained if the cake is folded with the help of a cone used for baking puff tubules.
