Waffles, simply fantastic

Ingredients for 4 servings:

• 500 ml milk
• ½ vanilla pod(s)
• e.g. sugar or sweetener
• 200 g strawberries, fresh
• e.g. milk
• e.g. sugar or sweetener
• 1 banana(s), ripe
• e.g. milk
• e.g. sugar or sweetener
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 500 ml milk
• e.g. sugar or sweetener
• possibly Nutella or other hazelnut spread
• 250 g sugar or icing sugar
• 250 g butter, room temperature
• 500 g flour
• 5 m.-sized eggs
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar
• 1 shot of vinegar (preferably apple cider vinegar)
• ½ pack of baking powder
• 500 ml milk (vanilla/strawberry/banana or chocolate milk)
• 1 pinch of salt

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 2 hours

and fantastically simple, vanilla, strawberry, banana or chocolate flavor … melts on the tongue like cotton wool

First, make the flavored milk. If you don’t want to make the milk mixture yourself, you can also use the corresponding milk from the refrigerated section. You don’t need to add any more sweeteners, of course, but I don’t find the flavor as intense. To make the vanilla milk, boil 500 ml of milk with half a vanilla pod (scrape out the seeds first and add them to the milk) and dissolve sugar to taste. After boiling, remove the vanilla pod and let the vanilla milk cool to room temperature before further processing. You can easily make your own strawberry milk with milk and pureed, sugared strawberries. Just be careful of the proportions! Don’t exceed 500 ml in the end! So, only top up with room-temperature milk (ideally using a measuring jug) until you reach 500 ml. The same applies to bananas (please only use very ripe ones). For banana waffles, I’ve also used banana nectar instead of homemade or store-bought banana milk. It worked very well, even though it doesn’t contain any milk! To make chocolate milk, simply make a delicious cocoa, ideally with “real” cocoa and sugar. You can also spice it up a bit with hazelnut spread. For the waffle batter, cream the room-temperature butter with the eggs, a pinch of salt, the sugar, and vanilla sugar until fluffy (approx. 4-5 minutes). Add a good splash of vinegar and continue stirring. Then sift the flour and baking powder over the sugar and vinegar, eggs, and continue stirring until a sticky dough forms. Only then, add the flavored milk, a little at a time, stirring constantly, until the dough is smooth. Let the batter rest in the refrigerator for 15 minutes. In the meantime, prepare the waffle iron and preheat the oven to 50°C for intermediate storage. Then bake one waffle at a time and place them on a plate in the preheated oven until ready to eat. These flavorful waffles taste best traditionally straight from the waffle iron with hot cherries and plenty of whipped cream! But they’ll also keep for a few days if kept cold, as long as they aren’t destroyed by local sweet tooths… In short: they’re simply a poem!