Brunch is one of those luxuries in life we indulge in once in a while and during the holidays we had a big pot luck brunch with our friends and family! What an awesome combination – sleep in time, good food, good friends, family, time off and a day with nothing else to do, but eat and relax! Our contribution to the pot luck was a pile of WAFFLES! As you likely know by now, we have waffles at home all the time – thanks for my mother in law’s gift – a great waffle maker! This time around, we decided to make yeasted waffles and I found this recipe from smittenkitchen.com and they turned out great! So here’s the recipe for you to try:
Essential Raised Waffles
Author: smittenkitchen.com
Recipe type: Breakfast
Ingredients
- ½ cup warm water (about 105 to 110 degrees)
- 1 packet of dry active yeast (or 2¼ teaspoons)
- 2 cups milk, warmed
- 1 stick butter, melted and cooled
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour (we used whole wheat flour)
- 2 large eggs
- ¼ teaspoon baking soda
Instructions
- The night before:
- Pour warm water in a large bowl, sprinkle yeast on top and let it dissolve and foam for about 15 minutes.
- Stir in milk, butter, salt, sugar and flour and whisk until all the ingredients are combined.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set out on counter overnight.
- The next morning, whisk in eggs and baking soda until smooth add add to the batter.
- Heat waffle iron and pour just enough batter in the waffle iron. I set my waffle iron on ½ and the waffles turned out browned and crispy!
- Serve with maple syrup and fresh fruit.
Notes
Do not overfill the waffle iron with batter because you will have a big mess. I followed the instruction from smittenkitchen.com to underfill than overfill!
The waffles were crispy on the outside and soft inside. At first, I put the setting of my waffle maker to 4 but that made the waffles too brown and too crispy. I found setting 1/2 is good to make them golden brown and crispy but still soft inside.
Love how light and fluffy these waffle look! Such a perfect dish for breakfast or brunch!
There is no milk listed in ingredients, but there is milk in the directions. Plus I am making this right now and it clearly needs more liquid other than the butter and water.
hi Jill! Thank you for pointing that out! Our mistake for not listing milk in the ingredients list! We have updated the list! sorry and thank you for letting us know!
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Waffles are my favorite breakfast food. This recipe looks delicious! You made them the perfect size! Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome! Glad to hear you like them!
I’m prepping for a brunch this weekend and debating between pancakes and waffles. Both so good!
Very true! I am sure either one will turn out great for you! 😉
I love this recipe! We make it pretty much every time we have waffles! So good!
Great! Thanks!
What fun to have a brunch with all your friends. These waffles look delicious!
We treasure our friendships and were happy the waffles turned out so well! Thank you!
These are the most perfect-looking waffles I have ever seen! I have had a waffle-maker sitting on my amazon wishlist for years… so tempted to treat myself now….
Thanks so much! Give it a try! 🙂
These seriously might be the best waffles ever. They are gorgeous!
Thanks so much for your kind words!
These Waffles look so nice and crispy, perfect!
Thanks very much!
These look so good. I make something similar and can eat my weight in them! Sometimes my friends at work beg me to bring my waffle maker to work and we have a waffle party in the middle of the night. I work at a hospital and the whole floor smells like wonderful waffles 🙂 To me, the yeast makes all the difference.
Wow! Fun job you have! 😉 Thanks for your comment!
Ooo I love waffles! And brunch! All breakfast food 🙂 I’ve never made yeast waffles before, I bet they are amazing, need to try this!
Give them a try! We were pleasantly surprised how well they turned out!
I am still trying to hold off on buying a waffle maker. I’m really curious about these yeasted waffles I’ve heard so much about. Much be awesome – yours looks so golden and delish!
We fell in love with our waffle maker right away! Thanks!
You have created the perfect waffle. Bravo! Looks amazing!
Thanks a lot!
I LOVE brunch!!! These waffles look so tasty =)
Thank you!
Love brunch – especially waffles 🙂 Haven’t tried making ones with yeast yet but yours look so tasty and wonderful, thanks for sharing 🙂
You are welcome! I am sure you will like these once you try them. 🙂
Yum. It’s always nice to have a basic waffle recipe around and this looks like the perfect one!
Agreed! Thank you!
They look wonderful – we all love waffles here.
Thanks very much!
These waffles look like they turned out perfect!
They did! Thank you!
The waffles with yeast sound very, very good…ok, essential! Where is my waffle machine?!!:) ela
Ha! Thanks!
Brunch is one of my favorites! These waffles look delicious 🙂 I love the picture with the syrup being poured down- it looks mouthwatering.
Appreciate your comment very much!
YAY BRUNCH! And waffles. I’ve yet to try a yeasted version but yours look fab-o-lous to the max.
Thanks very much!
These waffles look amazing, I need a waffle maker!!! Xx
Thank you! Yes, we’ve been using ours quite often.
My stomach is now growling at me saying “I Want Waffles!” Thanks for that, haha. These looks so good… might just have to bring out the waffle maker 😉
haha! awesome!
I’m rarely hungry for breakfast, unless it’s brunch! These look wonderful – and I’d probably eat them for dinner. 😉 Good stuff – thanks.
Waffles for dinner sounds great also! Thank you!
I love waffles and have never made yeast waffles. Must try this they look wonderful.
Thank you! This was our first time trying these. Thankfully they turned out really well!