Ingredients:
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Directions:
This is pearl sugar. It is made in Belgium, and is kind of just clumps of sugar. It is hard to find, so you could always just roughly crush up some sugar cubes to use instead. I have in the past and it worked just fine.
Mix the dry yeast, water, sugar and salt together in a small bowl and set aside for about 15 minutes to let the mixture develop.
Place the flour into a large bowl or into the bowl of your electric mixer fitted with a dough hook. Make a well in the flour and pour in the yeast mixture. Begin to knead.
Still kneading, add the eggs, one at a time. Then add the butter about 2 tablespoons at a time, mixing until each addition is incorporated. The final dough will look like a mixture between cake batter and bread dough.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and allow the dough to rise until it doubles in size.
Gently mix in the pearl sugar and let it rest for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, heat your waffle iron.
Once the waffle iron is hot and the dough rested, scoop a couple of tablespoons of dough onto each waffle plate. I used an overfilled ice cream scoop.
Look at all that golden, melted, caramelized pearl sugar.
Cook the waffles for about 5 minutes, until golden brown, crunchy and caramelized. Pull one apart and see how amazing it is inside.
Serve warm with a dusting of icing sugar. Makes about 12 medium-sized waffles. |
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