Basic Waffles

I finally bought a waffle iron!  Well, if I don't look at brand and read at the reviews, I can get a waffle iron for fairly cheap here.  You can call it my impulse buying.  My girls like to have waffle for breakfast but the frozen ones in the supermarket have partially hydrogenated oil in them even thought they were listed as zero trans fat.  So, I stopped buying frozen waffles a while back.  Thus, the best way for me is to make my own waffle using the ingredients I know and serve it to my girls.  I found the bellow recipe at allrecipes.com and modified it a little to include more sugar and added honey so that my girls can eat the waffle as is.  No extra spread of butter or syrup needed.  I am going to play with this recipe more to create a healthier version like using whole wheat flour or oatmeal flour, etc.

As you can see, I already played with this basic recipe to add some chocolate chips.   Last batch, I added some cocoa powder as well.  This waffle is slight crispy on the outside and soft and fluffy on the inside.  It crisp up more when toast in the toaster.  Homemade is definitely the best way to go!

Recipe adapted from Allrecipes.com with slight modification.  For my waffle size, it yields 12 pieces.

Ingredients:

2 eggs 

(A) 

• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 3/4 cups milk
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 3 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 tablespoons honey (optional)
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

(B)

• Chocolate chips as needed

Method:

1.  Preheat waffle iron.  Beat eggs in a large bowl with hand beater until fluffy.  Add in (A) and hand beat until smooth.  Or you can blend it in a blender until smooth.

2.  Spray preheated waffle iron with butter flavored cooking spray.  Use a ladle to drop some of the mix onto the hot iron.  Sprinkle with some chocolate chips (try to spread it even) and add a little more mix on top.  Cover and cook until golden brown.  How long to cook depends on the waffle iron you used, just keep watch.  Serve hot.

3.  Put the leftover in the freezer bag and freeze for whenever.  Just toast it in the toaster until crispy and brown.  Since I put the frozen one straight from the freezer to the toaster, I had to toast it 2 times, one to defroze and the next to crisp.