Basic Sweet Waffle Batter
250g plain flour
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
4 tablespoons castor sugar
3 medium eggs
50g melted butter, cooled
200ml buttermilk
Sift the flour, baking soda and baking powder into a bowl. Stir in the sugar.
Whisk the eggs, melted butter, and buttermilk together.
Mix into the dry mix and whisk to a smooth batter.
Leave to sit for five minutes.
Pour, as per instructions, into waffle iron and cook.
Remove from the waffle iron and drizzle with maple syrup or serve with berries or bananas and pecan nuts or chocolate sauce. Or try the following
Cinnamon Waffle with roasted plums and honeycomb cream
For the waffles add a heaped teaspoon of cinnamon.
Roasted Plums
6 plums, halved and stoned
100g castor sugar
Zest and juice of 1 lemon
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
200ml red wine
Place the plums in a baking dish.
Boil the other ingredients together until the sugar has dissolved and is syrupy.
Pour over the plums and cover with foil.
Bake at 180oc for half an hour or until soft.
Honeycomb cream
200ml double cream
50g crushed honeycomb ( or use chocolate covered honeycomb bars)
Whip the cream lightly and fold in the honeycomb.
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