What you need:
– 3 eggs
– ca 400 ml of milk*
– 80-100 g of butter
– 150 g sugar
– 300 – 400 g flour
– a pinch of salt
– if you wish: cardamom, brown sugar, cinnamon etc to taste
How to make:
First, you need a special waffle iron for that – the one which lets you make very thin waffles. See my sad soviet era product on the pic below.
So, in case you found one of these waffle irons, the recipe is really straightforward: mix sugar and eggs and all the spices. Add milk, flour and then hot melted butter, stir vigorously and you are ready to go.
Honest warning: you will probably need to adjust the recipe as you go, first waffles are trial waffles anyway…some poor soul needs to eat them to check the sweetness and crispiness.
The only thing you need to decide, is: do you like ultra thin and crispy goodness, the crispiest waffles you ever had? If the answer is yes, lean more heavily into butter and eggs and put less milk in. The batter should be thicker, but still a little bit runny.
Now, if you want soft waffles to roll marmalade, sweetened cream, yogurt or ice cream in there: less flour and more milk. You want the consistency of the batter be like a pretty thin smoothie.
The good thing with this recipe is, that you can’t really screw this one up! Made the batter too thick? – Just add more milk as you bake etc – adjust as you go!
Now just throw a ladle of batter into lightly-buttered hot iron ( you need to butter it only once, at the beginning) and let the waffle cook for 30 seconds to a minute, depending on your waffle iron and how crispy you want the waffle to be and enjoy!
* Milk: any milk works, but each has their tricks. Cow milk gives more crispiness. Rice milk allows to get these really thin see-through soft waffles. Oat milk calls for more butter to get the waffles taste good and so on.
How much does it cost:
Since this recipe makes a ton of waffles, the cost is not that great: eggs around 50 cents, butter around 1 euro, everything else ca 50 cents to 1 euro, so under 3 euro, total.
Behold that soviet-era waffle iron for super thin and crispy waffles.
