Belgian Waffle

Woke up one morning craving waffles.

Actually, I was just lying in bed looking at my sleeping daughter, thinking we've been having the same things for breakfast for days! Time for something a little different.

Googled the recipe on my iphone. Got it off this website

www.tasteofhome.com

All purpose flour           2 cups
Sugar                             3/4 cup
Baking powder              3 1/2 teaspoon
Eggs. separated              2
Milk                              1 1/2 cup
Butter, melted                 1 cup
Vanilla extract                1 teaspoon

I halved the recipe, because I didn't want to make a huge batch for just two people.

Instructions are to combine the flour, sugar, and baking powder in one bowl. Then in another bowl, lightly beat the egg yolks and add milk, butter, and vanilla extract. The wet ingredients then gets stirred into the dry ingredients until combined. The egg whites are beaten until stiff peaks form and is then folded into the batter.

To tell you the truth I've never quite succeeded in making waffles before. I've never tried making waffles from scratch.

But wow!! This was absolutely perfect!! By halving the recipe I got exactly - ONE - waffle...haha. But I was satisfied. Thanks to Taste of Home for the perfect waffle recipe!

Ham and cheese bread

One of the recipes that I've been very eager to try making.

This uses Mode 11 on the panasonic bread maker, which essentially lets me take out the dough midcycle, to manipulate as I see fit. Recipe itself is pretty easy to follow, no surprise ingredients here.

Bread flour         200g
Butter                  35g
Sugar                   17g
Milk powder        6g
Salt                      3.8g
Egg                     25g (approximately half of a medium sized egg)   
Water                  100ml
Dry yeast             3.5g

Once again I used less water than called for, about 60-70ml of iced water instead of 100ml. And I always check the consistency of the dough while it is being mixed in the machine. This way I can add more water if necessary (or add a bit of flour if dough is too wet).

 

55 minutes later...

 



Cute looking thing!
The dough is then sectioned into 12, into which goes the ham and cheese. The recipe calls for 12 x 15g for the filling. Luckily for me this worked out to be about three slices of cheddar cheese and three slices of ham in total (10x10cm slices).

 

Once the ham and cheese are wrapped in the dough, they are just placed back into the pan (with the mixing blade removed), then back into the machine for rising and baking.

 

2 hours and 15 minutes later...

 

Haha, is it me or does this look good?