If you’ve spent any time looking around my site, I’m sure that you’ve come across the fact that I’m not overly fond of eggs. Trust me, it pains me to say that. My life would be so grand if I could just whip myself up some eggs for breakfast. Strangely, even though I don’t enjoy eggs, breakfast is probably my favorite meal of the day. I love going out to breakfast! Is that odd? Anyway, because of my lack of fondness for eggs, I have come to be- what I consider- a French toast and Belgian waffle expert. That’s right, expert. And as an expert, I fully and whole-heartedly endorse these Strawberry Belgian Waffles.

One weekend, my mother-in-law was visiting and someone mentioned waffles. It might have been me. Either way, we started talking Belgian Waffles. My MIL was shocked to hear that I didn’t have a Belgian Waffle maker- which is, actually, shocking considering all of the other cooking gadgets that I own. For example, I own an empanada press and one of those red tortilla containers that they serve you your tortillas in at a Mexican restaurant. It’s amazing the things that people will gift you when they know that you love to cook! So that afternoon, we went out and bought a Belgian waffle maker.

We used it the very next day and it worked fantastically! I used the Belgian Waffle recipe from one of my favorite cooking blogs, Cooking Classy and made a few minor changes. And then I topped that beautiful Belgian waffle with fresh strawberries and a delicious Homemade Strawberry Sauce. The Homemade Strawberry Sauce is made from fresh strawberries and is so easy to make! It literally only takes a few minutes! So without further ado… my favorite way to waffle…

Let me show you how I made these Strawberry Belgian Waffles 👇🏻

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Homemade Strawberry Sauce.

I would recommend making the Homemade Strawberry Sauce first. The sauce is perfectly okay to sit and wait while you prepare the waffles. You could even make it the day before (let it sit out and come to room temp before using, if it has been refrigerated). Here is the link to sauce 👇🏻

Getting started.

Once the Homemade Strawberry Sauce has been prepared, you’re ready to get started. Begin by preheating your oven to 200 degrees and preheating your waffle maker. You want to preheat your oven because this is where you will keep the cooked waffles warm. No one likes cold waffles. Also, you will need THREE medium-large bowls. THREE, you say? Yes, three. I promise it will be worth it.

In the FIRST bowl.

In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Make sure everything is well mixed. Create a well in the center and set aside. 

In the SECOND bowl.

In a medium mixing bowl, use an electric hand mixer to whip the egg whites. Whip them on high speed until soft peaks form.

Add the granulated sugar and continue whipping until those peaks are stiff and glossy. Should look like this 👇🏻

Finally, in the THIRD bowl.

In a seperate bowl, stir together the buttermilk, milk, vegetable oil, vanilla and egg yolks until combined. 

Combining ingredients.

Go back to the dry ingredients… while whisking, add the buttermilk mixture and whisk until just combined. The batter should be slightly lumpy.

Now, gently fold in the egg whites.

Be easy with them, you don’t want to deflate all of the air that you just whipped into them.

Cooking the Belgian waffles.

Now spoon your batter into the waffle maker and cook. Each waffle maker will have it’s own amount of batter needed and it’s own cooking time. (Mine was about 1/2 cup. I use the 1/2 cup measuring cup to scoop and pour the batter.) So please consult your waffle maker’s instruction manual.

Gently spread the batter over the waffle maker surface with a rubber spatula.

Close your maker and cook according to your maker’s instructions. Sometimes there is a lot of steam and I have to hold it closed for the first few seconds. Totally normal.

With this waffle maker, a green light turns on, indicating that the waffles are done cooking.

Once the waffles are done, keep them warm in the preheated oven. Go ahead and just set them right on the rack in your oven. When you have cooked all of the waffles that you want, remove the warmed waffles from the oven and start building.

Now we could stop there, but we’re not going to. Pile on some of those fresh strawberries and drizzle on some of that fresh strawberry sauce. And finally, add some whipped cream (and optional sprinkle of confectioner’s sugar)!

Note: Any unused Belgian waffle batter can be stored in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.

Enjoy!

The Belgian Waffle recipe is very slightly adapted from Cooking Classy.

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