Belgian waffles
Sophie Godwin – Cookery writer · bbcgoodfood.com · 2025 · 4
Against 455 waffle recipes
Less egg than 90% of recipes and less sugar than 77%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 455 waffle recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 23% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- Less sugar than 77% of recipes: 5.7% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 15%, about half as much.
- Liquid in the middle half of recipes: 113% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 150%.
Ingredients (11)
- 240ml buttermilk≈ 248 g
- 60g unsalted butter melted60 g
- ½ tsp vanilla extract≈ 2.1 g
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 220g plain flour220 g
- ½ tsp salt≈ 3 g
- 1 tbsp caster sugar≈ 13 g
- 1 tsp baking powder≈ 4.6 g
- ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda≈ 1.5 g
- oil for the waffle makern/a
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- berries Greek yogurt and a drizzle of honey, streaky bacon and maple syrup, ice cream and chocolate sauce, peanut butter and bananan/a
flour 220 gbatter 601 g
≈ marks grams converted from cups and spoons with standard densities; the rest are weights the source printed.
Baker's percentages
Grams per 100 g of flour, and where that falls among all 455 recipes. Shaded: the middle half. Tick: the median.
- Liquid113% · 27th percentile · median 150%
- Egg23% · 9th percentile · median 40%
- Fat27% · 37th percentile · median 31%
- Sugar5.7% · 22nd percentile · median 15%
- Leavening2.8% · 29th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt1.4% · 74th percentile · median 0.7%
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