Classic waffles
Barney Desmazery · bbcgoodfood.com · 2024 · Makes 4-6 (depending on your waffle maker)
Against 455 waffle recipes
Less egg than 90% of recipes and no salt, unlike 80%.
How it compares
Against the typical batch: the median of 455 waffle recipes, per 100 g of flour.
- Less egg than 90% of recipes: 22% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 40%.
- No salt at all, where 80% of recipes use some (most of those 0.3 to 1.6% of the flour weight).
- Less sugar than 78% of recipes: 5.6% of the flour weight against the typical recipe's 15%, about half as much.
Ingredients (8)
- 1 egg≈ 50 g
- 225g self-raising flour225 g
- 1 tbsp golden caster sugar (optional)≈ 13 g
- 250ml milk≈ 258 g
- 50g butter melted and cooled50 g
- ½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)≈ 2.1 g
- 1 tbsp sunflower or vegetable oil≈ 14 g
Toppings and extras
Listed, but not counted in the percentages below.
- maple syrup and icing sugar, to serve (optional)n/a
flour 225 gbatter 611 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. Leavening includes the baking powder in the self-rising flour, counted as 5% of its weight.
- Liquid115% · 28th percentile · median 150%
- Egg22% · 9th percentile · median 40%
- Fat28% · 40th percentile · median 31%
- Sugar5.6% · 21st percentile · median 15%
- Leavening5% · 66th percentile · median 4.1%
- Salt0% · 10th percentile · median 0.7%
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