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Belgian Liege Waffles With Eggnog Syrup – Copycat Waffle Truck Recipe

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I am so excited to share this recipe with you, Belgian Liege Waffles With Eggnog Syrup! A Copycat Waffle Truck Recipe!  I made these about a month ago, but with the whole blog switch I never had time to post them!  So here it is!! We love waffles, especially these new Belgian Liege Waffles we have recently discovered! Recently two waffles trucks have moved into town and they are amazing!  Always fresh and delicious! They are made from a yeast dough with a caramelized sugar coating on the outside. They are sweet and dense on the outside, and chewy and amazing on the inside.  The only thing I don’t love about them is how much they cost! At around $8 a piece I just can’t justify it.  Maybe I am way too frugal, but to feed my family of seven their waffles, it would cost me almost $50 dollars.  WAY to much to spend.  My kids kept begging me to take them since I have gone a couple of times with my husband or friends, but I just couldn’t justify spending that much on waffles.
Now the waffles are amazing, I could eat them without anything on them, but what adds to these waffles that makes them even more amazing is what you put on them. Firts off you have to have this stuff!  Biscoff – European Cookie Spread.  You can buy it at Walmart for around $3.  Other key ingredients that are delicious are Nutella, fresh berries, peaches, bananas and homemade whipping cream.
Then you have to have some sort of delicious syrup!  I adapted my amazing recipe here and made Eggnog Syrup! Perfect for the holidays, or anyday! Who doesn’t love Nog!?!
With real Belgian Liege Waffles they use this special kind of sugar on the outside of the dough ball called Belgian Pearl Sugar which you have to order online.  I was searching online and found this way to make my own.  Genius, and way cheaper…Sugar Cubes!!
 The recipe is super easy.  Start off by heating the milk in the microwave and then adding yeast.  I loved the rapid rise yeast because who has time to wait?
Let it sit until it is frothy, at least 5 minutes.
In a mixer add the salt, butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla. Mix together and then add the milk mixture and then the flour one cup at a time.
{There is lots of butter in this picture because I doubled this recipe because I was making it for all my young women}
Mix it and knead it for a few minutes,
and then let it rise in a bowl lined with cooking spray.  It took about 30 minutes.  My husband called me while I was at our local market and said “are you coming home this dough is out of control?” LOL
I didn’t get a picture of the dough all risen, but it filled the bowl to the top!  After it rises make balls a little bigger than a golf ball and roll them in the “Pearl” Sugar.
Place on heated waffle iron and press down hard.  The Waffles will puff up fast and they don’t take long to cook! If the iron seems to hot, unplug it for a minute while they are cooking, then plug it back in. I had to unplug mine a couple of times.  As you take them off be careful because they are hot and have hot sugar on the outside of them.
Top with your favorite topping and enjoy, and then come back and let me know how you like them!
Belgian Liege Waffles With Eggnog Syrup – Copy Cat Waffle Truck Recipe
Recipe Type: Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine: Belgian, American
Author: Kendra Wright
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Serves: 12 Waffles
This is our favorite new birthday waffle. Way cheaper then taking my kids to the waffle truck and we get to enjoy them in our own home!
Ingredients
  • 2/3 Cup Hot Milk – 110º or warm water also works
  • 2 Packages Yeast – I used Rapid Rise
  • 1 t. Salt
  • 2 T Sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 Sticks of Butter
  • 1 t Vanilla
  • 5 Cups flour
  • 1 Cup Faux Pearl Sugar – Broken Up Sugar Cubes
  • —————————————————————
  • Eggnog Syrup
  • 1 cube softened butter
  • 1 cup sugar stir until dissolved
  • Add 1/2 C of Eggnog
  • 1t. Vanilla (optional)
Instructions
  1. Start out by microwaving your milk. Make sure it doesn’t go above 110º (30 second intervals)
  2. Once Milk is warm add the Yeast and let sit for 5 minutes. Don’t stir. It will start to froth and that is when it is ready. You can also use warm water.
  3. In a mixer add salt, sugar, eggs, butter and vanilla and mix together
  4. Add Milk Mixture and then start adding flour one cup at a time. Let is knead for about 5 minus in mixure or knead on counter.
  5. Dough should be slightly sticky, but not enough to stick to your hands..
  6. Let rise until double. With the rapid rise yeast it only took about 20-30 minutes
  7. While you are waiting break up your sugar cubes in a plastic bag. I use the smooth side of a meat tenderizer, but you could use a rolling pin or a hammer. You want the cubes to break into about 4 pieces. About the size of a pea. I poured them through a strainer so that the small crystals weren’t mixed into the pearls.
  8. Once the dough has risen, form balls a little bigger than a golf ball size and roll in sugar pearls.
  9. Spray waffle maker with cooking spray and heat to temperature. If at any time you are cooking and they start burning unplug the waffle machine and it should be fine. I usually could make one and then unplug it for the second one, plug it back in for the 3rd and so on.
  10. Egg Nog Syrup Directions-
  11. Mix together in pot and bring to a boil. Let boil for 2 minutes while stirring, remove from heat Add a pinch of Baking Soda & add 1t. Vanilla Store in a Canning Jar in the fridge

Comments

  3. oh my gosh we make these too! They are literally the best waffles I have ever had. Usually I try to stay away from sugar, but when we make these we go all out with the cookie butter and whipped cream and those giant sugar chunks in the batter. Just seeing this post is making my mouth water.

  4. This looks absolutely amazing (minus the eggnog dressing but that’s a personal preference! lol) I am starving now… maybe I can get my hubby to make these for me! Thanks for the inspiration… genius with the sugar cubes by the way!

  8. I am loving your waffle recipe. I am pinning this on my personal page. Thank you for joining us at #purebloglove. We enjoy having you every week on Thursday night at 8PM through Sunday night. ~Cydnee

  9. This is an fun recipe and I really just have to try it if it is anything like Waffle Love!! Thanks. Hope to meet you at BYB Conf.!

  10. Yum! I agree – the waffle trucks have some tasty treats, but they are so expensive for a large family! Thank you for sharing your recipe, I can’t wait to try it!

  11. I agree with you about the price. These look so good! Can I admit that I am scared of using yeast? Mostly because I have had so many failures before. I will follow your directions for this and hopefully it will work better.

  12. I have made liege waffles many times using the Lars pearled Belgian sugar. The pearled sugar produces a waffle which I personally prefer. But I did not have any on hand, could not find any locally, and was hoping for a substitute that produced comparable results.

    I made a triple batch for Sunday dinner for 15 people. I used one cup granulated sugar total for the triple batch. I prefer them a bit sweeter, but the other 14 people thought they were fine with less sugar. I used one box of coarsly crushed sugar cubes and kind of folded them into the balls of dough for the second rise. I find they stick less to the waffle iron this way. BTW, I highly recommend a waffle with ceramic because the waffles will not stick and any hardened sugar wipes right off. That will not be the case with a so called non-stick waffle iron.

    Bottom line, this is a decent substitute for the Belgian pearled sugar in a pinch. I would probably do it again, but after you’ve experimented with a few batches, splurge on the real thing.