Inauguration Waffles

I promise I did not set off on a grocery expedition with the purpose of making red, white and blue waffles... it just sort of happened that way.

Benny was "feeling" the waffles

I asked Benny what he would eat for breakfast and he turned down everything I had so I told him he'd just have to starve.  He said he would eat waffles.  I said OK.  He said he would like plain waffles, strawberry waffles and blueberry waffles.  Shockingly I had all of these things in my house so I agreed but only if he would help me cook.

I'm going to get to my step by step instructions in a second but I want to admit something.  I could pretend like we woke up, got dressed and then had a perfect morning in the kitchen cooking and cleaning as we went.  It's even possible that I could have arranged the pictures in such a way that it looked like that really happened.  Instead I'd like to just leave you with a few of the things that were said/yelled so that you have an idea of what really went on this morning.

"Benny!  Stop petting the waffles!"
"Stop licking me!"
"Mom!!  I think the waffles are dying!!"
"For the love of God Benny don't do that with the knife!"
"Why are there strawberries in the carpet?"
"Benny!  Please don't touch my face with.... that."
"Mom!  I would never hurt a waffle on purpose."
"When you cook a blueberry it kind of looks like a squished roach.  That makes you not want to eat it? Well then just pretend like you are Indiana Jones and you have to."
"This is the funnest day ever.  Except not really.  That will probably be when I get a job or get married."
(I seriously got out a pad and wrote down the things we were saying to each other.

You will need:  (In addition to the ordinary things you have in your kitchen) a waffle iron, spray oil, eggs, baking powder, milk, oil, sugar, salt, flour, vanilla extract and whatever you want to mix in (we used blueberries and strawberries)

I used this recipe.  I doubled it because I wanted to have some frozen waffles for breakfast later this week.

Benny cracking an egg.  My sanity was well tested.

Step One:  Mix wet ingredients.
2 eggs
1 3/4 cups milk
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
(This is the smaller batch.  I doubled this to get extra to freeze.)









Step Two:  Mix dry ingredients.
1 tbs white sugar
4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups all purpose flour
(This is the smaller batch.  I doubled this to get extra to freeze.)














Step Three:  Mix wet and dry together

Step Four:  Mix in whatever extras you want to include.
Because we were making some plain, some with strawberries and some with blueberries we ended up splitting the batter into three separate batches so that we could add the different "mix-ins".

(Side note.  We like to cut up the strawberries small and smash the blueberries a little so that the "flavor" ends up all over the waffle.  That is Benny's explanation but I think he just likes to smash things.

Step Five:  Heat up your waffle iron.

Step Six:  Spray the waffle maker with spray oil.  (Make sure you spray the iron before each waffle.)

Step Seven:  Scoop, ladle, spoon or pour in batter.  Benny's method seemed to be of the "don't try this at home variety".

Step Eight:  Take it out.











Step Nine:  Eat

If you are freezing your waffles you should lay them out where they are not touching each other and freeze before sealing in bags or containers.  This way they won't be stuck together.  I actually had several layers separated by the parchment paper leftover from my failed craft the other night.  Win!