Waffles

By Melissa Clark

Updated March 6, 2025

Waffles
Sang An for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews.
Total Time
35 minutes
Rating
5(10,386)
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These airy, delicate and crisp-edged waffles are so fabulous, yet so simple to throw together, they're destined to become part of your weekend breakfast routine. These make the best classic waffles, but if you’re craving different flavors, try chocolate waffles, or savory scallion waffles. For gluten-free waffles, make these buckwheat blueberry waffles.

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Ingredients

Yield:about 10 waffles
  • 6tablespoons unsalted butter, more for waffle iron
  • 2cups/240 grams all-purpose flour
  • 1tablespoon/15 grams sugar
  • 1teaspoon/4 grams baking powder
  • 1teaspoon/5 grams fine sea salt
  • ½teaspoon/3 grams baking soda
  • 1cup plain yogurt (or see note)
  • 1cup milk
  • 4large eggs
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Nutritional analysis per serving (10 servings)

213 calories; 11 grams fat; 6 grams saturated fat; 0 grams trans fat; 3 grams monounsaturated fat; 1 gram polyunsaturated fat; 22 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram dietary fiber; 4 grams sugars; 7 grams protein; 241 milligrams sodium

Note: The information shown is Edamam’s estimate based on available ingredients and preparation. It should not be considered a substitute for a professional nutritionist’s advice.

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Preparation

  1. Step 1

    Melt butter either on the stove or in the microwave. Set aside.

  2. Step 2

    In a large bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and baking soda. In a separate bowl, whisk together yogurt, milk, melted butter, and eggs. Fold wet ingredients into dry ingredients.

  3. Step 3

    Preheat a waffle iron and, using a pastry brush or paper towel, lightly coat with butter. Cook waffles (using about ½ cup batter per waffle) until golden and crisp. Butter the iron in between batches as needed. Serve waffles immediately as they are ready, or keep them warm in a 200 degree oven until ready to serve.

Tip
  • If you don’t have yogurt (or sour cream or buttermilk will all work), substitute another 1 cup of milk mixed with 1 tablespoon lemon juice or vinegar.

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  1. For a fluffier waffle, separate the eggs and proceed with step 2 using the egg yolks. Beat the whites until stiff, then fold into the batter.

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Comments

Michael Trombetta

I can tell you one thing; if you forget the eggs, it doesn't taste very good.

Zak

After trying a lot of waffle recipes, this is now my go-to quick waffle. A few notes: Whisk the eggs really well, then drizzle in the melted butter while whisking. Add the milk and yogurt after that. Waffle batter is not the same as pancakes; use a whisk to incorporate the wet into the dry, and whisk it smooth, no lumps. Lastly, if you have a non-stick waffle maker, don't use butter or oil on it! Greasing the surface only makes waffles soggy. These are great with choc syrup and bananas!

DadInReston

I used my digital kitchen scale to measure the dry ingredients, but for fun I used the volume measurements to see how closely they matched. My measured two cups of flour was about 20g over what the recipe called for, not very surprising since it’s so easy to pack flour too tightly, but my teaspoon of baking powder weighed in at less than half the eight grams in the recipe. An internet search revealed that a teaspoon of baking powder is about four grams — a big difference for a key ingredient.

Marie D

Absolutely brilliant recipe. We tweaked it by adding a heathy splash of vanilla, otherwise, all cooked as directed.

Cook of the D'Uberhails

This recipe is great, and fun to tweak. * you can replace 1 or 2 eggs with flaxseed (1 egg = 1 TBS flaxseed + 3 TBS water) for a little crunch. * if you measure the flour by weight, you can use 100% whole wheat flour. * plain non-fat yogurt is fine You can measure all the dry ingredients into a mason jar and store it in the freezer for quick waffles when the mood strikes.

PM

substituted one cup of flour with collagen/protein powder and used 0% greek yogurt. turned out awesome! whole family love it. 10/10

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