I bought a new sandwich toaster this week, and it has interchangeable plates. One of the plates is a waffle plate, so I had to try it out this week!
I decided on apple waffles instead of plain waffles because I have bought a few apples that are really not as good as they could be, so I wanted to re-purpose them. I ended up adapting a recipe from Dorie Greenspan based on what I had on hand, and they came out better than I expected. They were soft rather then crispy, with the apple just melting into the batter. I ate one on its own, but added a Brazilian pepper honey to the second. Both ways worked great.
The only problem was my first batch overflowing because I'd put too much batter into the toaster! I would have gotten 6 or 7 waffles instead of the 5 I ended up with if I hadn't done that. I have frozen the rest and will update with how they taste the second time around when I have then.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cinnamon
pinch of allspice
1/4 cup sugar (I used just under 1/4 cup white sugar, and added 2 tsp Muscovado sugar)
pinch of salt
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 cup Bulgarian/Greek yoghurt (I used the former)
1/4 cup water (you can replace the yoghurt and water with 3/4 cup of milk)
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
1 tbs melted butter
1 apple, peeled and grated
Method:
Mix all dry ingredients together. In another bowl, beat the yoghurt, water, egg and vanilla until well combined. Stir this into the dry ingredients, then add the butter and grated apple and stir it all together. Don't over-mix, just stir together until everything's combined.
Spray the waffle iron and spoon in as much batter as your waffle iron can handle (or do it once to figure out how much it can handle :P). Once it's brown and smells good, remove from the waffle iron - it's quite soft, so do this carefully so you don't tear it when removing. Use 2 forks to remove; I found that the easiest way.
Keep warm in low oven if not serving immediately. Serve with whatever you'd like :)
