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These Easy Fluffy Homemade Waffles are crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside and full of buttery vanilla flavor! Our whole family can’t get enough of this delicious waffle recipe!
This post is sponsored by Challenge Butter, but all opinions are my own.
The Best Homemade Waffles Recipe
These easy homemade waffles are a major hit in our home! They are made pretty much every weekend and even sometimes during the week when I get an extra sweet request from one of the boys. While 2-year-olds aren’t always known for being great eaters, they LOVE these waffles and can easily put down at least 3 between them.
These are classic waffles too, not to be mistaken for Belgium waffles. Being the classics they are, they are simpler and more straight forward to make. No need to worry about whipping egg whites here, just mix everything together and you’re ready to go! Quick and easy!
After tweaking the recipe to get it just how we like them – buttery, a little sweet, fluffy and crisp – I’m finally sharing this perfect waffle recipe. I can’t wait for you to try them and add them to your weekend rotation too!
Homemade Waffle Ingredients
These waffles couldn’t be easier to make and odds are you already have the ingredients in your kitchen!
- All purpose flour
- Granulated sugar
- Baking powder – Helps give these waffles their fluffy rise.
- Salt
- Butter – Adds great buttery flavor and I always recommend my favorite Challenge Butter. Challenge Butter is a wonderfully creamy butter that goes from farm to fridge in just two days, so you know it’s fresh. It has no added hormones, artificial flavors or filling, which I love. Be sure to check it out!
- Milk – I use 2%.
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract – Definitely adds lovely flavor.
How to Make Homemade Waffles
- Combine dry ingredients. Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and set that aside.
- Melt butter. Add a few tablespoons of the milk in with your butter and melt it in the microwave. Adding the milk helps ensure that when you add the melted mixture to the rest of your milk and wet ingredients, it doesn’t seize up and end up lumpy.
- Combine wet ingredients. Add the melted butter mixture to the milk and then add the eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk everything together until well combined.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently stir together. Don’t over mix it! A few lumps are just fine.
- Cook your waffles. Add the batter to your waffle iron and cook them according to your waffles iron’s instructions. My waffle iron uses roughly 6 tablespoons of batter per waffle. Add in the batter and let it cook to the setting you choose on your waffle maker.
- Serve and eat! This is the best part. Serve your waffles with some Challenge Butter and syrup and dig in!
What to Serve with Waffles
While we love to eat our waffles with a little butter and syrup, there are lots of fun options. You could even set up a waffle bar for a special occasion. Some great options for pairing with your waffles:
- Powdered sugar – Dust it over the top with a sifter or spoon.
- Fresh fruit – Berries, diced peaches, sliced bananas. Whatever you enjoy!
- Raspberry sauce – Homemade raspberry sauce would be incredible topped with whipped cream and maple syrup.
- Whipped cream – You can use homemade whipped cream for the ultimate topping.
- Caramel Sauce – A drizzle of salted caramel sauce would be amazing on these waffles!
- Eggs – Scrambled on the side, or perhaps even over easy and served on top.
- Sausage or Bacon – Anyone else love dipping bacon in maple syrup?
How to Store and Reheat Waffles
Definitely! When storing them in the fridge or freezer, I recommend placing a piece of parchment paper between each waffle to keep them from sticking. They will keep in the fridge for up to a week and in the freezer for 4-6 months.
You can reheat them in the microwave or a toaster oven. Using a toaster oven will keep them more crisp than a microwave.
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Easy Fluffy Homemade Waffles
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 6-8 pancakes
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Easy Fluffy Homemade Waffles are crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside and full of buttery vanilla flavor! Our whole family can’t get enough of these delicious waffles!
Ingredients
- 2 cups (260g) all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup (52g) sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup (56g) unsalted Challenge butter
- 2 cups (480ml) milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
1. Preheat your waffle iron and set aside.
2. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. In a small bowl, add the butter and few tablespoons of the milk. Melt the butter in the microwave and stir to combine it with the milk.
4. Add the butter mixture to the rest of the milk, then add the eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk well to combine.
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently whisk together to combine. Don’t over mix. A few lumps are fine.
6. Add waffle mix to your hot waffle iron and cook according to your waffles iron’s instructions.
7. Serve warm!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 waffle
- Calories: 235
- Sugar: 9.6 g
- Sodium: 194.9 mg
- Fat: 7.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 35.7 g
- Protein: 6.9 g
- Cholesterol: 63 mg
I’m not one to rate anything but this is the best. I’ve used it for waffles and Pancakes, but cut recipe in half. Love the scripture too.
Awesome! So glad you enjoy it!
I followed the recipe to the letter, even weighing out all the ingredients, but the batter is super thin like a soup. Is that supposed to be the consistency?
It is typically fairly thin. There’s a video above the recipe bard that you could watch to see it.
Super easy and delicious recipe! Thanks for sharing 🩵
So glad you enjoyed them!
We rarely eat waffels, these hit the spot! Next time, we are going to dial down the sugar a bit, from our own personal preferance, the receipe was easy to use and again, hit the craving we were having.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Great recipe works great in Belgium waffle maker just fine!
Total waste of time, how can the silly American ‘cup’ measurements ever give a precise recipe? How can ¼ cup be both 52g and 56g and 2 cups of flour weigh 260g and 2 cups of milk be 480ml (1 ml pretty much equals 1g). I love American recipes but do the world a favour and step into the 21st Century and just use metric.
i followed the recipe and noticed it was quite runny. Went ahead and made them anyway and they came out rubbery. I’ll stick to pancakes next time 🙁
best waffles all times
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Question:
You state these are classic waffles and not to be mistaken for Belgium waffles. Will this recipe work in a Belgian waffle maker? I have a classic waffle iron, but I just picked up one of those flip-type waffle makers you often see in hotel breakfast bars. I’d like to try using that one.
I haven’t tried it, but I would expect it to work fine.
I used the flip open type waffle maker like hotels, works just fine. Easy recipe.
I made these yesterday and they were delicious! Consistency of batter was perfect and they didn’t stick to my waffle iron. I did spray the waffle iron with Pam before I made the first batch only. Question:. Can you make the batter ahead of time and store it in the fridge?
The recipe was good, and the waffles tasted great! Only, I greased the waffle iron before pouring the batter in, but when I tried to take them out of the waffle maker they stuck to it. Should I add a little oil to the waffle batter? Or is there another solution?
It may depend on your particular waffle iron. I’m not sure if adding oil to the batter would help and it could thin out the waffles. You may just really need to grease your iron well.
My crew of 13 kids (having a niece/nephew sleepover) gave these a big thumbs up! I doubled the recipe and had plenty for everyone!
Wonderful! Glad to hear that!
Just made these (with oat milk) and my very picky daughter said I must make these every day! ha! Big hit at my house!! Thank you
Wonderful! So glad to hear that!
This is a easy recipe and tastes great. I halved the recipe for my husband and myself and added about 1/4 – 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries. Delicious. These are the best homemade waffles I have made.
So glad you enjoyed them!
I’m usually a box mix waffle kind of person, but I was pleasantly surprised with this recipe in terms of simplicity. I cut the recipe in half for two people and added cinnamon. I initially thought the batter was too thin due to the amount of milk, but it ended up being the perfect consistency! Really pleased with the overall quality of the waffles – great recipe!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Something is way off! 2 cups of milk made my batter very soupy! Is this normal?
I make these all the time with my kids, so it is accurate. The batter is thin, so it sounds like it’s probably fine. It’s hard to tell from a distance but as long as everything is measured correctly, it should be fine. There is a video for the recipe, so maybe it would be helpful to take a look at that and see how thin the batter is when I pour it into the waffle maker to compare.