Name: Luikse wafel
Yield: Makes 8 waffles
Cuisine: Belgian
Ingredients: 50 ml (1¾ fl oz) milk; 25 g (1 oz) runny honey; 200 g (7 oz) pearl sugar (nib sugar), covered in a light coating of vegetable oil to prevent the sugar from taking moisture from the batter; butter or lard, for greasing if you don’t have a non-stick waffle iron; 250 g (9 oz) unsalted butter, softened; 125 ml (4 fl oz) water; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; ⅛ teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda); 25 g (1 oz) demerara or caster (superfine) sugar; 15 g (½ oz) instant dry yeast; 500 g (1 lb 2 oz) strong (bread) flour; ½ teaspoon sea salt; 1 egg

Preparation info

Makes
8
waffles

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Dark Rye and Honey Cake

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2023

About

The Luikse wafel (Liège waffle) is the traditional street food waffle from Liège in Wallonia where they call it wafe in Walloon, etymologically related to the Frankish wafla – as opposed to gaufre in modern French.

It wouldn’t be an iconic bake without a good story: for the Liège waffle, the legend goes that its origin dates back to the 18th century when the Prince–Bishop of Liège asked his cook to create something sweet for him.

These waffles and