This Homemade Waffle Recipe is made with simple ingredients and is light and crispy on the outside, soft and fluffy on the inside. They’re perfect every time!
This fluffy, crispy waffle recipe is best when covered in butter and real maple syrup and a side of bacon. They’re so good!
Belgian Waffle Recipe
Sundays are for sleeping in, drinking coffee at the kitchen table, and making a delicious breakfast from scratch! No need for a waffle mix when you have this recipe in under your belt!
One of our favorite meals to make on the weekend together as a family is this Homemade Waffle Recipe – they’re just as delicious as my Baked French Toast Casserole.
We love pulling out our Belgian Waffle Maker – the same one we received as a wedding gift years ago – and making a homemade waffle batter that promises to be the most amazing waffles from scratch you’ve ever had!
I grew up with my mom and dad using everyone’s favorite Bisquick waffle recipe
How To Make Homemade Waffles
Ingredients
This recipe is easy to make and uses everyday ingredients you most likely already have on hand in your pantry:
- flour – regular flour is best for this recipe
- melted butter – trust me. Melted butter gives this waffle recipe the most amazing taste and texture.
- baking powder – to make your waffles nice and fluffy.
- eggs – I like to use large, good quality eggs.
- sugar – Don’t leave this out.
- vanilla – Madagascar vanilla gives you the best flavor
Directions
- Preheat your waffle iron and spray with cooking spray or rub a little melted butter on.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients – flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs with a mixer until light and fluffy and pale in color.
- Add the vanilla to the egg mixture.
- Mix the egg mixture into the dry mixture.
- Add the butter and milk into the mixture- blending until just smooth.
- Let the mixture sit for about 5 minutes before adding to the waffle iron.
- Pour onto hot iron and cook until golden brown.
- Serve topped with pure maple syrup and butter or your favorite fruit and whipped cream.
How to Keep Waffles Warm
- Set Oven to “warm” setting
To keep waffles warm while you’re whipping up more for your family, preheat your oven to the “warm” setting or lowest setting available. - Place waffles right on the oven rack
Place the waffles right on the rack when you take them out of your waffle iron. The waffles will stay crispy and warm until you’re ready to enjoy!
Tips + Variations
Waffles are made of a richer batter than pancakes, with an additional egg and oil. In fact, most pancake mixes offer directions for creating waffles out of the mix if you decide to go that route!
How do you make waffle batter from scratch?
It’s easy! By mixing flour
What is the difference between a waffle and a Belgian waffle?
The texture is also lighter and crispier. To make a Belgian waffle, you need a waffle iron with a deeper, larger grid pattern. Most Belgian waffle recipes are yeast-based, to get that crispy texture. But you also can use a waffle batter that uses beaten egg whites for lightness like this one!
How thick should waffle batter be?
How do you make waffles crispy?
Pour the batter into a preheated waffle maker that has been sprayed with cooking spray and cook for about 3-4 minutes – check and see if they are done to your liking, if not cook a little longer. If the waffles don’t get crispy enough in your waffle iron, place them on a rack set on a baking sheet (or it can be the rack in the oven if it’s clean) and bake in a 250F oven for another 5-10 minutes, until crisp.
How do you keep waffles crispy?
Can You Freeze Waffles?
YES! You can freeze waffles in ziplock freezer bags
and pull them out as needed throughout the week. All you need to do to reheat waffles is to pop them in the oven, microwave
or even the toaster! This is the perfect make-ahead homemade waffle recipe from scratch!Favorite Breakfast Recipes
- Homemade Pancakes
- Easy Breakfast Casserole
- Cinnamon Roll French Toast Casserole
- Breakfast Quesadillas
- 3-Ingredient Bisquick Biscuits
Perfect Homemade Waffle Recipe
Equipment
- Waffle Maker
- Hand mixer
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 3/4 cups milk
- 2 eggs
- 1/2 cup butter melted
- 1 tablespoon white sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Preheat your waffle iron and spray with cooking spray or rub a little melted butter on.
- Whisk together the dry ingredients - flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
- In another bowl, beat the eggs with a mixer until light and fluffy and pale in color.
- Add the vanilla to the egg mixture.
- Mix the egg mixture into the dry mixture.
- Add the butter and milk into the mixture- blending until just smooth.
- Let mixture sit for about 5 minutes before adding to the waffle iron.
- Pour onto hot iron and cook until golden brown.
- Serve topped with pure maple syrup and butter or your favorite fruit and whipped cream.
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Notes
Tips for Keeping Waffles Warm:
- Set Oven to "warm" setting To keep waffles warm while you're whipping up more for your family, preheat your oven to the "warm" setting or lowest setting available.
- Place waffles right on the oven rack Place the waffles right on the rack when you take them out of your waffle iron. The waffles will stay crispy and warm until you're ready to enjoy!
Nutrition
For all of my best waffle making secrets – check out this post next!
Secrets to Making The Very Best Crispy Waffles
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Janet
Excellent recipe. Very tasty! and easy peasy!…. We were given my spouse’s mothers waffle iron… with a cloth covered cord! Had my doubts, but they it worked like a champ and the results were delicious. Thanks for the recipe!
Michelle - ATM Team
Yay so glad to hear they were a hit!
There a mistake in this recipe it calls for 4 teaspoons of baking powder which is an awful a lot can this be a typo how do I send this compared to other recipesCate
Is There a mistake in this recipe it calls for 4 teaspoons of baking powder which is an awful a lot can this be a typo how do I send this compared to other recipes
Kasey Schwartz
HI! It’s not a mistake. It calls for 4 teaspoons of baking powder.
Sherry Maye
I just made these waffles and yum! They were excellent and so easy! Thank you for sharing your recipe and for all of the helpful hints..
Michelle - ATM Team
That makes us so happy to hear that you enjoyed this recipe! Thanks for leaving a review!
Kasey Schwartz
That is wonderful!
Ape
Cam I sub shortening for butter since I’m all out lol
Kasey Schwartz
I haven’t tried that before – but it may work!
Fran
Do you think I could use soy milk rather then whole cows milk?
Michelle - ATM Team
We haven’t tried that yet, but we don’t see why not! The suggestion would be to use equal portions of soy milk (or any other dairy alternative milk) to regular milk.
BobWhite
NO more WF waffles for me. Just found this recipe. Just cooked. This is a fantastic recipe. Cooked four minutes for my taste. I cooked another one at five minutes because my roommate likes crisper food and we are both on different diets. Both on no salt so I cooked with “MySalt”. I will have to reduce salt amount. Tasted salty to me but very edible. I cooked one at four minutes and put in freezer. Will heat it up in induction oven within next 24 hrs. Love my induction oven and IP. I have a very busy schedule. Between studying for ministry, ASL, and work I am totally busy.
Thank you for this recipe. Will be checking your site for more.
Bofa deeze
Beating the eggs kind of ruined the pancakes, it was like eating German egg waffles rather American homemade waffles
Sarah
The servings can be adjust. It is so helpful because sometimes I make the waffle just for one serving and sometimes I make for my family… great recipe tho !
Kasey Schwartz
Wonderful!! Thanks for sharing Bob!
Miley
Just made these…
They were not good. They smelled good but did not taste good. Not making again. All I could taste was the baking powder which I knew would make it taste bad when I saw how much baking powder is needed.
Linda
This recipe had way too much baking soda sifted in.i may try this again with 2 teaspoons of baking soda instead of 4
Audrey Anderson
It’s supposed to be baking powder not baking soda. Try that and I’m sure they would be amazing.
Bonnie
Batter is way too thin for waffles.
Anthony
Who knew making waffles could be so delicious and simple 😁 Thank you so much. Nice to know I don’t ever need to buy waffle mix again. Five stars…
Buffa Deeze
Nice try who makes waffles at 6pm
Adaelsy
Can I save extra waffle mix ? If yes for how long ?
Christy
I make waffles every Sunday but usually use a mix, as I haven’t previously found the results to be worth the extra effort of making them from scratch. Today, I was out of waffle mix, so I found this recipe and decided to give it a try. These were easy to make and absolutely delicious! They tasted SO much better than a mix – well worth the few extra steps. I followed the recipe exactly with the exception of mixing entirely by hand, including beating the eggs with a wire whisk (just didn’t feel like digging out the hand mixer). They turned out perfectly and the whole family loved them. I think I’ll be ditching the mix!
Kasey Schwartz
I am so happy to hear this! Thanks for sharing!
Theresa Knox
Very good waffle recipe. We all like it.
Sammy
Great recipe. My family enjoyed it. Easy to make and quick.
Daisy
Thanks this was amazing 🔥
Deborah L.Coleman
Loved the recipe, it reminded of theone my big sister taught me when I was a teenager. Brought back a wonderful memory. Oh yes and it tasted wonderful.
Diana
Just made these waffles, easy and delicious!
andrea
the recipe doesn’t even have the required amounts of ingredients
Manie
It does. I got confused too. You just need to scroll down (from the part you read that has no amount for the ingredients) then you’ll find the amounts needed along with the directions again.