Easy, Overnight Yeast Waffles
After trying overnight yeast pancakes, I thought I would give their buddy waffles a try. Overnight waffles are just as easy as the pancakes. As a bonus, the yeast makes them nice and light, and gives them a nice crust.
I cobbled together two different recipes (Red Star Yeast & The Fannie Farmer). The big difference is that the Fannie Farmer recipe calls for beating the eggs and adding them in the morning.
Overnight Yeast Waffles
Ingredients:
- 1 3/4 cups milk
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup butter, melted and cooled
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbs sugar
- 2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
- 1 tsp yeast (active dry or instant)
Directions:
- Combine flour, yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl, mix to combine.
- In a separate bowl, beat eggs and then stir in the milk, water and butter.
- Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients. Mix, by hand or with a mixer, until well combined.
- Cover and refrigerate overnight.
- Remove in the morning. Allow the batter to warm to room temperature if possible.
- To make waffles, pour the batter into a pre-heated waffle iron.
- Serve with butter and maple syrup.
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Wow. This might give me a reason to go out and get a waffle iron. Reminds me of mornings sitting at the counter, as mom made waffles. Eating them straight from the iron.
I love anything that I can throw in the fridge and then whip up in the morning. i love the luscious color these waffles take on!
Hi Nick, I actually didn’t try the two different recipes. I combine the liquid and dry ratios from the red star, but used the butter from the other recipe. They are both very similar though and should work well.
Hi Halle, I found that the waffles tasted too yeastie with the full packet. If you let the waffle batter sit overnight, the 1 tsp will have enough time to create enough rise. Try experimenting though! Both amount should work. Report back on how the 2 1/4 tsp works.
i noticed that you reduced the yeast to 1 tsp from the original 2 1/4 tsp on the Red Star Yeast recipe. Is there a reason for this? I’m just a little bit confused and I’m not sure which recipe to follow.
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What were the results? Glad you tried 2 recipes but are the pictures supposed to tell me how they tasted and what you thought or am I missing something?
I just blogged about a similar recipe!
Right about now I am cursing my husband who ruined my waffle iron!
Wow, these look awesome, am going to HAVE to give this a try in the weekend!