FOOD
Maple Waffle Cake
Homemade waffles are baked into a moist maple cake and naturally topped with a healthy pour of maple syrup.
FOOD
Maple Waffle Cake
Homemade waffles are baked into a moist maple cake and naturally topped with a healthy pour of maple syrup.
Ingredients
Waffles
- 6 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup plain yogurt
- 1 cup whole milk
- 4 large eggs
Maple Cake
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 3 cups Grade B maple syrup, divided
- 3 large eggs
- 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon salted butter, for topping
Steps
Waffles
- In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt, baking powder and baking soda. In a separate small bowl, combine yogurt, milk and eggs.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry and mix until combined. Set aside.
- Preheat waffle maker and grease with butter. Pour in 1/2 cup of batter and cook until golden. Repeat until all batter is used. Let cool before using for cakes.
Maple Cake
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Prepare three, 8-inch cake pans with baking spray and parchment paper.
- In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and brown sugar together until well combined.
- Beat in 1 1/2 cups maple syrup. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- In a large bowl, sift together the flour, baking powder and salt.
- Add the flour mixture to the butter mixture, and beat to combine.
- Add the buttermilk and vanilla and mix until combined.
- Divide batter between the 3 prepared pans.
- Center a Belgian waffle in the batter in each pan; press it down into the batter slightly. Bake until golden and a cake tester inserted into the centers comes out clean, about 20 to 25 minutes. (Cover the cake pans with aluminum foil halfway through baking if the waffles begin to over-brown.) When done, transfer pans to a wire rack to cool.
- Place one cake layer on a serving plate.
- Cover with 1/4 cup syrup. Add a second layer, another 1/4 syrup, and finally the top layer with the remaining syrup on top.
- Place a pat of butter in the center of the top layer.
- Cake will keep up to 4 days covered.