🇳🇱 How to Make Stroopwafel

Craving Stroopwafel? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Stroopwafel at home, in about 1 hr 30 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• Dough: 300g plain flour
• 100g butter, softened
• 50g brown sugar
• 1 egg
• 7g instant yeast
• 60ml warm milk
• ½ tsp cinnamon + a pinch of salt
• Syrup: 200g dark brown sugar
• 150g butter
• 4 tbsp golden syrup
• 1 tsp cinnamon + a pinch of salt

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Make a soft yeasted dough with all the dough ingredients, knead 8 min, and let it rise 45 min until doubled.
2. Melt the syrup ingredients together and simmer 3 min until smooth and pourable. Keep it warm — cold stroopwafel syrup is unspreadable.
3. Divide the dough into 12 balls and press each in a hot waffle iron (a thin pizzelle-style iron, not a deep Belgian one) for about 60 seconds.
4. Here is the part that decides it: while the waffle is still hot and pliable, split it horizontally through the middle with a serrated knife. Wait even a minute and it turns brittle and shatters.
5. Spread the warm syrup on the cut face and press the two halves back together.
6. Trim the edges round. Eat one balanced on top of a hot cup of coffee for a few minutes until the syrup softens — this is not a quirk, it is the intended delivery method.