I’ve seen mentions of the “Fairy Hobmother” from Appliances Online before, but hadn’t really paid attention until I recieved an email after commenting on Becs blog post about stroopwafels. She was sent a voucher for Amazon and bought a stroopwafel maker. Stroopwafel. Strooooooooopwafel. Its a satisfying word to say, and a very satisfying thing to eat. There is a Welsh company called Tregroes that makes them in the UK, I ate SO many when I was at uni, but now I live the other side of the border, they’re not so easy to find (although Waitrose sells the individual ones. YAY WAITROSE I LOVE YOU)
Ahem. Waffle tangents. With my voucher, I thought it would be a good idea to build up my baking collection – I don’t seem to have much to bake with, only to make fairy cakes. I can’t remember where this recipe came from, but its pretty bloody good.
- 115g butter (plus a bit more to grease the pan)
- 115g chocolate (broken up)
- 300g caster sugar
- Pinch of Salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 140g plain flour
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 100g chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 180ºC / 350ºF / Gas Mark 4. Grease and line a 7 inch square cake tin.
Place butter and chocolate in a saucepan and stir over a low heat until melted. Think about how wrong it would be to taste this butter/chocolate goo. Manage to resist.
Remove from the heat, then stir until smooth and leave to cool slightly.
Stir in the sugar, salt and vanilla extract. The sugar (unsurprisingly!) really starts to thicken this up.
Add the eggs, one at a time, and stir until blended.
Sift the flour and cocoa powder into the mixture and heat until smooth. There is no good way to take a photo of sifting flour.
Stir in the chocolate chips. Mmmmmm. I put some white chocolate, lumps of Dairy Milk and some of those Caramel Nibble things in.
Oooooooooh. Wipe the dribble off your keyboard.
Pour into the tin. Clean up by licking the bowl and spoon.
Bake in the preheated oven for 35 – 40 mins until a cocktail stick inserted into the centre comes out almost clean. Leave to cool slightly (or until you can’t resist any more)
Nom.
I’d love to hear what your favourite recipes are…perhaps the Fairy Hobmother is listening in…
Sainsbury’s sell Daelman’s Mini Stroopwaffels and the Tregroes ones if you’re at the right branch. Clifton Down has both. Starbucks caramel waffles and AMT’s toffee wafers are the same thing too. In Starbucks you can reest a waffle on top of a grande coffee and it’ll go all warm and gooey-squidgy. Recommended :)
Sarah (Dichohecho)
You just can’t resist putting the caramel nibbles in everything! So glad the Fairy Hobmother visited you, and that brownie looks amaaaaazing! x
I love the idea of adding caramel nibbles! Mmmmm.
(PS: you should definitely try eating that choc/butter combo. Delicious!!!)
These look EPIC. I love all the different chocolate! I put broken up dime bars in my brownies. My recipe is mad gooey – it has 5 eggs in it. But god, it’s good.
I hope you’ve saved me one. I must also look out for these waffles. I have fond memories of eating them a lot in Holland.
mmmm looks amazing! Rally craving moist chocolatey goodness right now!
Maybe it’s the Germanic language, but the way you feel about stroopwafels (which by the way I have never heard of – they obviously haven’t reached Hull yet!), is the way I feel about the word bundt.
Bundt bundt bundt.
And there’s loads of recipes that I want to try out but can’t because I am lacking in the bundt tin department.
OH EM GEE. I love stroopwaffels but my boyfriend is OBSESSED, he made his parents hunt them down when they were abroad…crazy!
Maria xxx