Pumpkin Waffles Recipe: (Get a Sweet and Spicy Mixed Taste!)
Pumpkin has a sweet flavor to it that goes along well with waffles. Pumpkin waffles taste amazingly delicious as they have the perfect balance between sweet and spice. The waffles themselves have a fine crispy texture on the outside and chewy and fluffy on the inside.
Pumpkin pie is quite easy to prepare as it only takes a few ingredients that are readily available in most kitchens and some basic cooking skills that almost everyone possesses. So follow along to surprise your family and friends with some flavorful, crispy, warm, and hot Pumpkin waffles.
Ingredients
Here is the list of ingredients you will need to make pumpkin waffles.
- 2 cups or 250 gm all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons pumpkin spice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- Salt, as needed
- 3 large eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup or 225 gm pumpkin puree
- ¼ cup or 56 gm melted butter
- ¼ cup or 50 gm packed brown sugar
- 1 and ½ cups or 360 ml whole milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Cooking Process
There are largely two parts to making pumpkin waffles which are mixing the batter and then baking the batter. These are discussed below.
Making the Batter
When you are making the batter, it is wise to use separate bowls to mix the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients.
Combining the Dry Ingredients
Take a large bowl and put the all-purpose flour, baking powder, baking soda, pumpkin spice, ground cinnamon, ground ginger, salt, and brown sugar. Mix everything with a dry spatula to prepare a homogenous mixture. You can sift all the dry ingredients. Sifting helps to avoid clumps especially clumps of brown sugar.
Combining the Wet Ingredients
Take another large bowl and crack and drop the eggs bowl. Whisk the eggs with your hand or with a beater for a few minutes until bubbles form. Add the pumpkin puree, melted butter, vanilla extract, and milk into the egg mix and mix everything with a spatula or beater.
Do not overmix as it will cause too many air bubbles to form inside that will ruin the texture of the waffles.
Combining the Dry and Wet Ingredients
Add half of the dry ingredients to the wet mixture and incorporate everything with a spatula. You can use a beater too but at this stage that much power is unnecessary and often the flours get blown away and creates a mess.
After half of the dry ingredients have been incorporated with the wet ingredients, add the other half of the dry ingredients to the mixture and mix everything with a spatula. Mix until there are no dry flours present in the mixture and there are no clumps left in the batter.
Preparing the Waffle Machine
Preheat your waffle iron according to the recommended settings of the waffle maker. Grease the waffle maker with butter, vegetable oil, or nonstick spray. Make sure that the waffle iron is properly greased or the batter might stick.
Making the Pumpkin Waffles
Pour about ⅓ cup of the pumpkin batter into each well of the waffle iron and make sure that it is not filling up all the corners because the waffle batter will spread as you close the lid. Close the lid and cook the waffles according to the baking settings of your waffle iron. It will take approximately 5-7 minutes for the waffles to get cooked to a crisp.
Take the waffles out from the iron and place them on a plate. Waffles do not have that much oil or butter on them so you do not have to place them over paper towels or cooling racks.
Toppings and Serving
You can use maple syrup, chocolate syrup, powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar, whipped cream, and various fruits as the toppings for pumpkin waffles.
Notes
You can use plain white sugar instead of brown sugar if you do not have it available in your kitchen. You can also use vegetable oil instead of butter while making the batter in this recipe. The milk used in this recipe can also be replaced by buttermilk or non-dairy milk such as almond milk.
Frequently Asked Questions
How Do I Store Pumpkin Waffles?
Waffles do not taste that good when you eat them after freezing them which is why you should have the Pumpkin Waffles when they are hot and fresh from the griddle. Nonetheless, you can easily store them in your refrigerator for a week. You can heat it in a pan, microwave oven, or a toaster.
How Long Does the Batter Need to Rest Before Making the Waffles?
The batter does not need to rest for too long as there is no yeast used as the leavening agent in the waffle. You only need to rest the batter for 5-10 minutes before you start putting it in the waffle iron. Waiting for a few minutes helps to form gluten better in the waffles.
Is This Dish Vegetarian-Friendly and Vegan-Friendly?
This dish is vegetarian-friendly as it does not use any types of meat but it is not vegan-friendly as it uses animal products such as eggs, milk, and butter.
Can I Use Baking Soda Instead of Baking Powder to Make This Dish?
No, you cannot use baking soda instead of baking powder to prepare this dish. You have to use buttermilk instead of milk to make this recipe if you decide to use baking soda instead of baking powder.
Baking powder includes both an acid and a base to react with each other and release carbon dioxide gas which makes the waffle expand and become fluffy but baking soda only contains a base which has to react with the acid in the batter. Buttermilk contains this extra acid that is needed to make the waffles fluffy.
How to Make Pumpkin Spice?
You can very easily make your own pumpkin spice instead of buying it from the store. Mix 21 gm ground cinnamon, 5 gm ground ginger, 4 gm ground nutmeg, 3 gm ground cloves, and 2 gm allspice. Keep this spice mixture in an airtight jar to use in all pumpkin dishes such as pumpkin pie, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin latte, etc.
