Waffles

We had lots of fruit lying around that needed to be eaten and what goes better with fruit than waffles?

I really like these waffles - they taste so yummy just the way they are, but are also great with fruit and whipped cream, or with Nutella, or maple syrup & nuts and cream, ...

Ingredients:

• 100g butter, softened
• 80g sugar (or 100g if the waffles are eaten plain -> the additional sugar also makes them a bit more fluffy)
• 2 eggs
• vanilla sugar
• 1 dash of rum
• 1 tsp baking powder (my recipe says 1/2 TL, but the teaspoons I used to use in Germany are larger than the measuring tsp here in the US)
• 150g flour
• 50g ground almonds
• 200ml milk

Instructions:

Beat butter, sugar and eggs until fluffy. Add the vanilla sugar and rum. Add the baking powder. Add the flour and ground almonds, then add the milk. These take 5 minutes in my waffle maker and make 8 waffles. 

I usually freeze the leftover, lighter ones and heat one up in the toaster from frozen when I feel like one.