Pumpkin Waffles :: Other Waffles

As I “surf the interweb”, there are many fine waffle blog entries I come across.  I thought I’d share a few . . .

Clean Eating Breakfast Waffles from The Gracious Pantry

Friday Morning Waffles from Taste Is Trump

Lemon Poppy Seed Waffles from Week of Menus

Cornstarch Waffles from Cooking Stuff

Glazed Banana Waffles from Spork or Foon

Vanilla Bean Waffles from My Baking Addiction

Blackberry Sour Cream Waffles from Coconut & Lime

Waffled French Toast from Dinner with Julie

I only wish I could do a waffle exchange with each of these bakers!

Pumpkin Waffles :: Cooling on the Wire Rack

I just had to share a photo of the waffles I have cooling right now. Why am I cooling them before eating them? Here’s the posting that explains it.

Pumpkin Waffles :: Pumpkin Passion!

I was just on Google, and I came across this AWESOME site called Pumpkin Passion. Not only is it a beautiful site, but they have excellent photos, news and updates on all-things-pumpkin.  You can even buy Pumpkin Passion paraphernalia.

I couldn’t find a link to contact the author of the site, but I was hoping they’d check me out and give me a little mention on their blog. After all, the guy with a blog that’s only about pumpkin waffles certainly has a pumpkin passion that needs to be shared

Check their site out. It’s very cool.

Pumpkin Waffles :: Waffle Insanity

This article is totally crazy, but it’s so awesome – Waffles of Many Flours & Meals. It’s from a Washington Post columnist who was exploring how best to use all the flours/grains she had on hand in her house. SeriousEats.com hails it as “the best 15-ingredient waffle recipe”. I have yet to make them, but it would be fun to give them a try.

Of course, there’s little to no point to make a 15-ingredient waffle, unless you’re going for an esoteric baking exercise.  Granted, my recipe has 13 ingredients, but that’s just because it has a bunch of spices; it’s not complex for the sake of complexity. In fact, I recently cut out baking soda and buttermilk from the ingredients because I found they were unnecessary.

Pumpkin Waffles :: Awesome Blogs & Sites

There are a number of sites that have recently featured my recipe. Since they were kind enough to show pumpkin waffles some love, I checked them out, loved what I saw, and wanted to share them with you…

Dudley Family – Love this site. Kate Dudley takes awesome photos.

Broken Yolks – Sarah and Alex share their cooking escapades with the world!

The Fresh Loaf – The finest resource for bread bakers.

TasteSpotting.com – The #1 food photography site. Get ready to drool all over your keyboard.

Duff ABC’s – A great site about adventures in baking and cooking from KMDuff

PhotoGrazing.com – An awesome food photography site.

Growing Up Gabel – All about a blended family blooming in the desert.

shoutingforha – A stay-at-home mom goes “ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha”

Finally, A Crisp Waffle – Pumpkin waffles aren’t featured here, but the lady is nuts for waffles.

Pumpkin Waffles :: Ginger

I keep thinking about the ginger in my recipe. I use proportionally more of it than other recipes, but it also deviates a good bit from the best pumpkin pie spice ratios.  So here’s what I’m going to actually do in the next round of waffles…

• 50g light brown sugar
• 24g cornstarch
• 156g all-purpose flour
• 7.2g baking powder
• 3.0g salt
• 3.4g cinnamon
• 2.6g ginger
• 0.5g cloves
• 0.6g freshly grated nutmeg
• 2 large eggs
• 240g whole milk
• 244g canned solid-pack pumpkin
• 50g unsalted butter, melted and warm

Pumpkin Waffles :: Good Reviews

The new recipe is going over very well. On Saturday, I got my favorite comment ever (below) in response to it. I also just found out that I got accepted to yet another “food porn” site called photograzing.com. I just need to get foodgawker.com to include me, and I’ll have pulled off the hat trick of food photography, as I already achieved the most prestigious – tastespotting.com.

“ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE!!! I made these for a birthday brunch today (multiple batches to serve 18 people ranging in age from 4 years to 93 years) and EVERYONE – even the so-called pumpkin haters – RAVED about how good they were all afternoon! My 93-year-old, who usually eats like a bird, finished two waffles and my nephew said “if Heaven exists, these waffles are on the menu!” These are DEFINITELY WORTH THE EFFORT. I will be making these again later this week to freeze and have on hand. Thank you for sharing the recipe with us!” – Jules

I’m also excited to whip up another batch of the new recipe soon – probably tomorrow/Tuesday night. While I think it’s already phenomenal, I still might tweak a couple things here and there. Namely: bump up the cornstarch and cinnamon, bump down the baking powder and ginger, and maybe take out a half tablespoon of butter. If I do all those changes, below is the metric…

• 50g light brown sugar
• 24g cornstarch
• 156g all-purpose flour
• 7.2g baking powder
• 3.0g salt
• 3.4g cinnamon
• 3.0g ginger
• 0.5g cloves
• 0.6g freshly grated nutmeg
• 2 large eggs
• 240g whole milk
• 244g canned solid-pack pumpkin
• 50g unsalted butter, melted and warm