Dutch Dessert
STROOPWAFEL
INGREDIENTS – WAFFLE
¼ cup milk, warm
2¼ teaspoon yeast
½ cup butter, softened (⅓ cup more later)
2 eggs
¼ teaspoon salt
2¼ cups flour
INGREDIENTS – FILLING
1 cup brown sugar
⅓ cup butter, softened
3 tablespoons light corn syrup*
3 tablespoons molasses*
¾ teaspoon cinnamon
* = Or substitute stroop syrup for these two ingredients. Stroop syrup can be found online.
INGREDIENT – ASSEMBLY
no-stick spray
SPECIAL UTENSILS
electric beater
pizzelle maker
Serves 6. Takes 1 hour 30 minutes.
PREPARATION – WAFFLE
Add warm milk and yeast to small mixing bowl. Mix with whisk or fork until well blended. Add ½ cup butter, eggs, and salt. Mix with electric beater set on medium until well blended. Add flour and knead until a smooth dough ball forms. Divide dough ball into 12 mini dough balls. Cover with cloth and set aside for 1 hour.
PREPARATION – FILLING
Add all filling ingredients to pan. Stir over low heat until butter and brown sugar melt. Let sit for 10 minutes.
PREPARATION – ASSEMBLY
Spray pizzelle maker with no-stick spray. Add a mini dough ball to center of each spot in the pizzelle maker. Press down on mini dough ball with spatula or oven mitt until it gets to about ½” of the edge of each pizzelle spot. Use pizzelle maker’s instructions to cook mini dough balls into cookies. Remove cookies. Use spatula to spread 1½ tablespoons filling over all of 1 cookie. Place a 2nd cookie on top of cookie with filling to form Stroopwafel. Repeat until all cookies have been used.
TIDBITS
1) Many people wonder how to pronounce “stroop” in Stroopwafel.
2) Is it pronounced stroop or stroop?
3) In fact, the second pronunciation is correct.
4) Now you know.
5) For the longest time, I never made this dessert as I had never thought this dessert was worth the money needed to buy a pizzelle.
6) Pizzelle is a strange looking word.
7) Anyway, I got a pizzelle maker for Christmas. Apparently Santa thought I had been rather well behaved.
8) And indeed, I had indeed carried myself with distinction.
9) Okay mostly.
10) Well, just enough of the time to merit a pizzelle maker.
11) I’m not giving it back. I’m not! I’m not, not even if I received it by mistake.
12) How could I have received a pizzelle maker by mistake?
13) I’m guessing that Santa’s sleigh made quite a sharp turn over my chimney to avoid a drone and a pizzelle making came tumbling down out of the toy sack.
14) Santa hates drones for this very reason.
15) More and more people and companies are buying drones. The Christmas Eve sky gets ever more difficult for Santa and his deer to navigate.
16) Culinary Santologists say that Santa’s planning to deploy missile-defense systems on his sleigh for next year’s present run. Now, we’ll really see who’s naughty or nice. Ho! Ho! Ho!
– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.
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