Learn how to make waffles at home. Today’s recipe teaches you how to make perfect fluffy Homemade Waffles in your own kitchen. Keep a jar of the dry waffle mix on hand for your next weekend brunch! And always make sure to have the buttermilk syrup handy!
Be sure to try our Pumpkin Waffles if you’re looking for another flavor! Serve this easy breakfast with a side of our delicious fruit salsa for the perfect way to start your day!
Why Make Waffles at home
Waffles are the superheroes of weekend breakfast! There’s nothing like sleeping in on a Saturday morning, then stumbling out of bed to sit down to a plate of freshly made waffles drizzled with real maple syrup.
While sometimes I might crave french toast or pumpkin scones, it’s waffles that make everyone happy!
Never made homemade waffles before? I’m here to help!
- This recipe creates perfect waffles with buttery crisp edges that yield to a fluffy interior.
- Homemade Waffles sweep the floor with the frozen toaster waffles—and you can even freeze leftovers!
- Making waffles from scratch is hardly any more difficult than using a waffle mix. Boxed waffle mix can definitely be convenient but really just saves you the step of mixing the dry ingredients together.
Be sure to try our chocolate chip waffles next! They’re homemade and delicious!
Ingredients for Waffle Mix
Here’s what you need to make these waffles.
PRO TIP: You can keep the dry ingredients in an airtight container so it’s available anytime you want waffles!
For the dry waffle mix:
- All Purpose Flour
- Baking Powder
- Sugar
- Kosher Salt
Combine these ingredients in a bowl, then proceed with the recipe. If you like, you can make this in advance to store. Then the next time you want waffles, pull it out and use it just like you would use a storebought waffle mix!
Wet ingredients to add to the waffle mix:
- Eggs
- Milk
- Melted Butter
- Vanilla Extract
How to Make Waffles
Easy as 1, 2, 3!
- Make the batter. Mix together the wet ingredients in a large mixing bowl. Pour it into the dry mix and whisk to combine. Let sit for a few minutes while you preheat your waffle iron.
- Prepare your waffle iron. Preheat your waffle iron. Spray waffle iron with baking spray before the FIRST batch only.
- Cook! Ladle batter into preheated waffle iron and cook until golden brown. Carefully remove the waffle and repeat with remaining batter. Keep waffles warm until ready to serve!
Aimee’s best tip
Make sure your waffle iron is hot enough before adding the batter. An iron that’s too cool won’t cook the inside of the waffle thoroughly making it more likely for the waffle to split and stick to the pan.
Waffle Toppings
Waffle squares were built for catching pools of maple syrup and butter.
- Fresh fruit and whipped cream are also heavenly on these waffles!
- If you haven’t tried my homemade buttermilk syrup yet, DO IT. Only 5 ingredients and 5 minutes, you’ll love the rich flavor!
- Oh and I can’t forget to mention, dessert waffles. A scoop of cold vanilla ice cream on top of a warm waffle just about makes me weak in the knees. (My kids have no complaints about them, either.) Add a drizzle of our homemade chocolate syrup or strawberry syrup to complete the treat.
Storage Tips
Make a big batch of homemade waffles on the weekend and store any extras in the freezer. Then you’ll have convenient toaster waffles for weekday breakfasts, but with all the good taste of homemade!
To freeze waffles.
- Let all the waffles cool completely.
- Transfer to freezer bags with a sheet of wax paper between layers of waffle to prevent sticking. Store in the freezer until ready to use.
To reheat frozen waffles:
- Place individual waffle in a toaster or toaster oven and heat until cooked through.
- You can also reheat frozen waffles in an oven at 350 F. Cover the waffles loosely with foil to keep from drying out as they heat.
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Homemade Waffles
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 Tablespoons granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 large eggs
- 1 ½ cups milk
- ⅔ cup unsalted butter melted
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preheat waffle griddle.
- In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. This can also be stored and made ahead for later.
- In a small bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, melted butter, and vanilla extract.
- Pour the milk mixture into the flour mixture and whisk until combined. Let sit for several minutes while iron heats up.
- Spray waffle iron with baking spray before the FIRST batch only. Ladle into preheated waffle iron and cook until golden brown. For the "DASH" brand, this will be about 3- 3 1/2 minutes each.
- Serve and enjoy.
Notes
- Along with a good waffle recipe, you need a good waffle iron! I love my Dash Waffle Iron. It’s inexpensive, easy to use and clean and always makes golden brown waffles.
- In my Dash waffle iron, the waffles take about 3 minutes to cookthrough. Yours might take a bit less time or a bit more. If you’re new to waffle making, this make take some trial and error until you really get to know your waffle iron!
- Keep waffles warm until ready to serve by setting them on a baking pan in the oven on the “warm” setting.
- Looking for low carb or gluten free? Use the Dash waffle maker to make Chaffles. Cheesy buns with no carbs!
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What are you waiting for? Make these simple best-ever waffles for breakfast this week . . . or better yet, plan on breakfast for dinner! No one is ever disappointed to have hot homemade waffles on the menu.
There is nothing better than homemade, light, & fluffy waffles!! We love this recipe! Breakfast for dinner is our favorite!
These homemade waffles are by far my favorite recipe! The waffles turn out perfect everytime! The whole family LOVES them!
Not to be a buzzkill here but if somebody is looking up a waffle recipe on your blog do you really need to have an entire paragraph or more about why you should make waffles at home? People are literally coming here for a recipe so that they can make waffles at home and it’s so much to sift through just to get to the recipe
It’s actually a question that people google often! SO yes, in order to show up in google’s search algorithms, I need to answer all the questions people are asking 🙂
Additionally, I have a “jump to recipe” button at the top of every blog post 🙂
Absolutely amazing! Thank you! I made heart shaped ones and I wish I could post the pic of how beautiful they came out!
I used this recipe for our dinner tonight. I modified it a bit to cut down on my budget. Butter can get a bit expensive this recipe uses 10 2/3 tablespoons (2/3 up) and 1 stick has 8 tablespoons (1/2 cup). So, I made unsweetened applesauce for some of the butter. I used 2/3 cup of butter and 1 cup of the applesauce to make 2 batches of 12 waffles. There are 4 adults and 1 growing 6 y/o (He ate 3 with a tsp of maple syrup on each.). The little one and I will eat some of the waffles in the morning or may want chaffles (eggs and cheese in the waffle iron) and maple syrup.
Thanks so much for your comment, I didn’t have the amount of butter that the recipe called for, so used your suggestion of 1/3 cup of butter and 1/2 cup of applesauce. Came out great, thanks!
Yummy but you can taste the baking powder
Use less next time ?
Horrid. 1/4″ thick chewy crepe-like batter.
My husband said that they were very good. I can’t have them, but they looked and smelled great. I cut the recipe and half and froze the remaining waffles. Quick and easy. Thanks.
How long can you keep the batter in the refrigerator
Omg I love these and cook them often. Always a family favourite, so easy and so yummy 😋
If it is lumpy then you also probably curdled the milk, which usually happens if you put the hot butter in the wet mix too fast. Curdled and lumpy milk comes from but heat on milk too fast so that is probably what happened if you followed the recipe.
These were wonderful! Added a half more tablespoon of sugar and a teaspoon of cinnamon. And cut back slightly on the baking powder but DANG. The texture, the flavor, the FLOOF. And they held up perfectly with lots of syrup. Thank you, Aimee!!! New staple.
I don’t know what I did wrong? I’m a very experienced home cook, I followed the recipe and amounts EXACTLY but these things were AWFUL!!!! The batter was so thick and sticky it was more like fudge.. and somehow the outside burned almost instantly into a sticky black mess while the inside turned to a white discharge looking liquid that spilled out all over my brand new waffle maker 😭😭😭😭
Hmm, sounds like a measurement was wrong. We make these often as do many others. I would double check your ingredients 🙂
Waffle maker too high, maybe….?
Really simple recipe and it’s good! Not time consuming like other high star ratings. This one is simple and family loves them!
Can you save the batter for another day?
Made these in my mini dash waffle maker. Halved the recipe and added a touch more vanilla. Had to add extra heavy cream, figure that is due to cream instead of milk. Made bacon and an egg and put together like a sandwich. The look in hubby’s eyes with the first bite said it all. DELICIOUS! Such an easy recipe.
Is the baking powder correct? I can taste it in the waffles so I double checked it was one tablespoon. They are super light and fantastic but triple checking for next time 🙂 Thank you!!!
I though the same thing!!!
It had a kinda weird after taste but it was still super good!
Got a new waffle maker for Christmas. Tried making this recipe tonight. Was just my husband and I, so I did 1/2 the ingredients. This recipe is a keeper! They were so light, had so much flavor, nice and crispy!!
These are good waffles.
For those new to waffle making, here are a couple tips:
1. I ignore any lights on waffle makers, and let the waffles cook until steam stops rising from it. This ensures the outside is good and crispy, and the inside is done and not soggy.
2. There’s enough butter in this recipe to keep the waffle from sticking – no pan spray needed. I never spray mine.
I purchased a Dash waffle iron as a stocking stuffer for my husband. I found your recipe which was PERFECT. We had wonderful waffles for breakfast Christmas morning!
Love it 🙂 And the Dash waffle iron is the perfect size for storage too!
I am an Aunt Jemima girl all the way. I like easy when I’m in the kitchen. Since the pandemic, it’s been hard to get Aunt Jemima in the regular. This recipe is the BEST! I’m assuming bc of all the butter! It’s a treat for the kids! They love it! Great recipe!
This is an amazing recipe for waffles! So light and fluffy, I dumped some cinnamon in the flour mixture and the small and taste was wonderful. What waffles are not eaten are cooled and then I place wax paper in between them and zip them up in a ziplock bag for freezing. When I feel like one in the morning, I just pop it in the toaster. Yummy