Today on The Stay At Home Chef I'm showing you how to make a vanilla waffle cake.
Waffle cakes are super fun and easy to make. All you need is a bowl, maybe a
hand mixer, and a waffle iron. Today we're going to make a vanilla waffle cake with a
whipped chocolate ganache. So to start we're gonna pour 2 cups or about 12
ounces or one bag of chocolate chips into a bowl. Then get 1 cup of heavy cream
heating on the stove to a simmer. Then you'll just pour this simmering
cream directly over the chocolate chips. You want to let it sit for a couple of
minutes and then you can see as I put my rubber spatula in here that it's
starting to melt so you want to stir it together and keep on stirring until it's
nice and smooth and all of the chocolate is melted. Then once it's smooth we're
gonna go ahead and put this in the fridge to chill for about an hour.
Then after an hour you can see it's nice and thick in the bowl so I'm gonna use a
hand mixer and start whipping it until it's light and fluffy. After a couple of
minutes you should end up with a nice fluffy chocolate ganache frosting.
I'm using milk chocolate today but you can also use semi-sweet whatever is your
personal preference. Pop that into the fridge while we go ahead and make our
waffle cake. For the cake batter start with 1/2 a cup of softened salted butter
in a bowl and you want to whip this until it's light and fluffy. After about
a minute on that you can add in 3/4 of a cup of granulated sugar and whip this in
until it's nice and creamy. Once that is all combined you can pour in 1 cup of buttermilk
and of course if you don't have buttermilk you can always use a
buttermilk substitute with either lemon juice or vinegar. The full instructions
are on my website. You'll also need 1 large egg and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
You want to mix this in. Then for the dry ingredients you'll need
1 3/4 of a cup of all-purpose flour, 2 teaspoons of baking powder and
1/4 teaspoon of salt. You want to mix this in until it's just combined.
Once it's all combined we're ready to waffle! Now of course you can use whatever
waffle maker you have at home. You don't need to go buy a special one just to
make this but I love to make a waffle cake using a Belgian waffle iron because
it's deeper and it just makes for a beautiful round little cake, Take a
heaping 1/2 cup is what fills my waffle iron place it down in there it's nice
and hot. Actually I may add a little bit more.
I'm gonna get three waffles out of this and I'm gonna let it cook. Then once it's
done you can go ahead and gently remove it from the waffle iron and transfer it
to a wire rack to cool completely. Cook up the rest of your batter until you
have three or four waffles depending on the size of your waffle iron so that we
can assemble our cake. Place a completely cooled waffle onto a cake stand and you
can pile on some of that whipped chocolate ganache and spread it out and
put on the next layer and it's okay if things start falling apart a little bit
and later on more ganache and then place the final waffle on top of that then for
the top I just plop a little bit of the ganache on and then I just add some
berries on top to make it pretty and then that's it! You are ready to eat!
You'll want to store this in the refrigerator.
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