Waffles with homemade maple butter

Prep time 10 mins
Cook time 5 mins

Straker started the flavoured butter hype, and I have seen flavoured butters being sold, but it’s so easy to make your own butter, and flavour it yourself. All you need is some double cream, and either a jar or a whisk, and you can have homemade butter in minutes.

Recipe

THE WAFFLES (or use your own recipe/ store bought), serves 1
3 heaped tbsp oat flour
1 egg
1/2 banana
Splash milk
1/6th tsp bicarbonate of soda
Pinch of salt

THE MAPLE BUTTER, makes 1 block
300ml double cream
Pinch of salt
3 tbsp maple syrup
1/2 tsp vanilla extract

Method

1. For the butter, add your cream to a large mixing bowl, then whisk it for around 5 minutes until it’s producing buttermilk - you’ll get a thick whipped cream first, but keep whisking it past that - it will become butter and buttermilk.

2. Squeeze the butter with your hands, getting rid of any excess butter milk, then add the butter to a clean bowl.

3. Add maple syrup, salt and vanilla to the butter, then whisk through.

4. Transfer your butter into a dish, then leave in the fridge to cool.

5. Make your waffles, blending everything for the batter until smooth, then greasing your waffle iron and leaving it heat up.

6. Add your batter to the waffle iron - ours made 2 waffles, leaving until cooked through.

7. Add your waffles to a plate, then top with a spoonful of your maple butter, allowing it to melt. Top with more maple syrup, and any other toppings of choice.

Notes + Variations:

You can use your own waffle recipe, or even do this as pancakes if you don’t have a waffle iron handy.
Also, switch up the butter as you like - you could use honey instead, or just leave it plain :P.