Waffles – Rømmevafler

The alternative Norwegian style of waffles where you use rømme (cultured sour cream) as the main liquid for the dough. Beware that you can get several varietes of rømme these days, and although they are similar in texture and taste, the reduced fat version tend to have a more sour after-taste and less smooth texture the lower the fat content.

Created on 2023-08-13

Adapted from The Nordic Baking Book 2018, First edition, ISBN 978 0 7148 7684 9, page 234 by Magnus Nilsson (2023-08-13)

Estimated time needed: At least 64 minutes. At most 64 minutes.

Ingredients

250 g rømme 39% fat (seterrømme), 250 g ≈ 2.5 dL.
100 g flour
85 g water
1 tbsp sugar
0.5 tsp baking powder

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Directions

⌛ Active time 1 minutes

  • 250 g rømme | 39% fat (seterrømme), 250 g ≈ 2.5 dL.
  • 85 g water

Mix wet ingredients:

Mix together rømme and water. Note that the full fat rømme you should use for this recipe is about 39% fat, and the density is roughly equal to water (980 grams per liter)

⌛ Active time 3 minutes

  • 100 g flour
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 0.5 tsp baking powder

Add dry ingredients:

To ensure that the mixture ends up completely smooth, using an immersion blender works amazingly well.

⌛ Passive time 30 minutes

Let batter rest for 30 minutes:

For the best results, the batter should get some time to rest before frying. However, I'm often lazy and impatient (bad for baking), so I tend to skip this step, and the results are usually serviceable.

⌛ Active time 30 minutes

Fry waffles in waffle iron:

Note that this assumes a Norwegian (Scandinavian?) style waffle iron, which makes signifficantly thinner (about 1 cm at the thickest, and heart shaped) waffles compared to the beligain ones, but not the extremely thin kind of iron used for making leaf thick pastries like krumkaker.