Prep time: 1 hour + resting
Cooking time: 45 mins.
Serves four.
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Ingredients
Cocoa powder, to dust
Diced strawberries, to serve
Crushed toasted hazelnuts, to sprinkle
Mint sprigs, to decorate
Waffles
200ml luke warm milk
30g soft icing mixture
20g yeast
4 eggs, at room temperature, separated
250g self raising flour
200ml sparking water
125g butter, melted
2 tsp vanilla extract
Pinch of salt
Strawberry-lime sauce
250g punnet strawberries, hulled, chopped
2 tbs water
2 tbs icing sugar
1 tbs lime juice
Chantilly cream
300ml thickened cream
2 tbs caster sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
Chocolate sauce
100ml olive oil
100g dark chocolate
1 tbs cocoa powder
60ml thickened cream
15g butter
3 tsp soft icing mixture sugar
Method
1. To make waffle batter, combine milk, icing sugar and yeast in a bowl. Set aside for 10 minutes or until frothy.
2. Whisk egg whites until stiff peaks form.
3. Place flour in bowl of an electric mixer. Add milk mixture and mix slowly to combine. With motor operating, gradually add the sparkling water. Add egg yolks, butter and vanilla. Fold in egg whites in three batches. Set batter aside, in a warm place, for 1 hour to rest.
4. Meanwhile, to make strawberry-lime sauce, stir all ingredients over a low heat until strawberries are soft. Simmer until thickened. Using a stick blender, blend mixture until smooth.
5. To make Chantilly cream, whisk all ingredients together in a large bowl until firm peaks form.
6. To make chocolate sauce, stir all ingredients in a heatproof bowl over a saucepan of simmering water until melted, smooth and combined.
7. Grease a waffle maker and pour batter into cavities. Cook according to manufacturer’s instructions.
