Good morning! Last Saturday Jenni and I made brunch for a whole flock of friends to start off our Christmas season together. And it started with these yeasty waffles and a whole line up of toppings– cranberry sauce, apple & currant sauce, maple syrup, pecans, yogurt, whipped cream, orange marmalade, almonds… All together with cups of coffee and lots of noisy talk–a sweet way to launch into Christmas.
YEASTY WAFFLES WITH CRANBERRY TOPPING
Waffles:
3/4 cup canola oil
1 1/2 cups milk
1 cup buttermilk
2 tab. sugar
2 packets yeast (about 4 tsp.)
1 tsp. salt
2 cups flour
2 eggs
1/4 tsp. baking powder
Six to Eight hours before you want to sit down to waffles, make the batter! (the night before for morning waffles).
In a large mixing bowl, mix together the oil, milk, buttermilk, sugar and yeast, until the yeast is totally dissolved. Then stir in the salt and flour. That’s all, the rest comes later! Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set it in a warmish place to sit for 6 to 8 hours.
When you are ready to make the waffles, stir in the 2 eggs and the baking powder. Use your waffle iron according to the directions. The batter is thin. Makes 5 or 6 full sized waffles.
Cranberry Sauce:
1/2 cup sugar
1 tab. cornstarch
1 1/2 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
1/3 cup water
In a sauce pan, stir together the sugar and cornstarch until there are no cornstarch lumps. Than add in the cranberries and water and stir over medium heat until the cranberries start to pop (!) and the sauce thickens. Takes about 3 or 4 minutes after it starts to simmer. Serve it warm with the waffles.
The Thankful Heart 
This looks delicious!
So kind Diana– thanks! your posts made me want to start searching for tickets to Scandinavia!!
Thanks for reading, Rhonda! I have a slight obsession with Scandinavia as you can see… would highly recommend a trip there. 🙂
I’d love to go! Fun to find your blog Diana!
Yum! I agree – this looks delicious. You have such yummy recipes, Rhonda. Blessings my friend.
thanks Debbie! hope you’re in the middle of a wonderful weekend. We’re going to a Christmas dinner with friends tonight and a walk through their light filled neighborhood. Should be chilly fun. Take care Debbie. Christmas hugs from here!
That would make an absolutely awesome brunch recipe (:
Thanks Nicolas! I wanted to find a place on your post to comment about your mini quiche recipe– so pretty! but couldn’t find the spot to comment. help!
oh haha, did you actually click on the post. Because I think the issue is that you are trying to comment on it from the home page. so try clicking where it says mini quiches, then it will take you to the post, then you can comment. (:
Your photographs are making me hungry. You are such an inspiration.😊
You’re so sweet Brigid. And– I loved your post on time spent with loved ones. So true. Christmas hugs from here!!
Yes. Time is incredibly precious. Christmas hugs from the emerald Isle. X
Hoping you’re stepping in to some beautiful celebrations there Brigid. Christmas blessings…
Thanks Rhonda. I have a few more choir gigs. Tuesday is our local Day Centre for the elderly and it just feels so nice to participate… Christmas blessings to you and your family. I liked those heavenly Biscuits!
Oh I love love Christmas music– What does your choir sing Brigid?? Wish I could drop in and listen. Merry Christmas!! xox
We did our first performance of Panis Angelicus on Monday for the first mass of a new priest. Lots of beautiful hymns normally but O Holy Night will be sung from Christmas eve onwards. It gives me goosebumps.😇
Oh Brigid– this sounds like the kind of music I would love. Wishing I could hear your choir. Went to our churches Christmas choir tonight with my mother– a beautiful evening. So fun to hear about your other talent!! Merry Christmas!!
Thanks Rhonda. We are wishing now that someone had recorded it as we cannot hear ourselves! 😃
Oh gosh yes Brigid! It would be lovely to have a recording–you could listen again and again… Making music for people is such a gift.
I love yeast waffles and these sound marvelous – your line up of toppings reminds me of when I was a child and we’d travel someplace and eat breakfast out – we were just fascinated by all the different syrups, jams, jellies and whipping cream!! 🙂 I love your more sophisticated version!
thanks Mollie. anything tastes better with enough whipped cream on it! The photos of your snickerdoodles are so bright and vibrant! fun post! xox
lol!! And thanks! I edited on my old laptop so now I’m worried about the color – coz Snickerdoodles shouldn’t be vibrant…I usually use the desktop but we’ve been having problems since the Windows update!
Computer programs– grrrr… I love them when they work! And I have the problem that our son-in-law is an engineer at Apple and every time he comes down (or I go up), he updates all my stuff and I have to figure it out all over again! Too much for my well used brain! Hope you get it all settled!! xox
Same with my brother who is a guru. Can’t fight the change, tho, lol!
I know. And I can’t live without my laptop… I guess I’ll just have to be an old dog that learns new tricks! Fun to hear from you Mollie. hugs!
Miam…I love waffles! wish you could send some online. Thanks again for sharing this sweet recipe Rhonda! xoxo
hi Lilly– wish we could sit down to a big waffles breakfast and talk away the morning. I’d love to hear your whole story…
Delicious! Do you have an old style waffle iron? I recently bought a little waffle maker for my daughter, not easy to find them without Teflon-type coating, so I ended up getting a Proctor-Silex with fingers crossed that it’s a good one.
What a fun gift! I hope she loves it! I have an 41 year old Nordic Ware waffle maker that you put on a stove burner– so honestly I’d love to have a newer one that is a little more easy to manage. — and I’m wondering do you have snow there?? We have to drive up to the mountains to find snow. But a White Christmas would be grand. take care friend. so
Yes, we have snow, but not too much yet. Today is bitter cold, only 2 degrees with a wind chill factor of 25 below, brrrr!
Oh whoa! I can’t imagine how that must feel! I hope you’re staying tucked inside with mugs of tea Marcia! crazy!
Rhonda, how perfect would these be on Christmas morning?
I was thinking of making them for Christmas breakfast– but got lazy so we’re having French toast with cranberries instead. Are you the Christmas cook or do you go to see family??
I have so far since having kids enforced Christmas morning at home. I’m stuck on breackfatnthough. I don’t want to be in the kitchen but still want something good lol.
Yep, I love that cozy Christmas morning in the pajamas –When our kids were little, a couple years I just splurged on fancy pastries from a bakery –with eggs & ham, it was enough and I wasn’t stuck in the kitchen. What do you usually make Lacey?? Hope it’s the best Christmas for you all! xo
I might consider that this year Rhonda, that’s a great idea.
We usually do pancake, but try to put a spin on the Christmas morning ones like lemon riccotta or chocolate chip. Not terribly time intensive but still . . . lol.
Lacey– love love chocolate chip pancakes!
Oops Lacey– hit send too soon! was going to say– I love love chocolate chip pancakes– we have a beach walk with friend that ends up at a place on the beach with the best chocolate chip pancakes, I order them every time! All that to say– whatever you end up fixing for breakfast, hope the day is sweet and tons of fun with your kids (and husband!!)
Oh a beach walk ending in chocolate chip pancakes? That sounds like heaven to me!
I hope yours is too. Thanks Rhonda!
Favorite breakfast treat ! These look so good !