You will never guess where I got this recipe! Or maybe you will. Yes, it was How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. Again! This sounded like a really decadent recipe. Yummy pumpkin waffles topped with a rich maple cream cheese sauce and chopped walnuts. The waffles were pretty good, although they took a long time to make. I'm not sure I liked them that much more than regular waffles, so I'm not sure if I would go through the bother of making them again! The maple cream cheese sauce didn't turn out to be spectacular, though. I like the idea, but the recipe would need some tinkering.
Basically, it tells you to whisk 1/2 cup maple syrup and 1/2 cup cream cheese together. The result did not look good! It was a bowl of opaque syrup with chunks of cream cheese floating it. Little chunks I couldn't get rid of no matter how much I whisked. Ben said the result was "tasty, but visually appalling." Well, not a very nice thing to say to the chef who is kindly enough to make breakfast for everyone, but it was pretty accurate. If I made the sauce again, I would do more cream cheese and less syrup, to make it creamier, and I think I would drizzle in the maple syrup a little at a time while mixing with an electric mixer. Hopefully this would make it nice and evenly mixed, and creamy.These pictures show the pleasantly pumpkin-colored waffle and the "visually appalling" maple cream cheese sauce! I apologize if it grosses anybody out.
-Kristin
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I have to say Ben was dead on with the visually appalling. That looks like a long night of drinking that ended badly. It was nice of the chef to go to all that trouble though!
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