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These Easy Fluffy Homemade Waffles are crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside and full of buttery vanilla flavor! Our whole family can’t get enough of this delicious waffle recipe!
This post is sponsored by Challenge Butter, but all opinions are my own.
The Best Homemade Waffles Recipe
These easy homemade waffles are a major hit in our home! They are made pretty much every weekend and even sometimes during the week when I get an extra sweet request from one of the boys. While 2-year-olds aren’t always known for being great eaters, they LOVE these waffles and can easily put down at least 3 between them.
These are classic waffles too, not to be mistaken for Belgium waffles. Being the classics they are, they are simpler and more straight forward to make. No need to worry about whipping egg whites here, just mix everything together and you’re ready to go! Quick and easy!
After tweaking the recipe to get it just how we like them – buttery, a little sweet, fluffy and crisp – I’m finally sharing this perfect waffle recipe. I can’t wait for you to try them and add them to your weekend rotation too!
Homemade Waffle Ingredients
These waffles couldn’t be easier to make and odds are you already have the ingredients in your kitchen!
- All purpose flour
- Granulated sugar
- Baking powder – Helps give these waffles their fluffy rise.
- Salt
- Butter – Adds great buttery flavor and I always recommend my favorite Challenge Butter. Challenge Butter is a wonderfully creamy butter that goes from farm to fridge in just two days, so you know it’s fresh. It has no added hormones, artificial flavors or filling, which I love. Be sure to check it out!
- Milk – I use 2%.
- Eggs
- Vanilla extract – Definitely adds lovely flavor.
How to Make Homemade Waffles
- Combine dry ingredients. Whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and set that aside.
- Melt butter. Add a few tablespoons of the milk in with your butter and melt it in the microwave. Adding the milk helps ensure that when you add the melted mixture to the rest of your milk and wet ingredients, it doesn’t seize up and end up lumpy.
- Combine wet ingredients. Add the melted butter mixture to the milk and then add the eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk everything together until well combined.
- Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and gently stir together. Don’t over mix it! A few lumps are just fine.
- Cook your waffles. Add the batter to your waffle iron and cook them according to your waffles iron’s instructions. My waffle iron uses roughly 6 tablespoons of batter per waffle. Add in the batter and let it cook to the setting you choose on your waffle maker.
- Serve and eat! This is the best part. Serve your waffles with some Challenge Butter and syrup and dig in!
What to Serve with Waffles
While we love to eat our waffles with a little butter and syrup, there are lots of fun options. You could even set up a waffle bar for a special occasion. Some great options for pairing with your waffles:
- Powdered sugar – Dust it over the top with a sifter or spoon.
- Fresh fruit – Berries, diced peaches, sliced bananas. Whatever you enjoy!
- Raspberry sauce – Homemade raspberry sauce would be incredible topped with whipped cream and maple syrup.
- Whipped cream – You can use homemade whipped cream for the ultimate topping.
- Caramel Sauce – A drizzle of salted caramel sauce would be amazing on these waffles!
- Eggs – Scrambled on the side, or perhaps even over easy and served on top.
- Sausage or Bacon – Anyone else love dipping bacon in maple syrup?
How to Store and Reheat Waffles
Definitely! When storing them in the fridge or freezer, I recommend placing a piece of parchment paper between each waffle to keep them from sticking. They will keep in the fridge for up to a week and in the freezer for 4-6 months.
You can reheat them in the microwave or a toaster oven. Using a toaster oven will keep them more crisp than a microwave.
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Easy Fluffy Homemade Waffles
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Total Time: 25 minutes
- Yield: 6-8 pancakes
- Category: Breakfast
- Cuisine: American
Description
These Easy Fluffy Homemade Waffles are crisp on the outside, fluffy on the inside and full of buttery vanilla flavor! Our whole family can’t get enough of these delicious waffles!
Ingredients
- 2 cups (260g) all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup (52g) sugar
- 4 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup (56g) unsalted Challenge butter
- 2 cups (480ml) milk
- 2 large eggs
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
1. Preheat your waffle iron and set aside.
2. In a medium sized bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
3. In a small bowl, add the butter and few tablespoons of the milk. Melt the butter in the microwave and stir to combine it with the milk.
4. Add the butter mixture to the rest of the milk, then add the eggs and vanilla extract. Whisk well to combine.
5. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently whisk together to combine. Don’t over mix. A few lumps are fine.
6. Add waffle mix to your hot waffle iron and cook according to your waffles iron’s instructions.
7. Serve warm!
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 waffle
- Calories: 235
- Sugar: 9.6 g
- Sodium: 194.9 mg
- Fat: 7.3 g
- Carbohydrates: 35.7 g
- Protein: 6.9 g
- Cholesterol: 63 mg
I followed the recipe to the letter, even weighing out all the ingredients, but the batter is super thin like a soup. Is that supposed to be the consistency?
It is typically fairly thin. There’s a video above the recipe bard that you could watch to see it.
Super easy and delicious recipe! Thanks for sharing 🩵
So glad you enjoyed them!
We rarely eat waffels, these hit the spot! Next time, we are going to dial down the sugar a bit, from our own personal preferance, the receipe was easy to use and again, hit the craving we were having.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Great recipe works great in Belgium waffle maker just fine!
best waffles all times
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Question:
You state these are classic waffles and not to be mistaken for Belgium waffles. Will this recipe work in a Belgian waffle maker? I have a classic waffle iron, but I just picked up one of those flip-type waffle makers you often see in hotel breakfast bars. I’d like to try using that one.
I haven’t tried it, but I would expect it to work fine.
I made these yesterday and they were delicious! Consistency of batter was perfect and they didn’t stick to my waffle iron. I did spray the waffle iron with Pam before I made the first batch only. Question:. Can you make the batter ahead of time and store it in the fridge?
The recipe was good, and the waffles tasted great! Only, I greased the waffle iron before pouring the batter in, but when I tried to take them out of the waffle maker they stuck to it. Should I add a little oil to the waffle batter? Or is there another solution?
It may depend on your particular waffle iron. I’m not sure if adding oil to the batter would help and it could thin out the waffles. You may just really need to grease your iron well.
My crew of 13 kids (having a niece/nephew sleepover) gave these a big thumbs up! I doubled the recipe and had plenty for everyone!
Wonderful! Glad to hear that!
Just made these (with oat milk) and my very picky daughter said I must make these every day! ha! Big hit at my house!! Thank you
Wonderful! So glad to hear that!
This is a easy recipe and tastes great. I halved the recipe for my husband and myself and added about 1/4 – 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries. Delicious. These are the best homemade waffles I have made.
So glad you enjoyed them!
I’m usually a box mix waffle kind of person, but I was pleasantly surprised with this recipe in terms of simplicity. I cut the recipe in half for two people and added cinnamon. I initially thought the batter was too thin due to the amount of milk, but it ended up being the perfect consistency! Really pleased with the overall quality of the waffles – great recipe!
I’m so glad you enjoyed them!
Something is way off! 2 cups of milk made my batter very soupy! Is this normal?
I make these all the time with my kids, so it is accurate. The batter is thin, so it sounds like it’s probably fine. It’s hard to tell from a distance but as long as everything is measured correctly, it should be fine. There is a video for the recipe, so maybe it would be helpful to take a look at that and see how thin the batter is when I pour it into the waffle maker to compare.
This was my first attempt making homemade waffles and I’m so glad I tried and used this recipe! They were wayyyy better than the boxed crap my husband uses. I cut everything in half because I only needed to feed two people. They were so easy(directions were simple and to the point)and turned out so tasty ,fluffy inside crispy out -my husband said he’s never buying that boxed ish again 💪
LOL! I’m so glad you both enjoyed them!
Umm why Isnt there measurements for this recipe
There are. It’s at the bottom of the post. Hit the jump to recipe button just under the title of the post at the top and it’ll take you directly there.
Not great. Flat and under whelming with little taste.
I always edit the recipe just a tad. It’s a great base to start with.. made strawberry and chocolate chips. Kids loved it.
Great recipe
Restaurant quality waffles at home! If not better, simple easy, you control the ingredients. This recipe is perfect no changes needed. If you have an egg allergy just substitute 1/4 cup of Greek yogurt for each egg and it will still turn out perfect. If your waffles do not turn out well I suggest either going back over the recipe or buying another waffle iron.
So glad you enjoyed them!
The after taste wasn’t well. We followed recipe and cooked like we cook other waffles with our iron. Not a good taste. We ended up feeding to our dog. 🙁
This recipe did not work at alllll for me. 2 cups of milk is way to liquify
11/10!!! Super simple, sweet, fluffy. Didn’t have to change the recipe at all. My toddler also added “good!”
So glad they were a hit!
Super easy recipe and delicious results!! I had some buttermilk I needed to use up, so I used a mixture of 2% and buttermilk. Light, fluffy, hint of sweet, waffles. Yum! Thanks!
The best waffle recipe I’ve tried that has actually turned out well everytime! I’m loving it and my kids and hubby do too! I even tried it without any sugar at all and still lovely, fluffy and delicioso!
So glad you enjoy it!
This recipe was awesome!
I substituted the milk for sour cream, still perfect!
No amounts for ingredients
They are there in the recipe card. If you click on “jump to recipe” at the top of the post, it will take you straight there.
These are the best waffles I’ve ever made. Buttery and fluffy. I will make a double batch at once, break them into quarters and freeze with wax paper in between them. They are just as delicious pulled straight from the freezer and into the toaster.
So glad you enjoyed them!
I usually use a recipe that separates the eggs, beats egg whites stiff….that is a lot of work, IMO.
This recipe actually received more raves from the family (and in the end that is what really matters, right?). It was so simple. Only thing I did different was a — doubled the recipe with 3 eggs instead of 4, and b–added a fair amount of cinnamon and bada bing bada bang! It was magic! Beautiful waffles that were raised and completely lovely –never mind they were delicious!
So glad they were a hit!
Hey! What waffle maker is that you are using?
It’s a cuisinart. I’ve had it a while so I’m sure it has changed a little bit by now.
This is my family’s go-to waffle recipe when we want crispy, delicious traditional waffles and no one feels like the healthy, gluten-free, no refined sugar ones (which is pretty often, to be honest). I’ve made these dozens of times, and they always come out. I do let the batter sit for 10 minutes before adding it to the waffle iron to thicken it up (usually around a few minutes after the time it takes to heat the waffle iron). This makes 10 waffles in my All-Clad iron, which I do spray before using. These taste great plain and freeze well for toasting during the week. Thank you so much!
So glad they’ve been a hit!
Perfect and easy. These are like the Goldilocks of waffles Nothing too fancy, but nothing incredibly boring either. They’re just right.
Glad you enjoyed them!
Do I need to use any non-stick spray on the waffle Iron?
I don’t with mine and usually you don’t need to. But if you find your waffles are sticking, you certainly can.
Can you substitute water for the milk.
I haven’t tried it. The result would be a little different but it would probably be OK.
I love this recipe. But I had to add an extra cup of flour to the batter to make it thick enough.
I LOVE THIS RECIPIE!!!!!
Glad to hear that!
Easy to make but it only yielded me 3 waffles… and I burnt one… double it!
This recipe was great – easy, delicious fluffy waffles as advertised!
Great find!! I made these in a snap rushing to get breakfast made b4 school. We used a mini waffle maker and they were perfect! Will add some other ingredients to experiment next time.
Thanks for the recipe.
I really like your recipes
Thank you!
Love it and easy to make
Quickly whipped up this recipe in under 5 min. I even cut it in half. I did mess up on some measuring but they turned out delicious and fluffy. Great flavor. I added some Cinnamon for a bit of a fall flavor. I also saved the batter to use the next day and it was great. I usually make batter and save it for a couple days. I’ve never had any problems with Waffle consistency.
Hi, can the batter be left in the refrigerator to be used next day?
I don’t typically recommend that, but you could try it. I think someone may have said it worked well for them.
Just made this recipe – we cut it in half for the 2 of us. It was perfect – and they were sooooo good! Thank you!
Worst waffle recipe on the internet – came out floppy yet burned. Dumped it all in the trash. Wayyyyy too much butter, too much liquid and 1 tsp more of baking powder that it needs.
Perhaps you should give it one more try and be sure you measured everything correctly. I make these all the time and they always turn out perfectly. Sorry you had trouble!
Yes! I’d say give it another try. I found this recipe a few months back and haven’t looked for any other. I love them! I’ve also doubled each ingredient to make more and they came out great as well. Very delicious and so simple!
I was going to use bisquick and told myself NO! I need to find a homemade recipe. So glad I ran across yours, so yummy. Everyone loved them! Thank you for sharing
So glad you enjoyed them!
So good! The melted butter in the batter makes it extra delicious.
Can I prep this the night before?
I’m not sure. I’ve never tried that.
I love this recipe! I would like to know whether you have tried substituting the granulated sugar with monk fruit sweetener? If not what measurement would you recommend?
I have not tried it but I think those types of sweeteners usually have a recommended amount to use as a substitution on the package.
Hi, just wanted to know if it’s safe to double up on the recipe? I ask because I notice that you use a lot of baking powder. So using 8 teaspoons of baking powder for 4 cups of flour is ok? Hope to hear from you soon.
That does sound like a lot, but I haven’t tried it to be able to say for sure if doubling it is a problem.
We doubled ours and it turned out great!
I love this recipe now it’s my best one.
Looks like a great way to easily improve my waffle-making with a few simple additions and improved technique. I love the little explanations and tips you include in your descriptions. Thanks!
Seriously the fluffiest waffles I’ve ever had!
Yummy! I made this for my family all the times. So easy.
I loved this recipe so much and I made it for my family several times! My only complaint is that they’ve never been crispy enough to my liking. I still always enjoyed them though.
No need to buy a box mix. These are easy and delicious!! My family’s favorite waffles!
So glad to hear that!
Just made this. Very good! Do yourself a favor and make this
before this I made some waffles that were absolutely terrible so I was really heartbroken and then I found your waffles and decided to give them a chance. you guys single handedly saved my Wednesday morning these waffles are amazing.
My kids loved this! I substituted brown sugar for the white sugar. Thanks for the great recipe!
Does this recipe work if you use a brand other than Challenge
Yes, it does.
Awful tasted and smelt like pretzels instead of waffles and the recommended baking powered amount makes it have a bitter taste
Especially surprised because I followed the instructions to a t and everyone else left good reviews
I’m glad we ran out of Bisquik this morning because these waffles turned out great! My boys loved them. The vanilla adds a nice, subtle flavor.
This is best waffle recipe so don’t even bother trying other ones.
This recipe is SO EASY, and the waffles are SO DELICIOUS, my hubby wants them at least once a week!! For dinner is his favorite, and I make raspberry syrup and vanilla whipped cream to top them with! Add some bacon, and it’s so over the top delish that I make lots extra and use them to make a homemade trifle! Absolutely MAGNIFICENT trifle!!! Thanks so much for this recipe!!
Simple and delicious. Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely delicious. I will never use a box mix again. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great recipe, made no adjustments and came out great.
Came across your recipe this afternoon and gave it a try for brunch. Simple to make and turned out well. Good flavor. Bonus is easy cleanup. Will add to this recipe to the rotation.
So glad you enjoyed them!
We served them with peaches & pineapple compote with whipped cream – the kids demolished them and we’ll be making batches to freeze for the littlest one with soy allergies that can’t eat the big box brands.
Delicious recipe i love to beat the fluffy egg.
Delicious! I loved that i didn’t need to whip the egg whites! Buttery, great texture and full of flavor!
These waffles are so amazing!! What a super easy and truly delish dish! I made this last night, sticking pretty close to your instructions. It turned out delicious and made a good presentation. I’ll be repeating this one for sure. Thank you so much for this recipe!
this is the best waffles ever! my cumputer has some problems, so i cant watch your other recipes. i will try to look at more recipes you have made! they will surely be DELICIOUS!!!
So glad you enjoyed them!
These were amazing and light. I didn’t make the syrup though, just used pure maple.
I just made them and they are delicious, only since I read the recipe I thought it was too much milk, so I only used 1 1/2 cup. They were perfect! Thank you very much!
Glad you enjoyed them!
Great recipe! I loved it and I will continue to use it. I’ve had trouble making good waffles in the past but these were a 10 out of 10!
Just made these waffles. We modified and used king arthur gluten free measure for measure flour and subbed maple syrup for the sugar. These are absolutely amazing!!! Best waffles ever!! Love the crispy outside with the fluffiest inside!! Five stars for sure! 🙂
So glad you enjoyed them!
Hi Lindsay, I wanted to let you know these are the best waffles I ever made. I have been making home made waffles for years, and most all recipes add beaten egg whites to get that fluffy, light texture. It’s like my little cramped kitchen counter space is filled with bowls, whisks, and beaters + the waffle iron! So I tried your recipe and it is firmly established that beaten egg whites are not necessary to achieve the texture of light, fluffy waffles. I make the entire batch and then freeze the remainder. They are the very best!!
Thank you for your great recipes and also, I have enjoyed reading your updates about the babies. Good luck to you and your beautiful family.
I’m so glad to hear that these have simplified waffles for you! Thanks Nicole!
Hi ma’am…Can I use ur recipes for home baking business.?
You’re able to use the recipes for baking, yes. Just not the photos. Thanks!