I love breakfast, especially if it involves something as delectable as the waffles and whipped cream featured in this post. The combination of fragrant lemon zest and nutty poppy seeds is such a satisfying addition to regular waffle batter - especially when you take things a step further and top it all off with fresh whipped cream flavored with pure maple syrup and vanilla extract. My husband gets the credit on this dish since it’s one of his many early morning specialties. The recipes are from “The Good Enough to Eat Breakfast Cookbook,” which is used so frequently in our kitchen that we’ve been tempted to laminate it!
Lemon-Poppy Seed Waffles with Fresh Maple Whipped Cream
Lemon-Poppy Seed Waffles
Ingredients: Makes 10 Waffles
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons wheat germ
- 2 large eggs
- 1 1/4 cups whole or 2% milk
- 6 tablespoons melted butter (reserve 1 tbs to brush on waffle iron)
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons poppy seeds
Note: If making the maple whipped cream put a medium metal or glass bowl in the freezer along with the attachments for a hand-held mixer.
Preheat the waffle iron (check the manufacturer’s setting and adjust according to how well done you like your waffles). Using a fork, cut the dry ingredients together thoroughly in a large bowl. Beat the eggs, milk and lemon zest together with a fork or whisk and pour into the dry ingredients. Mix together with the fork until there are no large clumps, but as with pancakes, don’t over mix! Cut in the 5 tablespoons of butter last.
When the iron is ready, brush some butter on the top and bottom of the iron. Ladle on just enough batter so that it won’t squirt over the edges when you close the iron. Sprinkle a dusting of poppy seeds over the surface of the batter and close the iron. When the waffle irons beeps or blinks (or when the waffles have been cooked to your liking), take your waffle out. Serve with maple syrup or maple-whipped cream, see below.
Note 2: The best way to re-heat waffles is in a toaster. Microwaving them makes them tough. In the oven they will dry out and if you wrap them in foil they’ll steam and get limp.
Maple Whipped Cream
Ingredients:
- 3/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
Put a medium metal or glass bowl in the freezer along with the attachments for a hand-held mixer. Allow to cool for a least 15 minutes.
Put the heavy cream, vanilla and maple syrup into a your dry, cold bowl and whip with a hand-held mixer until the cream holds a soft peak. That’s it!
These recipes are from the “Good Enough to Eat Breakfast Cookbook” by Carrie Levin. We love this book and highly recommend adding it to your collection!
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46 Responses for "Lemon-Poppy Seed Waffles with Maple Whipped Cream"
I would never have thought of lemon, poppyseeds and maple syrup together. But now that you suggest it, I’ll have to think again! The waffles look fabulous.
Those waffles look wonderful! I love a good breakfast, too.
sounds like a great book - and those look heavenly….haven’t had an appetite for anything today - but could polish off some of those!!!
xx
Maple…whipped…cream?! Yum.
I will definitely be getting out the waffle maker for this one!
Oh man those look good! I’m printing the recipe right now!
Now I have to go buy a waffle maker! These waffles look amazing! I absolutely love cakes, breads and now waffles with lemon and poppyseeds.
ooo! so fluffy looking. if my breakfasts were like that i’d never want to leave the house
Oh, I love this type of breakfast!
Paz
I love breakfast too
And these look champ! Now if only I had a waffle-maker…
Interesting waffles! Yummy!
Ari,
Your waffles make me wanna have a waffle machine pretty bad.
They look scrumptious, beautiful! Delicious!
Lydia - I hadn’t thought of this combo before either, but then we saw these recipes in the cookbook and you know what? Poppy Seed + Maple + Lemon + a hint of vanilla is an amazing combination!
Patricia - Well I’m not going to hold you back, having a waffle maker is pretty fun….
Oh yum, this looks great!
I said it before and I’ll say it again, I like your blog but visiting it makes me hungry.
Lol Jose! Well I hope that doesn’t stop you from coming back. (Though I hate to tell you but the next few posts I have planned are super duper scrumptious… )
Ok I want to leave work right now, go home and have breakfast again. This looks too good!
Waffles are my favorite!
I didn’t get a waffle-maker as a wedding gift and was so bummed. It’s on my list, along with a food processor.
Those look fantastic. I love poppy anything!
Hi Ari! Oooh, I’m a total waffle fiend - and these look amazing (esp. with the maple whipped cream). I love the idea of adding poppy seeds!
Another fantastic (though rich) topping is maple-walnut or butter-pecan ice-cream… Mmmm…melty!
Mmm, that’s a magical thing to do to whipped cream. Must try!
Gilly - Ooo, maple-walnut or butter-pecan ice cream, those sound delish!
Andi - It’s amazing what a little pure maple syrup and vanilla can do to plain old cream! I always get a kick out of it when the cold cream turns into whipped cream too - it’s a simple process but oh so cool.
What a great and different breakfast!
I love breakfast, too! It’s really my favorite meal of the day because at what other meal can you drink obscene amounts of coffee and have it be socially acceptable.
Nik I like the way you think!
Maple whipped cream–that’s the way waffles should be eaten!
I never had whipped cream with my waffles but this is about to change!
I don’t think I’ve ever heard of waffles like this, but now that I have I want to try them! They sound amazing. And look amazing. I bet they taste amazing too!
Maple whipped cream…how groovy is that?
Brilliant!
What a great recipe! LEmon and poppy seeds are a great combination. Thanks for introducing me to this book. It’s ordered! I am already waiting impatiently!
and now i know what i’m having for breakfast this weekend.
YES.
Helen - Cool! You are going to have so much fun with that book, it completely revolutionized the way we do breakfast in our home.
Those look like the most incredible waffles I have ever seen! Very impressive!
I tried your recipe. Decadent. With English cream.. divine.
thank you for the great recipe.
That’s awesome Cassie! I’m glad you liked it, and it was my pleasure to share this recipe.
I also tried this recipe out and I have to say: it was mighty tasty! Thanks for sharing Ari.
Looks fantastic — I added a link for you over at my site!
What a beautiful quality there is to your photographs, Ariela. What kind of camera are you using?
Lemon/poppyseed cake is my daughter’s birthday cake. I’ll send her the recipe. Verrrrry clever!
Thank you Barbara.
My food photography isn’t nearly as good as some others (eg. 101 Cookbooks or The Smitten Kitchen) but I’m working on it and appreciate your compliments! I like to think that all the TLC I put into my cooking comes through in the photos.
To answer your question: I usually use a Nikon D70, but I also use a Nikon N55 (rarely) or a Canon Powershot Digital Elph (when we’re dining out and I don’t want to lug a huge camera.)
To quote one of my favorite TV chracters:
“Waffles!! Woohoo!!”
Amen to “All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast”!!!!!!
Why thank you Chef Scott! I’m flattered by the linkage. :love:
Hi Ari - I read in the paper yesterday that someone has purchased the movie rights to “Eat, Love, Pray” and Julia Roberts was mentioned. Not sure how I feel about that. All too often I’m disappointed in the movie of any favorite book.
Janice - Yea I’m not so sure I buy Julia Roberts as Elizabeth Gilbert. Who do you think would be a good fit?
Love breakfast. Love waffles. I am new to your blog and like it very much.
Loved Eat, Pray, Love. Movies from books are never the same, don’t see how they even could be. How will they write a screenplay about Elizabeth’s transcendental experience in the ashram?
Cate Blanchett might be more fitting than Julia. Kate Winslet. Mary Louise Parker. Rachel McAdams - loved her in The Family Stone.
Oh yum! I love lemon-poppy seed cake so I’m sure I’d love this. And like you, I love breakfasts! Now because of you, I added that book to my wishlist.