Perfect Chocolate Waffles are easy to make at home in about 30 minutes! These waffles are crisp on the outside, with a tender and rich chocolate inside!
So many readers have come raving fans of my traditional Belgian Waffles Recipe that I thought it was time to do another fun flavor! Like my other waffles, these are Belgian style, but super simple to make! They come out nice and crisp on the outside and they’re light and fluffy on the inside. The chocolate flavor is out of this world too. They almost taste like a brownie, but, they aren’t overly sweet at all. These are so decadent topped with a bit of chocolate syrup, whipped cream, and strawberries!
How To Make Chocolate Waffles:
For anyone that hasn’t made homemade waffles before, I’ve included a few process shots below to help walk you through the process. It only takes about 10 minutes to put these together!
- First, grab three bowls. Use one large bowl and two medium sized.
- In the large bowl, you will whisk together your dry ingredients. This will be flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, and salt.
- Next, and this is important because it’s the trick to those light and airy waffles! You will separate your egg whites into one of the medium bowls, and place the egg yolks in the other bowl.
- Use a hand mixer to beat the egg whites on medium speed until stiff peaks form. This will take about 3 minutes.
- Then, mix the remaining wet ingredients with your egg yolks until combined.
- Stir the egg yolk mixture into the flour mixture. Then, use a spatula to fold the egg whites into the batter until no white streaks remain.
Your batter may look a tad lumpy, and that is ok. Next, you will want to preheat your waffle iron. Since waffle irons are all different, please preheat and cook the waffles according to manufacturers directions. For example, my waffle iron makes two BIG waffles at one time and I use about 3/4 cup of the batter per waffle. However, yours can vary.
This recipe generally makes anywhere from 6-10 waffles. You can store them in the refrigerator for two days, or freeze them in freezer bags for about 3 weeks. They are best reheated in the oven at a low temperature of 250 degrees for about 10 minutes.
A quick note, you can see that this recipe calls for 1/2 cup of coffee. I simply use leftover cold coffee. We love that the coffee depens the chocolate flavor! However, you can use 1/2 cup of milk in place of the coffee if you prefer!
Enjoy!
~Nichole
Perfect Chocolate Waffles
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 Cups All Purpose Flour
- 1/2 Cup Cocoa Powder
- 1/3 Cup Granulated Sugar
- 2 Teaspoons Baking Powder
- 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda
- 1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
- 1/2 Teaspoon Salt
- 2 Large Eggs, Separated
- 1/2 Cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 1/2 Cups Milk
- 1/2 Cup Coffee** SEE NOTE
- 1 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Instructions
- Preheat your waffle iron, spray with nonstick cooking spray and set aside.
- In a large bowl whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, sugar, salt, and cinnamon.
- In a medium bowl beat the egg whites with a hand mixer until stiff peaks form. Set aside.
- In a separate medium bowl mix together the egg yolks, vegetable oil, milk, coffee if using, and vanilla extract.
- Add the egg yolk mixture to the dry ingredients and mix well.
- Fold in the egg whites.
- Pour the batter onto your hot waffle iron and cook according to manufacturer's directions**
- Serve immediately with butter, syrup, powdered sugar or any other favorite toppings.
Notes
I made these with cannabutter and added some dark instant coffee! they are seriously SO GOOD. thank you for the recipe.
also I added 1 more egg
Very good recipe. I would add more sugar to it however if I were to make it again.
Made some roasted balsamic strawberries, then used those as a topping and also with some cream cheese, brown sugar and cinnamon as a filling to make waffle sandwiches. Very good!
Just made these for Easter breakfast! Delicious! crispy on the outside and cakey on the inside. Soooo good. Made a double batch so we have left overs for the week 🙂
I made this recipe, but I switched out almond milk for regular milk and apple sauce for the vegetable oil … they came out delicious, they did NOT stick to my waffle iron!
I’m currently making these for my little family. I just noticed the ingredient list calls for both baking powder and baking soda, yet the instructions only mention the baking powder. Do I need both or just the baking powder? These look great, so I don’t want to mess them up!
Yes, just a typo 🙂 . you’ll want to use both
Easy to make waffles thank you!❤️?
These waffles were amazing! I was browsing for a bit trying to find a recipe that didn’t seem to have a lot of problems with it, and when I stumbled upon this one I knew I wanted to try it out. However, I did modify mine a bit.
I didn’t add cinnamon in mine as I find it a slightly limiting flavor (especially due to my love of putting things into my waffles) and I added just a bit more vanilla. And, due to running out of baking powder, I substituted Self Rising Flour in for normal flour. It still worked wonderfully, and I will definitely be making these again in the future!
(I also added some caramel chips to one batch-Chocolate waffles with pockets of caramel flavor? Yes please!)
Oh I miss my waffle iron! We just moved overseas and I had to leave mine behind, this is definitely motivation to go out and get another – can’t say no to chocolate waffles!
I don’t have a waffle maker so whenever I have waffles it’s always a treat. Your chocolate waffles look out of this world!