Waffles are great, especially for events like the Gulaschprogrammiernacht, when people want a quick, sweet snack. At these events, there is also a need for vegan options, but typical vegan waffle recipes have problems, especially with commercial-grade cast-iron waffle makers:
The waffles stick when you don’t grease them constantly
They split in the middle
They lack the mouthfeel of typical soft waffles
So I set out to find a good vegan waffle recipe using the power of science and food additives, that you can easily acquire online (in Germany würzteufel seems to be a good shop). This way, we can simulate eggs and create a moist dough that mixes easily, using whole packets of most ingredients. In my testing, I found that the dough even works after being heated to 50 degrees Celsius, so it handles adverse conditions.
A vegan waffle recipe for large event cooking, optimized to use whole packets of most ingredients, so no weighing at the event.
Prep Time 15 minutesmins
Cook Time 4 minutesmins
Servings 50heart waffles (depending on the size of your iron)
Equipment
1 Waffle iron preferably cast iron
1 Mixing bowl
1 Hand mixer
Ingredients
2kgflour
300gsoy flour (toasted)
1kgsugar
50gvanilla sugar
2lvegan milk
1lsoda (like Cola, Club Mate, or Spezi)
1kgmargarine
Waffle Powder
150gflour
6gguar gum
2gxanthan gum
50glecithin
50gmethylcellulose f50 (E461)
16gmono- and diglycerideslike emulfix
60gbaking powder
Instructions
Before the event
Mix the waffle powder thoroughly, it will be a bit messy, especially the cellulose dust.
Store the powder pre-packaged so you can use it later without weighing.
At the event / when you want to make waffles
Mix the waffle powder with all other dry ingredients thoroughly.
Mix in the wet ingredients, one ingredient at a time.
Grease and preheat your waffle iron; later, greasing is not needed for well-seasoned cast iron waffle irons
Bake until browned at 200 degrees Celsius / mid to high heat (heavily depends on your waffle iron), usually between 2 and 4 minutes.
Notes
Important: This recipe is not clean label; it uses food additives extensively and is geared towards semi-industrial use cases. If you want a minimal recipe, just use a normal non-vegan recipe and add per kg of flour 200g flax seeds soaked and mixed with water, as well as 50g of lecithin. The following recipes optimize for big badges.
It’s the first time I’ve published a recipe here on this blog, and possibly not the last. See you next time for something Java-related.
Johannes Bechberger is a JVM developer working on profilers and their underlying technology in the SapMachine team at SAP. This includes improvements to async-profiler and its ecosystem, a website to view the different JFR event types, and improvements to the FirefoxProfiler, making it usable in the Java world. His work today comprises many open-source contributions and his blog, where he regularly writes on in-depth profiling and debugging topics. He also works on hello-ebpf, the first eBPF library for Java. His most recent contribution is the new CPU Time Profiler in JDK 25.
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