Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 The stroopwafel recipe we are using successfully at the moment uses dry yeast. The result is a smoothly baked stroopwafel, which is easy to split. It sometimes even puffs up when it comes out of the waffle maker and we have to flatten it with a filling knife. Apparently commercial recipes…

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 The title of today’s entry says in Dutch: “Inventing Stroopwafels”. What do you when you are a computer engineer and you want to set up a stroopwafel business and the nearest stroopwafel baker is about 10,000km far away. Well fortunately there is the Internet nowadays. I have been googling about stroopwafels…

Monday, April 27th, 2009 Butter… Up to now, I never thought much about butter, other than spreading it on my bread  in the morning and using it for my cooking. Now I start baking stroopwafels, I realize how expensive butter is in Japan. Butter  is a delicious solid fat churned from milk.  It’s used in…

Okay, today is the day that our stroopwafel maker arrived. I had to go to Kansai airport to arrange the customs and pickup. If we would ask the shipping agent to do the work, it would cost another ¥24,000, and it would probably take a lot longer. After taking the kids to school, I took…

Friday, April 24th, 2009 From our previous experience, I reduced the amount of butter and increased the amount of milk. I tried to use bread flour instead of normal flour that is usually sold in the shops. I have no clue what is the difference, but found out through this experiment and feedback from the…

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 Okay, today is the day that our stroopwafel maker arrived. I had to go to Kansai airport to arrange the customs and pickup. If we would ask the shipping agent to do the work, it would cost another ¥24,000, and it would probably take a lot longer. After taking the kids…

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009 After dinner, it was time to do our first attempt on making stroopwafels.  I took one of the recipes from the Internet and divided everything by two.  For the three eggs, I was wondering whether I should take 1 or 2 eggs. I decided on 2.  Luigi measured and put the…

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Stroopwafels are sold in Japan at various supermarkets and department stores. However, all these stroopwafels are imported directly from Holland. So far there is no place in Japan, where the Japanese can enjoy freshly baked stroopwafels. Wafelhuis will bring this new delicacy to the Japanese market. This blog will regularly be…

Stroopwafels are sold in Japan at various supermarkets and department stores. However, all these stroopwafels are imported directly from Holland. So far there is no place in Japan, where the Japanese can enjoy freshly baked stroopwafels. Wafelhuis will bring this new delicacy to the Japanese market. This blog will regularly be updated on the progress…