Lemon Poppy Seed Sourdough Waffles

This is the first waffle off the griddle.  They went like...well...waffles.  I was going to say hot cakes...but you know, they aren't hot cakes.

 

We made a batch of lemon cream cheese frosting (next photo) to add to the waffles.  

Some of us tried these with regular syrup too and liked it better.

Personally I thought the frosting was too thick and too sweet.  Here is the recipe:

Lemon Cream Cheese Frosting

4 oz. of cream cheese, softened

1 tbsp. of lemon zest

1/4 cup of lemon juice

2 cups of powder sugar

1. Mix the all the ingredients together until smooth and creamy.

This recipe is rather fantastic as frosting for lemon pound cake.  

Last waffle came off the griddle and we let the frosting melt in.  Ugh!  Too sweet.

The next photo shows the recipe.

Next time I would double the poppy seeds and lemon zest/juice.

And about the lemon glaze for a topping...it was too thick and too sweet for this application.  It was the recipe from the Italian Lemon Cream Cake which is back a couple years on this blog.  And just right for the cake.

We made these waffles because someone important to me wanted to experiment with these particular flavors.  We grew our own poppy seeds.

Whiskey Pecan Pie

A year ago I committed to a birthday pecan pie for my son-in-law.

This week that was belatedly fulfilled.

Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies in Minature

Nordic Bakeware Lemon Buttermilk Bundt Cake Mix

 In the winter I was shopping in Klicker's and another lady came in and bought several of these cake mixes off the shelf.  I noticed and questioned her about it.  She was friendly and let me know her family requests these for the holidays.  She was stocking up.  So I bought one to try.

Then it never happened and my husband pulled it out of the cupboard a couple weeks ago and encouraged me to complete the project.

It calls for a 10 cup mold and mine is 8 cup.  So I had some batter left over and made 5 fancy cupcakes which I gave away to friends.

Then this week, we were back in Klicker's and they had one mix left.  I had several children along and we made it the next day but instead of the bundt cake shape, we used other shapes (see Boncook) that were smaller.  So those are pictured below.

 

 

They were very good.  I highly recommend.

Sourdough Rosemary Crackers

We were visiting Klicker's and one of the children wanted "Organic Sourdough Flatbread Crackers."  Rather than buying them, we came home and started proofing our sourdough.

Our friend gave us a sourdough cracker recipe years ago and we got it out.  We also went to the garden and picked some fresh rosemary to put in this recipe.

Here is the final result.  We forgot to pierce the dough with fork tines so it puffed up, but we liked the variations in these crackers.  We broke it apart and ate it while still warm.

Twenty minutes baking time was too long.  Twelve minutes was about right.  And we decided to make it a flatbread instead of small individual crackers.

 

The children enjoyed rolling it out.

Ready for the oven.