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.