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for me to eat alone. It's a together breakfast. (ethereal chime) Ah, Garnet, perfect! Check it out! It's not exactly healthy,
but it's in a stack, so I guess you could say
it's a balanced breakfast. - [Babish] Hey, what's up guys, welcome back to Binging with Babish where this week we're taking a look at the together breakfast
from Steven Universe. First up for the accurate version, I have some toaster waffles
headed out the toaster an offensively named brand
of crappy maple syrup, drizzled liberally over top, some microwave popcorn sniffed because I can't really help myself when I make popcorn I have to smell it, and scattered on top of
and around the waffles. And honestly, I think
this is pretty good idea. I think it's going to bring some crunch to what's normally a pretty
soggy waffle situation, an extra drizzle of maple
flavored corn syrup, a generous spraying of canned with cream. And after some careful contemplation a strategically placed strawberry. And there you have it,
Stephen's together breakfast, which contrary to its name and intended purpose I'm
going to eat it alone. And as you can probably
guess not so great. The waffles are dry and tough. The syrup tastes like sugar chemicals and the popcorn brings some nice texture but it needs more flavor. So I think that there are
a few ways that we're going to be able to improve
this together breakfast. First off, of course, we
got to do homemade waffles and I'm going to try out yeasted waffles because I've never made
them and they sound fun. First off I'm beating together two eggs with a teaspoon of
vanilla setting that aside and in a large bowl, combining 240 grams of all purpose flour, one tablespoon each sugar and corn meal, one
teaspoon kosher salt, and two teaspoons of dry active yeast. Tiny whisk until a homogeneous. And then over on the stove top I've got two cups of whole milk and one stick or four
ounces of unsalted butter that I have heated to
105 degrees Fahrenheit or just warm enough to activate our yeast. So we're going to add that
to our dry ingredients and gently fold them together. And halfway through mixing, we're going to add our beaten
egg and vanilla mixture and then gently folding
everything together until still lumpy, but
no streaks of egg remain. And then since this is
being leavened by yeast instead of baking powder or baking soda we're gonna let this guy
sit out at room temperature for one hour or until
about doubled in size. Then optionally, you
can let this guy chill out in the fridge overnight
to develop its flavor. Next up, we must address our popped corn. I'm going to make some on the stove top by heating three
tablespoons of coconut oil over medium high heat in a large stock pot with two or three kernels. Once one of them pops,
we're going to take it off the heat add 1/3 cup
of un-popped popcorn, cover them up and let those
come up to temperature off the heat for about 30 seconds. This is going to help them heat up more evenly and prevent scorching. Once 30 seconds are up, place
it back over medium high heat and shake constantly
using this opportunity to make funny faces at the camera, gross. Killing the heat and removing the lid once you hear less than
one or two pops per second or as we call it, the industry PPS. Evacuate the popped corn
out into a large bowl, and then we're gonna make something that I've been looking
forward to all week, a maple caramel popcorn
to accompany our waffles. To make the caramel in a medium sauce pan I'm combining half a cup each
brown sugar and maple syrup, six tablespoons of unsalted butter, and three tablespoons of water. Cooking that over medium high
heat for about 10 minutes until it reaches 240 degrees Fahrenheit. At which point we're going to
add 1/8 teaspoon baking soda and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract. Mix that until combined
and then immediately pour over the awaiting popcorn, folding over to evenly coat the popcorn,
as soon as you possibly can before the caramel starts to set, as you can see, I waited
a little bit too long so I didn't get super even coverage, but we still got some pretty
nice looking caramel corn, which we're going to spread out evenly on a parchment lined baking sheet and place in a preheated
300 degree Fahrenheit oven for about 20 to 25 minutes,
rotating halfway through Then all there is left to
do is let it cool completely and break it up into individual pieces. And this has gotta be the best caramel popcorn I've ever had. Not only is the maple really nice, but the baking soda makes the caramel super light and fragile,
so it's not chewy, it just dissolves. So now it's time to try
it with some waffles. We're gonna prepare our
waffles in compliance with the waffle iron manufacturer's
specified instructions. In my case, cooking a heaping 1/3 cup for five to seven minutes. Removing with lightly golden brown and keeping warm in a 250
degree Fahrenheit oven on a rack set in a rimmed baking sheet. Now, alls we gotta do is
make some whipped cream. You can just whip together
some sugar and cream by hand or if you have a whipped
cream siphon like this one you can combine two
tablespoons of powdered sugar with one cup of heavy cream, charge it with CO2, give it a shake, and you're off to the races. Finally, to assemble, we're
going to pile our waffles into a proud stack,
festoon them generously with caramel corn, drench them mercilessly with real maple syrup available now from today's sponsor Thrive Market hit it with a big old dollop
of homemade whipped cream on top of which we're going to gingerly perch our lone strawberry. And there you have it, the
Babishian together breakfast, which is pretty good. The waffles are super
light and fluffy and Lacey. The caramel corn is delicious, and real maple syrup always tastes better, but all together I do think it's a little bit overwhelming. As much as I appreciate
Steven's enthusiasm for breakfasts that bring people together, I do think I have a better
use for this caramel popcorn and that is to mix it
with some cheddar popcorn. We're just applying a whole
bunch of yellow cheddar powder as soon as the popcorn is popped, otherwise it will not stick,
a few generous pinches of kosher salt and toss together to coat. Then we're going to
add the caramel popcorn and this might sound strange
at first to the uninitiated but if you've ever had
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