Liege waffles

Recently in a conversation with R about waffles, I promised I'd make him the best waffles ever. And so I finally got around to trying gaufres de Liege (Liege waffles). They're like brioche, but cooked in a waffle iron. The dough is full of pearl sugar, which melts and crisps on the outside. Delicious!

Veganizing notes: I used the recipe linked above, replacing the butter with vegan margarine, and the egg with a pinch of lecithin and some vital wheat gluten (I got the lecithin and gluten tips from Parsnip Parsimony's post on brioche).

Sidenote: if anyone can tell me why lecithin is so widely available here, I'd love to know. Seriously, it's in every supermarket's health food section. I don't think I ever noticed it in the US. The pack I bought suggests sprinkling it on cereal, soup or salad as a 'pleasant addition'. If I'm going to be sprinkling some strange granules on my cereal, I want the packet to be selling me on how awesome it's going to taste, or what miraculous things it's going to do for my health. The mere promise of pleasantness doesn't really do it for me. (Plus, I tasted some, and... NOT TASTY.)