Lilikoi Waffle Desert

It's waffle week - sort of. Because I will be out of the country for the real waffle week (Sept 2-8, 2012) I've moved it up so I can celebrate before I leave.

For something new this year my mom and I made Lilikoi (passion fruit) syrup. She's growing lilikoi and had a bunch of ripe ones she needed to use. I found this really simple recipe from North West Hawaii Times:

Basic Lilikoi Syrup
6 cups sugar
4 cups water
4 cups lilikoi pulp
Boil sugar and water till syrupy. Add lilikoi pulp and simmer over low fire till seeds are apart. Strain and bottle. A delicious drink with a little lemon added to it or other juices combined with the lilikoi. (This recipe comes from the days before you could buy liliko`i juice everywhere. But it’s still useful because you can pour the syrup over shave iceor ice cream~RdC)
-from Kauai Cookbook, prepared by Kekaha Parent-Teachers’ Association, 1954

I had a bunch left over after my big waffle brunch so I brought it to dinner with my circus waffle maker and some leftover batter (easy stuff from pancake mix). So we had waffles with ice cream and lilikoi syrup. It was awesome.

I think it's our new favorite desert. Yum.