Waffles With Chocolate and Pedro Ximenez Sauce

Ingredients

• Sauce
• 200 gm dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 1 cup pouring cream
• 1 tbsp Pedro Ximénez sherry
• 1 cup thickened cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar, sifted
• 1 vanilla bean (scraped seeds from)
• To serve: roasted slivered almonds, optional
• Waffles
• 200 gm plain flour (1 1/3 cups)
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2 tsp Pedro Ximénez sherry
• 2 tbsp caster sugar
• 3 eggs, separated
• 1 cup milk
• For greasing: soft butter