Whole Wheat Apple Cinnamon Waffles

Flex days are the best days!  I love the ones where we get to spend the morning at home over the ones where we are rushing out the door however!  Today we are home for the morning at least and it felt like a good day to make a special breakfast!  

New Corner Pantry!!

Finally I'm able to fill it up!

Yesterday I had my New Pantry build by my wonderful hubby and father in law installed!!  So I've been tearing my kitchen apart changing where everything goes in the cupboards which previously had food!  I can tell you that putting the dishes in the dishwasher away this morning sure was interesting!  But it's so nice to have extra space for my small appliances now!  I can finally have my crock put upstairs rather than in the storage room!  Yay!  More crockpot meals on the way!!!

I'm still figuring out where best to put everything in the newly arranged kitchen but this is the part I love!  

 Whole Wheat Apple Cinnamon Waffle Recipe

Ingredient

2 Cups Whole Wheat Flour
1 Tbsp Baking Powder
1 Tsp Cinnamon
2 Eggs
1 Tbsp Maple Syrup
1 3/4 Cups Almond Milk
1/4 Cup Olive Oil
1/4 Cup Apple Sauce
1 Tsp Pure Vanilla

Directions

• Mix together WW Flour, Baking Powder and Cinnamon. Set Aside
• In medium mixing bowl, whisk eggs with Almond Milk, Maple Syrup, Olive oil, Apple Sauce and Vanilla.  
• Add wet mixture into the dry mixture and stir to combine. 
• Spoon batter onto the waffle iron and allow it to do it's thing!  Mine is set for between 3 and 4 and just beeps when it's done. 
• While waiting for the waffles to cook you can get out your toppings

Topping options

Apple sauce
Greek Yogurt
Cinnamon
Maple Syrup
Butter

The boys enjoyed theirs with butter and maple syrup but for some reason I love having greek yogurt on top of my waffles so I added a big scoop of plain Krema greek yogurt then a small amount of Maple Syrup, apple sauce and a sprinkle of Cinnamon!

So good!  

Apple Cranberry whole wheat Granola Waffles

Healthy, tasty and filling on a cold and rainy fall morning.  

These fruit filled waffles were so tasty and soft.  I added a dollop of Greek yogurt mixed with Maple Syrup onto the top and sprinkled some of my homemade granola on top of that so good!

I actually put the dry mixture for these together the night before so that I was able to make these fairly quickly the next morning before school! Everyone really enjoyed them, especially Fraser who gobbled them right up!  The batch also made quite a few waffles so I was able to put some aside for the next day too!  I also chopped up one square and put it in the fridge for a quick breakfast for Fraser tomorrow morning too!  Perfect toddler food!  

Ingredients: 

• 2 large eggs, beaten
• 1 3/4 cup almond milk
• 3 tablespoons coconut oil
• 1/3 cup unsweetened applesauce
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons honey
• 1 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
• 1/4 cup ground flax seed meal
• 1/4 cup almond meal
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon apple pie spice
• 2/3 cup chopped apple
• 6 tablespoons dried cranberries

Topping

• Greek yogurt
• 2 Tablespoons maple syrup
• About 1/4 cup homemade granola

Directions:

1. Preheat your waffle maker to medium and spray with nonstick cooking spray.
2. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, almond milk, apple butter, applesauce, vanilla extract and honey until fully mixed. In another bowl, whisk the flour, ground flax seed meal, almond meal, baking powder and apple pie spice together.  Mix in the apple and cranberries.
3. Add the wet mixture to the dry mixture, stirring until fully combined.
4. Pour batter (about 1/2 cup at a time) into the waffle maker and cook until golden brown (about 3 minutes). 
5. While batter is cooking mix greek yogurt with maple syrup in a small bowl of mixing cup. 
6. Serve each waffle with Greek yogurt mixed with maple syrup and granola! 

I made the dry mixture the night before and just made up the wet mixture in the morning so about half the work was done and ready to go for breakfast in the morning!

Dry Mixture made the night before and apples were cut up the morning of. 

The batter puffed up quite a bit and made a nice sized batch. 

Greek Yogurt and Maple syrup mixed for the topping with a little granola sprinkled on top!  

This recipe was inspired by the Realistic Nurtitionist blog

I hope you enjoy it as much as we did!  Such a great kid friendly and healthy recipe.