Low-Fat Whole Wheat Waffles: YUM!

// August 14th, 2010 // Cooking, Life in General

Bear frequently eats a waffle or a pancake for breakfast.  Because they are so easy to fix and I can get them to the high chair quickly, I’ve been buying the frozen ones.  However, I’m not convinced that this is the healthiest thing ever, and I’ve been wanting to make them myself.  Of course, making them every morning would not be very conducive to either quick or easy, so I decided to make my own frozen waffles and pancakes.  Today, I got out the waffle iron and made up a batch of low fat, whole wheat waffles.  Right now I have them flash freezing on cookie sheets in the freezer, but we did eat a few when they were hot and fresh.  All I have to say is YUM (or, to quote Bear, “Wummy!”).  Hot Husband said, “Oh, man.  I think these are the best waffles I’ve ever had.”

I haven’t seen how they do after being frozen, but here is the recipe I used:

1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups skim milk
1/3 cup applesauce

I just mixed it all together and cooked it according to the waffle iron directions.  It made about 12 waffles at 77 calories, 1 gram of fat, 15 grams of carbohydrates, and 4 grams of protein each.  Not too shabby.  Of course, adding butter and syrup makes those numbers go up, but I ate mine plain and still thought it was really good!  I may leave off the sugar on future batches.  I don’t think I’d notice its absence at all.

They are pretty big, too, so I think that Bear could just eat 1/2 waffle, which would mean my freezer batch would last longer.  Unless HH eats them all.

Or I do.

If you try these, let me know what you think.

If the pancakes turn out as well as the waffles, I’ll be sure to give you that recipe as well.

8 Responses to “Low-Fat Whole Wheat Waffles: YUM!”

  1. Melanie says:
    August 14, 2010 at 7:48 pm

    OR…if you are in a hurry, Aunt Jemima has a whole wheat mix. YUMMY!

  2. Nicci says:
    August 14, 2010 at 8:50 pm

    Hmm . . . I do believe I have an Aunt Jemima coupon. I think it would also be pretty easy to mix up the dry ingredients in this to keep on hand, since I now own a big ol’ bag of whole wheat flour.

  3. Amanda Gant says:
    August 16, 2010 at 10:25 pm

    It’s a $1/2 q and the cheapest you’ll get Aunt Jemima would be for $1.30 or so per box. So, if you can whip it up, it beats a coupon. You also have one for Hungry Jack, but again, it’s a $1/2 and around the same price as Aunt Jemima. I think I’ll try your recipe because with my daycare kiddies, I make alot and freeze and this would be cheaper and I have a bag of Whole Wheat!! We’ve tried Quaker’s and it’s nasty.

  4. Nicci says:
    August 16, 2010 at 10:29 pm

    You’re so awesome to know exactly what the coupons are! Also, I have since popped these in the toaster, and they work great. For more waffle testimonial–I dropped the Bear off at his grandma and grandpa’s today so I could work, and when we walked in, their house smelled sooooo good. I said, “We should have gotten up sooner and come over for breakfast!” Grandpa said, “We were making your waffles.”

    I had no idea they smelled so good. They must smell better when someone else cooks them. :)

  5. Mary says:
    January 19, 2011 at 8:17 am

    Are the fat and calories for a whole waffle from a waffle maker? I have a belgian waffle maker and I’m doing WW, so I want to be sure before I eat one!

  6. Nicci says:
    January 19, 2011 at 8:41 am

    My waffle maker makes two square waffles at a time. Each waffle is about 4″x4″, if that helps. To figure out the nutrition info per waffle for your own waffle maker, you could just multiply the information I gave by 12 (the number of waffles a batch made on my maker) and then divide it by the number of waffles you got out of a batch. Make sense? Good luck on WW. I hope you like the waffles!!

  7. Mary says:
    January 20, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    Thank you! Giving them a whirl tomorrow!

  8. Nicci says:
    January 20, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    They really are pretty good and very filling! With or without lowfat margarine and a little sugar free syrup . . . mmmmmm! Let me know what you think!

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