Berry Waffles

Sunday mornings are meant for just a few things in my book: church, relaxing, a luscious brunch and relishing company of family and friends.  Going gluten free sadly means most brunches out can be off limits - at least the ones with pancakes and waffles involved.  But these waffles are, well, awesome!  They took me right back down memory lane to eating breakfast at Big Boy on vacations and ordering their strawberry belgian waffles <3

Ingredients:

• 1 cup gluten free flour
• 1/2 cup almond meal/flour
• 1 tsp xanthan gum
• 2 Tbsp golden flax seed meal (optional)
• 2 Tbsp chia seeds (optional)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 Tbsp sugar or raw sugar
• 1 Tbsp applesauce (or 1 Tbsp oil)
• 3/4 cup vanilla almond milk (or real milk)
• 1 cup liquid eggs or 4 eggs
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup strawberries pureed (optional)
• 1/2 cup blueberries (optional)

Note: to make regular waffles (not gluten free), replace the gluten free flour and almond flour with 1.5 cups regular all purpose flour and skip the xanthan gum.

Instructions:

1) In a bowl, mix the following: flour, almond flour, xanthan gum, flax, chia, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and sugar (basically all dry ingredients until the applesauce)

2) Then add in the liquid/wet ingredients and continue to mix: applesauce, milk, eggs, and extract

3) After the wet and dry ingredients are mixed through with no lumps in the batter, add the berries which are optional of course.  The batter will then look like the batter below.

4) Heat up your waffle iron and once it's ready, pour small amounts of your batter in depending on the size of your waffle iron.  Ours is about 1 cup per 4 waffle squares.

5) Cook the waffles per your waffle iron's instructions

6) Serve the waffles with a fruit compote and powdered sugar or syrup or honey or jam - whichever way you love your waffles!