Blueberry Waffles Recipe
These blueberry waffles are fragrant, flavorful waffles with hints of almond and lemon.
Fresh blueberries are a marvelous way to get some very concentrated, superfood nutrition into your eating plan. I add them to many recipes in the summer.
Now that I’m in my new apartment, I just had to keep our Saturday morning “waffle or pancake” tradition going. I mean, why would anybody want to leave behind a tradition like that???? That’s just crazy talk.
So I got to work and made these and I must say that our first Saturday morning waffles in our new home, were just downright marvelous.
Mini Chef enjoyed them with peanut butter and maple syrup on them and I had them with just a a few fresh blueberries on top and a touch of honey. A positively wonderful way to start our first weekend in our new town.
HEALTHY WAFFLE RECIPES:
BLUEBERRY WAFFLES RECIPE:
Blueberry Waffles Recipe
Equipment
- waffle maker
Ingredients
- 3 cups white whole wheat flour
- 4 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 3 large eggs
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- 1 tsp. almond extract
- 1 tbsp. fresh lemon zest (about 1 lemon)
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients together in a large mixing bowl and mix until there are no clumps of flour.
- Cook as you normally would on a waffle maker (mine is the Belgian waffle type.
- Note: Due to the fresh blueberries, this does tend to stick a bit to the waffle maker. If you don't want to mess with that, you can leave them out and just pour them over the top of your finished waffles. Also, these will take a little longer to cook due to the extra moisture in the blueberries. But I promise they are worth the wait!
These look fantastic! I love all things lemon and blueberry…even more so when served together 🙂
I hope you enjoy them!
They can be done as pancakes too?
Sure!
I made these as pancakes this morning and boy were they fantastic!
Wonderful!
Sorry, no. I don’t know the first thing about gluten free baking/cookie.
*cooking*
Is it ok to make the waffles like a pancake? I dont have a waffle maker. Thx
Definitely!
I made these a couple Saturday’s ago and they were so good! My kids loved them they didn’t taste dense and the flavors were so good! It will definitely be added to our must have breakfasts! Thanks!
Fantastic! So glad you all enjoyed them!
These were amazing! I made them as pancakes, and NUMMY! My 13 month old enjoyed them too. Don’t need maple syrup!
Wonderful! I’m so happy you enjoyed them!
Fabulous!
Fantastic! 🙂
Sorry if this has already been asked, but do you know if these can be frozen and then re-heated/re-cooked?
I feel like that would be great to make like a batch and just freeze them and eat them throughout the week for breakfast. Or, if they just keep in the fridge well for a week or something?
Leslie – I think they would be harder to freeze as pancakes. If you have a waffle iron, you could just pop them in the toaster to heat them up. Just don’t get them too brown in the waffle maker.
Can we substitute coconut or almond flour for the wheat flour? Any idea?
VR – No. Unless you know a lot about gluten free baking/cooking, I would never make that switch. Wheat flour has gluten in it, the others do not. These would fall apart on your waffle iron. I don’t know much about gluten free cooking, but you can find out more at Elana’s Pantry or the Gluten Free Goddess blog.
darn…look really good though! thanks for the reply!
Could you substitute blackberries?
JKB – I haven’t tried it, but it would probably work fine. Let me know how they turn out!
These were delicious but you were right – they make a mess of the waffle iron. Hoping my nice double waffle maker can be cleaned up from the crazy blueberry mess! Next time I’m going the pancake route.
Carol – I always take two approaches to cleaning a waffle iron. If it’s bad, I let everything dry out. Much of it will just flake off if the surface is non-stick. But if that doesn’t work, then I soften it again by putting a few layers of wet paper towel on there and letting it get soft again. One of those methods always seems to work. Hope that helps!
I got it to clean off by letting it all dry out. Looks great again. 🙂 And for the record, the waffles are DELICIOUS – I froze them and heat one up every day in the toaster oven. I’ll be trying more of your recipes!
Carol – Fantastic!! So glad you enjoyed them. 😀
I don’t know why everyone had such a messy experience? I spray my iron with pam before making the waffles & when I clean it after it’s cooled, everything comes off with a simple sponge and sunlight 🙂 delicious recipe, this is my second time making it!
Tanya – I’m glad it works for you! I don’t use Pam because it isn’t clean. Perhaps there is something in Pam that makes it easier though.