It was Friday. I was hungry and trolling around reading blogs, recipes to be specific. And I came across an enterprising lady who to keep her un air-conditioned home cool and still eat brownies, dumped her batter in her waffle iron. That sounded way good to me, then I got busy with dinner and kids and forgot about the waffle brownies until I crawled into bed. Drat. Too late to for chocolate fix.
I woke up Saturday still thinking about chocolate waffles cursing myself for having not made some in secret after the boys went to bed the night before. I really really wanted chocolate waffles. So I started googling chocolate waffle recipes, remembering that Alton Brown made them on a Good Eats episode. Several recipes later and the consensus was to replace 1/2 of the flour in a waffle recipe with cocoa et voila! Chocolate waffles. Yup, I made chocolate waffles for breakfast on Saturday. I couldn't very well be the healthy food queen AND serve brownies for breakfast, but chocolate whole grain waffles met my nutritional requirements. Beta-glucan (oats) and gobs of antioxidants (chocolate) to start the day, I couldn't ask for more.
The surprise was, only little boo and I really liked them. Seriously, who wouldn't love any excuse to eat chocolate for breakfast?
Hubby is not a big a dark chocolate fan as I am so they didn't appeal to him. He said they'd be perfect as dessert waffles served with ice cream and chocolate syrup on top. He's also not a lover of breakfast griddle items (see what I have to live with, hehehe). His opinion really doesn't count for me. Not sure what was up with big boo. He usually loves all things chocolate, even dark chocolate. And waffles. His displeasure was a mystery.
A warning to those who are not in. love. with. dark. chocolate. You either want to top this with copious amounts of whipped cream, ice cream, raspberry jelly OR sub only 1/4 cup of cocoa.
I just used my whole grain waffle recipe with oats, subbed 1/2 cup of the flour for cocoa and topped with butter and a generous amount of powdered sugar and they were so. good. yum. Best part? Since big boo and hubby weren't big fans, there were left overs, which went into the freezer. Oh look. One just popped up from the toaster and I am eating it now. Are you jealous?
Dark Chocolate Waffles (based on recipe from eatingwell.com)
2 cups buttermilk (or milk with a little lemon)
1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
5/6 cup white wheat flour (use your 1/2 and 1/3 cup to get 5/6)
1/2 cup cocoa (I used green and black's organic)
1/4 cup toasted wheat germ or cornmeal or flax seed meal
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
3 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 tablespoon coconut oil (or grapeseed, or canola)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions
Mix buttermilk and oats in a medium bowl; let stand for 15 minutes.
Whisk flour cocoa, wheat germ (or cornmeal or flaxseed meal), baking powder, baking soda, salt and cinnamon in a large bowl.
Stir eggs, sugar, oil and vanilla into the oat mixture. Add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients; mix with a rubber spatula just until moistened. Do not over-stir!
For a gluten free version using coconut flour and coconut oil and a bunch of eggs (protein boost) check out Carla's Chocolate Brownie Waffle recipe here. She blogs at Oh, The Food!
These sound so tasty and something my children would love. They are very fussy eaters and I hate the idea of chocolate in the morning, but this recipe looks like it would be perfect! Thanks for sharing this. Now hopefully they love it too. Who am I kidding, they love chocolate!
ReplyDeleteThere are many different ways I sneak in whole grains and this is one area I tend to do it a lot. Add a little chocolate taste and a child never says no. Perfect waffles!
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