This recipe was adapted from the King Arthur Flour website, from the recipe of the same name. Naturally, I veganized it..but ever since one of their bakers told me they had organic flour (in a comment), I’ve fallen back in love my first flour love – King Arthur Flour. I used white whole wheat flour, plus I added in organic oat bran. Using flax in place of the egg gives it a heart-healthy, zero-cholesterol boost! And we all know how great flax is for your heart, with all those yummy omegas, mmm – now we can call this recipe truly ♥-y. I got about six 4.5-inch Beligan waffles from this recipe.
Ingredients:
1 TBSP flax in 2 TBSP warm water
1 1/3 cups King Arthur white or traditional whole wheat flour
1/4 C oat bran
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 TBSP turbinado sugar
1 tsp almond or vanilla extract
1.5 C hemp milk
1/3 C Earth Balance vegan butter, melted
Directions:
1. Combine the ground flax with the warm water, set aside. Whisk together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flax mixture, vanilla/almond extract, hemp milk, and vegan butter. Mix together the wet and dry ingredients, stirring just till combined.
2. Cook the waffles as directed in the instructions that came with your waffle iron. Mine took about 10-12 minutes for them to be crispy, but you could pull them out at 8 minutes if you like softer waffles.
Delicious addition: While these waffles are supremely delicious as is, if you want to take your healthy waffles to a more sweet, bad-girl place try this variation. Before closing the waffle maker, sprinkle the waffles with cinnamon-sugar. It makes them cinnamon and sugary crunchy good!
Happy Cooking!!
if only my waffle maker hadn’t crapped out on me…time for a new one so i can make these!!
Ohh man, those look AMAZING! I haven’t used my waffle-maker in a long time, now’s the time to break it out!
Bad-girl variation please! 🙂 I need to add these to the need-to-make-soon ever-growing list!
I really need a waffle maker.
I have been wanting to make some waffles and these sound not only good but healthy. Thank you for this version and thank you for using King Arthur Flour. Joan@Kingarthurflour
I made these as part of dinner (we love breakfast for dinner!) and to freeze some so I made a double batch (I had faith that if you liked them I would too lol). The cinnamon/sugar topping is genius…I loved it! Good recipe find girlie!
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Wowie Kazowie!!! These waffles were the bomb…I didn’t have oat bran on hand so I sub more flour and doubled the batch (only using 3 tbs baking powder) for extras through out the week. Great recipe, thanks!!!
Awesome! Thanks Nola 😀
Oh! What a mess we had! I doubled the recipe, used half white and half whole wheat flour. We oiled the waffle maker before pouring the batter, even though it is made of Teflon. It stuck everywhere, the waffle split in two. Do you have any idea why?
Oh Julie!! I’m so sorry to hear of the disaster!! 😦 Hmm, well.. since the waffles did stick..it could be for two reasons: (1) you became impatient and opened the lid before they were completely ready (I’m guilty of this myself from time to time) or (2) the iron wasn’t hot enough. You want to sear the outsides with a hot iron, but not so hot it burns the outside before completely cooking the inside – or possibly even a combo of 1 & 2. Because the waffle split in two, it’s most likely a #1 scenario..with maybe a little too hot iron if the edges were browned, but if it’s not cooked completely through when you lift open the top, it’ll rip the waffle in half (top to bottom).
Have you had success with other waffle recipes (Primate or otherwise)?
Great recipe.
Works so well with just wholewheat too, unlike pancakes. I used only a tiny bit of margarine, no sugar and they came out great. Although I added more flax because I think they need more than one tablespoon to hold together.