Sunday 9.18.11

Almond Flour Waffles!

I love breakfast food.  Give me a few hours and a good casino breakfast buffet and I will probably gain 15 pounds.  One of the hardest things about trying to eat primal/paleo is the lack of breakfast food.  Outside of bacon and eggs, the options are few.

I began trying out various recipes of primal waffles with coconut flour instead of wheat flour.  They were okay, but pretty dry.  Today I decided to try almond flour, which holds a lot more moisture than coconut flour.  They were pretty awesome, so I thought I'd share the recipe here.  I used the following:

1/2 cup of almond flour (I got mine from The Nugget)

3 eggs

2 tbsp of butter or coconut oil (I used butter)

1 tsp of baking powder

4 tbsp of coconut milk (I used the Thai Kitchen brand, also from The Nugget)
1 tsp of vanilla extract

1/2 scoop of vanilla protein powder

I mixed all of the above with a hand mixer until it was all mixed.  It was still a little thin so I added a little more almond flour as I mixed to make the batter a little thicker. Sweetener is optional but I used a little xylitol, but I probably didn't need it.

I threw it all on a waffle iron and let it cook.  It made 3 waffles from my particular iron, and they were pretty good.  I topped mine with a little sugar free maple syrup (I'm not really a paleo snob so I use some artificial sweeteners) but you could also use fruit or honey if you eat it.