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Brenda Thompson

Healthy Pumpkin Waffles

Celebrate fall flavors with these delicious Healthy Pumpkin Waffles. Made with wholewheat flour and NO added sugar, they are perfect for breakfast or brunch!Bonus: they freeze well too!
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings: 4 servings
Course: Breakfast
Cuisine: American
Calories: 664
Ingredients Method Video Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour
  • ½ cup whole wheat flour
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • ¼ teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • ¼ teaspoon ground ginger
  • ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • 3 large eggs
  • 1 ¾ cup milk
  • ¾ cup pumpkin puree’ canned -- make sure it's NOT the pumpkin pie mix with spices already added
  • ½ cup canola oil
  • ½ cup pecans toasted and chopped

Method
 

  1. Brush the waffle iron lightly with oil and preheat it.
  2. Into a large mixing bowl, sift the flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
  3. In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs, milk, pumpkin and oil.
  4. Stir the pumpkin mixture into the dry ingredients and mix well.
  5. Stir in the nuts, if using.
  6. Spread two large scoops (or about ¾ cup)of batter onto the waffle maker and bake until done, usually 3 to 5 minutes, depending your waffle maker.
Serving Suggestion
  1. If you prefer, you can also add chopped nuts on top of cooked waffles instead of including in the batter.
  2. To serve, top with syrup or whip cream.

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Notes

Recipe Preparation Tips

Can this recipe be made ahead?

Yes! You have a couple of options to make these pumpkin waffles ahead.
One idea is to make a homemade waffle mix “kit”. To do this, just combine the dry ingredients and store in a labeled air tight container or ziptop bag until you are ready to make the recipe.
You could also mix up the wet ingredients the night before and store in the refrigerator.
Then, when you are ready to make them in the morning, you just combine the dry and wet ingredients in a bowl.
Also, if you are making waffles for a crowd, you can hold on a baking tray in an oven set on the lowest temperature (mine is 170°F) for up to 30 minutes as you make more waffles and are ready to serve them all at once. 

Can these pumpkin spice waffles be frozen?

Yes! It’s so easy to make a large batch of waffles so you can freeze extras to have available on busy mornings.