Peach Crumble Waffles

Dessert for breakfast with fluffy waffles, peach pie topping, and a cinnamon oat crumble.

Over the years, I've made many different kinds of waffles - some of them were ones that I would all of a sudden be craving but had never had before. That is how these Peach Crumble Waffles were born. I was like, I want streusel on a waffle. I think I originally had set out to make blackberry crumble waffles but could not find any blackberry pie filling. I still would love to make it eventually. Basically, you could do any flavor of pie filling you can find: apple, cherry, blueberry, etc. Nick loves peaches though, so this ended up being a really good alternative to blackberries.

Sourdough Waffles

You ain't had crazy good breakfast until you've tried these buttermilk waffles made with sourdough!

I've been trying to use my sourdough more often because it just sits in my fridge and gets its 10 day feedings and that's it. I decided to whip up these sourdough waffles because I have had the recipe saved for like 6 years or something crazy like that. If you don't know how to make sourdough, please scroll to the bottom of the post and make yourself a starter. It's easier than you'd think and most times, they are very forgiving. I personally really enjoyed the flavor of these waffles and absolutely adore that they contain buttermilk as well. Buttermilk pancakes/waffles are my favorite style/kind. I also really like that this recipe has two parts, but neither are very labor intensive. You stir a few ingredients together the night prior and then stir a couple more ingredients into that and boom! Waffles for breakfast!

Belgian Waffle Sundaes

Fluffy waffles topped with a mixed berry sauce, whipped cream, chocolate, and macadamia nuts!

I adore using my waffle iron, but unfortunately I don't use it as often as I'd like. It's kind of one of those things where I've been on a mission to utilize everything in my kitchen as regularly as possible. We just recently started going through the boxes in our basement from our move in the end of 2014 and we're finding all sorts of goodies down there. Like my mini springform pan, my bread pan, and a few other kitchen goodies.

Anyways, my waffle iron is easily one of my favorite kitchen tools. It doesn't take long to heat and batter never takes long to make for it. Cooking time is quick, too. It's literally so easy to make waffles...so so easy. I have had this recipe hoarded for many-a-years...like since Ashton of Something Swanky posted it in 2012. Her blog has been one of my favorites for a very long time. I don't think I can recall a time where a recipe of hers has failed me and I trusted that this one would be no different. The waffles are so fluffy and I loved the idea of a berry sauce on top instead of syrup. Fun fact: I hate the smell of maple syrup and I will only put enough on my waffles/pancakes/French toast to taste. I hate any excess. I also hate that it's sticky. I actually had a similar waffle at a hotel continental breakfast a few weekends ago and it reminded me of how much I really want to make these again. The chocolate chips and macadamia nuts add richness and crunch for an overall wonderful breakfast or brinner!

So, in short, find yourself a waffle iron. Mine was purchased for under $20 and is still going strong years later. It doesn't have to be expensive to cook waffles! :)

Waffles & Eggs with Creamy Sage Sauce #SecretRecipeClub

It's time again for Secret Recipe Club reveal day for my group, Group D! What is Secret Recipe Club? It's a bunch of food bloggers separated into four groups that post once a month on a designated Monday. Each month, we are paired with another foodie from our group secretly (hence the name). We then pick a recipe (or two or more) from that blog and make it. On our reveal day, we reveal whose blog we had and what recipe(s) we chose all at the same time. It's like a Secret Santa every month, but with food and blogs! It's a great deal of fun :)

Today, I am sharing a recipe from one of my "newer" members, Wendy. Wendy and her husband, Frank, are retired cops that moved from the big city to a farm with 12 acres of land. They raise lots of animals and participate in their local Community Sponsored Agriculture program. Wendy is a great storyteller and posts a variety of topics on her blog, not exclusive to some wonderful recipes. I love reading her posts and love having her in Group D! You can find out more about her and her family: here.

I had several recipes pinned from her blog within a matter of minutes, like this Corned Beef & Cabbage Soup, Pumpkin Praline Pancakes because pumpkin, this Milky Way Bundt Cake that looks crazy good, if I could find good rhubarb this Rhubarb Berry Coffee Cake would have been my SRC pick, and Ham Vegetable Barley Soup since I've never had barley before. I was proud of myself for finding more meal recipes rather than dessert ones and will definitely be making each and every one of these recipes from Wendy's blog at some point.

In the end, I couldn't stop thinking about Wendy's Waffles Benedict with Creamy Sage Sauce. I have never poached eggs and I rarely eat eggs with runny yolks unless I'm really craving them, so I modified the recipe and made a fried egg. I recently cleaned out my spices and tossed those that were past their "best by" date - p.s. it's a good idea to look at your dates on your spices because they lose their oomph after a while. I ended up not having ground mustard OR rubbed sage in my pantry. Thankfully, I had a pack of fresh poultry herbs that contained sage that was still in decent shape. I was going to put 1/4 a teaspoon of ground mustard with a teaspoon or so of honey in place of the honey mustard in the original recipe. I still used honey, but also did a squirt of just plain yellow mustard. My last modification was to use some ham steak that I had in my fridge instead of deli sliced ham. :)

All-in-all, this recipe turned out SO WELL! The waffles were amazing - cheese, ham, and sage in them...YES!!! I also could not get enough of that creamy sage sauce. It was hard for me to not grab the ladle and sip the sauce right out of it. I had a little leftover and I think I may fry up an egg and toast a piece of bread and serve the sauce over the top of it. My mom used to make creamed eggs and the creamy sage sauce really reminded me of that. Thank you, Wendy, for sharing such an incredible recipe!!

S'mores Waffles

 Six ingredients are all you need for this sinfully sweet morning treat!

As promised in my Cookies & Cream Waffles post in December...here are my s'mores waffles!! Unfortunately, I have had the worst time trying to find mallow bits lately - you know the little marshmallows you find in hot cocoa mix?! I'm used to seeing them in the coffee aisle with the hot cocoa, but as of late, I CANNOT find them. They aren't with hot cocoa OR the marshmallows. :/ I need to make a trip out to Target to see if they have them.

So please imagine that these gorgeous, cake-y waffles have little mallow bits on them! Just like the Cookies & Cream version - these are made with cake mix and are, therefore, very dessert-like. It's perfect every once in a while - I don't recommend them on a regular basis. The s'mores frosting is also really hard to find nowadays, but it's a Betty Crocker one and if you can't find it, chocolate frosting with graham cracker crumbles will work just fine!

Cookies & Cream Waffles

5 ingredients to make these cake-y, fluffy, decadent waffles - perfect for those with a sweet tooth!

Last year, I became kind of obsessed with how easily waffles could be made with a box of cake mix. I'm not one to turn down sweets for breakfast. And there are so many possibilities for making waffles out of cake mix that I just had to make some.  I've made French Vanilla/Cinnamon Roll, Funfetti/Cotton Candy, and Carrot Cake/Caramel. This go-around I decided to make chocolate fudge with cookies & cream frosting and s'mores waffles. They both turned out incredibly well and I will be sharing the s'mores soon (hopefully).

All you have to do is prepare your cake mix as per the directions and then cook it in your waffle iron. Serve them up with the creamy, rich frosting and Oreo crumbles and you have a sweet breakfast to indulge in. I don't make these often because...let's be honest...it's basically cake, but it's nice every once in a blue moon to make dessert for breakfast and pretend that it's breakfast. LOL.

Carrot Cake Waffles with Caramel Cinnamon Frosting

I'm enamored with Duncan Hines Frosting Creations frosting (no compensation for saying that, DH doesn't know I exist). I found out about it when I made the French Vanilla Waffles with Cinnamon Roll Frosting.

My brain started going a mile a minute when I saw the other flavors they had. I immediately wanted to use their cotton candy flavor packet. And I did in my Funfetti Waffles with Cotton Candy Frosting recipe. The next packet that I wanted to use was the caramel flavor. I was really craving carrot cake at the time, so I decided to make the two into a lovely, beautimous, sinful breakfast.

I love how fluffy the waffles turn out from the cake mix. And the frosting on top is seriously just a huge plus. It's nice to indulge every once in a while and the kids loved these waffles and raved about them both. I ended up adding some cinnamon to the caramel frosting to make it more fitting for carrot cake. The combination is heaven. Y'all have to try this for breakfast soon!!

Funfetti Waffles with Cotton Candy Frosting

So a few months ago I posted a recipe for Vanilla Cake Mix Waffles with Cinnamon Roll Frosting (not an original recipe, but still AMAZING)...and then I started brainstorming. This is my first variation - and the first recipe of the new year will be the second. I need to go to the cake mix portion of the store and see what else I can come up with. This one...I mean could it get any better?? Funfetti and Cotton Candy and Sprinkles!!!

French Vanilla Cake Mix Waffles

Having a waffle iron was one of the best investments I have made for my kitchen to date. I have this weird quirk where I can only make successful pancakes about 20% of the time, so being able to let a machine do most of the work makes for an edible breakfast for all!

What I really love about this recipe is that it is a shortcut and there are plenty of different flavor combinations you could do. I'm excited to check out the other flavor combinations I can make in the future. Check out Duncan Hines other flavors for their Frosting Creations frosting: here. [I'm not being compensated for that, I just want to show y'all what possible toppings you have!]

The waffles turn out fluffy and tasting just like French vanilla cake...the cinnamon roll frosting was the perfect topping for the cake mix waffles.

Brown Sugar Bacon Waffles

In January, I was assigned Lindsay of Life & Kitchen's blog for Secret Recipe Club. I made her cheesy jalapeno corn chowder, but I very nearly made these waffles instead. I saved them anyways because I knew I definitely wanted to make them.

They are so yummy. Bacon is already good any time of the day and especially perfect for breakfast, but it was so good IN the waffles. Loved every bite.

Belgian Cookie Dough Waffles

Wasn't this week exciting?
Aren't you sad to see it come to an end? Me too.

Alright, time to wrap up the week...embarrassing stuff right here...I was so excited to eat these waffles. So very, very excited. I didn't realize the manner in which I "piped" on my whipped cream, did not look the most appetizing. I tried to crop the picture...that really didn't help. I ate these too quickly to attempt another picture, so you will have to bear with the weirdo looking picture that I ended up with :)

These waffles have cookie dough in them. They are insanely good.

The Best Waffles

Since really getting into cooking and wanting to make a career out of it, I've started to really use my tastebuds and pinpoint different flavors in foods - especially the ones I don't make. My husband has sort of adopted this "tick" too and has started to try and pick out what is in the foods I make. He thought I had used pumpkin in this - which isn't surprising because there is nutmeg and cinnamon in it. It was a very perfect flavor combination for autumn - and absolutely delicious in waffle form! I don't know what I did before I bought my waffle iron. Homemade waffles are just extraordinary!

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What you need:

• 3/4 cup flour
• 1/4 cup cornstarch
• 1/2 tsp. salt
• 1/2 tsp. cinnamon
• 1/8 tsp. nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 1/4 tsp. baking soda
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 cup milk
• 6 tbsp. vegetable oil
• 1 large egg, separated
• 1 tbsp. sugar
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla

Directions:

 

Mix together flour, cornstarch, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking powder, and baking soda.

In a separate bowl, mix together buttermilk, milk, vegetable oil, and egg yolk.
Beat egg white until soft peaks form. Then add sugar and beat until glossy and firm. Add vanilla.

Add milk mixture to dry mixture. Then fold in egg whites.

Bake in waffle iron.

Recipe from Buns in My Oven

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Cinnamon Roll Waffles

I've only made one waffle recipe since I got my waffle iron, so I thought it was time to use it again. I got mine for $20 at Walmart and I absolutely love it. It's a really basic waffle iron, but it gets the job done. I knew I wanted to make cinnamon roll waffles and this was the first recipe for them that I had in my arsenal. I loved these and so did the kids! It looks like a complicated recipe, but it really isn't.

This recipe comes straight from Nikki of Chef in Training. I absolutely adore Nikki's blog - it's probably the very closest to my taste in food. There very rarely are recipes I don't want to make that Nikki posts and when I do find one, it's because I've just made the same type of recipe a few days before she has posted. I swear we share a brain or something :) Or maybe a stomach.

Crispy Chicken with Scallion Waffles

Like I was saying in yesterday's post, I DVR tons of shows on Food Network. Even though I love PDub and Paula, my favorite is hands-down, Jeff Mauro, the Sandwich King. It may be in part because he reminds me of my father-in-law. Or perhaps it's the sandwiches :) Every once in a while, I like to challenge myself in the kitchen. This is one of those recipes...Challenge Accepted! And you best believe that this was one of the best recipes I've ever made.