When we went grain free, I thought I had given up the waffle iron forever. Instead we ate a lot of variations of frittatas and breakfast casseroles or repurposed leftovers.
The waffle iron sat in our attic for a year until the kids asked if we could make waffles again. I played around with a lot of ideas and eventually came up with this recipe. Unlike regular waffles these are packed with protein and can even be made dairy free as well.
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Making Waffles With Coconut Flour
Coconut flour is a protein and fiber-packed alternative to normal wheat flour. If you’ve never cooked with coconut flour before, it takes a little practice to learn to use correctly. You should definitely be made aware that coconut flour acts like a sponge. It soaks up whatever liquid it’s mixed with. For that reason, most recipes that use coconut flour call for only a small amount.
This one uses just half a cup and is whisked together with eight (yes, eight) eggs. The extra eggs are needed to create the right texture with these waffles.
We really like cinnamon (plus it has great health benefits), so I put about a tablespoon of cinnamon in these. Feel free to reduce that amount if you’re not as crazy about the spice as I am.
These coconut flour waffles really are delicious, just don’t try to eat as many of these as you could regular waffles — they are extra filling!
Waffle Breakfast Sandwiches
For a fast, on-the-go breakfast, make a waffle breakfast sandwich. Cut a waffle in half and put eggs and bacon/sausage and maybe a slice of cheese inside.
Leftover waffles are also great crisped up in the toaster or on a baking sheet in the oven.
Coconut Flour Waffle Recipe
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More Healthy Breakfast Ideas
- Apple Cinnamon Muffins – made with coconut flour, they are gluten free and delicious
- Breakfast Egg Muffins – bacon curled around the edge of a muffin cup, filled with bell pepper, onion, and egg, and baked in the oven
- Breakfast Pizza – a sausage patty topped with eggs, cheese, green onion, mushrooms, and maybe a little salsa
- Coconut Chia Porridge
- Coconut Flour or Almond Flour Pancakes
- Easy Egg Wraps – I haven’t tried these yet, but I love the idea of using eggs as a wrap instead of a traditional tortilla or flatbread
- Homemade Breakfast Sausage – my not-so-secret seasoning recipe
- Lemon Blueberry Muffins – blueberries and a little lemon zest topped with a pecan topping… mmm!
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What is your favorite waffle recipe? Have you made a healthy version of an unhealthy favorite? Tell me below!
Have recently been diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, so am looking for things to replace my beloved bread and cereal…These waffles are fab and really filled me up! Thank you
I tried these and I used coconut oil in them. They are really dry. Would butter have worked better?
This recipe doesn’t really work with coconut oil. I would recommend looking at a different recipe because I have had delicious waffles while being paleo, but this one was too dry. 🙂
Thank you so much for this recipe! I had one this morning and saved one for later as suggested! I was able to not feel hungry all morning. Delicious!!!! Can’t wait to try your others! Tons of protein too.
Can you substitute anything for the eggs? My son is anaphylactic to them.
Hello! I am excited about your Coconut Flour Waffle because of the protein content! However, I prefer avoiding so many egg yolks…Would this work with less yolks or even only egg whites? Would I add in extra whites and/or an additional fat source? The yolks do also have protein, but I already est so msny eggs…
Many thanks!!!
Hi, what waffle iron do you use, please?
Thank you
Hi! I was wondering what type of waffle iron you use?
Have you found or can you recommend a non-toxic waffle iron? Is cast-iron the only option?
Which waffle iron do you recommend?
What waffle maker do u recommend? I have a Teflon covered one but I’m looking for a safer option
Extremely dry and eggy. Even with copious amounts of butter and a compote they were downright nasty. There’s not even a hint of coconut flavor. I think cutting back slightly on eggs and adding coconut milk, which some other recipes do, would result in a vastly superior waffle.
This recipe is not edible as is. A lot of the comments on this site are likely fake. They’re not light and airy as some describe. And definitely not delicious.
Sorry you didn’t like them. My own children love them and apparently lots of other people do too. Recipes are all subjective though, so just because one person likes something obviously doesn’t mean that everyone else will, and vice versa…
they looked great. didn’t stick. they had no flavor. even added some milk, sugar, and strawberries to batter the second time. not for me. I can’t eat veggies or waffles like this for breakfast. I would starve.
Suggestions for a Teflon free waffle maker?
Do I need to make using 8 eggs
I’m new to experimenting with Gluten Free options for medical reasons and decided to try these out. They were a great hit with the 1 and 3 year old(Eggo all the way so that they ate them is great!) I was inspired and started trying different flavor variations. I did a “banana Bread” version by reducing the oil in half and adding a mashed banana. they were still great and I only noticed less browning in the fuller areas by reducing the oil. I tried another again reducing the Oil by half and adding in 4T of pineapple juice and adding ginger, cin and vanilla to make an attempt at a Hawaiian bread inspired one. again they came out good but I would try to make the flavors a bit more prominent the next time.
Would it be okay to use some whey protein powder in this recipe? (or any source of protein- I’ve also got sprouted brown rice and pea protein). Wondering if it’d make the texture too eggy/spongey/tough.
8 eggs? wow. My chocks better lay more!
HA! Maybe the problem is you’re using chocks. Thanks for the laugh.
Would this same recipe work to make pancakes? I don’t have a waffle iron and every time I attempt to make pancakes with other coconut flour recipes it completely fails. However the thickness and look of your waffles seem great! Alternatively do you have a pancake recipe if you don’t think this will work?
Thankyou! 🙂
Here’s my coconut flour pancake recipe: https://wellnessmama.com/2354/coconut-flour-pancakes/
I made these. Much quicker than ever regular waffles. They worked. TY. I might try whipping the egg whites next time just to see if it can approach a regal wheat waffle a little more. No complaints about this recipe, I will come back for more wheat alternatives. TY again.