Waffle Recipe – Pumpkin Edition

So that was fun yesterday….NOT. With the site being down half the day (working on some stuff and made a booboo), here is the link for yesterday’s DO What You Love post. Please check it out, I wrote it while pouring out my heart, and really wanted to hear what you guys thought. And thanks as well, to you who stopped by later once the site was back so we could hear what ya’ll had to say

Okay, now that you checked the post out and are back……

leaves are a' changing

Why hello there Fall.

Glad you came by, and SO glad you brought pumpkin with you. Guys, I am seriously addicted to this orange gooey goodness.

I even went so far as using it to tweak a simple waffle recipe…..with the base being Krusteaz waffle mix!

get ready for an easy recipe!

Oh, but BOY did I tweak, change, and alter it

Waffle Recipe — Pumpkin (Krusteaz) Edition

{So I *borrowed* the beginnings of the recipe from a bag….a Krusteaz bag. But I then added/took away stuff and made a seriously good waffle recipe!}

yumm.

Ingredients

• 2.25 cups Krusteaz pancake mix
• 1.5 cup cold water
• .33 cup pumpkin
• .25 cup applesauce
• 1 tsp olive oil
• .25 cup almond milk
• 2 Tb cinnamon
• 1 Tb nutmeg
• 1 Tb vanilla
• 2 Tb ground flax seed<—hello healthy fats!
• 1 scoop chocolate protein powder

Directions

• Dump all ingredients into a bowl and mix. <—-clearly my word usage explains I am a pro at baking/cooking
• Warm up waffle iron.
• Spray waffle iron with PAM spray before dropping a large dollop in the center of the iron.
• Press down and spin. Wait patiently for the final product…..
• Top with *stuff* of your choice and EAT!

they are so fluffy!

Seriously, this is an EASY waffle recipe with delicious pumpkin. Although it is not whole wheat/grain, pretty sure the pumpkin and flax seed and protein powder make it *last* in the stomach a little longer than a normal ‘white’ belgian waffle……I was full WAY longer than I would’ve been if all that *stuff* hadn’t been in there

P.s. I doubled the recipe (I ate it with 6 people and the recipe made just enough for everyone) and froze the rest to eat later……wheeeeeee!

my plate (x2, so I ended up eating an entire one--SO yumm.) <--topped with syrup and almonds

ENJOY (on a pumpkin plate—-crucial)!

What pumpkin recipe are YOU most excited to try?? Have YOU ever *changed* anything from a mix–like pancake, brownie, or cake mixes??