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Vegan Banana Bread Waffles

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Let us have a chat about bananas. I love them so much, and I think I may always go overboard with how many I buy(especially if I go shopping when I am hungry, am I right?), and then they go bad so fast! So, I am constantly thinking about things to make with very ripe bananas, besides banana bread. Don’t get me wrong, I love banana bread, it is just done to excess. Then I had a thought a few days ago, why fight it? I will just make it more fabulous! Vegan gluten free banana bread waffles became the answer to all my questions about what to do with my ripe bananas!

These waffles taste exactly like banana bread! I used a combination of oat flour, that I processed myself(but you don’t have to) and pecans also processed into a almost flour like texture. Mashed banana, cinnamon, then sweetened with either maple syrup or coconut sugar(I tried both, they are both amazing), this perfect breakfast is healthy, delicious and fast as heck! 

 

I highly recommend getting a waffle maker, they are so awesome, and can turn any boring dish into something super exciting! This waffle batter, while being ironed, made my kitchen smell like banana bread, and it was totally awesome! This recipe is super simple, and is ready in minutes. Pour some maple syrup on top, and hot damn! So friggin’ good!

I also want to mention, if you are still like me, and you are trying to eat clean for your new year’s resolution, this is a perfect breakfast. I promise you won’t know they are really healthy and you don’t even have to tell anyone (shhhhhhhh….). Adding this to your repertoire will make life way easier! These waffles are perfect, crispy and crunchy on the outside, soft and fluffy in the center. The pecans and oats together make a really great texture! I was actually not sure how this was going to turn out, but I was so surprised by how incredible these waffles are!

I hope you enjoy, and as always, if you have any questions or feedback, I am happy to hear it! Have fun kids!

Tools I used:
Hamilton Beach Flip Belgian Waffle Maker with Removable Plates (26030)
Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Quick Cooking Rolled Oats, 32 Ounce (Pack of 4)

Vegan Gluten Free Banana Bread Waffles
Serves 4
Oat and pecan based waffles filled with bananas and cinnamon!
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
10 min
Total Time
20 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
10 min
Total Time
20 min
Ingredients
  1. 1 Banana, very ripe
  2. 2 Tbsp. Flax meal
  3. 3 Tbsp. Water
  4. 2 Tbsp. Maple syrup or coconut sugar
  5. 1 1/2 C. Quick cooking Oats, gluten free
  6. 1/2 C. Pecans
  7. 2 tsp. Baking powder
  8. 1 tsp. Cinnamon
  9. 1 tsp. Salt
  10. 1 tsp. Vanilla
  11. 1/2 C. Almond milk
  12. 5 Tbsp. Coconut oil, melted
Instructions
  1. Plug in your waffle iron and begin to heat up.
  2. In a large bowl, smash your banana.
  3. In a small bowl, mix the flax and water to create a flax egg, set aside to thicken for a minute.
  4. Add the flax egg to the banana, along with the maple syrup or coconut sugar and stir together.
  5. In a food processor, add the oats, and process for a few minutes until very fine, and flour like.
  6. Pour oats into the large bowl with the banana mixture.
  7. Add the pecans to the food processor, and process down really fine as well, it doesn't have to be as fine as the oats. Add pecans to the large bowl with the oats and banana mixture.
  8. Add the remaining ingredients, the baking powder, cinnamon, salt, vanilla, almond milk and melted coconut oil.
  9. Stir all together until fully combined.
  10. Spray your heated waffle iron, scoop a good amount of mixture into the center of the waffle iron and cook according to your waffle irons instructions. Repeat until all the waffles you want are made.
  11. Serve immediately, with maple syrup!
Notes
  1. I like to use an ice cream scoop for my waffle batter, it is easy and insures they are the same size!
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Vegan Cookie Dough Candy Bars

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There is one thing that I totally,  unapologetically lust after. Cookie dough. When I was a wee lass, my best friend in the world lived right down the street. Her mom bought that ready made chocolate chip cookie dough in a tube all the time. We would wait until her mom left to run an errand or something, and eat cookie dough straight out of the tube. Looking back, it definitely had uncooked eggs in it, which is pretty nasty. However, we didn’t know any better. It was delicious and throwing caution to the wind is part of the beauty of childhood. Years later, I still find comfort in eating raw cookie dough, and of course, I feel better about it because my cookie dough never has eggs in it!

I spend a lot of time looking at food, thinking about food and eating food. It is the biggest part of my life, in an amazing way. While I was on a plane the other day, I had a while to think about different kinds of candy for the holidays. I got to thinking about how amazing it would be to have a cookie dough candy bar. My favorite thing (cookie dough) wearing a festive holiday outfit of my second favorite thing (dark chocolate.)

People will thank you for this candy bar, I promise. 9 ingredients, so easy, and perfectly delicious. It will bring you back to childhood, but you will feel slightly more sophisticated, cause, ya know, you won’t be squeezing the cookie dough out of a tube. This year, I will mostly be giving away cookies and candy instead of purchasing gifts, so these will for sure be in everyone’s boxes of goodies! 

These are perfectly balanced, the cookie dough is sweet, but the dark chocolate cuts through it with a little bitterness. Maybe even sprinkle with a little salt, and goodness gracious. Hope you enjoy!

 

Vegan Cookie Dough Candy Bars
Serves 12
Sweet and perfect cookie dough, dipped in dark chocolate. So delish!
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Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
3 hr
Total Time
3 hr 30 min
Prep Time
10 min
Cook Time
3 hr
Total Time
3 hr 30 min
Ingredients
  1. 2 1/4 C. All purpose Flour
  2. 1 1/2 C. Brown sugar
  3. 1 tsp. Salt
  4. 2 tsp. Vanilla
  5. 3/4 C. Vegan butter, I used Earth Balance (melted and cooled)
  6. 3 Tbsp. Almond milk
  7. 1 C. Dark chocolate chips, vegan
  8. 3 C. Dark chocolate, chopped
  9. 2 tsp. Coconut oil
Instructions
  1. In a large mixing bowl, add the flour, sugar and salt. Whisk together.
  2. Add the vanilla, melted vegan butter, and almond milk.
  3. Stir together until completely combined.
  4. Press into a prepared square baking dish, I used an 8x8 ( you can use a large one if you want them to be thinner) Press evenly with a cup or some parchment paper.
  5. Chill for at least 3 hours.
  6. When the bars are hard, cut into bar shapes.
  7. Melt the chopped dark chocolate in the microwave in 30 second intervals, stirring each time, until melted. Add the coconut oil and stir.
  8. Dip the cookie dough bars into the chocolate and chill until completely hard. About an hour.
  9. Serve!
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