Ok, so I’ve been feeling good this week (second week of my second round of chemotherapy), so I’ve been enjoying time in the kitchen, cooking up yummy meals for the family. This week I bought a new waffle maker that cooks 4 waffles at a time, as opposed to our original one, which only made two. It means our big family of six gets their breakfast sooner! 

Enter apple-cinnamon waffle goodness. Monte is a big fan of anything apple, so when he mentioned apple-cinnamon waffles this morning, I was happy to experiment. Basically, I added apples and spices to my usual waffle recipe, using butter instead of oil. And, they were good! Really good!

We ate some of our waffles with maple syrup – very tasty! And we ate some with peanut butter – very very tasty! The peanut butter seemed to really bring out the apple flavour. So good. Too good. Just writing this is making me hungry. 

Apple cinnamon waffles

Ingredients:

• 2 cups self raising flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon 
• 1 tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp ground allspice 
• 2 large Granny Smith apples, chopped/grated
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1 1/2 cups milk
• 150g butter, melted 

Method:

• Mix dry ingredients 
• Mix wet ingredients in a separate bowl 
• Add apples to dry ingredients and toss to coat well
• Add wet ingredients to apple mixture and mix to combine
• Let mixture stand for 5 minutes, meanwhile heat waffle maker/iron/oven (if using waffle trays)
• Add 1-2 cups of waffle mixture to waffle plate (follow manufacturer’s instructions) and cook for about 5 minutes (longer if baking in an oven) or until the waffles are the level of ‘toastedness’ you prefer
• Serve warm with desired toppings: cream, maple syrup, peanut butter, salted caramel, dulce de leche etc 

I hope you enjoy these waffles as much as we did! I’m looking forward to experimenting with my new machine! 

xox