How to make gluten free waffles the easy way from scratch, with no eggs or dairy required. This recipe is a great gluten free breakfast option!
Back in high school, I didn’t always make the best decisions.
One night when I was fifteen, I told my parents I was sleeping over at a friend’s house. Really, we were meeting other friends at some shady underground bar.
It was fun at first, but as the night wore on and people got more and more drunk, I began to feel uneasy.
Fights were breaking out, bottles were being thrown, things were dangerously out of hand and the police were rumored to be on the way.
The bar—congested with so much cigarette smoke you could hardly breathe or see straight—was filled well over capacity by this point.
I eventually got out of there and somehow found the courage to call my dad.
It was 2 in the morning; needless to say he probably wasn’t pleased.
In the ensuing hour, I waited in the dark, thinking about how much he was going to yell at me—and with good reason.
But when my dad arrived, he said nothing and instead just gave me a hug and took me home.
The hug taught me more of a lesson than yelling ever could.
Making Father’s Day breakfast is the least I can do in return for his patience all those years ago with my crazy teenaged self.
Although neither of us is on a gluten-free diet, I made gluten free waffles this year just to change things up.
No one says you have to be gluten-free to enjoy gluten-free foods every now and then, and I’ve been having fun experimenting with different flours lately.
Buckwheat flour, sorghum flour, brown rice flour, arrowroot… each brings a unique taste and texture to the table.
If you do like using different flours in recipes, you’ll be happy to know my future recipes will be featuring them much more often.
However if you don’t want to buy fancy flours or change the way you bake, rest assured I’ll still post “regular flour” options for the recipes.
For example, if you don’t want to use the non-traditional flours called for in this particular gluten free waffles recipe, you can make my other Healthy Waffles Recipe without any obscure ingredients.
Gluten Free Waffles
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup brown rice flour (35g)
- 2 tbsp buckwheat flour (18g)
- 2 tbsp arrowroot starch (16g)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/16 tsp pure stevia, or 2 tbsp liquid sweetener (such as pure maple syrup)
- 1/4 cup plus 3 tbsp applesauce
- 2 tsp oil OR 1 tbsp more applesauce
- 1 tbsp milk of choice (increase to 3 tbsp if using stevia version)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Gluten Free Waffles Recipe: Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Stir well. In a separate bowl, stir together all liquid ingredients. Grease a waffle iron with oil or oil spray: be sure to grease it very well if using all applesauce in the recipe. Preheat the iron according to manufacturer’s instructions. Pour wet into dry, and stir until evenly combined. When the iron is hot, pour half the batter into the center, and close the lid. (My waffle machine has a light that goes out when the waffle is cooked. Don’t lift the lid before the waffle is done.) Serve with pancake syrup, pure maple syrup, or your favorite waffle toppings. Makes 2 waffles.View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Gluten Free Breakfast Recipes
Or this Whipped Coffee Recipe
These look awesome! It will be nice to follow your flour journey so we can see what works best for what recipes!
I got disciplined the good ol’ fashioned way; spanking, which I think really did the job, because I can’t remember needing to disciplined after we grew out of the spanking age.
katie, first of all, the timing on this couldn’t have been more perfect! i was just about to read the recipe after reading through the blog post today, and my younger son comes in and asks, “can you please make something special for breakfast this morning, like pancakes or waffles?” and second of all, wow! these are probably the most delicious waffles i have ever made. i made only one small substitution of teff flour for the buckwheat, since that’s what i had on hand. and we topped it with strawberry compote (for him) and blueberry/raspberry compote (for me). yummmmmy! thank you so much for this today.
Wow do these look good!! I was the same way growing up – knowing I disappointed my mom was punishment enough for me most times!
All of your healthy waffles make me seriously consider investing in a waffle iron! Especially with all of the summer berries coming into season, a waffle breakfast sounds quite delightful. Thanks for the recipes!
those Waffles look to die for. and cinnamony yes!
hmm. i dont remember anyone grounding me of handing out really bad punishment. But with the way we were brought up and the culture, it was really difficult to lie and sneak out at night. when I did get into trouble during undergrad my mom would talk to me. more the restrictions, the more i would try to break them. When they let me go and i learnt m own lessons, our relationship got stronger:)
These look great! Perfect for my gluten-free friend.
Yum! I just made these and they are just so nice and fluffy! I don’t have any applesauce on hand so I just mashed up a yellow banana 🙂
We LOVE so many of your recipes but I have 4 super healthy eaters to feed so I usually multiply your recipes. This particular waffle recipe I 10x and it would not do anything but crumble in the waffle iron so I turned them in to pancakes! The flavors are still great!
I love the way your dad handled that one. 🙂 He was probably so relieved you were okay.
Yummy! What model is your waffle machine maker? Can I find it on Amazon? Thanks!
Mine is a Toastmaster, but it’s probably like 20 years old. Still works, though :).
They look incredible! I’ve always been in love with waffles. What kind of butter do you use to top them with??
Earth Balance 🙂
This post resonates for three reasons. First of all I had a very similar teenage experience. Mine was a boy got me drunk for the first time on spiced rum (classy – not!). I came in late expecting to be grounded but Mum didn’t say a word. Just held my hair back as as I got rid of the evening’s ‘experience’. Not a word was ever said. Didn’t touch alcohol again until my early 20s! Second, I blog a bit on gluten free despite not technically needing gf for self or family. I like chestnut flour and have had great success using this without any additional non-wheat flours. I fairly recently posted Apple Pie pancakes with salted caramel sauce (vegan). Chestnut is brilliant for pasta dough too. My daughter got a waffle iron for her birthday. I’ll show her this recipe and see if she will.make these for us!
Delicious Katie!!! Thanks for a tasty recipe…I will definitely share on my Canada Day/Summertime blog post! I only had one issue…no matter how much I sprayed my waffle maker, the waffles still stuck. 🙁 This is one of those recipes that doesn’t have to be pretty to be tasty so it was all good, but I am frustrated that I couldn’t keep it from happening. If I left them too long they burned. I used oil instead of the extra applesauce so not sure why. Thanks again though! My family really enjoyed their brunch this holiday morning!
Yay for gluten-free, sugar-free waffles! Thanks Katie, I am looking forward to making these soon =)
Hey Katie, I was just wondering if there was anything you can sub for the applesauce? I am not a big fan of it.
Also I do not like banana… Maybe pumpkin?
I have a new gluten free best friend and her name is Iris and she writes this amazing blog called The Daily Diatribe and I’ve been following her for years and she totally rocks. There, I said it. Why does she rock? Because she did a TON of work to figure out how to make gluten free, dairy free and egg free waffles, giving me (and you) the opportunity to just throw the ingredients together and cook up some delicious waffles. Crisp waffles indeed! Oh, I’ve tried making waffles. I’ve posted about them here and here and here . But none of them come even close to the delicious perfection of this recipe for this gluten free diva. And one of the best things is that sometimes gluten free waffles can be gummy. Not sure if that’s from the amount of starches used or the xanthan or guar gums. But these waffles aren’t the least bit gummy.