I’m sitting in blood testing center right now, next to a man who is drawing cartoons of penguins. He’s quite good. Like REALLY good. I wish I appreciated it more, but fasting for the past 12 hours has made me a bit moody. I wish I had art skills. I lack creativity.
Speaking of the lack of creativity, let’s talk about Halloween. I was rainbow bright. Original, I know. I didn’t even know who that was until I googled it. It was a friends costume. Every year I try to think outside the box for my costume. Then I remember that I have a life and don’t have hours of free time to use the hot glue gun and glitter paint on a costume I will wear once. At least other people were super creative. I think I only saw 23 angry bird costumes and 17 black swan outfits. Way to think outside the box people. Way.to.go.
So let’s recap. I drank alcohol on Saturday. Alcohol is stupid. It makes me fall on the dancefloor, leave Laura at a party I invited her to, and wake up in her bed. Not fully clothed. Side ponytail still rockin. I’m sure she was thrilled about that. Waking up the next morning with a fuzzy sweater on my teeth is not exactly a good start to my Sunday morning. Alcohol is stupid.
At least Sunday was productive. And when I say productive, I mean I watched 3 movies with Laura while ingesting food I haven’t eaten in a LONG time. These items included chex mix, peanut m&ms, halloween cookies, and tortilla chips. Maybe it was because I was still drunk or maybe my body just wanted it. Either way, it felt right. I didn’t get sick nor do I have a problem using the bathroom today. Ya my love handles are probably a bit cuter today, but I don’t mind. But to make sure my love handles were looking extra adorable this week, I made some pumpkin waffles to top off the day. Pumpkin waffles when hungover with a fuzzy blanket on your teeth are always a good idea. These waffles made me miss Dom. Remember how he got me the best waffle iron ever post Regionals so I could stuff my face with food that holds the syrup in small crevices? Gosh, he’s the best. This recipe made about 5 waffles….I ate them all. In one sitting.
Paleo Pumpkin Waffles
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup pureed pumpkin
- 3/4 cup almond flour
- 1/4 cup canned coconut milk
- 1/2 cup shredded unsweetened coconut
- 2 tablespoon maple syrup
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Heat up your waffle iron!! If you don’t have a waffle iron, you need to go buy one, or just make pancakes instead.
- In a medium sized bowl, mix together coconut milk, eggs, maple syrup, and vanilla.
- Then add the rest of the dry ingredients and pumpkin and mix together. Add a bit more coconut milk, if needed. The batter should be runny but still have a bit of girth to it. Ew, I just said girth.
- Ladle into your waffle maker. Be careful, they expand a bit so they will be pour over if you get ladle happy.
- Cook until done. Mine took about 3-4 minutes, I’d say.
- Add a crap ton of maple syrup on top and/or coconut butter or regular butter.
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Not sure what happened, mine waffles didn’t rise? They stuck to the waffle maker. The stuff I scraped off was really yummy but not enough to eat so I had to trash it.
Oh no! I wish I could help…all the ingredients were there and you greased your waffle iron?
These are AMAZING! Trying to convert my husband and 10yr old daughter to paleo and she practically licked the plate! He waited at the table for me to start making another batch:) thank you!
Lol you can never get enough pumpkin waffles, that’s just a fact
I saw a can of pumpkin in my pantry this morning and knew you would have a good idea for what to do with it. I just searched pumpkin and found your delicious waffles! They turned out amazing! Just what I needed on this rainy morning!
Thanks!
P.S. Love your blog and all of your recipes! I plan my weekly meals from your site, almost exclusively!
Yummy. I made these as pancakes, I don’t have a waffle iron. They had trouble staying together, but were delicious. My favourite part was the maple syrup.
Another awesome recipe, Julie! For the folks who are having trouble getting it out of the iron, my first one sort of stuck too, then crumbled, but the rest were fine. You just have to cook them longer than conventional waffles owing to the lack of gluten to stick it together, and to the liquid content. Get them evenly brown, not just slightly golden, and it’s fine. When there is just a little steam rising out of the iron, then it’s done. Think I’m going to make these again for my boyfriend’s birthday!
Thanks for the tip! I made these for the first time today and they did not stick together at all. Next time I’ll try the waffle iron on medium heat instead of low, and leave them in for a bit longer.
Seriously the best Paleo recipe Ive made yet! And yes, i creep this page every day. so inspiring!
Seriously, these are freaking orgasmic! I love me some pumpkin pancakes but this waffle recipe is the best I’ve ever had for this type of breakfast. It’s like eating a little bit of heaven. LOVE IT!
This was delicious and moist. Finally a moist waffle recipe! It fell apart though. I had to fight with my waffle iron to give me my waffle! and for some reason other paleo waffle recipes all make enough batter to fit into one waffle for me. Your recipes make 1.5 for me. How do you measure how much to put into the waffle iron? I tried to put it all and then was madly scraping off pumpkin batter back into my bowl so that I wouldn’t waste it!
try just filling it about 2/3 full and that will be quite enough to fill it. sorry they stuck to your iron!! that stinks!
Is there something else you can use to make these other than almond flour? I’m just going to start Paleo with my family, but we have tree nut allergies in our house and I see soo many recipes call for almond flour.. which we can’t do. 🙁
You could try using an extra banana then a bit of coconut flour, just be very careful with the coconut flour, adding tablespoon by tablespoon of the batter while you mix it because coconut flour can make things very dry.