Hi, foodies in the Hive!

Hope you and your loved ones are all well and healthy. Today, we're having waffles for breakfast! They are fruity, soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. Also, they're lactose-free if you skip the yogurt part 😁

It's been a while since I didn't use my waffle iron. I had some free time in the morning and felt like eating some delicious waffles for breakfast.

Ingredients:

1 cup peeled, sliced, and chopped grany Smith
1 cup sliced ripe banana
1 handful walnuts
1/2 cup almond paste (4 tablespoons coconut oil, almond bagasse)
3/4 cups whole eggs
1/4 cups cane honey syrup
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cups freshly squeezed orange juice
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 cups cornstarch
1 cup gluten-free oat flakes (I used Avelina)

yogurt, strawberries, crushed walnuts, oranges, and cane honey syrup to serve with the waffles.

Let's make waffles!

The first thing I did was to wash the strawberries and mix the almond bagasse with the coconut oil--I had saved some bagasse from making almond beschamel the other day.

Then I washed, peeled, and finely chopped one old granny Smith.

I squeezed some little oranges to get half a cup of juice.

I sliced a banana and crushed a handful of walnuts...

...to mix them with the almond paste.

Then I added the sliced and chopped apple.

Then it was time to look for some cane honey syrup in the fridge. I prepare it with a 1-kilo piloncillo and half a liter of water, which I let boil over medium to low heat until it has the consistency I want.

I hand whisked all the ingredients.

I mixed well and added the orange juice which I had mixed with the baking soda.

The orange juice and baking soda mixed together become a foamy liquid that helps the dough to gain air.

After this, I added the cornstarch.

Next thing to do was join the two mixes.

At this point the batter was rather liquid. It was time to add the oats.

I dry blended the oats first.

After I mixed the half pulverized oats with the batter, I returned it to the blender and gave it just a couple of strokes, to obtain a slightly thinner mixture, suitable for pouring into the waffle iron.