Nani's Waffles

Planted October 24, 2024

My mom, who my kids know as Nani, grew up eating waffles every Saturday morning. Her dad, we all called him Pa, made these for the entire neighborhood until everyone was stuffed. She spent a while testing ingredients and methods and this is what she came up with.

Servings: 8 (Waffles)

Working Time: 10 minutes

Waiting Time: 20 minutes

Notes from the editor

I’ve been making these dairy-free, not vegan, for a while now, and here’s what I’ve changed:

• Coconut oil + plant butter
• Almond milk or oat milk, totally ignoring the “buttermilk” instruction
• Don’t separate the eggs, it doesn’t add enough to the recipe for the effort
• Use brown sugar if you have it on hand, it’s good
• Add some vanilla extract, measured with your heart, obviously
• Optionally sub 1/4 cup of AP flour with 2 scoops of whatever protein powder you have on hand (I used vanilla almond protein powder)

Changes to the instructions: Basically mix all the dry ingredients together, whisk to combine, mix all the wet ingredients together in a 4 cup measuring cup and pour it all in together, mix for a minute, then chop up so many pecans and add them to the combined mixture.

^{I don’t like making one huge rectangle waffle, I prefer 2 smaller waffles}

Here is Nani’s original recipe!