Ceci's favorite Waffles

Pile of deliciousness!

Just over a year ago now wonderful friends of ours gave my husband and I an amazing waffle maker for our birthdays.  This inspired me to start making waffles for our weekend breakfasts much like I had growing up.  I love those memories dearly, my mom making waffles for us, and when I was old enough to help, finally when I could make them by myself.  It was just such a fun tradition to bring into my own home now.
As Cecilia (Ceci) was starting on solid foods I noticed other moms in our group giving their children frozen waffles for a morning snack.  I asked why frozen and they said it helped with teething and was something the kids could hold by themselves.  It made perfect sense to me, but I wasn't willing to pay the high price for premade frozen gluten free waffles.  I researched some recipes and found this one which I altered to be gluten free.  Now Ceci would live on them if I would let her, and my husband thinks they have better flavor and texture than regular wheat flour waffles.
I keep several types of flour on hand in my house so I can mix, match, and experiment, I know this is not always convenient for everyone so you can always substitute a Gluten Free All Purpose flour for my mixes if you would like.

Ceci's Favorite Gluten Free Waffles

1/2   Cup Chick Pea or Soy flour
1/2   Cup Tapioca Starch
1/2   Cup Sweet Rice flour
1/4   Cup Brown Rice flour
1      teaspoon Xanthum Gum
1/4   teaspoon salt
1      Tablespoon Baking Powder
1/2   teaspoon Cinnamon
2      Eggs
1 and 3/4 Cup Milk
1/2    Cup Canola or Vegetable Oil


Blend together all dry ingredients in a bowl and set aside.  In a separate bowl mix Eggs, Milk, and Oil.  Slowly incorporate the wet ingredients into the dry, mixing until lumps disappear.  Let mixture rest for 5-7 minutes, the batter will thicken.  Using a VERY hot waffle iron pour in about 1 cup of batter (or amount recommended by the manufacturer), and allow to cook in iron.  No peeking before the waffle is done, this will pull the waffle apart and be very frustrating to clean out of the iron (trust me).  


You can enjoy the waffles right away or set them on a wire rack to cool and then put them into a zip top bag and freeze.  When reheating the frozen waffles I suggest microwaving for 30 seconds to defrost them, and then placing in the toaster on a low setting to warm and crisp them.  Or if you have a teething toddler, take it right out of the bag, still frozen and hand it over.  

I hope you enjoy our first recipe posting, Ceci was very excited too, she wrote her own recipe for the occasion.  I'm sure you will notice as you follow along with us, she is constantly at my side and deeply involved in everything I do, and I love every moment of it, most of the time.  Maybe someday she can translate her sweet scribbles for me and we can make her version.

Gluten Free Bisquick Pancakes

Mickey Mouse Head Pancakes

We have been consuming a large amount of Gluten Free Bisquick around here lately, biscuits, dumplings, cakes, and pancakes.  One night we decided to have breakfast for dinner, including pancakes, which is very rare in this house.  My husband would be more than happy to sit down to a huge steak with potatoes on the side every night, I can't eat like that, and neither can Ceci.  We got creative one night and decided to make pancakes, and it couldn't have been easier with Gluten Free Bisquick.  Since Ceci hasn't really had pancakes before, we eat a lot of gluten free waffles, I decided to make the pancakes into a fun shape she would like to eat.  It worked really well, along with some home made blueberry jam she ate 3 that night.  I would have eaten a whole batch myself if I didn't have to share, they are light and fluffy, sweet and simple.

I think she was pretty excited to get a Mickey Mouse Pancake!

I kept it simple and followed the recipe on the box, which is unreasonably easy and quick.  I tried to find it online and link it here, but for some reason it was pretty difficult to find the plain pancake recipe, even on the Betty Crocker website.  So here it is from the box

Gluten Free Bisquick Pancakes

1   Cup Bisquick Gluten Free mix
1   Cup Milk
2   Tbsp Vegetable Oil
1   Egg

STIR  ingredients until blended.
POUR slightly less than 1/4 cupfuls onto hot greased griddle
COOK until edges are dry.  Turn; cook until golden.

makes 10 pancakes

I think we will be eating more breakfast for dinner around this house in the coming months.  I'll have to work on my pancake shapes though, Ceci might get tired of mickey heads pretty quick, maybe hearts aren't too difficult.

Happy Mother's Day to Me!

I'm sure some of you have seen the photo from our Holiday Cookie Party and my tremendous mess of flours in all sorts of miss-matched containers.  That was all solved this weekend!  My Tupperware delivery arrived, and I was able to sort though all my flours and put them nice and neat into the cabinet.  I feel so much better looking into that pantry shelf now, no anxiety!  These were my Mother's Day present from my husband, even though I picked them out and ordered them.  Oh well, I still love him!  I think it might finally be time to throw away the lingering tub of wheat flour that has been in the cabinet forever.  I used to make separate batches of waffles, or cookies for myself and my husband, now I just make him eat GF, poor guy!  It would be torture except he prefers the GF stuff anyway.

Did I mention the Tupperware is liquid tight, air tight, and guaranteed for life?  That's what got me!  Now I won't ever have to worry about Ceci dropping a container while she is helping me bake, and no more haphazard Tetris inside the panty!

After the wonders of Tupperware!

Before