Easy Healthy-ish Carrot Cake Waffles
These Easy Healthy-ish Carrot Cake Waffles are loaded with raisins, walnuts, and a boatload of spices that make them smell sinful! Enjoy them with some maple syrup or with a cream cheese drizzle this Easter weekend or any other weekend.
- Prep time
- 10 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 2 tbsp light brown sugar
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp cardamom
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 3/4 cup milk (I ude dairy free)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp Nielsen Massey Orange Extract
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp oil (I used olive oil)
- 1/4 cup walnuts
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1 carrot (grated)
- 2 tbsp milk (I used dairy free)
- 2 tbsp cream cheese
- 3 tbsp confectioners sugar
- splash each of Vanilla Extract and Orange Extract
Instructions
- 1
Preheat your oven to 300 degrees and plug in your waffle iron. I turned my dial so it was just below the max setting.
- 2
Then, add the flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, cardamom, cinnamon and ginger to a bowl and mix well with a whisk. Then, add in the milk, vanilla extract and orange extract and mix well.
- 3
In a separate bowl, whisk the egg and oil well together (I'm actually not sure of the reasoning behind this, but, my waffles always turn out better when I do this step). Add the egg and oil mixture to the Waffle batter.
- 4
Add in the carrots, walnuts and raisins and mix well. Add 4-5 tablespoons (or however much our waffle iron allows) and let cook till done.
- 5
*When waffles are done, I like to place them in the preheated oven for no more than 10 minutes or so, so they get a bit more crispier.
- 6
Warm the milk so it's slightly warm, then mix in the cream cheese and confectioners sugar. Add in a splash each of the vanilla extract and the orange extract. If lumpy, pass through a strainer and then drizzle on to the Carrot Cake Waffles and enjoy.