Banana Waffles are the easiest weekend (or weekday) breakfast or brunch recipe you’ll ever make! They’re light, fluffy and absolutely delicious!
Why I Make Banana Waffles
- They’re delicious! The natural sweetness of bananas makes these waffles incredibly tasty and they’re the perfect way to start your day!
- Easy to Make! Banana waffles are simple to whip up, requiring just a few basic ingredients you most likely already have on hand! You can have these on the table in no time.
- They’re healthy! Bananas are a good source of fiber, vitamin C, vitamin B6, and potassium, and incorporating them into your waffles can add some healthy nutrients to your breakfast.
- Versatile! Banana waffles can be customized to your liking, with the addition of different toppings such as fresh fruit, nuts, or maple syrup. They’re the perfect base to anything you want to add!
- Super kid-friendly! Kids love waffles, and adding bananas to the mix can make them even more appealing to young palates.
The Ingredients
- Flour: I use a combination of all purpose flour and whole wheat flour for this recipe. I’ve found this combination makes for a super fluffy waffle.
- Baking essentials: You’ll need baking powder and kosher salt for these waffles.
- Ground cinnamon: Cinnamon takes these waffles to another level. Comforting and absolutely delicious!
- Milk: Any milk will work! Feel free to use cow’s milk, oat milk, almond milk or any plant based milk you prefer.
- Egg: You’ll just need one egg for this recipe to help everything bind together.
- Honey: For a little extra natural sweetness, I add a tablespoon of honey. Feel free to use maple syrup if you don’t have honey.
- Vanilla extract: Vanilla adds a depth of flavor that’s essential to the tastiest waffles ever!
- Ripe bananas: Ripe bananas is absolutely key to making the best Banana Waffles. The more ripe, the sweeter the banana!
Recipe Tip
If your bananas aren’t quite ripe yet, place them in a 350°F oven on a rimmed sheet pan (poke a few holes in each one so they don’t explode!) for about 15 minutes to bring out their natural sweetness. Allow the bananas to cool before starting this recipe.
How to Make Banana Waffles
- Prep waffle iron: Preheat waffle iron.
- Combine dry ingredients: Place the flour, salt, baking powder and cinnamon in a bowl and combine.
- Combine wet ingredients: Place the remaining wet ingredients in a separate bowl and combine.
- Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients: Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet until combined. Do not over mix, it’s ok if there are a few lumps.
- Make the waffles: Pour 1/2 cup of batter into a greased waffle iron and cook for about 3-4 minutes (or according to manufacturer’s directions).
Can I Meal Prep Waffles?
Absolutely! I’ve been getting a lot of SOS messages from moms asking for fast but filling breakfast ideas. I’m not suggesting that these Banana Waffles are going to make it onto your table in 60 seconds, but where there’s a will there’s a way! Good news is you can easily prep these ahead of time. Here’s a couple options for how to meal prep waffles!
- Prep the ingredients: If the thought of making something from scratch at 7am is unappealing to you, you can mix the wet and dry ingredients separately the night before! Then, all you have to do in the morning is mix them together in a bowl and scoop some batter into the waffle iron. Simple.Â
- Freeze the waffles: But if that’s still to much for you when you’re feeling bleary eyed, exhausted and just wanting to get everyone out the door well-fed, follow in my foot steps. Make a huge batch of these Banana Waffles on the weekend and store them in labeled freezer bags so when the morning comes all you have to do is put them in the toaster oven and serve with fresh fruit or syrup.
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I think these Banana Waffles will be your new go-to breakfast recipe. Let me know what you think in the comments or tag me on social media if you make them!
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Banana Waffles
Banana Waffles are the easiest weekend (or weekday) breakfast or brunch recipe you'll ever make!
Ingredients
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 ripe bananas, mashed
Instructions
- Preheat waffle iron.
- Place the first 5 ingredients in a bowl and combine.
- Place the remaining wet ingredients in a separate bowl and combine.
- Slowly add the dry ingredients into the wet until combined. Do not over mix, its ok if there are a few lumps.
- Pour 1/2 cup of batter into a greased waffle iron and cook for about 3-4 minutes (or according to manufacturer’s directions).
- Serve with desired toppings.
Notes
To Freeze and Reheat: Place leftover waffles in labeled freezer bags. Pop in the toaster until warmed through to reheat. Serve with desired toppings.
Nutrition
Calories: 90kcal | Carbohydrates: 19g | Protein: 3g | Sodium: 190mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 5g
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My hubby and little guy made these this morning. Delicious!
These are so great! My toddler will not eat eggs, plain pancakes, or plain waffles (my breakfast ideas are getting pretty slim). He loves these and it is a great feeling as a parent to find healthy food that our children will love!
You can use 1 tbsp of flax seed powder plus 3 tbsp of water to equal one egg. I have heard that bananas are a great egg replacement, but I haven’t tried to leave out the egg in this recipe.
HI Catherine,
These are our favorite waffles. I started making them this morning have all of the ingredients and realize I don’t have eggs. Is there anything you know of that could be a substitute?
[…] I was going to get him to make the regular waffles. And I was going to make Belgian waffles and banana waffles. As I start to make the Belgian waffles, I realize they take over an hour prep time. Oops. […]
These make the best pb&j sandwiches! I am going to have to start doubling the recipe if we ever hope to have enough leftovers to freeze.
Thank you!!! We just bought a waffle maker and my son requests waffles every AM so I’m using a mix. This is so much healthier and he adores bananas. Perfect!!! Once again–weelicious ROCKS!!
This is a really inlntligeet way to answer the question.
These were awesome! I used whole wheat (ground my own) and flax instead of all purpose flour. The kids and hubby loved them. The only problem is there wasn’t enough. Two kids (2 and 6) ate most of them so we just got a taste. Will double the recipe next time. Thanks for a great recipe!
Can you use all purpose flour as a substitute for the whole wheat flour?
These were soooooooooooooooooooooooo good!!! A big hit with my super picky 14 month old! 🙂 She loved dipping bites into her vanilla yogurt. 🙂
This is the waffle iron I use and I love it! http://astore.amazon.com/weelicious-20/detail/B0002CA39Y
I wonder the same thing!!!! Did you get a response?
I know you are quite into “green” and healthy products. Am wondering what sort of waffle iron you use? I’ve tried to purge teflon from my home, and all of the waffle irons I’ve seen are made of Teflon. Any ideas???
A bit late in replying but it’s possible you over mixed the wet and dry ingredients together. Waffle and pancake mix should be mixed until just combined (lumps are ok) or else you end up with chewy waffles and pancakes! I hope you’ve had better luck with them since!
I made this morning and they were very yummy! Although, they were a bit chewy — any thoughts on why that would be? (I did use soy milk instead of milk in the recipe, but I don’t think that should affect it.)