Perhaps my favorite recipes to create are egg-free baked good recipes, like this Lemon Blueberry Coffee Cake. They’re hard to find, and thus enthusiastically received! As a blogger it feels great to meet people’s needs!
My own son eats a Paleo egg-free diet. My daughter is dairy-free. So AIP baked goods are welcome and helpful in our home. (Here’s more about the AIP, or Autoimmume Paleo Protocol, if you’re not familiar with it.)
In actuality, our family was on the GAPS Diet for many years, while we not only healed but figured out each of our subtle nuances for wellness. While we don’t expect to be 100% well, we consider ourselves healed now, and yet we have certain dietary restrictions we maintain to support our wellness.
As a mom of kids with all different long-term restrictions some days in the kitchen do feel tiring. But I also laugh a bit at our life and feel ready for the ongoing humor and process of cooking everything homemade, sometimes in several varying “shades.” Recipes that fit all of our restrictions are a true boon.
My greatest long-time goal as a healing diets cook has been to create that elusive egg-free waffle! It’s hardly ever been done, and when it has the ingredients usually include starches that aren’t great for our transition from GAPS.
The one exception to that is cassava flour (available here). Our bodies love this new ingredient. The resistant starch and complex carbohydrates, if anything, seem to have helped our bodies to heal more fully.
But the same is not true of tapioca, the starch extracted from cassava, or even arrowroot. We still do not digest them well. So I typically try to combine GAPS-friendly ingredients with cassava flour for ideal digestion. Out of these experiments and our mind toward wellness this egg-free waffle recipe has finally been realized.
Therefore, this recipe is AIP-compliant. It may also be a wonderful recipe for those phasing off of the GAPS Diet.
I tested it on my husband who can eat anything he wants (for the most part) because I wanted this waffle to be awesome! I wanted this waffle to be every bit as good as the best waffle any of us has ever had. It passed the test! (Crunchy on the outside, tender and light in the middle.) My kids love these too. And I hope the waffles help to meet your dietary needs as well!
As a side note, we always emphasize protein at breakfast, so I recommend serving your waffles with a hearty helping of sausage or bacon! This recipe will serve 5 people, if eaten alongside a protein source.
- ¾ cup cassava flour,available here
- ¾ cup water
- ½ cup coconut butter (also called coconut manna), available here
- ½ cup avocado oil, melted lard or melted coconut oil
- 2 teaspoons sustainably-sourced gelatin, available here
- ¼ cup coconut flour (you can get a free bag of coconut flour here!)
- 2 T. coconut sugar
- 1 T. apple cider vinegar
- 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt
- I use a high-powered blender to make this recipe. If you wish to double the recipe or prefer another method, feel free to use a large mixing bowl and electric beaters.
- Combine water, coconut butter, avocado oil (or preferred fat), apple cider vinegar, coconut sugar, cinnamon and sea salt in a high-powered blender, processing on medium speed for about 10 seconds.
- In a medium bowl sift together cassava flour, gelatin, coconut flour and baking soda.
- Add dry ingredients to blender and process briefly, until incorporated, 5-8 seconds. The mixture will be thick. If any wet ingredients remain around the edges, use a rubber spatula to briefly fold them in.
- Spoon batter into well-greased, hot waffle iron. Cook longer than the usual allotted time for traditional waffle recipes, about 8-10 minutes.
About Megan at Eat Beautiful
Megan lives in Oregon with her husband and three children. She owns a gut-healing cafe, Vanilla Jill’s Scoops and Soups, where she serves up Paleo/GAPS Diet sandwiches, bone broth soups and grass-fed cultured cream, kefir, coconut milk and sprouted nut milk ice creams. Megan’s first cookbook, EAT BEAUTIFUL: Grain-free, Sugar-Free & Loving It is a #1 New Release on Amazon. Connect with Megan on her blog Eat Beautiful and on Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube and newly on Twitter.
I don’t see the inclusion of the gelatin in the directions. Do you add it to the dry ingredients?
Thanks for catching that Kathy! I updated the recipe – the gelatin is added with the dry ingredients and cassava flour.
I was wondering the same thing. Thank you.
I was wondering if there is anything to substitute for cassava flour? I’m not sure you can even buy it where I live…
I order mine:)
Can you use flax eggs instead of gelatin? What is the conversion for this recipe?
Can these be made as pancakes as I don’t have a waffle iron?
Does Cassava flour up your blood sugar? I am diabetic with hyperglymia and all the recipes I have seen lately use cassava flour.
These are great! Thanks!
I LOVE this recipe! That brand of cassava flour is my favorite too! It’s so nice to have a waffle recipe that doesn’t have eggs for those of us who don’t do well with eggs. I love the added gelatin too and I can’t wait to make these soon. Do you have a Pinterest-ready photo for this post? I’d love to pin it to save for later. Thanks!
The photo certainly got me, any waffle is a good waffle. I’ve been seeing Cassava flour pop up in recipes lately enough but haven’t yet used it. Suppose this might be a good one to try as a starter.
Thank you, thank you… I always feel a connection with gracious people who share their recipes!
We just discovered my son has allergies to egg whites.. hmmm…. never heard of that discriminatory
allergy! lol I’m going to try this recipe to encourage him in his GAPS diet. 8)