Gluten Free Waffles

I used The Crafy Runner's Gluten Free Rice Flour Waffles recipe to make waffles this morning. It's the end of the week and my pantry supplies are getting low. I had white rice flour in the fridge that had been there for a while, so I searched for rice flour waffle recipe and stumbled on her excellent recipe.

I did make some changes, by accident and by necessity.

I only had white rice flour so I used all white rice flour.

I did not have any apple sauce, so I pealed and cored 3 small apples, added about 1/3c water, 1T palm sugar, and 1t cinnamon and pureed my own apple sauce. (This made almost exactly a cup.)

I used baking soda instead of baking powder with no ill effects. This was an accident.

I omitted the salt.

I added about 1/4 cup of maple syrup to the batter for some sweetness. I justify this because I do not typically add syrup to my waffles, but eat them with peanut butter.

What I noticed when mixing up the batter (actually my 4yo Z was doing this mixing) is that the rice flour caked together and had to be broken up. If I had been mixing quickly I probably could have avoided this, but my helper was helping. When I finished mixing my batter, it was still lumpy, so I dumped it in the blender and mixed it on high for a minute to combine well. It was at this point that I added the maple syrup.

This recipe made 10 waffles. The 1/2 cup of batter per waffle was perfect for my waffle iron..