I make this for breakfast when I am solo-parenting. Kid never rejects it. It is packed with fat, fiber, and protein. And it is made with my personal capsule kitchen's pantry staples.

Hat tip to Yummy Toddler Food! I started with her "Favorite Yogurt Waffles" recipe and then developed it into my own recipe for my own kitchen and our own tastes.

We use a Dash waffle maker that we got for free from a Really Really Free Market. It makes Eggo-sized waffles, as opposed to those giant monstrosities, so cooking times will be for the waffle maker we have. If you need a recipe that supports your waffle maker, check here. And if you'd like to use this batter to make pancakes, try this recipe, instead.

Ingredients

• 6 TBSP plain yogurt [substitute cottage cheese; if vanilla yogurt, just skip the vanilla extract]
• 2 TBSP milk
• 2 TBSP butter [substitute cooking oil, but waffle won't be as crispy]
• 1 egg
• 60 g all purpose flour; 1/2 cup [substitute whole wheat flour for a denser waffle]
• 7 g sugar, optional; 1/2 TBSP
• 3 g baking soda; 1/2 tsp [substitute 1 tsp baking powder]
• 2 pinches kosher salt; 1/8 tsp
• 1/4 tsp vinegar [substitute lemon juice, omit if using baking powder]
• 1 tsp vanilla extract [substitute 1 TBSP vanilla flavored protein powder]

Materials

• Dash Eggo-sized waffle maker
• kitchen scale
• measuring spoons
• danish dough whisk [substitute a handful of chopsticks held together or two dinner forks held opposing one another in the same hand]
• microwave safe coffee mug
• microwave
• 2x dinner plates
• kitchen timer
• mixing bowl
• dining table spoon (the big one of your place setting)

Instructions

1. Take your butter (2 TBSP) and put it, unwrapped, into the microwave safe coffee mug. Put the mug into the microwave to melt. In my microwave, that's 2 minutes of cook time at 30% power.
2. Plug in your waffle maker and set it on one dinner plate to preheat.
3. Set a kitchen timer for 6 minutes. Hopefully we won't need this timer, but in the event that we mix up batter faster than the waffle iron takes to preheat, it's good to have the timer set.
4. Put your mixing bowl on top of your kitchen scale. Tare the scale. Now, carefully measure the flour (60 g) into the bowl.
5. Tare the scale once again and this time add the sugar (7 g).
6. Once again tare, and add the baking soda (3 g). To this add the salt (2 pinches).
7. Remove the bowl from the kitchen scale and use the danish dough whisk to combine the ingredients, thoroughly, to a consistent mixture.
8. On top of the dry ingredients, put the yogurt (6 TBSP), milk (2 TBSP), vanilla extract (1 tsp) and egg (1) into your mixing bowl.
9. By this time, your butter should be done in the microwave. Pour the butter (2 TBSP, melted) into your mixture and stir with the danish dough whisk to a good blend, taking care to stop just when it is blended and not overmix the batter.
10. Add the vinegar (1/4 tsp) at the last minute and give a quick stir to activate the baking soda. What do I mean by "at the last minute"? Either right now if your preheating kitchen timer went off some time ago, or wait until that kitchen timer goes off.
11. At this point, your waffle iron ought be preheated, so plop two generous tablespoons - and by this I mean grab a big table spoon from your dining utensils, don't bother with precise measurements - into the center of your waffle iron. Close the iron and set a kitchen timer for 6 minutes.
12. When the timer sounds, carefully remove the waffle taking care not to scratch the waffle iron's nonstick coating. Plastic utensils or that spare set of single-use wooden chopsticks you got in your take-out work great, here. Put completed waffles onto your second dining plate to cool slightly.
13. Repeat steps 11 and 12 until you've used up all the batter. Your final waffle may be tiny. If so, still cook for 6 minutes.

Notes

These waffles can be used as is and are very savory, they can be topped with home made jam, can be used as breads for a peanut butter and jelly waffle sandwich, and I've used them as a base for personal microwave waffle pizzas. While they can be frozen and put into the toaster a la Eggo, I find that we typically don't have any extras after lunch is accounted for.

Bibliography. Thanks to Yummy Toddler Food for the inspiration and thanks to Dash for the included recipe book. The rest was experimentation at Casa Me.