If you’ve been following along for some time now, you certainly know how often I make eggless waffles in my house (hint-I make them weekly and freeze them so I always have homemade frozen waffles for the kids). Well, I’ve upgraded them a bit! Enter, eggless chocolate chip waffles with strawberry cream cheese sauce.
Yes, the waffles in this recipe are amazing! But the real star is the strawberry sauce. All you have to do to make this delicious sauce is combine four simple ingredients:
- Frozen strawberries ( you can use fresh strawberries, but it will be less liquidy)
- Cream cheese
- Honey
- Vanilla extract
I make this recipe with eggless waffles, but you can, of course, use whatever your favorite waffle recipe is and just add chocolate chips! No matter what waffles I am making, this is definitely the waffle maker I use every time.
Yes, these waffles quickly became a favorite of the kids, but I have to admit, they have also topped my list of favorite breakfast foods lately! I mean, what is not to love about a chocolate and strawberry combination?
A few notes and tips about making these waffles:
- When making the waffles, you can either use buttermilk or make your own! Tvo make your own, you simply combine milk and lemon juice and let it sit for 5 minutes.
- The recipe calls for using frozen strawberries. The water content in the frozen berries will help the sauce be more liquid. If you want to use fresh strawberries, the sauce will just be thicker.
- The strawberry cream cheese sauce was originally inspired by one that Ben picked out of the Let’s Cook: Elmo Cookbook (a cute kids’ cookbook). It was a recipe for strawberry cream cheese stuffed French toast, but we didn’t have 1/2 the ingredients, so we made a sauce and waffles instead.
These eggless chocolate chip waffles with strawberry cream cheese sauce have sky-rocketed to popularity with the kids and I bet you and your kids will love them too!
Eggless Chocolate Chip Waffles with Strawberry Cream Cheese Sauce
Equipment
Ingredients
For the waffles
- 1 cup milk or water or non dairy milk of choice*
- 2 Tbs. lemon juice (juice from 1 lemon)
- 3 Tbs. canola oil or other mild cooking oil like grapeseed, vegetable or coconut oil
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
- 1/4 tsp. almond extract optional
- 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 Tbs. baking powder
- 3 Tbs. sugar
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 1 tsp. lemon zest
For the strawberry cream cheese sauce
- 1 cup frozen strawberries blended
- 8 oz. cream cheese
- 2 Tbs. honey
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
To make waffles
- In a bowl combine milk and lemon juice and let sit for 5 minutes (this is essentially creating buttermilk, you could use buttermilk instead of this step). After 5 minutes add in canola oil, vanilla extract and almond extract (if using.)
- In another bowl combine flour, baking powder, sugar, chocolate chips and lemon zest, stir to combine.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients, stir, and let sit for 5 minutes (let the baking powder do its thing - the mixture thickens up a bit and bubbles a little.)
- Warm waffle iron according to manufacture directions. I have this waffle iron and love it so much!
- Spray heated waffle iron with cooking spray and spoon batter into waffle iron, cook until done (mine is about 5 minutes). Repeat until all waffles are made.
To make strawberry cream cheese sauce
- Combine strawberries, cream cheese, honey, vanilla extract in food processor until smooth.
- Pour over waffles and enjoy!
Denise L says
This recipe sounds delicious. I also love waffles with maple syrup and blueberries.
Kim Henrichs says
Okay this looks DIVINE!! I love a good raspberry sauce on my waffles!
Linda Bick says
I love waffles with caramel sauce and maple syrup, whipped cream also!
Ro says
I usually don’t serve waffles or pancakes with any toppings at all. They’re “grab and go” handheld food at our house, but if it’s me eating them I love some natural peanut butter, cocoa powder, and TJ’s golden toasted flaxseed on top for crunch.
Alice M says
I go with the classic butter and syrup, but what makes my waffles special is the heirloom waffle that dates from my grandparents’ wedding in 1926! I also make the syrup myself. My parents made this and I think of it as Depression Era home made syrup: Heat 1/2 cup white sugar, 1/2 cup brown sugar, and 1/4 cup water. Keep stirring and boil it until it goes from cloudy to clear. A little maple extract gives it a real nice flavor! It is thinner than the bottled brands, but it tastes great and is super cheap.
Alice M says
I mean heirloom waffle iron!
Sweetphi says
Oh that’s so fascinating about the syrup, thank you for sharing!!
Alice says
The waffles look delicious, but as a diabetic, waffles & pancakes are not usually on my menus. I wonder if I could use almond four???? By the way, The frittata recipe is one that I will use.
Sweetphi says
Great question – i’ve actually never tried the waffles with almond flour, please let me know if you try them and how they turn out! The frittata is sooo yummy, hope you love it!
Stephanie Guest says
These look delicious! I typically like my waffles plain with fresh fruit piled on top.
Stephanie says
Oh I love waffles. I have got to make your recipe. I like waffles with fresh fruit & whipping cream. There isn’t one thing on your blog I’ve made that hasn’t been fantastic!! Thank you!!
Sweetphi says
Oh my goodness, thank you for your sweet comment, I’m truly honored!!
Linda Bick says
I love to eat waffles with caramel sauce and whipped cream!
Lisa Burkhart says
My favorite waffles are with pecans mixed in the batter, the topped with butter and warm pure maple syrup
Amy Cooley says
I love just about anything on my waffles…strawberries, blueberries, nuts, whipped cream, syrup, chocolate chips, etc.!
Sweetphi says
Yum! me too, I’m such a sucker for waffles!
Mary W says
I like the classics – fresh unsalted creamery butter with real maple syrup. The lemon curd would be amazing but then I would eat waffles all day long! Yum!
Sweetphi says
Oh yum, nothing like classics for toppings, and I too am such a fan of waffles (and omg I need to try them with lemon curd)
Wendy Burrow says
OMG, the best waffles topping is homemade lemon curd. But also, I had some waffles at a restaurant where they put cardemom on the toppings somehow. Not sure if it was in the syrup? SO GOOD.
Sweetphi says
Oh my goodness, lemon curd sounds amazing as a waffle topping!!!
Monica M says
We make waffles almost every Sunday morning. I like to cut up mango and blueberries on my waffle, and then a dollop of yogurt.
Sweetphi says
Those sound like fresh and delicious toppings! We too make waffles almost every week!
Jeffrey says
Waffles…Oh, how I love thee! My favorite topping is caramelized bananas, candied walnuts and maple syrup. I would say it closely resembles bananas foster!
Sweetphi says
Oooh now that sounds absolutely delicious!!