Overnight Oatmeal Waffles

Oh HELLO beautiful breakfast!! We have been on a waffle kick. Correction, my SON has been on a waffle kick. He is a very picky eater and when I saw how he gobbles up waffles, I knew I had to find a healthier version to make it more hearty. And so I want to share with you my discovery.

The original recipe is from the blog One Lovely Life I liked that there was oatmeal but did not like the 7 TBSP of BUTTER! I was making this recipe for a play date I was hosting. And was caught up with getting everything on the table. I put the butter in the microwave to melt to add to the batter......and guess what!? I FORGOT to add it! I noticed the waffles were crispier, which the original buttery version the waffles are way too soft, they need some sturdiness to them. Anyways, my guests raved about them, and then emailed me for the recipe. Only after they left, I was cleaning up and putting something in the microwave that I realized that there was completely NO BUTTER in the waffles. And the batter did not stick to my waffle iron either. I do spray the waffle iron at the very beginning, but then that's it. So I am including 2 TBSP in my recipe, just to make them a little fluffy. Oh and some ground flax seed of course ;)

Ingredients:
2 cups oats
2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup flour
1 egg
2 TBSP ground flax seeds (optional)
2 TBSP sugar (or less to your taste)
2 TBSP melted butter
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

Instructions:
1. In a medium bowl combine oats and buttermilk. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
2. When ready to prepare waffles, stir in eggs, melted butter, and vanilla. Then add flour, flax seeds, sugar, baking power, soda, and salt. Stir until just blended - batter will be quite thick. If you feel it is too thick (wooden spoon standing straight up) you can thin the batter out with some milk.
3. Cook in waffle iron. Each waffle iron is different. You will want to leave them in a bit longer than normal for the oats to cook and waffles to crisp. I scooped the batter generously in the middle and then spread it out. Don't add too much because this batter expands, leave some room on the edges.

Mixing the oats and buttermilk at night.

In the morning, oats have soaked up most of the buttermilk. 

All the ingredients ready to GO!

Mix, mix, mix.

Spreading the batter out.

Viola!

My last waffle, trying to use up the last of the batter
and added WAY too MUCH!

Pile the fruit....who needs maple syrup!?

Little Mister all SMILES :)
Little Miss busy feeding her bunny.