Protein Waffles
4.66 from 55 votes
Course: Breakfast, Dessert, Snack
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Dessert, gluten free, under 10 ingredients, under 500 calories
Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes
Cook Time: 1 hour hour
Total Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes
Servings: 40 Waffles
Calories: 68kcal
Protein Waffles made using a blend of whey and casein proteins with oat flour. These are great when batched prepped and stored in the freezer for an easy breakfast or snack in minutes. Top them with berries, chocolate chips, or eat them plain.
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Ingredients
- 4 scoops (125 g) vanilla whey protein
- 4 scoops (125 g) vanilla casein protein
- 1⅔ cups (200 g) oat flour
- ¾ cup (100 g) cornstarch or tapioca flour
- 2½ tsp (10 g) baking powder
- 2½ cups (600 g) liquid egg whites or whole eggs, just match the weights
- 3⅓ cups (750 g) plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 cup (240 g) water
Instructions
- Mix all the dry ingredients together so no clumps are present. NOTE: I have tested this with only whey protein and it doesn't turn out. Only casein will work but you may need more water in the batter. The 50/50 blend of protein is best.
- Add in the wet ingredients and mix thoroughly. The amount of water required may be variable. You need the batter to be pourable but not too watery. As the batter sits while you cook your waffles, the casein and oat flour will hydrate more and thicken the batter. You may need to add more water as you go.
- Heat your waffle iron and spray with oil. Add the batter and cook for a 3-5 minutes or until browned and set. The waffle iron I use is an 8×8" square. I use between 200g-230g of batter per waffle.
- Continue working your way through the batter until all of it has been used up and your waffles are cooked. As your waffles come out of the iron, allow them to cool on a wire lined sheet pan. If you have a square waffle iron like mine, cut the waffles into the 4 individual waffles.
Storage
- Once all of your waffles have cooked and cooled to room temperature. Align them on your sheet pan and place them into the freezer uncovered until they have frozen solid.
- Transfer the waffles to the Zwilling Fresh & Save zip top bags and use the vacuum pump to remove the air. If you try to vacuum seal the waffles before they have frozen solid, they will get smushed. If you don't plan to vacuum seal, you don't need to flash freeze them.
- I was able to make 40 individual waffles from this recipe. The nutritional information is per each waffle with no toppings.
Reheating
- You can reheat these waffles in the toaster, the air fryer, or microwave. Just keep an eye on them as to not burn the exteriors.
Nutrition
Calories: 68kcal | Carbohydrates: 6.9g | Protein: 9g | Fat: 0.5g
NUTRITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE PROTEIN WAFFLES
The information in the following table are estimates for the total nutrition of the recipe, as written. Input the number of waffles you yielded to determine the nutritional estimates for your personal waffles. I made 40 so I would input 40 into the first cell. If you follow the recipe listed above, as written, you can use these tables to determine the nutrition information if you wanted to split the recipe, as written, into more or less servings than what is originally listed. If you update the number of servings in the “Servings” field of the recipe above, the information in these tables are no longer accurate as you have updated the ingredients.
Servings
Carbs
276.9g
Protein
359.3g
Fat
18.6g
Calories
2712 cals
This Post Has 27 Comments
best protein waffles I’ve tried! multiplied the recipe by 0.2 to make 8 waffles, made 4 in my slightly bigger waffle iron. did I put budget chocolate hazelnut spread on them? it was the weekend so you know it!
How much of the protein pancake mix would I use for this? I’m rather not have to use all of the ingredients from scratch if need be
The recipe for the protein pancakes is equivalent to 4 waffles (in his waffle iron, my yield was closer to 24 waffles so 2.4 per protein pancake recipe)
@Damien Just to clarify… 2.4 servings of the protein pancake recipe mix per 4 waffles (roughly)?
Are the ingredients below for just one Waffle or there is a bug with the website, as its display this for one serving?
INGREDIENTS
4 scoops (125 g) vanilla whey protein
4 scoops (125 g) vanilla casein protein
1⅔ cups (200 g) oat flour
¾ cup (100 g) cornstarch or tapioca flour
2½ tsp (10 g) baking powder
2½ cups (600 g) liquid egg whites or whole eggs, just match the weights
3⅓ cups (750 g) plain nonfat Greek yogurt
1 cup (240 g) water
oh shoot, good catch. This was for 40 waffles. Thanks for the note
My first attempt I got around 20 waffles but after weighing the cooked waffles I think I did to much batter per batch leading to them being 100g per 1/4th waffle cooked rather than the ~50g per 1/4th of the waffle…otherwise super tasty!
Very tasty! Got 28 waffles out of my batch, though I was short a couple eggs (used 10, ~500g).
Do i have to use both protein? whey and casein? or what could i substitute for it?
Yes you should use both
Hey! I love your channel, but I couldn’t find any casein protein near me. I bought some Zhou Plant based Protein Powder (vanilla), and I was wondering how good it is for use in your recipes?
Need to use casein or it won’t come out right
Love these. Made for first time January 2023. Lessons learned. Maybe grill longer or flash freeze longer. They got mushed in my Zwilling bags. But yummy is yummy.
Have you ever tried this recipe with Chocolate Whey and Chocolate Casein?
I just made it with vanilla whey and chocolate casein, because I bought chocolate casein on accident lol. It’s not bad at all
Thank you! I think I’ll do it on purpose! 😆
Any way you can tell us the dry/finished weight of a single waffle? Trying to figure out my nutrition info for mine, I spilled kind of a lot of batter cuz I didn’t have an efficient way to get it from the bowl to the waffle iron, so I’m thinking my numbers wont be as accurate. If I can get the dry weight of your 68kcal waffle, I can approximately get the nutrition of mine.. Thanks!
it reall depends on your waffle iron
These were delicious, the kids loved them so it’s now a permanent in snack city!
Recipe is great, however they stuck REALLY bad to my waffle iron with canola spray. Can’t really douse the waffle iron with butter because that would defeat the purpose of healthier waffles. So I just made them into pancakes. Waffle iron is in good shape, so I don’t know what else I could have done differently.
These slap. Normally I’m really picky about the texture of baked goods, etc. with protein powder in them and think most are nasty, but this is a great substitute for a regular waffle. Followed the recipe exactly using a mix of Whole Foods brand vanilla whey protein isolate and ON casein and they come out great every time.
Anyone know what the calories are per 100 grams?
Super filling and delicious waffles with great macros. My waffle iron is twice as big I think, so I can make 4 waffles when I put in 8. I’ll eat 2 every day, either for breakfast or lunch. Can’t beat a delicious meal for 272 calories and 34.8 grams of protein that fills me up this well!
I had bariatric surgery back on sept 20 2023 and made and froze a batch of these when I got back from the hospital. I think my batter was thicker than yours so my yield was less- which is okay because it meant that I get 13 grams of protein per waffle.
These taste wonderful and freeze & reheat beautifully! I love being able to just pop one into my toaster when I don’t feel like cooking and have a hot waffle that’s actually good for me ready in just a few minutes
Hi Josh,
Not sure if you’ll get this. But I tried and it came out pretty tasty. But the waffles become quite flat immediately after pulling them from the iron.
I did use both casein and whey.
But I’m wondering if maybe next time I should try more casein instead to help fluff it up? I gather that is the ingredient that helps for fluffing in this case?
Or perhaps more baking powder? I dunno what else it could be.
Love them though, I think I’ll make them again regardless.
Mine normally stay decently fluffy but they are dense compared to normal waffles. There’s a baking technique you could try where you whip the egg whites to make a meringue and then fold it into the other ingredients. Labor intensive but would likely make them super fluffy if that’s what you like.
If you guys want to step it up a notch, use the blueberry muffin protein by ryse. For the casein just stick to vanilla. Getting those little bits of blueberry is awesome and calories are pretty much the same.