Fluffy and full of chocolate flavor, these healthy Chocolate Banana Waffles are perfect indulgent yet guilt-free breakfast! They are made with WHOLESOME ingredients, filled with SUPERFOOD cacao powder, and made without ADDED SUGARS. Super simple and taste amazing.
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A waffle maker is definitely the best thing I invested my money in lately. Since I bought it, it's been constantly in use, which is a complete opposite of what I expected to happen. When I bought it, I thought we would use it a few times and then get bored. And waffle maker would be pushed in some dark corner in my pantry and gone in oblivion.
But that didn't happen at all. My boys love Oatmeal Waffles since the first day I made them. And I've been making these beauties over and over again for quite some time now.
To change things up a bit (and to use some ripen bananas I had in my fridge), I decided to make a chocolate version. Deep dark, full of chocolate flavor, smelling so divine and looking so indulgent, Chocolate Banana Waffles turned up to be a complete success. We all loved it.
But how not to love them. These dark beauties are made with WHOLESOME ingredients. They are fluffy and full of beautiful bitter-sweet dark chocolate flavor. They are also super easy to make - you'll only need a few pantry ingredients.
Chocolate Banana Waffles are beyond simple sweet treat - they are rich and nutritious - full of fibers good for our digestion and proteins. They are also packed with antioxidants from cacao powder. If you're looking for a quick and HEALTHY breakfast, this recipe is it! Delicious and satisfying, 100% guilt-free, made without added sugars.
Chocolate Banana Waffles ingredients
All ingredients in this recipe contribute to our health in some way, so this treat is far from sweet empty calories. To make these chocolate beauties, you'll need:
OATS: Hearty, healthy, and filling, oats are stapled food in my pantry. It’s one of my favorite grain. They are a great choice for breakfast since they are an excellent source of fiber, especially beta-glucan that is known for its power to lower cholesterol and therefore keep your heart healthy (1). Also, oats are high in vitamins, minerals, and some powerful antioxidants. + Proteins. YES, proteins!! They are nutritious and so versatile.
MILK: I used oat milk in this recipe because oat milk is naturally creamy and sweet, plus it has so many benefits too. Oat milk is a popular dairy-free milk substitute. Naturally, oat milk isn’t as nutritious as whole oats, that’s why it’s often enriched with nutrients — including calcium, potassium, iron, and vitamins A and D. But oat milk is unique because it’s free of many of the allergens found in other types of milk. Plus, same as whole oats, it contains beta-glucans — a soluble fiber that may offer heart health benefits (2).
COCONUT OIL: Coconut oil is called a superfood. For a reason. The unique combination of fatty acids in coconut oil is showed to have positive effects on our health, including fat loss, improving heart health, and boosting up our brain functions. While most fats are categorized as long-chain triglycerides (LCTs), coconut oil contains medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs), which are shorter fatty acid chains (3). When you eat MCTs, they go straight to the liver where the body uses them as a quick source of energy. Also, coconut oil contains natural saturated fats that increase HDL (good) cholesterol in the body turning turn LDL (bad) cholesterol into a less harmful form thus keeping our heart healthy.
BANANA: Banana is a great fruit. Sweet and packed with nutrients. Bananas are high in fiber and many essential micronutrients, including potassium, vitamin B6, vitamin C, and magnesium. (4) They are also packed with antioxidants. (5) I used a ripe banana here in this recipe. It gave waffles sweetness, so there’s no need to add extra sugars. Meaning you’ll eat less unnecessary sugars and calories. But if you feel like waffles are not sweet enough for your taste, you can add some pure maple syrup or honey.
The STAR of these waffles is definitely superfood CACAO POWDER. I used raw cacao powder that is unprocessed, bitter, deep-flavored and incredibly healthy. Cacao is one of the richest sources of polyphenols – an antioxidant that has been linked to many health benefits, including reduced inflammation, better blood flow, lower blood pressure, and improved cholesterol and blood sugar levels. (6) Cacao gave a gorgeous chocolaty flavor and made these waffles absolutely irresistible.
To enhance the flavor and add some more SUPERFOOD powers, I also added CEYLON CINNAMON. Ceylon cinnamon is loaded with powerful antioxidants with anti-inflammatory properties. (7, 8) Plus, it pairs so nice with deep dark, bitter chocolate flavor.
Other pantry ingredients you’ll need:
- Eggs - I used free-range, pasture-raised.
- Salt - I like to use Himalayan salt.
- Baking powder.
How to make Chocolate Banana Waffles
Making this gorgeous chocolate waffles is quite easy. No brainer, really. 20 minutes + pantry ingredients + good blender and waffle maker, you’ll have it ready.
- Start with preparing and measuring all ingredients using measuring cups.
- Place milk, banana and coconut oil in a blender. Blend on high for few seconds until ingredients fully combine. Add in eggs and pulse for few seconds. Don't overmix.
- Add in oat flour, baking powder, salt, cacao powder and cinnamon. Blend everything until you get a smooth mixture.
- Heath up your waffle maker until it’s completely HOT (the green light must be on). If needed, grease the waffle maker with coconut oil cooking spray or using the brush.
- Pour the batter onto the hot waffle maker, close the lid and allow it to cook before removing and repeating the process for the rest of the batter. Depending on how strong your waffle maker is, it will take 8-10 minutes for waffle to be done. DON'T open waffle maker before waffles are completely cooked.
- Remove cooked waffles from the waffle maker and place it on a cooling rack. Let them cook to room temperature. Freshly cooked waffles will be soft when you take them out of the waffle maker but they will harden as they cool on the rack.
- ADD TOPPINGS: melted dark chocolate, bananas, and fresh blueberries. You can choose toppings you like.
- Makes 4 waffles that serves 2 people.
Substitutions
- TO MAKE OAT FLOUR: You can use quick oats or rolled oats. Put the oats in a food processor or high speed blender. Blend until the oats become a fine powder. This will only take a few seconds in a high speed blender, and a little bit longer in a food processor.
- You can swap oat milk for almond milk or organic soy milk. Cow’s milk works fine here too. Coconut milk won’t work well here.
- In order to get all the health benefits from coconut oil, make sure to choose organic, virgin coconut oil rather than refined versions. You can substitute coconut oil with avocado oil.
- For added sweetener use maple syrup, raw honey or you can add few soaked dates, or date syrup.
- MAKE IT VEGAN: Swap eggs with flax or chia egg. Use non-dairy milk.
- MAKE IT GLUTEN-FREE: Use certified gluten-free oats.
Tips for serving
- Top chocolate waffles with FRESH FRUITS: banana slices, blueberries, strawberries, or any other high antioxidant berry fruit, melted dark chocolate or sugar-free chocolate syrup.
- Sprinkle with: sliced almonds or any other nut, cacao nibs or dark chocolate bits. You can be creative here and choose toppings you like.
Tips for storing
- Keep covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- HOW TO FREEZE: Take your cooked and cooled waffles and place each waffle individually in wax paper bags. Store wrapped waffles in a large freezer zip-lock bag. Keep in the freezer for up to 3 months. Thaw on room temperature.
- Waffles can be warmed in the microwave. Be careful not to overheat them.
These chocolate waffles are real beauty. Mildly sweet, fluffy, full of dark chocolate flavor. So easy to make and so guilt-free, altho they don't look like that at all. So next time when you got unused bananas, give these chocolate beauties a try. Pull out that waffle maker out of the counter and start baking.
Enjoy!
Chocolate Banana Waffles recipe
Ingredients
- 1 1/3 cup oat flour
- 1 cup milk I used oat milk
- 1 banana ripen
- 4 tablespoons coconut oil melted and cooled
- 2 eggs
- 2 tablespoons cacao powder
- 2 teaspoon Ceylon cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Prepare and measure all ingredients using measuring cups.
- Place 1 cup of milk, 1 ripen banana and 4 tablespoons of coconut oil in a blender. Blend on high for few seconds until ingredients fully combine. Add in 2 eggs and pulse for few seconds. Don't overmix.
- Add in 1+1/3 cup oat flour, 1 teaspoon baking powder, pinch of salt, 2 tablespoons of cacao powder and 2 teaspoons of Ceylon cinnamon. Blend everything until you get a smooth mixture.
- Heath up your waffle maker until it’s completely HOT (the green light must be on). If needed, grease the waffle maker with coconut oil cooking spray or using the brush.
- Pour 1/3 cup of batter onto the hot waffle maker, close the lid and allow it to cook for before removing and repeating the process for the rest of the batter. Depending on how strong your waffle maker is, it will take 8-10 minutes for waffle to be done. DON'T open waffle maker before waffles are completely cooked.
- Remove cooked waffles from the waffle maker and place it on a cooling rack. Let them cook to room temperature. Freshly cooked waffles will be soft when you take them out of the waffle maker but they will harden as they cool on the rack.
- Serve and add toppings.
Notes
You can swap oat milk for almond milk or organic soy milk. Cow’s milk works fine here too.
For added sweetener use maple syrup, raw honey or you can add few soaked dates, or date syrup.
MAKE IT VEGAN: Swap eggs with flax or chia egg. Use non-dairy milk.
MAKE IT GLUTEN-FREE: Use certified gluten-free oats. Keep covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
Nutrition
More healthy chocolate recipes
- Chocolate Banana Pancakes
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Roll-Ups
- Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Oatmeal Bars
- Double Chocolate Banana Muffins
If you’ve tried this chocolate waffles or any other recipe on Natalie’s Health, please take a minute to rate the recipe and leave a comment letting me know how you liked it. I love hearing from you!
I really like your recipe.
I will try it Soon.
WOW! My kids are going to love these!!
I substituted the oat flour with lesser amount of all-purpose flour and it still came out pretty darn good!
I love that these are so healthy, they look and taste so decadent but I do not have the guilt. Thanks!
These waffles are incredible! The flavor was spot on and I loved that my daughter thought thought she was getting a decadent treat for breakfast!
These were a huge hit! The chocolate and banana together are so perfect and delicious!
Best way to begin the day! Love the pairing of chocolate and bananas - always a perfect combo in my book!
These sound gorgeous. I have a waffle maker but I've never used it! Think it's time to get it out and make these..
Chocolate and banana is such a delicious combination, and these waffles look amazing.
What a great way to use those extra bananas! I can never get the number of bananas right when I go food shopping. I either get not enough or too many. So hard to predict if anyone in my house will be in a banana mood or not during the week, haha! But next time I will happily err on the side of too many bananas so that I can make this recipe. Thanks for sharing it!
Love the hearty oat base to these waffles, they're such a treat without being a "real" treat!
You had me at chocolate banana. And then really won me over with waffles. So yum! Thank you for sharing!
Looking forward to getting our waffle maker, so we can try these out!
Wowza these sound delicious! Can't wait to serve them at my next brunch!
Chocolate and banana is such a classic combo. Looking forward to making some of these this weekend!
We loved these waffles. Light and fluffy and full of yummy flavor. I was especially thrilled that they contain NO white flour. Healthy and delicious.
I Made for a gathering and it was a hit, everyone loved it! Will definitely make it again!
Great recipe! My kids loved them.
This is absolutely delicious! I love that it’s such a crowd pleaser for the whole family
Wow, Guilt free , superfoods and chocolate? I will be eating these for dinner too!
Man did my kids gobbled these up! They thought they were having dessert for breakfast. (I didn't share the fact that they were actually healthy! This is going on my weekend breakfast list!
This is a delicious breakfast idea! Chocolate and banana is always a great combo! So yummy!
These waffles look amazing. Anything that combines banana and chocolate is good with me.
These look absolutely amazing! I have a waffle maker I haven't used yet, so these would make for an awesome first try! Sim x
oh boy...these are the creme de la creme of waffles! I've got to get my husband to make these for me soon (he's the breakfast chef in this house) maybe for Mother's Day?
I wanted to make something nice for Sunday brunch. Thanks for the recipe idea. My Sunday brunch fixed.
Chocolate and banana baked into a waffle is the best combination I can think of. I can imagine its deliciousness and cannot wait to turn on my waffle maker :)
These waffles are heaven! Chocolate and banana are a favorite combo of ours, and these waffles hit the spot. Great recipe! Thank you for sharing.
I so love waffles and chocolates, so this is definitely a great treat for me! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I can't wait to try this! This sounds so good and combines two of my favorite things: chocolate and bananas. Thanks for sharing!
Chocolate and banana always go so well together! And who doesn't love waffles, right?
It looks so delicious! The ingredients are healthy and easy to prepare. I have to buy my own waffle maker too and will definitely try this one.
Love the touch of cinnamon. Waffles for adults. Also waffles for dinner because I love breakfast for dinner :)
Waffles are my favorite way to start the day, but I always feel so guilty after! I have all the ingredients for these, and I'm so excited to give them a try, because they look so delicious, but are still so healthy! :D Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Those waffles look so delish. I will give this recipe a try. They are making me hungry right now.
Now THIS is what I called breakfast! If there's one combination I love more than most, it's chocolate and banana. Thanks for the quick and easy method to make oat flour!
These look incredible! I love the chocolate banana combination of flavors. SO GOOD! Making ASAP.
oh my! Looks so very delicious! I want banana right now!
These looks so delicious, the texture of the waffles is so enticing. This will definitely a great hit with our kids.
heyyyy! What did I just see. This looks so delicious... <3 How I wish I could grab some...
These sound delicious! I like your choice of ingredients, and the banana and chocolate sound like a wonderful combination.
I like to try this recipe. If your children like it, I'm sure my daughters would like them, too. They would probably like to make this on their own, too, if I just give them the recipe.
Wow. It looks so delicious and it seems that the procedure seems easy to follow. I'd love to try this one of these days.
these are absolutlety amazing! I loved adding the coconut oil to these waffles...Yum! Can't wait to make them again :-)
These look amazing! I like that you used oat flour. I bet that makes a really nice flavor.
These look INCREDIBLE! We've been enjoying making fancy breakfasts at home on the weekend (my husband is still working). I think this is going to be on the menu for this Sunday. They sound (and look) like they are to die for!
My kiddos love waffles! These are definitely going on our list of recipes to try.
GIVE THOSE TO ME RIGHT NOW! They look SO GOOD! Thank you so much for sharing this with all of us!
This is such a great day starter! I love it!
I would like to wake up with these. I should try this tomorrow!
This is my kind of breakfast. I'm sure my son will love them too. He doesn't have to know it's a healthy breakfast.
Now I am craving this waffle for dessert! It deserves 5-stars rate :D
These chocolate banana waffles look amazing. I'd love to try them sometime with the family for brunch. Thinking of hosting one for Mother's Day with the family. These would be a hit.
I can't wait to try these! They look and sound so yum! Thank you for the recipe <3
These look excellent. I can't wait to follow your recipe. You make it much less complicated than it could be. Thank you
These chocolate banana waffles sound amazing! I bet my twins would love them! Sounds like an awesome breakfast!
Breakfast just got a whole lot more fun! These look so delicious! I look forward to making them.
I love choco-banana shake, so I will definitely love this combo! I miss having waffles!
These look amazing and I have all of the ingredients, except I have almond milk instead of oatmeal milk. I think I will try them in the morning!
Thank you for your recipe. I did not know you can make oat flour with a blender! I have to try this recipe. It looks so delicious and thanks for mentioning substitutes to use if preparing a vegan or gluten free version.
This looks so good! We've been eating a lot of waffles in our house right because they are easy and tasty. I'll have to try adding chocolate!
These look so yummy! Can't wait to make them!
These look amazing! I love all your photos - I am definitely going to make some now!
This looks so so delicious!!! I am for sure doing it on Friday, can't can't wait.
I need to try these. I have almost all the ingredients. I have some bananas there. I don't know, I guess I'm going to be eating for dinner or for breakfast all this week thank you for this recipe it looks so yummy.
I really love oat milk great idea to use it with these. Super yummy looking!
Now this sounds like a delicious waffle, I love the idea of using chocolate and banana to bake them!
These sure look delicious! I can't wait to try this recipe, my kids will love it.
These look amazing! I would love to give these a go. My partner helps to run an ice-cream/dessert cafe and this would go perfectly there!
Banana and Chocolate? Definitely the perfect wedding! Yummy!
Breakfast just got a whole lot more fun! These look so delicious!
Those waffles look like a great meal any time of day, I do not have a waffle maker but after seeing this I think I need one.
These look really delicious! I love that there are substitutions to make it egg free. I have some JUSTegg at home, I wonder if that might work too - I will have to give it a try! It definitely sounds like dessert for breakfast!
These sound amazing! Will the avacado oil change the taste at all? My husband is allergic to coconut so I can't use the oil either.
My kids are very into waffles these days, so they'd love this I don't tend to get too creative with them, so I'll have to go outside of my cooking comfort zone a bit.
Love your presentation. Looks super delicious and best Sweet tooth craving option too.
The chocolate banana waffles looks delicious. Your shared recipe with all required ingredients with notes and nutritional value is very much helpful ....
This looks delicious! I'm glad that you included the substitutes as I'm lactose intolerant and it can be very difficult finding recipes that I like and can actually eat!
These are my kind of waffles! They look incredible. I know my family will be all about them for breakfast.
I agree with Amber. I bet the kids here at home will love this waffle. I would like to pair this with my coffee.