Weekend Recipe Project: Breakfast is Served Part 1

I love brunch!  I love breakfast for dinner!  I just love breakfast.  I wanted to come up with a few things that I could have on the IP protocol to change things up every once in a while.  I mean I love my morning smoothie, but I still don't want to have the same thing every day.

I used this waffle recipe as the jumping off point for today's recipe project.  It is from www.MyIdealProtein.com ( I checked to make sure I could repost the recipe and was told it was OK.)

Ami's Waffle Recipe
Ingredients:
• 1 packet IP Pudding mix (any flavor)
• 1 egg or 2 egg whites, beaten
• 2 oz. of water (Additional water may be used to thin batter for pancakes)
• 1/4 tsp Baking Powder
• small pinch of sea salt
• (optional) add a few drops of flavored Stevia
• (optional) Spices of your choice: cinnamon, vanilla, pumpkin pie spice, etc.
• (optional) Walden Farms topping: Maple Syrup, Chocolate Syrup etc., I Can 't Believe It's Not Butter spray.
Directions:
Beat egg and water until mixed. Add spices, salt and baking power. Finally stir in one IP pudding packet. Mix will be thick. Pour into greased waffle iron or make three small pancakes. Finally top with your favorite WF product. I like vanilla pudding with cinnamon and 4 drops of vanilla crème Stevia. Then top with WF Maple Syrup!

Makes 1 IP serving. If using the whole egg, subtract 1.5-2 ounces of protein from your daily 8oz. or consult your coach.

So I like to add a little vanilla and cinnamon to mine.  And yes any flavor of IP pudding will do.  Here are my chocolate waffles.  I had them with WF Caramel Sauce.  They were extremely decadent :)

But I wondered what else I could do with this "basic dough" so I after I had waffles this morning with WF pancake syrup (its pretty amazing for all its sugar free.  I don't get the aftertaste I've had with other sugar free syrups.  This just tastes like Mrs. Butterworth)

I made muffins

I made 2 batches of the basic dough: one with milk chocolate pudding and one with the vanilla.  Each batch makes 3 of this size muffin and that would be 1 serving

The first row of muffins I tried a "cinnamon struessel".  The dough already had cinnamon in it, so I put one scoop in (using the small Pampered Chef scoop) and sprinkled a little Splenda brown sugar on it.  One more scoop, flatten it down a wee bit, sprinkle some more splenda brown sugar and row 1 was ready to go.

The middle row I made a "marble" muffin.  I used 1 scoop of the vanilla dough and 1 scoop of the chocolate dough and swirled it a little with a wooden skewer.

The last row was straight up chocolate muffins.

Bake 'em at 350° for about 15 minutes and voila

Muffins!!!

I couldn't wait to try them so this was my snack today :)  Happy snack !!  The struessel ones were amazing, by far the best of the bunch although the other two were good (I had 1 of each so I could taste test and report back ;)

So there you go ... breakfast is served.  Tomorrow I am going to remake a great Weight Watchers quiche recipe to be IP friendly with very few actual changes  But it will be breakfast for dinner.  I'm all for that!!

So long for now!