by Macarra Fowler

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Who said you can’t have sweets for breakfast? Oh, yeah...our parents! Oh well, I’m grown now and I can do as I please! Just as long as my mom doesn’t find out. 

 

I love waffles and pancakes. But Lord knows I DESPISE syrup! I don’t care if it’s flavored or regular; I think it’s disgusting. 

 

For years I’ve spread either butter or Dennys’ wonderful, splendiferous buttermilk over my pancakes and waffles and I’ve enjoyed every scrumptious syrup-free bite. But then I got bored. 

 

There had to be a way to spruce up my breakfast! So I went to my BFF – Google. I found a plethora of creative ways to spruce up my pancakes and waffles but I couldn’t tell you how fast I closed the tabs that spoke about peanut butter pancakes and honey infused waffles. So I went to my refrigerator and found some strawberries, heavy whipping cream and cream cheese. 

 

Over in my pantry I found some icing sugar and the wheels started turning. What if I made a strawberry cream cheese frosting for my waffles? Duh!

 

It sounds a lot more difficult than it really is – I promise. I used my favorite waffle recipe that I got from food.com. It’s so much better than the boxed stuff. 

 

You start off with this basic waffle recipe:

 

1 ¼ cup flour

 

3 teaspoons baking powder

 

1 teaspoon salt

 

2 tablespoons white sugar

 

3 tablespoons graham crackers (crushed)

 

½ cup milk

 

1 egg

 

3 tablespoons melted butter

 

Combine all dry ingredients (flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, graham crackers) in a bowl. Whisk milk and butter together and in a separate bowl whisk the egg. Pour milk mixture into flour mixture and add egg after. Using a hand mixer, mix for about 3 minutes or until very few lumps are seen.

 

Now here’s the fun part. The cream cheese filling! 

 

You'll need:

 

6 tablespoons Whipped Philadelphia Cream Cheese (softened)

 

6 strawberries

 

2 teaspoons of icing sugar

 

In a bowl, whisk cream cheese until creamy. Sift icing sugar into cream cheese. Dice 3 of the strawberries into bite-sized pieces and stir into mixture.

 

Cut waffle in half while hot and pour cream cheese mixture into bottom half and drizzle over the top half. Garnish with the remaining strawberries. Serve immediately.

 

Be warned! You can probably only eat one of these bad boys, unless you’re super hungry, LOL. Bon appétit!