Valentine’s Breakfast for Baby: Heart Shaped Waffles
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to share love, even with the littlest members of your family! If you’re navigating the journey of baby-led weaning (BLW), these heart-shaped waffles are a delightful way to introduce your baby to new flavors and textures. Designed with BLW principles in mind, this recipe skips added sugar and focuses on wholesome ingredients that are easy for tiny hands to hold and enjoy. Try this Valentine’s Breakfast for Baby: Heart Shaped Waffles for their first Valentine’s Day!
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What is Baby Led Weaning?
Baby-led weaning (BLW) is an approach to introducing solid foods to babies that encourages them to self-feed from the very beginning. Instead of starting with purees or spoon-feeding, BLW allows babies to explore whole, finger-sized pieces of soft foods they can hold and bring to their mouths on their own.
This method promotes independence, fine motor skills, and a natural exploration of textures, flavors, and self-regulation of hunger.
It’s typically introduced around 6 months of age when babies show signs of readiness, such as sitting up unassisted, showing interest in food, and being able to grasp and chew safely.
This recipe does contain whole eggs so is best for babies over 6 months on that note as well. (When you’ve most likely introduced them.) You can always substitute the whole egg for two egg whites instead and it still turns out great.
What are Some Other BLW Breakfast Ideas?
There are lots of great baby led weaning breakfast ideas that you can add into baby’s diet right now! For another option for Valentine’s Day I really like these strawberry muffins for babies or toddlers. They turn out pink from the strawberries and look really pretty! Then for everyday try egg muffin recipes for babies and toddlers!
You can even make the muffins and the waffles and put them together on a stunning Valentine’s Day Breakfast charcuterie board for the whole family! Just remember the honey and blueberries aren’t baby friendly so just omit those two. I mean, you could cut the blueberries in half but mine are always so ripe that just makes a disastrous mess.
BLW Heart Shaped Waffles Recipe
Ingredients:
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons melted butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Heart-shaped waffle maker
Instructions for the Heart Shaped Valentine’s Waffles
- Preheat the heart-shaped waffle maker.
2. In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
In another bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, and vanilla extract.
Gradually add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, stirring until smooth. Add the butter and stir again.
Pour the batter into the preheated heart shaped waffle maker and cook according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Serve plain, with butter on top, jelly on top or for dipp[ing, or with syrup for dipping! Let baby enjoy.
Ingredients
- Preheat the heart-shaped waffle maker.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, and vanilla extract. Gradually add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, stirring until smooth. Add the butter and stir again.
- Pour the batter into the preheated waffle maker and cook according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
Instructions
- Preheat the heart-shaped waffle maker.
- In a mixing bowl, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt.
- In another bowl, whisk together the milk, egg, and vanilla extract. Gradually add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients, stirring until smooth.
- Add the softened butter and stir again.
- Pour the batter into the preheated waffle maker and cook according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
