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These heart-shaped waffles have coconut and chocolate chips inside. Top them with a chocolate syrup for an even sweeter morning.

This recipe makes 16 mini 3” heart-shaped vegan coconut chocolate waffles.

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• Recipe
• Tips and FAQ
• Ingredient Substitutions
• Nutritional Information
• Contact Me with Questions
• Similar Recipes

I was the weird kid that traded my reeses cups for the other kids mounds bars on Halloween. Coconut and chocolate go together like Rilakkuma and Korilakkuma. But I also just love vegan brunch!

Using a heart shaped waffle maker can turn any normal waffle recipe into a fun brunch to be remembered. Make these for Valentine’s Day, Galentines Day, an Anniversary, Mother’s Day, Easter, International Waffle Day (March 25), or National Waffle Day in the U.S. (August 24).

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Ingredients for this Heart Shaped Waffles Recipe

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• 1 cup (130g) organic unbleached flour
• ¼ cup (28g) coconut flour
• 2 tablespoons (24g) coconut sugar
• ½ cup (40g) coconut flakes
• 1 ½ tablespoons (18g) baking powder
• ¼ cup (54g) coconut oil
• 1 teaspoon (4g) vanilla extract
• 1 ¾ cups (425g) nondairy milk
• ¼ cup (60g) mini chocolate chips

How to Make Heart Waffles

prep time: 10 min | wait time: 10 min | cook time: 20 min

Melt the coconut oil in the oven, in the microwave, or on the stove, if it’s in a solid state.

Whisk the dry ingredients together (including the sugar), sifting any ingredients that are lumpy (don’t try to sift the coconut or you’ll be trying for a really long time).

Add the nondairy milk and vanilla to the dry ingredients, and whisk together.

Add the mini chocolate chips to the batter and whisk.

Add a tablespoon of the melted coconut oil to the batter and whisk.

Preheat the waffle iron for around 10 minutes. This will also give the batter time to rest, giving your waffles a better texture.

Coat both sides of the waffle iron with melted coconut oil using a silicone basting brush (or an oil sprayer).

Pour or spoon batter into each cubby of your waffle iron. I use a waffle iron because I love heart shapes, but you can use this recipe with any waffle iron. Cook the waffles until your indicator light goes on, indicated they’re done.

Open the wafle iron, and use a silicone spatula to help them come out (if they don’t fall out on their own).

Tips and Frequently Asked Questions

Tip 1: Don’t overmix the batter

Just like when you’re making a vegan cake, don’t overmix the batter. As soon as you no longer see dry ingredients, stop mixing. This will ensure light and fluffy waffles.

What can I serve heart waffles with?

For a special brunbch, serve these heart waffles with heart-shaped air fryer tofu omelettes and a side of healthy vegan bacon.

What can I top these heart shaped waffles with?

To lean into the mounds candy bar theme, I like to top mine with chocolate sauce. They’re also good when sprinkles with powdered sugar and drizzled with maple syrup. If you want to have them for dessert instead of breakfast, top one with a scoop of ice cream and whip.

Ingredient Details and Substitutions

• All-purpose Flour: I use unbleached organic all-purpose flour because it’s hella cheap at Costco. However, you can use any all-purpose flour or even cake flour or whole wheat pastry flour. If you want gluten-free waffles, try replacing the all-purpose flour with a gluten-free flour blend. If you do, let me know how it goes because I’ve never tried it.
• Coconut Flour: I wouldn’t replace this with other flours because different flours have different liquid absorption qualities.
• Coconut Sugar: You can replace the coconut sugar in this recipe with any number of sugars, as long as they’re vegan: sucanat, raw sugar, vegan sugar, or organic sugar. If you’re not sure if your sugar is vegan, you can contact the company and ask, but basically, just avoid conventional white sugar or granulated sugar, and you should be ok.
• Coconut Flakes: I’ve used different varieties of coconut in this recipe. Dessicated works well, and small coconut shreds work well. Just avoid anything too large like coconut chips. You can also omit the coconut flakes in this recipe or use less. It will make the waffles taste less coconuty though.
• Baking Powder: I use non-aluminum baking powder because I already have alzheimers in my family and I want to delay the onset as long as possible. Baking powder is an important ingredient to help the waffles puff up. If your baking powder is old, it may not work as well.
• Coconut Oil: If you need to replace the oil with another kind, I recommend safflower or sunflower. However, you can use any other oil such as vegetable oil, canola oil, grapeseed oil, etc. You’re only using a tablespoon of oil in the batter, and the rest is for oiling the waffle iron to keep the batter from sticking. If you have an oil sprayer, use that instead.
• Vanilla: You can replace the teaspoon of vanilla extract with paste or powder if you have that. If the milk you use is vanilla flavored, you can omit the addition of vanilla.
• Nondairy Milk: You can use any kind of milk you have for this recipe. You can even use water in a pinch. Sometimes I’ll mix a little plant-based creamer with water when I’m out of milk.
• Mini Vegan Chocolate Chips: I use Enjoy Life or Pascha mini chocolate chips, but if you don’t have vegan mini chocolate chips on hand, you can just chop regular sized vegan chocolate chips into small chunks. You can also omit the chocolate chips from this recipe if needed.

Nutrition Facts

The nutrition information below is based on one heart waffle, not counting any toppings.

• Servings: 16
• Calories per serving: 118
• Calcium per serving: 96mg
• Cholesterol per serving: 0mg
• Dietary Fiber per serving: 2g
• Folate per serving: 6mcg
• Iron per serving: < 1mg
• Potassium per serving: 116mg
• Protein per serving: 3g
• Total Carbohydrate per serving: 12g
• Total Fat per serving: 7g
• Total Sugars per serving: 4g
• Sodium per serving: 104mg

Comments or Questions?

If you make this vegan waffles recipe, I would love it if you’d snap a pic, post to instagram, and tag me @vegandollhouse. It seriously makes my day/week/month!

Please message me (instagram or email) if you have any questions or feedback about the recipe.

Similar Recipes

If you like these vegan mounds waffles because you love the chocolate-coconut marriage like I do, I have a couple other recipes to share with you. One is my heart-shaped mounds. They’re the perfect chocolates to give your Valentine. I also have a vegan mounds cake which layers chocolate cake and coconut frosting. And last but not least, you must love vegan german chocolate cake if you love chocolate and coconut.

If you like this recipe, because you like vegan heart-shaped food, then check out this recipe for buffalo chicken waffles and my entire vegan Valentine’s Day recipes category.

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