Pumpkin Waffles with Maple Walnut Apples

Ingredients

• 1 cup(s) cake flour
• 0.25 cup(s) wheat germ
• 0.25 cup(s) granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
• 0.5 teaspoons freshly grated nutmeg
• 0.5 teaspoons fine salt
• 0.75 cup(s) milk
• 0.5 cup(s) pumpkin puree
• 0.25 cup(s) melted butter
• 0.25 cup(s) melted shortening (transfat-free)
• 1 large egg
• 1 large egg white

Directions

Preheat a waffle iron to medium heat.

Whisk the flour, wheat germ, sugar, baking powder, spice and salt together in a large bowl.

Beat together the milk, pumpkin, melted butter, and melted shortening, egg and egg white, in a large measuring cup. Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and pour in the wet ingredients. Whisk together to make a slightly lumpy batter.