Applesauce is a great substitute when you want to cut back on calories. It also helps with inflammation because the more oil you put in some thing the more inflammatory the food becomes. For example, fried foods would be considered inflammatory due to the fact that they are made with oil.

I love baking with applesauce. I always make my own homemade applesauce, something my mom taught me as a child. I still use butter and oil and Crisco when appropriate (i. e. Cookies, pies, some cakes, etc.). Over the years, I’ve decided that applesauce is a great substitute for oil in many instances. Two of those are my applesauce waffles and pancakes.

The pancake recipe I use was originally from the weight watchers cookbook but I adapted it slightly using whole wheat flour instead of white flour and applesauce instead of oil. I also like to add berries or fruits like raspberries or blueberries.

My kids absolutely love them even my picky eater my youngest daughter! We don’t even notice the fact that there is applesauce instead of oil in it. It’s only a few tablespoons oh and I also use regular milk instead of buttermilk. You could easily use either one.

To finish, you can puppies with either syrup, I like to make homemade blackberry or strawberry freezer syrup. As you can see we like berries in our family!