Buttercup Chocolate Waffles

• 12 cup butter, semi-melted
• 12 cup applesauce
• 34 cup cocoa powder
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 4 eggs, beaten (next time I'm lowering it to 3 to reduce the egginess)
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon chocolate extract (just use 2 tsp vanilla as originally written if u dont have it)

1. Semi melt the butter on the stovetop or microwave in a sturdy bowl.
2. Whisk the cocoa and applesauce together with the melted butter.
3. In a large mixing bowl, combine all the other ingredients together.
4. Add the cocoa mixture and beat again until smooth.
5. Grease your waffle iron molds lightly and preheat.
6. Depending on the make and capacity of your waffle iron, pour 1/2 cup-2/3 cup of batter onto the the hot greased mold.
7. I use 2/3 cup because this waffle iron just makes a few giant swirly waffles instead of 12-15 normal sized ones.
8. Close and bake for 2 1/2-3 1/2 minutes, remove with a metal or wooden spatula and place onto a cooling rack or individual plates to cool off.
9. Repeat until you run out of batter- the book says 6-8 waffles, assuming they're the giant waffles from this iron, so that'd be about 20 normal size waffles!

butter, applesauce, cocoa powder, flour, sugar, eggs, vanilla, chocolate

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/buttercup-chocolate-waffles-403649 (may not work)