Monster Pancakes?

You're heard of monster cookies, right, Sisters and Brothers?  Nice big cookies with several types of additional ingredients often including chocolate chips, candy pieces, maybe nuts or peanuts and sometimes even some fruit.  I found this mix in our local Target and decided to give the idea of a monster pancake or waffle a try.  Here's how that turned out.

First, there were two options for preparation on the directions.  The pancakes show in the photo on the box with a lot of added candy pieces or waffles. In my house I'm the waffle maker while the Milk Chocolate Acolyte makes the pancakes.  It was an early Saturday morning and I was the one up so I chose the waffle recipe.

The directions were very easy to follow and I made the entire box since we are three big eating adults in this family and it was our Saturday which is our "eat what you like" day so we can eat very carefully during the week -- or that is our ideal any way.  I wanted to show you the mixed up product because this where you see how the candy pieces started to melt a bit just from mixing.  You can't see them but this also included peanuts, raisins, chocolate chips and peanut butter drops.

The finished waffles numbered six huge ones, probably could have made seven easily but how do you divide that between three people?    Note that you can't see all those added pieces very well though every now and again you seen a colored stain or a spot that is darker.  We ate these with some light marble syrup though you could eat them without.  Over all we weren't impressed for two different reasons.  First the raisins just were ... weird, their texture was a surprise every time we encountered them and they added an unnecessary sweetness we thought.  Secondary the peanut drops and peanuts themselves were almost unnoticeable.

So for my family, I could make something with items we just like -- bananas and cinnamon perhaps for one of us and chocolate and peanut pieces for the other two. Wait, that's a lot of work, I'd have to clean the waffle maker between that and then someone's waffles would get cold.  Drat!  I guess we'll stick with simple waffles for now until one of us is gone and I can make special waffle for just two of us.  I'll let you know how that goes when I try it.

What type of things do you add to your waffles to make them a bit more special?