What Are Wheat flakes and How Can I Use Them?

If wheat flakes have turned up in a recipe or caught your eye at the store, here's what you need to use them with confidence and how to choose them, cook them, store them, what to substitute, and 15 recipes to try them in.

Recipes using wheat flakes

There are 15 recipes that contain this ingredient.

Eating Well's Granola

This granola is filling and loaded with energy filling ingredients. Great with tons of blueberry's and vanilla yogurt as pictured.

Healthy Whole Wheat Bread (Bread Machine)

Healthy whole wheat bread for the bread machine, layered with rolled oats, wheat germ, bran, sesame seeds, and a drizzle of molasses for deep flavor. Multi-grain texture and a tender, sliceable crumb. Set it and forget it.

Fruit Granola

Crunchy clusters of toasted oats, nuts, and seeds glazed with honey, then tossed with chewy dried fruit for a homemade granola that beats any store-bought version.

Grapefruit Crunch

Broiled grapefruit halves topped with crunchy brown sugar-wheat cereal topping. Quick 15-minute retro breakfast treat.

Sesame Granola

Crunchy homemade sesame granola with oats, wheat flakes, sunflower seeds, walnuts, coconut, and raisins. Honey-sweetened and golden-baked in just 20 minutes for the best breakfast crunch.

Oil-Free Granola

Oil-free granola with oats, wheat flakes, rye flakes, bran, dried fruits, cashews, and sunflower seeds bound with honey and vanilla. A low-fat, crunchy homemade breakfast cereal.

Cocktail Crunch

A spiced, crunchy snack mix baked with flaked grains, peanuts, almonds, and sunflower seeds tossed in garam masala, turmeric, sesame oil, and soy sauce. Keeps for a month in an airtight jar.

Jim's Granola

Loaded homemade granola with oat, wheat, and barley flakes, popcorn, nuts, seeds, coconut, and dried fruit. Honey-baked with maple flavoring for crunchy, customizable clusters.

Best Triple Wheat-Honey Muffins

Triple wheat-honey muffins with whole-wheat flour, wheat bran and cooked wheat flakes for a hearty, high-fiber breakfast. Naturally sweetened with honey.

Pumpernickle

Pumpernickel bread machine loaf gets its midnight color from molasses, instant coffee, and cocoa powder, with rye, cornmeal, and wheat flakes building deep, earthy German-style flavor.

Skinny Scones

Crispy golden wheat scones with plump raisins, ready in 25 minutes for guilt-free breakfast treats that skimp on fat but not on taste.

Apricot Raisin Cookies

Incorporate fruit into your baking with this simple recipe that makes scrumptious cookies everyone will love.

Cereal Crunch Coffee Cake

Cereal crunch coffee cake with crushed wheat flakes baked into the batter and a cinnamon-cereal crumble on top. A lighter brunch cake with raisins, brown sugar, and a hint of nutmeg.

Peanut Butter Crunchies

Peanut butter crunchies are soft peanut butter cookies rolled in crushed wheat flakes before baking for a crackly, toasty-crunchy exterior. A retro lunchbox classic with a textural twist.

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