Chocolate Covered Banana Pancakes

Hey

Here're some delicious pancakes, a variation on my Chocolate-Chip Banana Pancakes.
I turned them inside out, instead of chocolate chips and banana pancakes, we have banana chips in chocolate pancakes.

To make these use a chocolate pancake recipe(I used Chocolate Covered Katie's) and put freeze dried banana chips in like you would chocolate chips. The banana gets kinda soft but not too gooey and more banana-y then chip-y as it cooks. You could also just use fresh banana slices, Witch should work fine, I just wanted a "chip/chunk" like texture.

Chocolate Covered Banana Pancakes
serves 1-2

1/4 cup spelt flour (or all-purpose or Bob’s gluten-free)
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa or dutch cocoa (You can sub regular cocoa, but I haven’t tried it in this recipe and therefore can’t personally vouch for the taste)
1 and 1/2 packets nunaturals stevia or 1 tbsp plus 1 tsp sugar (I think I used 1/2 a packet tru-via.)
1/16 tsp salt
1 and 1/2 tbsp applesauce or oil (I omitted)
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
5 and 1/2 tbsp milk of choice

freeze dried banana chips

Mix dry ingredients very well, then add wet. Wait until ready to flip, then add banana chips and flip.

Nutrition Info:
Calories: 170
Fat: 2.6g
Carbs: 35g
     sugar: 2.5g
Protein: 8g

Question Of the Day:
whats your favorite fruit?
 mine would be grapes :)

I'm Not Dead, I Promise

     Oh my gosh it's been soo long since I've written! (thanks to super busy holidays). So while I was gone I cooked about a billion different things (unfortunately due to the holidays very few got a photo shoot) so it looks like the last thing I blogged was my Pumpkin Cream Parfait, which was just after thanksgiving, which I meant to put up like 3 weeks before that(like I said, super busy). so here's a list of stuff I've made with a quick rundown of what it is:

Roasted Acorn Squash with Caramelized Chestnuts: cut and roast the squash, melt butter on the stove and add brown sugar and stir, as chopped chestnuts stir, and toss on squash to coat.

Healthy Egg Nogg: vanilla milk(I used soy) egg substitute, vanilla extract, and nutmeg. blend and refrigerate 

Turkey Tetrazzini: I'll probably be doing a post on this soon so check back to see it.

Gumbo: although I made gumbo twice during the holidays both were failures, once the crock pot didn't turn on, and second, I think I just don't really like gumbo.

Spinach Souffle: just don't

New England Stew: turnips, carrots, celery, potatoes, beef chunks, milk, cornstarch... I'll probably make this again too, so watch for it

Gingerbread Cookies: the best gingerbread I've ever tasted, thanks to the guys at sortedfood. Sorted Gingerbread

Sugar Cookies: there was a sugar cookie fiasco in our house this year, we lost our recipe. our ages old so yummy recipe. which we were making on the 23 of December. once over the shock of that, we quickly found a recipe in the Betty Crocker cookbook, which turned out cookies exactly the same as ours, except we had to add about and extra 1/2 c flour for them to work (I think we made a mistake when halving the giant recipe)

Gingerbread House: I used a healthy gingerbread recipe first this year, but they tasted really gummy and bad. they went largely uneaten, but my ginger bread house was beautiful. I actually have a picture of this, somewhere.

Chocolate Lace Cookies: my new favorite Christmas cookie via Chocolate Covered Katie. recipe here, I ommited the extra chocolate chips at the end, and didnt even miss them!

Red Velvet Pancakes: part of Christmas breakfast, made from Chocolate Covered Katie. recipe here. i just added red food coloring because I like these more then her red velvet cakes

Blondie Pancakes: these are really just Katie's chocolate pancakes with flour subbed in for the cocoa, and maybe a little extra vanilla. they went with our red pancakes to make festive candy cane stacks.

Banana Pancakes: made to go with Christmas morning leftovers Katie's original recipe

Fruit Cake: my great grandmas fruit cake recipe, made with my grandma on Christmas day <3

Apple Stuffing: this too will likely get its own post in the future

Oreo Truffles: vanilla cake crumbled and mixed with vanilla frosting, crushed oreos, and cool whip( a gift to my oreo addicted cousin)

Healthy Doughnuts: my aunt got me a doughnut pan for Christmas!! the very next morning I used it to make Chocolate Covered Katie's cake batter doughnuts I used sucanant for sweetner(a first) and this was the first time i used the flax egg method, and boy am I a beliver!

Spinach Artichoke Dip: never try it with fresh artichokes when you've never prepared artichoke before.

Corn Meal Pancakes: delicious and a bright cheery yellow, great on gloomy winter mornings. my normal pancake recipie with 3/4 corn meal instead of flour. great with raspberry syrup

Cornmeal Mush: after I made cornmeal pancakes the next morning I had cream of wheat, which inspired me to mix the two using the method of cream of wheat with cornmeal, I also added in some chopped dates.

and

Whatchamacallit: yet another Chocolate Covered Katie recipe, her cinnamon roll pie. but the chickpeas give it a totally different flavor, and I've never tasted anything like it before. its good, but i cant name one thing it tastes similar to.

As you can see I've been busy, and next weekend is my birthday, so I'll hopefully have some recipies and pictures to share with you then :)

Questions of the Day
are you super busy over the holidays? you know my answer ;)

what was your favorite Christmas present? I got an Indian cookbook, but my favorite would be tickets to my favorite band, muse

what was your new years resolution? mine was not to abandon this blog. also I'm trying to be healthier, which for me means activity and more vegetables :p

Oh And By The Way:   WELCOME TO 2013!!

 

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes

Aloha

Aren't these things so cute? They remind me of summer and Curious George, what with the bananas and the man in the yellow hat and all. These little circles brighten my day :D and my stomach.

After I made these I thought of turning them inside out, making a batter with cocoa/carob powder and using diced banana as the "chips" try it, and see how they turn out!(and tell me)

Banana Chocolate Chip Pancakes
serves 1-2

1/3 c flour
1/3 c rolled oats
1/2 t vanilla extract
1/2 mashed banana
1/8 t salt
3/4 t baking powder
1/4 c liquid (water/milk/what-ever-else-you-want)
chocolate chips


Mash the banana in a bowl, then mix in other wet ingredients. Add remaining ingredients and mix. You can omit the chocolate chips and opt to ad them in once the pancakes are in the pan if you want more control of pancake/chocolate chip ratio. Pour into skillet and cook on medium-low heat.

I found that these didn't really need to be topped with anything. I tried honey(I do not recommend), agave, maple syrup, and chocolate syrup, but it tasted better pure. I suppose you could top with milk or whipped cream if you MUST have something on top of them.

Nutrition Info(for 2):

Calroies:190
Fat: 4.3g
Carbs: 35
     Sugar: 3.2g
Protien: 4.7g

Question of the Day:
Do you ever watch any "little kid" shows?
I wasn't into Curious George when I was little but sometimes I'll watch it now.

Banana Peanut Butter Pie

Hello cookie crumbs

 Bananas and peanut butter and chocolate and peanut butter and chocolate and bananas and deliciousness. The best part? you don't have to bake it! No wait! The best part is my mom hates peanut butter(the weirdo :P) and banana (double weirdo!) and my dad thought it looked weird so wouldn't try it, which means this beauty was all mine!

Peanut Butter Pie :

as baked by Chocolate-Covered Katie

     (Can be gluten and sugar-free)

Crust (its chocolate):
     (gluten-free!)
1 tbsp cocoa powder (or cacao powder)
1/4 cup raw cashews (or almonds, walnuts, pecans, or macadamia nuts)(I used almonds)
1/4 cup shredded coconut (unsweetened )(I subbed in extra almonds)
1/16 tsp salt
1/4 cup pitted dates(or prunes or raisins) (4 small dates/prunes)

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and blend. Then transfer to a 7-in baking dish or aluminum pan. Using a piece of wax or parchment paper(or a spoon, cause I'm to lazy to get out wax paper), smush into the pan and pour desired filling on top or refrigerate until ready to use. Feel free to increase recipe size for a bigger pie.

Filling:
1 cup peanut butter (Or another nut butter, or Sunbutter)
3 medium bananas (
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/8 tsp salt
1/4 cup virgin coconut oil, melted (Can sub with 1/4 cup canola oil) (or extra pb; the texture will just change)
3-4 tbsp powdered sugar, or liquid sweetener (such as pure maple syrup)

Blend everything together very, very well. If you want a deeper-dish pie, use: 1 1/2 c peanut butter, 4 1/2 bananas, 1 tbsp vanilla, a little over 1/8 tsp salt, 1/4c plus 2 tbsp coconut oil, and 5 tbsp powdered sugar.

Freeze until firm. (If not using the coconut oil, just chill in the fridge instead.) Pie should be kept cold; I kept it in the fridge(no coconut oil here) but you can put it in the freezer. Just thaw before eating, and the mousse-like texture will come back. WARNING: I kept my pie in the fridge (I omitted the coconut oil) and because of the banana what was open to the air did turn brown, but it still tastes the same. a.k.a delicious.

I bet you could even put some chocolate chips in if you wanted! the original nutritional info I had for this pie incorrectly calculated it at 170 calories and I didn't notice until just now that it was wrong. But hey, this is still good for you. It has peanut butter, and happiness, how is that unhealthy?

 Calories: (for 12 slices) 230
 Fat: 18g (mostly healthy fats from the nuts)
 Carbs: 15g
     sugar: 7g
Protein: 6.5g

Question Of The Day:
Do you have dessert often, or just on special occasions?
 I find so many recipes that there's usually one around.