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 :)

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.

Strawberry Jelly Pancakes

 
Hello (again)

(the photo is a stock photo :( I couldn't seem to find the (2 separate) pictures I took of these beauties)

Its cold outside. I don't like cold.
So I needed something to warm me up(que pancakes), but my stomach was hanging on to summer(que strawberries). Unfortunately strawberries are not something I keep on hand, but I did have some homemade strawberry jam in my fridge, which works for me. Some creative baking and 15 minutes later I was completely satisfied.

Strawberry Jelly Pancakes:
     (makes about 8-12 pancakes, 4-6 servings)

2 c. flour
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1 c. milk
1/4 c.(4 T) strawberry jelly(you may use sugar free, and subtract 20 calories per serving)

mix dry ingredients together, then add in wet, stir well. Cook these on a stove heated to  medium heat in a sprayed skillet.


Delicious, and a perfect blend of summer and fall. These were delicious and my family loved them :) You could use whatever kind of jelly you want to make different flavor pancakes (blueberry anybody?).

Nutrition Info (the sugar free version in parenthesis):
Calories: 197(170)
Fat: 0.7g
Carbs: 42g(37g)
    sugar: 6g (1g)

Question of the Day:
What's your favorite kind of fruit?

Carrot Cake Pancakes

Heyy ;)

I'll admit it, I have a pancake addiction. Seriously I need to sign up for PA meetings (pancakes anonymous). But don't these things look delicious? Just looking at the picture makes me want to go make another stack! Seriously.. just ...nom nom nom! so good :) 

These are (you guessed it) Chocolate-Covered Katie's. Unfortunately this recipe was hidden deep in the depths of dessert heaven. Here's the link to the actual recipe (cause its fricken impossible to find) 

I was inspired to make these when I went to IHOP with my tennis team, but later got sick because I forgot they used milk and butter in their batter. Boy did I feel stupid! So I went on a quest to make some lactose free ones :)

Carrot Cake Pancakes:

     (serves two)

 3/4 cup whole wheat pastry flour (others have said plain whole wheat works)

 1/3 cup heaped shredded carrot (feel free to add more)

 1/8 teaspoon salt

 Up to 2 Tbsp sugar, around 1 Tbs agave or 2-3 NuNaturals packets

 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

 1/4 heaped teaspoon baking powder

 1/4 tsp vanilla extract

 1 1/2- 2 Tbsp applesauce

 1/3 cup water/liquid

Optional add-ins: raisins, shredded coconut, walnuts, pineapple tidbits (If you add pineapple, you’ll probably want to decrease the applesauce or liquid a bit.)

You can leave out the sweetener if your topping these with anything sweet :)

 Above topped with creamy frosting( also Katie's recipe), but you could also top with maple syrup, agave, raisins & apples, vanilla icing, coconut butter, or pineapple juice.

Creamy Frosting
(Or pudding or mousse)
(Makes about 1 1/3 cup)

2/3 cup silken-firm tofu(I’m sure soft-silken would work too)
4-6 T raw cashew butter (or another nut butter)
scant 1/8th tsp salt
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
sweetener (sugar, agave, etc. powdered sugar could work out well, too)

Blend everything in a blender/food processor, or Magic Bullet cup. It's thicker when cold, so it’s a good idea to make it up ahead of time.

I ended up drizzling some maple syrup on mine along with the frosting (which I halved and still had leftovers)

Nutritional info:

Pancakes:
Calories: 235 (with walnuts and raisins)
Fat: 3g
Carbs: 49g
     sugar: 12.5g
Protien: 7g

Frosting:
Calories: 28(I'd say I used about 1-2 tablespoons)
Fat: 2g
Carbs: 1.5g
     sugar: 0.3g
Protien: 1g

Question Of The Day:
Do you have and addiction to a certain type of food?