I’m really getting into this “single-serving” thing!
Yesterday, I was treated to breakfast, courtesy of my younger sister.
But to understand how yesterday’s breakfast came into fruition, I must take you back (in my super-cool time machine) to Christmas Day. Seeing how I have so many cupcake recipes on the blog, my sister decided to give me the following gift:
Too cute, right? Check out the expiration date. (She also gave me a copy of Vegan Cupcakes take over the World and a music CD. I already own the cookbook. But hey, who doesn’t like store credit at Barnes’n Noble?)
While I debated what cupcakes to choose, I asked little sister to make me something else: Vegan Banana Pancakes!
Banana Pancakes for One
- 1/3 cup ww pastry, spelt, white, or Bob’s gf flour
- 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/2 mashed banana, as ripe as possible
- 1/4 cup milk of choice
- dash salt
Mix the dry ingredients together. In a separate bowl, mash the banana and then add the other liquid ingredients. Stir the dry into the wet. Then make your vegan banana pancakes! (Makes 4-5)
Try topping these with syrup or even my recipe for {Healthy} Homemade Nutella.
Wow i just made these and they are amazing! Thank you so much for the wonderful recipe 🙂
im looking foward to trying all your other yummy recipes!
God bless 🙂
Your recipes are a godsend for when I’m craving my favorites! AND they’re vegan– how better can this possibly get? Thanks so much for providing great recipes like this to the hungry public! (:
These are delicious!! I added a little oatmeal for extra fiber and some cinnamon (I put it just about everything) and topped it with natural peanut butter. So yummy and super easy!! Thanks for sharing!
these look really good. does anyone know the nutrition information. I am trying to eat healthy so dont want to blow my diet by comsuming them if they are reallyhigh in calories
I don’t think they’re all too high in calories. You can always use Spark Recipe calculator. It’s free :).
Katie – I just started following / backreading your blog two days ago. I think I’ve read like 60 entries so far; I’m totally addicted. You are a fab writer and a terrifically creative cook! I also admire your abilities in handling online BS/drama – way to be awesome.
I’m not a vegan (gave it a 90 day trial, didn’t love it, might try another trial in the future but for now I am very comfortable with my food ethics so don’t see the need to give it another shot at this moment) but am very conscious about what I eat. I love eating, cooking, and trying new foods, but most of all I love dessert – which means that, since I’m the opposite body-type/metabolism as you (it’s very difficult for me to lose or even maintain weight – and I’m a runner, too!) I need to be really mindful of what’s in the sweets that I eat. I love that your recipes have so many variations – you can make them with real sugar, make them with fruit sugars, make them with fake sugars, make them with all-natural fats (avocados! coconut!) or sub fruit for the fat (applesauce! banana!) – this is the ABSOLUTE BEST! One thing that I have tried for the first time since falling head over heels in love with your site is . . . Spelt flour!!!
Which brings me to why I commented on this particular post (after reading so many!) . . . I tried this recipe out this morning. (I also eat two breakfasts, one before and one after my run – but again, I have to really watch the fat/cals I ingest in order to not chub up – but I can’t just skip food or carbs because I need them to fuel up and kick ass -phalt, that is.) 😀 Anyway, all your stuff looks great, but I was a wee bit skeptical because it’s obvious that you are a great food artists and photographer, so I wasn’t going to be convinced that your food was actually delicious until I bothered making some instead of just drooling over the screen. I will admit that I never follow a recipe exactly like it says, even on the first go (tsk tsk, I know, you’re supposed to follow it to the letter the first time THEN modify it – I never do that even though I know better!), so I didn’t totally follow this one. I used spelt (I decided to try out the new-to-me-thanks-to-you flour on one of the very few recipes you DON’T recommend it on, what a dork!) and didn’t have vanilla (used it up on coffee glaze the other day and haven’t replaced it yet) so I threw in some cinnamon. Also, I took the other half of the banana and chopped it into pieces to add banana chunks to the pancakes (because I feel about bananas the way you feel about chocolate). Oh, and I added one egg white (could’ve used flax or NRG egg replacer to keep ’em vegan, I just happened to have egg whites on hand) to boost protein.
HOLY LORD. I’ll have you know I GAVE UP PANCAKES a while back because I couldn’t find any that tasted great and had great texture that were actually healthy . . . I could stuff “regular” ones full of apples and bananas and raisins and wheat germ but the base was basically just a carb overdose with no fiber and no protein, a calorie bomb with no nutritional value whatsoever, or I would try whole wheat ones that had great nutrition stats but tasted like chewy, carboard-y garbage. I gave up. Flat out decided that my existence would have to be one of a lady who does not eat pancakes. BUT NO MORE!
THESE WERE SO EFFING GOOD!!! They were AMAZING! Not “super awesome, especially considering that they’re healthy,” just regular “super awesome!” I know this particular recipe came from your sis, but I also know it’s right in vibe with the rest of your delectable creations (which I will now be trying – ALL OF!) so here’s a big fat KUDOS for a job well done! These pancakes had substance without being heavy and were EXACTLY the right texture!
Meanwhile, because I’m currently using PointsPlus from Weight Watchers to learn about how much running equals how much I can stuff my face with what (yeah I don’t like running like you do – I do it because I like food!), I did the math on these for anyone who wants to know:
One full recipe the way I made it (using a whole banana instead of half, adding one egg white, and using spelt flour) contains the following: 307 calories, 1.2g fat, 60g carbs (of which 8.3g are fiber), and 12.3g protein. You get two full servings of fruit (using my mods – including the whole banana) and if you adjust the WW PointsPlus down for the fruit and up for 1tsp of oil (for the pan), the WHOLE BATCH is only 5 points!!! (For those of you who are unfamiliar with WW PointsPlus, suffice it to say that a serving of regular pancakes, which would also be less food, would be anywhere from double to quadruple the points value, and when you only get 30ish points per day, a full plate of “regular” pancakes would basically be all the food you’re entitled to in a day.) Also, I made small-ish pancakes (4″-4.5″ diameter) and got 7 from the recipe!!! That is actually enough food!
Bottom line: Katie, wow, you’re great! Everyone else: Why aren’t you making these pancakes RIGHT NOW?! They are amazing!
Thank you. That is all. 😀 ~Liz
🙂 🙂
You made my day. And lol I can’t follow a recipe either. Glad I’m not the only one!
Yay! I don’t want to bog down your comment board so I’ll just say I am happy I made your day. Oh, and thanks for fixing the calorie count – feel free to delete the other comment that points it out if you want to “clean up” the page. OH and thanks for introducing me to PB2 (diff post, I know) – I just popped down to my local health food store and bought some and it’s going into these pancakes tomorrow morning! That’s right, I’ll be having them again. 😀 They are going to be my pre-run breakfast every day I get up in time to digest a bit before running and my post-run breakfast every day I don’t for a damn long time. 😀 HAPPY WEDNESDAY! Can’t wait to see what’s next! Thanks for rocking.
GAH! I mean three hundred seven, NOT four hundred seven, on the calorie count! That was a typo! Sorry, all! 🙁
Fixed 🙂
I just had these for breakfast and lunch. I am obsessed with them! They were so delicious!
These were among the most delicious things I have ever eaten!! Granted I did sprinkle in some chocolate chips (like a few other commenters, I don’t like syrup) but this was an insanely yummy & satisfying breakfast!! Thanks Katie!!
Could you substitue pumpkin for banana?
Hi Katie,
I made theese pancakes gluten free last night and they were amazing! However, I only got two pancakes from the recipie. Should I have got more? Any advice? Thanks!