Chock full of hearty oats and melty chocolate chips, you’ll feel like you are eating cookie dough for breakfast!
Hmm. The same can be said for my Cookie Dough Baked Oatmeal.
I guess I just really like chocolate for breakfast.
No, I didn’t really top my pancakes—the ones I actually ate—with chocolate syrup. But I’d cooked a batch the day before and put them in a plastic bag to stay fresh. Well, silly me didn’t know that if you cover a batch of pancakes, they get gooey-moist and go bad. No worries; I now had a whole batch of pancakes to use for a crazy photo shoot. So the pancakes didn’t go to waste. (I hate wasting food.) And the next day, I quickly made up a new batch to eat for real.
Cookie Dough Pancakes
(Serves 1-2)
- 1/3 cup spelt or white flour (40g)
- 1/3 cup rolled oats (40g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract and optional 3 drops almond extract
- pinch stevia OR 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 3/4 tsp baking powder (and optional pinch baking soda for flavor)
- 1/2 tsp ener-g egg (or just add extra baking powder)
- up to 1/2 cup water or milk of choice
- chocolate chips!
Mix all the dry ingredients. (This can be done days in advance.) Put liquid ingredients into dry, then stir. Cook on medium-low, flipping 1/2-way through.
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I just made these for lunch. GENIUS! So good I almost shared…almost. Do you think these could be made gluten free?
Have you ever tried baking with Bob’s gluten-free mix? I never have, but I’ve heard good things about it!
I’ve used it in cakes before. In cookies it doesn’t rise, and you end up with big, flat, nasty cowpatty type burnt things. I think adding xanthan gum might help, but I’m not sure. I ask because I’m flying back to the east coast for a visit soon and wanted to make these for my severely allergy-ridden, gluten free hostess.
I just made this and it was good! It tasted pretty much like an oatmeal chocolate chip pancake. However, I only got 3 smallish pancakes out of it and I had about 2/3 water in the mix. You can’t go wrong with adding chocolate chips in pancakes. I’m hoping I get a food processor soon to make your chocolate chip blondies…amongst other things.
i just made this recipe, except i omitted the ener-g egg and used 1 tsp baking soda. they were AWESOME!!! i loved how doughy they were!
i meant baking powder, not soda 🙂
These are my favorite pancakes EVER! 🙂 🙂
Oh wow, that makes me SO happy 🙂
I made these this week, but as a gluten-free variation. Some words of caution to anyone who embarks on this arduous journey..
Do NOT use GF pancake flour. Terrible taste, gritty texture.
Do NOT use big GF oats. They don’t incorporate well into the mixture.
Instead, double the flour, I highly suggest Bob’s Red Mill GF flour. There was a funky…almost…mushroomy(?) taste to the batter, so I added more sugar and a bit more vanilla. The flavor thankfully cooked out of them, and though I could tell a difference in the flavor, consistency and texture, the GF consumer was thrilled.
Note.. the mushroomy flavor cooked out, not the flavor altogether.
I made some tweaks because I’m not vegan and need to protein-up anything carby I eat, but once doing that, these were really good. So good that I posted about them with my revisions here: http://www.eat-the-evidence.com/2011/06/22/breakfast-recipe-reviewtweaking/
What I particularly appreciate is how the oats really make them filling and healthy. I changed to whole-wheat flour for glycemic reasons and wow, a pile of these in the morning mean I’m not hungry or carb-crashy for hours. That’s impressive. Bravo!
Thank you so much for this recipe! i am trying to watch what i eat and i gave up on saturday morning chocolate chip pancakes that i have loved since i was a kid, but i hated every minute of it! these were fluffy and so warm and yummy unlike the other alternatives i have tried! sooo good thank you so much!
Aww I am so excited you liked them!
Yum! Those were so delicious. The almond extract was perfect! And I also added a spoonful of peanut butter to make them a little thicker since I used the water option. SO GOOD!!
Your version sounds even better!!!
Hey Katie, do you think that this recipe would work for waffles? (with a waffle iron) I’m vegan & bringing in breakfast for my fellow lifeguards this week and contemplating recipes.
Thanks 🙂
I am embarrassed to say I don’t think I’ve ever used a waffle maker! (Except a bugs bunny one, under the supervision of my mom, when I was little!)
I need to experiment with making waffle recipes; my blog has none 🙁
If you do try these in a waffle maker, let me know how they turn out!