These secretly vegan and healthy brownie batter pancakes taste like eating dessert for breakfast!
This is the pancake recipe for chocolate lovers.
Dark, rich and fudgy, yet healthy enough for breakfast at the same time!
The delicious homemade chocolate pancakes are magically made without any eggs at all and can be completely dairy free and vegan.
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Chocolate Syrup
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Mini Chocolate Chips + Banana
For the past few days, one of my friends has been staying with me while she waits to move into a new apartment, so basically, it’s been an ongoing slumber party.
We’ve had movie nights, spa nights, and every night is chocolate night.
On the menu last night: Healthy Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Yet both of us woke up craving chocolate again this morning, and the only way to remedy this was to make a chocolate pancake feast.
Brownie Batter Pancakes
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup spelt, white, or oat flour (for flourless, try these Keto Pancakes)
- 1 tbsp dutch cocoa powder
- 1 1/2 tbsp sweetener of choice
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp oil, or applesauce or mashed banana for fat free
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 4 – 5 tbsp milk of choice
Instructions
- Stir dry ingredients well, then add wet. Add more milk of choice as needed to form a batter consistency. Grease a nonstick pan well and heat on medium. When skillet is hot (add a drop of water to test – the pan is ready if it sizzles), drop small ladles of the batter. Use a spatula to flip when edges begin to look dry. Re-grease the pan after each set of pancakes.*I personally much prefer the oil version but some readers really like the fat-free one so I'm including that too. I haven't tried subbing regular cocoa powder for the dutch, so be sure to report back if you experiment with that. View Nutrition Facts
Notes
More Dessert-For-Breakfast Ideas
(Or this Vegan Banana Bread)
Katie. stop making me salivate. I need to escape work and go make these right this second.
as always, you’re. a. genius.
P.S. I was a karaoke machine at sleepovers. nothing’s changed.
I used to love sleepovers. We’d always watch movies and eat a ton of junk food. And I would always be the first to fall asleep.
Oh my friggin goodness! This recipe is going in my cookbook right this very instant.
Regarding sleepovers – I loved the fun/scary moments when you actually (for a second) believed that you could make a friend levitate (“light as a feather, stiff as a board”) or might actually catch a glimpse of “bloody mary” in a dark bathroom mirror.
-Monica
Endangered Species Chocolate Goddess
Oh my gosh, I forgot about those games! We definitely did those too… I don’t think I ever believed they would work, but I played them anyway. And oiji (spelling?) boards too!
I used to love sleepovers with friends! All my friends aaalways wanted to come to my house, though, since my family lived in a huge black and white with enormous front, back, and side gardens for us to run around in. Favourite thing to do? Well… it was something you could do even if it wasn’t a sleepover, but: watergun fights! And playing soccer in the house at night when the parents were out… Yep, my brother and I did break some rules when friends were over.
Okay. You could not be more right in saying that: “That is a photo worthy of a chocolate-covered blog.” No. Freaking. Kidding. And I also second what Qi Tang said: Tomorrow’s breakfast. Did you top them with Barlean’s chocolate raspberry “essential woman” oil? I think I’ll do that + raspberries.
… Ugh. Come faster, Wednesday morning.
Ooh that would’ve been good!
The chocolate syrup was actually just for the photoshoot. I think it might’ve been chocolate overload if I’d served them that way. But maybe not… 😉
What did you actually top them with when she ate them? I want to make these and am wondering what would taste best as a topper 🙂
I thought about banana butter or coconut butter or even coconut banana butter or regular pb. And I also offered her agave or maple syrup. But she actually said they were the best plain, so that’s how she ate them!
So I finally made these for breakfast this morning, and I am so mad that I waited this long! They were AWEsome! I topped mine with a choc. chip cookie dough almond butter sauce 🙂 I will DEFINATELY be making these again… soon!!! Thanks for the recipe!
Thank YOU for trying them! I’m so happy you liked them :).
I top regular pancakes with pb and applesauce. I bet it would be fantastic on these!
I’m thinking raspberry syrup would be fabulous…with a few fresh raspberries and a little whipped cream!
YUM! That sounds delicious. I need to make these again soon!
Just discovered this recipe and am bookmarking it. I can’t wait to try it. I might throw some raspberries into the batter and try topping them with raspberry jam and maple syrup or sunflower seed butter. Mouth is watering just thinking about them!
Oh wow,I’m sure my mum would love these! I think I gotta make her some Brownie Batter pancakes,soon! 😀
To be honest,I’m not such a great friend of sleepovers. I also am someone who usually goes to bed quite early because my body clock wakes me up at about 6AM in the morning 😉 So I am always the first one who falls asleep and in the morning,I don’t know what to do when every one else is sleeping until lunch time 😛
Hehe I remember all of those sleep over staples – we also made a lot of prank calls (we were bad)!
You are such a great friend! ….She will probably NEVER move out! I know I wouldn’t!!! 😉
It sounds like fun to have the sleepovers and good times! —We used to do a lot of truth or dare and watch movies like it was no bodies business and talk about boys NONSTOP! 🙂
This looks awesome! Going to have to try this for my next cookout or tailgating browni party .
Ahh, I remember back in middle school my friends and I would have sleepovers all the time and go to bed at 4 or 5am. It was crazy, but I think we’re all a little more mature now. Now we only stay up until 2am! 😉
DELISH!!! mmmm the syrup never stops.. just a continual chocolaty stream haha 🙂 only once did i ever make chocolate brownie batter pancakes but they never held a candle to these!
i never had sleepovers as a kid..i was deprived of them…my mom never had sleepovers growing up either (she lived on a farm) lol.. but she also couldnt trust a lot of my friend’s parents lol .. but i did have a few sleepovers when i was a teen… the best memory was going to my best friends house and we’d have like 3 other people there and we would make these mini movies where we dressed up and did our best acting. I’m pretty sure she still has the tapes- would love to get my hands on them lol
xoxo <3
Ooooh… those look absolutely sinful, yet delightfully healthy and yummy! Wow!! I’ll make these tonight for my husband. I’m going away for 12 days and promised I would make him something special for supper tonight. These will be perfect! Thank you.
Sleepovers – lots of them! As a little kid we played games and made forts with bedsheets and furniture. As a teenager, we mostly baked, cooked, watched movies, and once a friend and I made scrapbooks for our beaus. Lots of fun!
Amazing! I’ll have to make these this weekend! I’m gonna try a gluten-free version!
think those pictures are the most amazing-chocolatey-heaven-like pictures I have ever seen. I literally just stared at them for like 20 minutes begging for them to come out of my screen so I could eat them.
Oh MY Word. You never cease to amaze me!
P.S. Good job on the syrup pouring shots! 🙂
You are a genius! Thanks for the recipe! 😀
Those pictures oh. my. goodness. You take amazing shots. Do you use a tri-pod to get such clear shots of that syrup?!
I didn’t… I try to stay really still (which is hard when you’re pouring syrup with one hand!) but I always sharpen my photos during the editing process, so that helps a TON! 🙂
Holy yum!!!!!!!!