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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Pancake Topping Ideas
Chocolate Syrup
Sliced Strawberries
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)
These pancakes are so good!! Who doesn’t want to eat chocolate pancakes for 130 calories. Genius!
How are these pancakes way lower in calories than other recipes? Seems so crazy (in an amazingly, fantastic, get in my belly, kind of way).. But i was just wondering..
Hi Katie. I just made a savoury version of these and used oat flour instead of spelt. The tasted amazing, but didn’t cook right. The bottoms burned and just stuck to the pan so it ended up more like a few blobs of oatmeal. Is it the flour, or my pan or..? What am I doing wrong? I really want to make the chocolate ones tomorrow. HEEELPPP 🙂
This website is 100% amazing, I can’t get enough! I stumbled across the brownie batter pancakes on Pinterest and followed the recipe back here. I don’t know if I’ll ever eat a “real meal” again 😛
You got enough chocolate on those pancakes?
just made these pancakes (with all purpose & chocolate chips and 2.5 tsp. of sugar) and they were awesome! will totally make again soon, thanks for the great recipes! 🙂
Hey! i loveeee chocolate for breakfast and these pancakes are awesome but I prefer a thicker pancake so I went ahead and mixed this recipie with the blueberry one resulting in the most amazing pancakes!!
my comment got all messed up cause of my computer but what I was trying to say was I was going for a fatter pancake and thats why I mixed the recipie lol
how about a print button so we can save your recipes more easily? I love your website, and my kids love these pancakes. they ask for them all the time!!
Unfortunately, I’m not able to install one at the moment… I really wish I could (it’s a corrupt file on my site). I’m working on it!
Also, Katie, I signed up for your emails but first accidentally signed up to receive comments on this post instead. How do I fix this?
(I am also signed up for emails now, and I love them!)
i tried these today and they were SO GOOD! felt like i was eating brownies 😀 i love your blog and your sense of hunor so much!
Katie, what vegan chocolate syrups are out there, because I wanna drizzle these pancakes with them, but can’t find any 🙁
Try Alaska! (with a polar bear on the front, I think) or Barleans chocolate raspberry or Santa Cruz… or my homemade “Hot Chocolate Butter” recipe.
thanks a bunch! your hot chocolate butter recipe was divine with the pancakes!
Hi Katie! Could you tell me what did you used for the syrup? My son wants these like tomorrow..lol
Dear Katie,
Hi my name is Alana and I’m 11 Years old. My mom and I ADORE you and this website.We were actually thinking of going to New York to meet you but we can’t afford it. Even though I live in NH. it’s just the gas money,plus hotel money,and food. Anyways I found this website on my birthday in June when I was looking for an ice cream recipe.Then we started coming back to this website Because everything is so healthy. You come up with the most creative ideas that doesn’t involve with a bunch of crap.I actually made oatmeal raisin cookies yesterday.Just in case you’re wondering why I’m not talking about this recipe,i picked a random recipe so I could write a comment.
Sorry this comment is so long,
Alana
Thank you so much, Alana!
omg I won a 400 $ vegetarian box by sending this recipe (with a link to your website) to a Dutch vegetarian magazine. this recipe was chosen as one of the 10 best vegetarian recipes. hopefully you will have more Dutch viewers now! I made these pancakes a few times and they’re super delicious! Natalia
These recipes may seem healthy but eat them in moderation or else u will gain weight I am a nutritionist and yes deserts are ok for a treat but u should not have chocolate everyday! My friend had the brownie batter pancakes for breakfast along with the chocolate cake for one for a snack for just two days back to back and she gained give pounds! Went from 115 to 120 so there’s some food for thought.
You’re a nutritionist?
A. You can’t spell or use proper grammar.
B. If you were really a nutritionist, you’d know that people can’t gain 5 pounds of real weight (non water weight) in two days.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this commenter is a 14 year old troll. Also, I eat chocolate every day and have been reading Katie’s blog for two years, and I’m at a perfectly healthy weight for my size. I call bs on your comment, troll.