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)
delicious! i used all-purpose flour, brown sugar, regular Hershey’s cocoa & coconut oil… oh, and semi-sweet chocolate chips! very chocolatey & yummy!! perfect serving for one person.
no need for syrup! made 6 small pancakes
Made those for breakfast: instead of the oil , i put a third of a pear. It felt like melted chocolate chips !! DELICIOUS! topped with a very light spread of tahini…. oooo my word! what ..?? did i already finish the plate..??? i swear all those pancakes were here a minute ago….!! o well, i’ll just have to make some more ..:D
Mmmmmm. I’m so glad I saw this on Pinterest. I was craving chocolate, so I made these for dessert tonight–added some flax seed meal and some blueberries and they are heavenly!
Please make these into waffles! 🙂
Wow. Holy YUM! That’s all I can say;)
Hi!, Loved this sooo sooo much! and thanks! Just have a suggestion about the website, Can you please add a search bar somewhere? I love your recipes and it would make it easier <3 thanks again!
Hi Hony,
There IS a search bar. It’s on the right-hand sidebar 🙂
Has anyone made this recipe and got six pancakes because for some reason I only get like four.
These are delicious and satisfy the chocolate and sweet cravings, without feeling guilty! I just blogged about them and your blog in general. Check it out at anotherdayin.wordpress.com
I would just like to let you know that I nearly cried from happiness when I saw this recipe. Two of my loves: chocolate and pancakes. But I’m on I diet. You are SO AWESOME!
I made these with some added chocolate chips… totally decadent for breakfast!!!!
But, I was doing the math and curious how it comes out so low? Just 1/4 cup of AP flour is 113.
I just had these and I swallowed them whole. They were so good that I was eating them while waiting for the next pancake to come off the pan!! It seems as if they evaporated.
Tomorrow’s breakfast. ; ) Sleepovers! Lots of gossip and virtually no sleeping, at least not until we heard the birds chirping, and then we’d sleep the day away!
I just found this recipe last week and have already made it twice. The second time around, I made it with 1/2 T oil and 1 T mashed banana (rather than applesauce) and just about 1/2 T sugar. I think I may leave the sugar out entirely next time (because there WILL be a next time!). I made it into 3 pancakes and stacked them up with layers of PB and banana slices between the pancakes. SO good! Thanks, Katie!
Can I used coconut flour instead?
Love this recipe! My brother’s a big junk food junkie, so when I promised him chocolate pancakes, he was all over that idea! Little did he know they were healthy AND vegan until five minutes later when they were gone…mwahaha! I also tried some myself and thought “there’s no way these can be healthy.” But I trust you! 🙂 Also, I made them with regular baking cocoa and they were excellent!