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)
I discovered this recipe three days ago and I’ve had it for breakfast every day. They are amazing! The only sad thing is that I don’t have any stevia in the house (I really want to try it–I’d love to make sweet stuff without all the calories) so I used white sugar. I also love buttermilk pancakes so I used buttermilk in these. I figured those were pretty significant ingredient swaps, so I ran the new recipe through MyFitnessPal’s recipe calculator and got a really sad surprise. Wheat flour, sugar, and coconut oil drove the calories up into the 500s per batch. 🙁 So these are absolutely amazing, but if you want the low-cal version, you definitely need to stick with Katie’s original ingredients. Thanks Katie for so many incredible recipes!
Update: I’m not sure how you got 130 calories per batch, Katie. I put your original recipe (spelt flour, stevia, coconut oil, etc) through a calorie calculator and got about 330 calories per batch. I know every calorie calculator is going to give slightly different results, but a 200 calorie difference is pretty significant. You may want to double check yours so people aren’t misled. 300 calories for these pancakes is definitely worth it, but it’s still good to have accurate info. Thanks!
Optional ingredients are not included in nutrition facts. For more on how I calculate my nutrition facts: https://lett-trim.today/faq-page/recipe-questions-and-troubleshooting/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
My five year old daughter despises pancakes but I love them. I asked her if she would be willing to try chocolate pancakes. I made these for her and she asked for more!! And I finished off the rest of the batch. Thanks so very much for sharing your amazing talents.
Food is mostly a number if you have diabetes …..
These are AMAZING! I totally made a double recipe though, since 6-8 silver dollar pancakes just isn’t enough. 😉
YUM I just made these with a little protein powder in the mix along with some peanut butter on top and WOW I was in heaven!
Katie, I love your chocolate recipes. They definitely are proof that healthy chocolate desserts can taste amazing. I’ve made these double chocolate brownie batter pancakes so many times…I just had them this morning and because I only had regular cocoa powder at the moment, I added in a good handful of semi-sweet chocolate chips which definitely made it taste like DOUBLE CHOCOLATE brownie batter. To make it even more amazing I topped it with a good dollop of your banana butter recipe. Thank you for helping me incorporate chocolate recipes into my vegan lifestyle!
What is your favorite brand of bulk stevia to use in these recipes?
Katie’s recommendations:
https://lett-trim.today/stevia-conversion-chart/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
I love your recipes! I have a 2 year old who has eaten most of your pancake recipes without hesitation! She is eating these brownie batter pancakes right now for dessert!
I am so glad I found your blog with all these great recipes!!
would strawberry applesauce alter the flavor of the pancakes?
I, um, I’m actually super bad at making pancakes. So I used the batter made from this to make a brownie in a mug in the microwave. And it was absolutely delicious 😀 I’m sure pancakes made from this would be amazing too.
I just made these this morning for myself my birthday breakfast. They were awesome! And such a perfect way to start my birthday. Thank you for this recipe!
OMG Katie!!!! These were amazing!!!! I made them in a waffle maker, and eating chocolate waffles in the morning is heaven!!! The only problem was it stuck to the maker a lot, but that’s my fault.
the pancakes look awesome, i want to make them this instant!! Because i’m on a diet I wonder does the 130 calories refer to each pancake or to all of them ?
Hey, I made these this morning and they were delicious! The only problem was that they were very hard to flip, as they were extremely thin, so they ended up a little misshapen. Any way to fix this?
I tripled this recipe and made them for breakfast today for me and my kids. DELICIOUS!!!! I served with a dollop of vanilla yogurt and it really hit the spot. Thanks!