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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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)
Yuuuuummy! I’m eating these right now 😀 I didn’t have any applesauce so I just added a teensy bit more milk. I also omitted the sugar. I made 5 little pancakes and topped them with Dark Chocolate Dreams PB. 😛
Oh my wow! I am amazed that you already made them! You are a superstar, girl!
Sleepovers were awesome when I was a kid! Can you say As Told By Ginger, popcorn, and enough chocolate to make you sick? 🙂
Ugh I had a friend who burned popcorn at 3am at one of my sleepovers. 😕
I woke up late today, and since I knew this is what you would be posting, I made sure to check your blog before having breakfast. These were REALLY good and very brownie like! I didn’t use any of the added sugar/stevia, the sweetness from the applesauce was enough for me (though if I had made them this way for my best friend she probably would have spit them out lol). yummehhh great recipe!!!!
Wow, I am amazed that you already made them! Two people have already made them??? Y’all are crazy-awesome!
I’d eat both the spinach choco pancakes and the brownie batter pancakes…at once.They both look too yummy!
As for sleepovers, I still have them with my bff in NYC every now and then. Sometimes we go so long without seeing each other that it’s nice to reconnect and watch girlie movies and gossip 🙂
It’s funny because cookie dough is way better than cookies, but I actually prefer brownies to brownie batter. I LOVE dense, chewy brownies.
But these look delicious! I (not so) secretly wish you had snuck some green powder into your friend’s pancakes, just because I’m curious if she would have been able to tell!
You are putting my breakfast to shame. WOW!
Oh my goodness. If I have a sleepover again we’re having these for breakfast. Maybe dinner, too.
I always slept at sleepovers. I’m terrible at staying up all night. On New Year’s Eve I was sleepy by 9 and somehow pushed through to midnight but crashed almost immediately after.
That photo should be on the cover of a magazine. No, scratch that, on the cover of every major newspaper, and on billboards across the world!
Plus one to this! I’m making it my screensaver 🙂 🙂 🙂 :).
Brownie batter is DEFINITELY better than brownies! And the best part of the sleeepover is definitely at 2 or 3 am when everyone’s deliriously hyper!
Couldn’t you have posted these a few hours earlier? I am seriously regretting my choice of breakfasts!
Oh my…I’m making those asap!!!
I would eat licorice for breakfast for a hundred bucks, and I HATE licorice. But I don’t hate spinach, so I would have definitely taken you up on that offer.
I’m going to need to make these for breakfast tomorrow 😉
Ah, the thought of middle school sleepovers brings back so many fun memories. And some interesting ones like ‘light as a feather, stiff as a board’. Its funny how we actually thought it would work…
It never did… and yet we kept playing it anyway!
Yah. I’ll be making this. End of story.
Wow I am blown away by how amazing these look!!
I think this is my favorite post you’ve ever written! 🙂