Yesterday I had ice cream sandwiches for breakfast.
Take that, cold cereal.
And of course, in following the “healthy dessert” theme of this blog, the above ice cream pancakes are much healthier than they look. So please feel free to eat them for breakfast. Or lunch. Or dinner. Or, um, all three.
Ice Cream Sandwich Pancakes
Adapted from: Brownie Batter Pancakes
- 1/4 cup spelt or all-purpose flour
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1 tbsp Hershey’s Special Dark cocoa or dutch cocoa -(You can try substituting regular cocoa, but I have not tried)
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 1/2 tbsp sugar
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1 1/2 tbsp oil (or applesauce, only if you like the taste/texture of fat-free pancakes)
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 5 and 1/2 tbsp milk of choice
Mix dry ingredients very well, then add wet. Make pancakes! Then spread your favorite ice cream, mashed banana, or my egg-free healthy ice cream recipe in between the pancakes. For a truly-authentic look, you can even poke holes in the ice cream sandwich pancakes.
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Um-yum! These pancakes both looks and sounds super delicious! Nothing wrong with ice cream for breakfast as long as its healthy 😀
You never fail to amaze me! I’m a huge lover of ice cream sandwiches and then you find a way to make them into my favorite meal of the day in a healthy way. Love you, Katie!
Aww I love you right back, Tina! And I heard a rumor it’s your birthday??? Happy Birthday!! 🙂 🙂
Hey Katie, not sure if anyone has asked this already (on this post or the other chocolate pancake post), buuuut do you think these would turn out well if I used oat flour?
Just kidding, I went ahead and tried it anyway. I also added flax, added vanilla extract to the (massive) banana ice cream, and drizzled coconut butter on top of the whole thing.
THIS is the new essential weekend recipe. Totally worth all the dishes I made. I honestly felt like I was eating a HUGE and decadent dessert for breakfast. Thank you soooooooo muuuuuuuch. I am going to make this for anyone and everyone.
Yum! I love your idea to use oat flour… and I’m so excited to know it works!
Just made thes for a singel lady dinner. For my taste they need waaay more sweetner. Last year my sathurday breakfast was banana soft serve
Hugs Jenny
OMG I made these today and just WOW. Great recipe 😀
As for the question of the day… I can’t say I’ve ever *had* ice cream for breakfast but it sure does sound like a good idea 😉 I usually have pancakes or a smoothie (or sometimes boring ol’ toast). I LOVE pancakes, so a chocolate pancake was something I knew immediately that I just had to try 🙂
I’m so excited you made them!!!
For breakfast, I’ll usually eat pancakes, or oatmeal. I’ll have to be trying these soon! I think I’ll put in between them either a pureed frozen banana or Fage Greek yogurt if I have any in the house!
Katie, these are delicious! I’ve made them twice–the first time I used regular Tollhouse cocoa, and the pancakes were NOTHING compared to the second time when I used the dark chocolate cocoa. The chocolate flavor was much less intense in the first batch. They weren’t bad, just lacked the chocolate flavor I was looking for. So fantastic for breakfast though!!!
Dark cocoa is really cool, right?! I love it in homemade ice-cream recipes too. It’s reeeaally good blended with strawberries! 🙂
It really is. Very versatile! I’m a cottage cheese fanatic (and also not vegan 😉 and love to experiment with adding different things to it. One day I was struck with the strange urge to add dark cocoa, peanut butter, and a touch of stevia. It was absolute heaven! My next adventure is the brownie batter dip you posted a while back–so much chocolate, so much happiness.
Oh wow! my mouth is watering! I’ll definitely have to make these for breakfast one day
If you use the almond milk do you NEED applesauce or oil? Maybe can you use 1 tsp. guar gum?
My boyfriend LOVES ice-cream sandwiches.. those cheapy awful rectangle ones! I am going to surprise him with these tomorrow morning for a post-valentine breakfast! I’m planning on mixing in a little almond butter with a frozen banana for the ice-cream because he loves peanut butter. He always makes fun of me for my healthy pseudo-desserts so I’ll add quite a bit of agave to try to convince him its a treat!!