Coconut Flour Pancakes

Saturday was the first time in about a month I didn't have to wake up to an alarm. Unfortunately, I woke up at 7:30am anyway! So, I decided to do a little experimenting with some coconut flour I had.  Don't these pancakes look DELICIOUS! Best part is, they taste just like regular pancakes!!!!!

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup coconut flour
• 3 eggs
• 3 tablespoons melted butter (preferably all natural butter or coconut oil)
• 1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons coconut milk
• 2 teaspoons pure maple syrup
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 cup water

Process:

1. Whisk together all ingredients (Except water).  
2. Add water slowly until you reach a consistency you like. I used the whole 1/2 cup, you may like a thinner or thicker pancake!  
3. Cook pancakes on a buttered griddle/skillet (each side takes about 2-3 minutes). 
4. Enjoy with fresh fruit, honey, or pure maple syrup.

***Note: These are fragile, smaller ones are easier to flip and will make a prettier pancake!

Banana Almond Butter Pancakes

I know I just posted a new recipe yesterday, but given the holiday I decided to get creative with breakfast this morning.  I've been paleo now for a little over a month and I haven't really craved pancakes, YET! That's not to say I won't when the weather starts getting colder!! So, I've been looking into paleo pancakes to see what I'm in for.  A lot of them call for coconut or almond flour.  This recipe is excludes flour all together and can be served a number of different ways.

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe bananas
• 1 egg
• 1 tbspn almond butter
• cinnamon/vanilla optional

Process:

Mash the bananas and put in a bowl.  Add one egg and whisk until thoroughly mixed.

Add the tbspn of almond butter to the mixture.  The more almond butter you add, the more "cake-like" your pancakes will be. Make sure you mix it up well and don't leave any chunks of almond butter behind.

Heat some butter/oil in a pan over medium heat.  Pour a small amount of batter into the pan.  These tend to be delicate, the smaller you make them, the easier they'll be to flip.  Also, they need a few minutes on each side.  If the pan gets too hot you'll have to turn the heat down or you'll burn your last few!

Look how yummy this stack of pancakes look! Serve warm with organic honey, pure maple syrup, or fresh fruit! They're even good room temperature and they taste very much like banana bread!!

Enjoy! :)