Showing posts with label pancakes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pancakes. Show all posts

Sunday, December 23, 2012

What's For Breakfast? - Healthy Vanilla Caramel Cinnamon Protein Pancakes!

Piper eats very healthy throughout the week so the weekend is when I let a few special treats sneak in.  The girl is addicted to pancakes and would eat them all day every day if I let her. So of course I wanted to try and make a plain 'ol pancake into something with some nutrition in it while still being super delicious. Pip also still eats very little meat and only gets her protein from yogurt, cheeses, edamame, etc. That means I pour a little whey protein powder in her milk on those days when she has avoided good sources of protein.  I have chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla caramel (her fave) in the pantry so I figured I'd put one of them to use for extra protein! I think I found the perfect balance of "yum" and "health" in these pancakes and I hope your family loves them too!

~Ingredients~

2 scoops vanilla caramel whey protein powder

2 cups quick oats (food processed into a powder)

3 tsp. Stevia

3 tsp. baking powder

3 tsp. cinnamon

1/2 cup water

6 egg whites

Non-stick cooking spray

~Directions~

1.  Combine the food-processed oats, protein powder, Stevia, baking powder, and cinnamon and mix well. Let your toddler help!
2.  Add egg whites and water. Mix well. Let your toddler help!
3.  Put the mixture in a food processor or blender and process until very thin and no large chunks remain.
4.  Spray non-stick cooking spray into some pans and make your pancakes as usual!  They will come out so lovely!
5.  Healthy AND kid-approved!

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

What's for Breakfast? - Pineapple, and Chocolate Chip Pancake Flop

For my mother's last birthday in November of 2010, I wanted her to wake up to something delicious on her special day. I had just moved back from the island and was hoping to show my appreciation in any way I could. Apparently, breakfast is not my forte and an area I could use some training and improvement. In theory, the pineapple pancakes sounded mouthwatering. Sweet, filling, refreshing, almost like an upside down cake.  I already knew that chocolate chip pancakes were her favorite, so that was just a given. How hard could that be? Whip up some batter, throw in some chips....voila! Right?

Come to find out, using pineapple CHUNKS is a completely preposterous idea in the pancake realm. They are far too large and overtake the thin patty resulting in what looks like terrible cancerous tumors spotting what could have been a beautiful creation.

The juice from the pineapple made the pancake cook much slower than the ones containing chocolate chips.  Those containing chocolate chips will burn if put on the heat at the same time as those containing pineapple. Please learn from my mistakes. That is also one of the purposes of this blog. Not everything comes out perfectly. But we live, we learn, we burn.
My mother couldn't stomach the breakfast I attempted to make, but she did laugh heartily, which I guess was a pleasant birthday present in itself...just not what I was going for exactly.

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