Chocolate Banana Pancakes

We make a lot of pancakes and waffles at our house. I have a basic pancake recipe with limited ingredients for a quickish breakfast. I also have an amazing could be dessert pancake recipe that I make on special occasions or when I notice that brown banana that no one wants.

• Ingredients
  • DRY
• 1 Cup Flour
• 3 Tablespoons Cocoa Powder
• 3 Tablespoons Sugar
• 1 1/4 teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • WET
• 1 RIPE Banana
• 1 teaspoon Sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon Banana Extract if desired
• pinch salt
• 1 Cup Buttermilk or Sour milk (1Tablespoon vinegar+ 1Cup of Whole milk, let sit five min)
• 1 Egg
• 1 teaspoon Vanilla Paste or Extract
• 1 Tablespoon Vegetable Oil

• Mix or sift all Dry ingredients together in a medium bowl, stirring well to combine. Once mixed thoroughly form a depression in the dry mixture.
• In a small bowl add peeled banana, teaspoon sugar, pinch of salt, and banana extract (if using) smash and blend with a fork till creamy.
• Add lightly scrambled egg and oil, stir to combine.
• Stir in Buttermilk/Sour milk and Vanilla.
• All at once stir Wet ingredients into Dry, mix till just combined, lumps are fine.
• Let sit while griddle or large flat pan heats. I use 375 on my griddle.
• I butter my griddle for pancakes, mmmmm.
• Once preheated pour 1/4 cup of batter per cake, wait till bubbles start to form and edges start to solidify, then flip with a pancake turner.
• Just a few minutes on the second side and remove to enjoy.

You can eat these pancakes like usual with syrup but we like them better with whipped cream and sliced strawberry’s!!!