Madhouse recipe : Chocolate, Coconut & Banana Breakfast Pancakes

 The Groovy Food Company recently sent us over some of their products, along with a recipe for Chocolate, Coconut & Banana Breakfast Pancakes. They are ideal for weekend breakfasts or brunches, but we ate ours in the evening which worked too !

If you fancy trying them out, we used Organic Coconut Flour, Organic Virgin Coconut Oil and Organic Agave Chocolate Sauce, all from The Groovy Food Company.

Coconut flour has a very fine texture, not that much different to regular flour, which surprised me. It's rich in fibre and protein and is perfect for those following a gluten-free diet.

Coconut oil has a high smoke point and no trans fatty acids. It may be solid or liquid, depending on how warm it is. We were all amazed at just how tasty the Agave Chocolate Sauce is !

Chocolate, Coconut & Banana Breakfast Pancakes

serves 6

ingredients :

3tbsp The Groovy Food Company Organic Coconut Flour

1 large banana, mashed

4 large eggs, beaten

2tsp Raw Cacao Powder or Cocoa Powder

1tsp Vanilla Bean Paste or 1 Vanilla Pod, deseeded

2tbsp The Groovy Food Company Organic Virgin Coconut Oil

pinch of salt

Garnish :

2 bananas, sliced

2 handfuls Raw Coconut Chips, Toasted

50g Dark Chocolate Shavings

The Groovy Food Company Organic Agave Chocolate Sauce

Method:

Get mashing the bananas ! 

 Put all the ingredients except for the coconut oil into a bowl and blend together with a hand stick blender. (I just stirred it by hand with a spoon and it worked fine.)

Melt the coconut oil on a gentle heat and put into a separate bowl.

Heat your pancake pan or frying pan over a medium heat and take a square of kitchen roll, dab it in the oil.

Once the oil is hot, take 3/4 ladle of the pancake mixture and pour it into the pan.

Cook until golden brown on the underside (approx 1 minute) then flip over and cook until golden brown on the other side (about 30 seconds).

Once you've cooked all six pancakes, stack them back on top of each other in a set of three to warm through in the hot pan and flip over to warm the other side. (I didn't bother as mine stayed warm enough.)

Serve warm with a generous drizzle of agave chocolate sauce, sliced bananas, toasted coconut chips and chocolate shavings on top.

The kids loved them (especially due to the agave chocolate sauce !) and gobbled them up. They have a thicker, rougher texture than regular pancakes and we debated that they should in fact be called banana fritters. Whatever they're called, we'll happily be eating them again !

Disclosure : We received some ingredients, along with the recipe, from The Groovy Food Company.